Opening of blocking FIFOs not reliable?

2005-08-12 Thread Teemu Koponen
Hi, Opening a FIFO for WR_ONLY should release a previously blocked RD_ONLY open. I suspect this is not guaranteed on a heavily loaded Linux box. Consider fs/fifo.c (of 2.6.13-rc6-git4) and its wait_for_partner() and wake_up_partner() functions. I think wait_for_partner()'s while loop never

Re: remove support for gcc < 3.2

2005-08-12 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe wrote: I'm for its removal. As for the gcc project "losing its way" consider that 3.4 has quite matured and also has much smaller binary size from 3.3. 4.0 however is still too early in its development to come close to surpassing 3.4. I consider that the compiler get bigger and slower

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 18:39 -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > 2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. > > >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need > > >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for

[PATCH] Convert sigaction to act like other unices

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
Here's a patch that converts all architectures to behave like other unix boxes signal handling. It's funny that I didn't need to change the m68k architecture, since it was the only one that already behaves this way! (the m68knommu does not!) Also, I noticed that not all check the return value of

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. > >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need > >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? > > I think yes, otherwise there

Re: [ck] [PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP

2005-08-12 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 06:19, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Hi, > Here's finally the SMP changes that I had promised. The patch > breaks the earlier restriction that all CPUs have to be idle before > cutting of timers and now allows each idle CPU to skip ticks independent > of others. The patch

Re: [PATCH] eliminte NMI entry/ exit code

2005-08-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, George Anzinger wrote: > > The NMI entry and exit code fiddles with bits in the preempt count. If > an NMI happens while some other code is doing the same, bits will be > lost. Why? Even if an NMI happens in the middle of a read-modify-write sequence that is critical,

Re: [PATCH] eliminte NMI entry/ exit code

2005-08-12 Thread George Anzinger
Nick Piggin wrote: George Anzinger wrote: The NMI entry and exit code fiddles with bits in the preempt count. If an NMI happens while some other code is doing the same, bits will be lost. This patch removes this modify code from the NMI path till we can come up with something better.

Re: SiI 3112A + Seagate HDs = still no go?

2005-08-12 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Chris. Chris Boot wrote: On 12 Aug 2005, at 15:08, Tejun Heo wrote: [adding cc to Jeff Garzik. (Hi!)] Hi again, Chris. Unfortunately, I'm as lost as you are. Can you please do the followings? * Verify if read is free from the problem. ie. does "dd if=/dev/ sd?

Re: [linux-pm] PowerOP 1/3: PowerOP core

2005-08-12 Thread Todd Poynor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How well would _this_ notion of an operating point scale up? I have this feeling that it's maybe better attuned to "scale down" sorts of problems (maybe cell phones) than to a big NUMA box. I can see how a batch scheduled server might want to fire up only enough

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread George Anzinger
Ingo, all I, silly person that I am, configured an RT, SMP, PREEMPT_DEBUG system. Someone put code in the NMI path to modify the preempt count which, often as not will generate a PREEMPT_DEBUG message as there is no tell what state the preempt count is in on an NMI interrupt. I have sent

Re: [PATCH] eliminte NMI entry/ exit code

2005-08-12 Thread Nick Piggin
George Anzinger wrote: The NMI entry and exit code fiddles with bits in the preempt count. If an NMI happens while some other code is doing the same, bits will be lost. This patch removes this modify code from the NMI path till we can come up with something better. Humour me for a minute

[PATCH] eliminte NMI entry/ exit code

2005-08-12 Thread George Anzinger
The NMI entry and exit code fiddles with bits in the preempt count. If an NMI happens while some other code is doing the same, bits will be lost. This patch removes this modify code from the NMI path till we can come up with something better. -- George Anzinger george@mvista.com HRT

BSD jail

2005-08-12 Thread Joshua Hudson
I had been wanting this functionality myself, but for some reason it never found its way into the stock kernel. I looked around, started coding, looked some more, coded some more, looked some more until I found this: http://kerneltrap.org/node/3823 I suppose the reason it wasn't applied is lack

2.6.13-rc6: kernel option acpi=off

2005-08-12 Thread thomas . mey3r
Hi. Some strange behaviour in kernel log time. see: Aug 12 07:51:28 [kernel] [17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.13-rc6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5-r1, ssp-3.3.2-3, pie-8.7.7.1)) #13 Thu Aug 11 19:45:12 CEST 2005 Aug 12 07:51:28 [kernel] [17179569.184000]

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 12:28 +1200, Ryan Brown wrote: > is there a patch available for -rc6? > Not yet. Whatever you see here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ is the latest version. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] PCI/libata INTx cleanup

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Brett Russ wrote: Simple cleanup to eliminate X copies of the pci_enable_intx() function in libata. Moved ahci.c's pci_intx() to pci.c and use it throughout libata and msi.c. Signed-off-by: Brett Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Looks good to me. Greg, do you want to queue this (since it touches

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Ryan Brown
is there a patch available for -rc6? On 8/11/05, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have released the -53-01 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be > downloaded from: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > > there are two new features in this release, which justified

Re: copy_from_user, copy_to_user in kernel

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 22:35 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > I had this problem when writing a kernel module that was using a UDP > socket to send and receive stuff. It would work fine in UML but fail in > the real kernel. I never worked it out but someone later patched it by > using the

Representatives needed urgently

2005-08-12 Thread kim lee
Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr.kim Lee ,we are a company that deal on importing and exporting raw materials into Canada,America and England. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in the Canada,America and England as well as making

Re: PowerOP 2/3: Intel Centrino support

2005-08-12 Thread Todd Poynor
Jordan Crouse wrote: When it comes to embedded power management concepts, a consistant theme is that people often question the usefulness, redundancy or complexity of a solution. This is perfectly understandable, since such a huge majority of the power management experts and users are

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Saturday 13 August 2005 08:20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 12 of August 2005 21:56, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > I still don't see why you can't lift your flags up into the VMA. The > > rmap mechanism is there precisely to let you get from the physical page > > to the users and user

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] PCI/libata INTx cleanup

2005-08-12 Thread Brett Russ
Simple cleanup to eliminate X copies of the pci_enable_intx() function in libata. Moved ahci.c's pci_intx() to pci.c and use it throughout libata and msi.c. Signed-off-by: Brett Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.13-rc6/drivers/scsi/sata_sis.c

Representatives needed urgently

2005-08-12 Thread kim lee
Dear Sir/Madam, I am Mr.kim Lee ,we are a company that deal on importing and exporting raw materials into Canada,America and England. We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of getting to our costumers in the Canada,America and England as well as making

[slightly OT] what's in RAM at 0x3ffe5000 ?

2005-08-12 Thread David Madore
Hi. I have ECC RAM on my system and I wanted to check it, so (because there doesn't seem to be any Linux ECC support for my P5WD2 motherboard) I wrote my own kernel module[#] to interrogate the northbridge. I was a little annoyed to find that the northbridge had reported an ECC error, and a

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 12 of August 2005 21:56, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 20:36, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > >> > Swsusp is the main "is valid ram" user I have in mind here. It > > > >> > wants to know whether or not it should save and restore the > > > >> > memory of a given

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-12 Thread Grant Coady
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:21:30 +1000, Masoud Sharbiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you turn on UDP checksums and try again? That would isolate the fault between the network or SATA. It is the second tarball extraction from cache that suffers data corruption, not a network error. I am in

Re: Problem with usb-storage and /dev/sd?

2005-08-12 Thread DervishD
Hi Pete :) * Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > Which label will a random USB stick have? > GUID, I presume. Ask Andries Brouwer, he hacked on that, IIRC. > Actually msdos has on-disk format for user-settable labels in > the way analoguous to tune2fs -L label. I just do not know if

Re: [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix spinlock initialization

2005-08-12 Thread David S. Miller
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 23:03:05 +0100 > http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~alan/serial.diff I like this a lot, and the count return based error handling is nice as well. Should a driver sink any bytes that the TTY flip interface couldn't eat or should it just wait for

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
Two more systems that are different from Linux. So far, Linux is the odd ball out. -- Steve On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 22:28 +0100, someone else wrote: > > SunOS hostname 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000 > > sa_mask blocks other signals > SA_NODEFER does not block other signals >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.3] PCI/libata INTx cleanup

2005-08-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:44:08PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:10:43PM -0400, Brett Russ wrote: > > > >>Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> > >>>Brett Russ wrote: > >>> > >>> > Simple cleanup to eliminate X copies of the same function in libata. > Moved

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.3] PCI/libata INTx cleanup

2005-08-12 Thread Brian Gerst
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:10:43PM -0400, Brett Russ wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Brett Russ wrote: Simple cleanup to eliminate X copies of the same function in libata. Moved pci_enable_intx() to pci.c, added pci_disable_intx() as well, and use them throughout libata and

Re: bttv oopses, is this a valid v4l test?

2005-08-12 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Andrew, We can't discard anything, but, IMHO, it looks a hardware problem, since we have lots of bttv systems without the problems you are noticing. Em Sex, 2005-08-12 às 10:21 -0700, Andrew Burgess escreveu: > I have overlay mode disabled. Also, I don't view the video directly, its a

Re: [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix spinlock initialization

2005-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 20:46 +0100, Russell King wrote: > (Since Linus pulled the shutters down when I still had a large chunk > of stuff in my serial tree, my serial patch merging is currently at > a complete standstill.) Well in the mean time for some more amusement see what you think of

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mogens Valentin wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html >> Queueing support, NCQ: >> #3 will be supported by libata, for all hardware and devices that >>

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Daniel J Blueman wrote: As stability is a concern, why not get the ATA passthru work in sooner, then follow up with the SMART support after the passthru code has had time to mature? SMART support == passthru. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.3] PCI/libata INTx cleanup

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:10:43PM -0400, Brett Russ wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Brett Russ wrote: Simple cleanup to eliminate X copies of the same function in libata. Moved pci_enable_intx() to pci.c, added pci_disable_intx() as well, and use them throughout libata and

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Garrett wrote: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html I couldn't see any reference to system-wide power management (ie,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12.3] PCI/libata INTx cleanup

2005-08-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Brett Russ wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Though there is nothing wrong with this patch, I would prefer a single function, pci_intx(), as found in drivers/scsi/ahci.c. Sounds like what I did, except for the naming change. I did away with pci_disable_intx() and changed the names. Look ok?

Re: test_signal results AIX DU4 IRIX6 (was: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask)

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
I received this from someone. I'm BCCing him since he didn't email to the LKML himself (for some reason, maybe he doesn't want spam), I'll protect his identity. If he wants to take credit, he should CC everyone. On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 13:16 -0700, Someone wrote: > DU4 > === > [3] uname -a > OSF1

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 21:31 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > I've got a 4-way pSeries p550 running AIX 5.3 here : > > $ uname -s -M -p -v -r > AIX 3 5 powerpc IBM,9113-550 > > Output from your program : > > $ ./a.out > Unknown return code!! > Unknown return code!! > Unknown return code!! >

Re: [patch 01/39] comment typo fix

2005-08-12 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:31:29PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > smp_entry_t -> swap_entry_t > > Too short changelog entry? No, just wrong patch with non-descriptive subject line. > --- linux-2.6.git/include/linux/swapops.h~fix-typo > +++ linux-2.6.git-paolo/include/linux/swapops.h > @@

[patch][-mm] selinux: endian notations

2005-08-12 Thread Stephen Smalley
This patch adds endian notations to the SELinux code. It is relative to my prior patch, and is just an updated version of Alexey's original patch (I hope) adjusted for the new code. Please add it to -mm as well. Thanks. From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley

Re: [RFC,PATCH] Use RCU to protect tasklist for unicast signals

2005-08-12 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:36:00AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Doesn't this fix the longest latency we were seeing with > > PREEMPT_DESKTOP, I don't have a trace handy but the upshot was "signal > > delivery must remain atomic on !PREEMPT_RT"? >

Re: [RFC] [patch 0/39] remap_file_pages protection support, try 2

2005-08-12 Thread Andi Kleen
Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, I've been working for the past two weeks learning well the Linux VM, > understanding the Ingo's remap_file_pages protection support and its various > weakness (due to lack of time on his part), and splitting and finishing it. I'm not sure

Re: w1: more debug level decrease.

2005-08-12 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:16:12PM +0200, Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here's a patch for 2.6.13-rc6 to keep people's syslogs a bit nicer. > > But why is this thing running every 10 seconds at all in the first place? > Looks to me like you're

Re: w1: more debug level decrease.

2005-08-12 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:16:12PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here's a patch for 2.6.13-rc6 to keep people's syslogs a bit nicer. > > But why is this thing running every 10 seconds at all in the first place? > Looks to me like you're just hiding the

Re: copy_from_user, copy_to_user in kernel

2005-08-12 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:16:23AM -0700, KrnlUsr wrote: > Hi > > Why does copy_from/to_user routines fail if both > source and destination are in kernel space. I have a > kernel module that: I had this problem when writing a kernel module that was using a UDP socket to send and receive stuff.

[PATCH] dynamic-tick patch modified for SMP

2005-08-12 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
Hi, Here's finally the SMP changes that I had promised. The patch breaks the earlier restriction that all CPUs have to be idle before cutting of timers and now allows each idle CPU to skip ticks independent of others. The patch is against 2.6.13-rc6 and applies on top of Con's patch

Re: w1: more debug level decrease.

2005-08-12 Thread Andi Kleen
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's a patch for 2.6.13-rc6 to keep people's syslogs a bit nicer. But why is this thing running every 10 seconds at all in the first place? Looks to me like you're just hiding the symptoms, not fixing the bug that makes this code run on unsuspecting

Re: These guys can't spell Linux ;)

2005-08-12 Thread Nick Warne
On Friday 12 August 2005 20:15, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>Didn't 'Linux' originate from a mis-spelling of Linus' name when his > >> first account on some box in Helsinki Uni was created /home/linux/? > > > >It was because the ftp admin did not like the original name "freex" so he > > just renamed

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-12 Thread Andre Tomt
Michael Thonke wrote: Jeff Garzik schrieb: Michael Thonke wrote: There is no other way to use a nearly good chipset for AMD64 cpus. Via's chipsets are really buggy not acceptable, so what else ULi/Ali who cares where to buy? What specifically does not work, on VIA+AMD64 combination,

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Chuck Harding
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Guillaume Foliard wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 14:53, Ingo Molnar wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Guillaume Foliard wrote: Hi, Here is the compilation error I had with 0.7.53-02 : thanks - i've uploaded the -53-05 patch which should fix this - does it build/work for you

Re: [patch][-mm] selinux: Reduce memory use by avtab

2005-08-12 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:47:20AM -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > Should -Wbitwise be included in CHECKFLAGS in the kernel Makefile by > default? It should but not right now ;-). $ grep -c "warning: " W_sparse_* W_sparse_i386:14887 W_sparse_ppc:16214 W_sparse_ppc64:15765 W_sparse_sparc:8906

Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal (version 2)

2005-08-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 19:49 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 01:13:51PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 17:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > > support the same hardware) for removal. > > >

Re: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 11 August 2005 20:36, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > >> > Swsusp is the main "is valid ram" user I have in mind here. It > > >> > wants to know whether or not it should save and restore the > > >> > memory of a given `struct page`. > > >> > > >> Why can't it follow the rmap chain? > > >

Re: [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix spinlock initialization

2005-08-12 Thread Kumar Gala
On Aug 12, 2005, at 2:46 PM, Russell King wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:32:57AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: The lack of spin_lock_init causes badness in the preempt configuration. Please don't - I have a patch in the wings which fixes this properly. Unfortunately, its behind a ton of

Re: [patch] fix ucb1x00 support on collie

2005-08-12 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 01:11:03PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > You still do: > > Ser4MCCR0 = data->mccr0 | 0x7f7f; > > ...I'm not sure, but it seems to me I want MMCR0 to be set to > 0x6. Would it be better to move 7f7f constant (what is it, anyway) > to machine-specific code? I do this

[PATCH 2.6.12.4] ACPI oops during ipmi_si driver init

2005-08-12 Thread Peter Martuccelli
Hello Len, Stumbled into this problem working on the ipmi_si driver. When the ipmi_si driver initialization fails the acpi_tb_get_table call, after rsdt_info has been allocated, acpi_get_firmware_table() will oops trying to reference off rsdt_info->pointer in the cleanup code. The following

Re: [patch 11/39] remap_file_pages protection support: add MAP_NOINHERIT flag

2005-08-12 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:21:23PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Add the MAP_NOINHERIT flag to arch headers, for use with remap-file-pages. Does this mean ARM will break when these patches are merged? > Signed-off-by: Paolo

Re: [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix spinlock initialization

2005-08-12 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 11:32:57AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > The lack of spin_lock_init causes badness in the preempt configuration. Please don't - I have a patch in the wings which fixes this properly. Unfortunately, its behind a ton of other patches, and I don't want to try to find all these

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Guillaume Foliard
On Friday 12 August 2005 21:27, Guillaume Foliard wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2005 14:53, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Guillaume Foliard wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Here is the compilation error I had with 0.7.53-02 : > > > > thanks - i've uploaded the -53-05 patch which should

Re: fdisk & LBA

2005-08-12 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended > partition. > My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the > extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C

Re: sparc, ppc64 build failures (allmodconfig, -latest)

2005-08-12 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:38:54PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > sparc > > drivers/char/ip2main.c:123:24: asm/serial.h: No such file or directory > drivers/char/synclinkmp.c:58:24: asm/serial.h: No such file or directory These drivers need to stop including asm/serial.h. The only driver

[PATCH] ppc32: Cleaned up global namespace of Book-E watchdog variables

2005-08-12 Thread Kumar Gala
Renamed global variables used to convey if the watchdog is enabled and periodicity of the timer and moved the declarations into a header for these variables Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit

Re: [patch] Feature removal: ACPI S4bios support

2005-08-12 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Pavel Machek wrote: > Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for > _me_ once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in I tried it. It did not work. And IIRC, i once dug through the code paths and found out, that it could not work, since at least ~2.6.5

Re: [PATCH] IDE: don't offer IDE_GENERIC on ia64

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Maybe it should instead depend on those systems where it is available. >Anything but X86? x86_64? Jan Engelhardt -- - 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: [RFC][patch 0/2] mm: remove PageReserved

2005-08-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 11 August 2005 20:49, David Howells wrote: > Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To be honest I'm having some trouble following this through logically. > > I'll read through a few more times and see if that fixes the problem. > > This seems cluster-related, so I have an

Re: [PATCH 0/8] netpoll: various bugfixes

2005-08-12 Thread Olaf Hering
On Fri, Aug 12, Matt Mackall wrote: > Does the task dump work without patch 5/8 (add retry timeout)? I'll > try testing it here. I spoke to soon, worked once, after reboot not anymore. Will try to play with individual patches. Does the task dump work for you, at least? - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-12 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/12/05, Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > So, if in doubt what is really meant - check which of the two/three/+ > > > different behaviors the users out there favor most. > > > > Rather,

Re: Need help in understanding x86 syscall

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> zach-dev2:~ $ ldd /bin/ls > linux-gate.so.1 => (0xe000) > > This is the vsyscall entry point, which gets linked by ld into all processes. Just a clarification... not GNU ld (the binutils thing), but /lib/ld-linux.so - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: [PATCH] Fix PPC signal handling of NODEFER, should not affect sa_mask

2005-08-12 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > I've supplied this before, but I'll send it again. Attached is a program > that should show the behavior of the sigaction. If someone has one of the > above mentioned boxes, please run this on the box and send back the > results. Here it is again.

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.53-01, High Resolution Timers & RCU-tasklist features

2005-08-12 Thread Guillaume Foliard
On Friday 12 August 2005 14:53, Ingo Molnar wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Guillaume Foliard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here is the compilation error I had with 0.7.53-02 : > > thanks - i've uploaded the -53-05 patch which should fix this - does it > build/work for you now? I've tried -53-07. Build is

Re: [PATCH 0/8] netpoll: various bugfixes

2005-08-12 Thread Matt Mackall
[corrected akpm's address] On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:21:51PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Aug 11, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > This patch series cleans up a few outstanding bugs in netpoll: > > > > - two bugfixes from Jeff Moyer's netpoll bonding > > - a tweak to e1000's netpoll stub > >

fdisk & LBA

2005-08-12 Thread Nanakos Chrysostomos
Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended partition. My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C code and through fdisk usage. How can i use this value to seek(lseek) to this

Re: [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: e1000 netpoll tweak

2005-08-12 Thread Matt Mackall
[corrected akpm's address] On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:02:03PM -0700, John Ronciak wrote: > Sorry this reply was to go to the whole list but only made it to Matt. > > The e1000_intr() routine already calls e1000_clean_tx_irq(). So > what's the point of this patch? Am I missing something? Here

Re: SATA status report updated

2005-08-12 Thread Mogens Valentin
Jeff Garzik wrote: Things in SATA-land have been moving along recently, so I updated the software status report: http://linux.yyz.us/sata/software-status.html >> Queueing support, NCQ: >> #3 will be supported by libata, for all hardware and devices that >> support NCQ. I guess this

Re: These guys can't spell Linux ;)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>>Didn't 'Linux' originate from a mis-spelling of Linus' name when his first >>account on some box in Helsinki Uni was created /home/linux/? > >It was because the ftp admin did not like the original name "freex" so he just >renamed it to something that suited him well. Correction to myself:

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>I tried earlyprintk=vga, but it didn't provide any extra information. >Although, CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK is disabled in my .config. Does it need >to be set to CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK=y for earlyprintk=vga to work? I think yes, otherwise there would not be a .config entry at all. >I haven't tried

Re: Hang at resume with AC adapter not plugged

2005-08-12 Thread Christian Hesse
On Tuesday 09 August 2005 07:45, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi Christian. > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:41, Christian Hesse wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have a little problem with software suspend 2.1.9.1[012] on > > 2.6.13-rc[3456]. The system hangs on resume if the AC adapter is not > >

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [RFC] [patch 0/39] remap_file_pages protection support, try 2

2005-08-12 Thread David S. Miller
From: Blaisorblade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:56:11 +0200 > However, I sent the initial tarball containing all them, so I hope > that will be useful. So not only did you spam the list with 40 patch postings, you sent a second copy of everything as a tarball attachment as well.

Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays where rc4-mm1 works

2005-08-12 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-08-12 at 10:34 -0700, Andrew Burgess wrote: > >Unless you are using data=journal and have turned write cache off on > >your IDE drives that is expected. > > I seem to recall reading that after a power failure a modern IDE drive gets > enough power from the motor spinning down to

Re: Trouble shooting a ten minute boot delay (SiI3112)

2005-08-12 Thread Shaun Jackman
2005/8/12, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Thanks for the hint. I tried edd=off but sadly the boot delay > >persists. It looks as though edd was already disabled, as my .config > >contains CONFIG_EDD=m and the edd module is not loaded. If it helps > >troubleshooting I can post my .config

Re: [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: e1000 netpoll tweak

2005-08-12 Thread David S. Miller
From: John Ronciak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: e1000 netpoll tweak Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:02:03 -0700 > Sorry this reply was to go to the whole list but only made it to Matt. > > The e1000_intr() routine already calls e1000_clean_tx_irq(). So > what's the point of

Re: APIC version and 8-bit APIC IDs

2005-08-12 Thread Andi Kleen
> Not sure if we ever support CPUs with different APIC versions. That will > probably require some ACPI SPEC changes too.. > > I would say, for now just follow the i386 code. Ok I applied the patch. Thanks. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 3/8] netpoll: e1000 netpoll tweak

2005-08-12 Thread John Ronciak
Sorry this reply was to go to the whole list but only made it to Matt. The e1000_intr() routine already calls e1000_clean_tx_irq(). So what's the point of this patch? Am I missing something? On 8/11/05, Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Suggested by Steven Rostedt, matches his patch

[patch 32/39] remap_file_pages protection support: fix i386 handler

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Actually, with the current model, we should get a failure with VMA's mapped with only PROT_WRITE (even if I wasn't able to verify that in UML, which has similar code). To test! Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL

[patch 39/39] remap_file_pages protection support: wrong "historical" code for review - 2

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This "fast-path" was contained in the original remap-file-pages-prot-2.6.4-rc1-mm1-A1.patch from Ingo Molnar; I think this code is wrong, but I'm sending it for review anyway, because I'm unsure (and in

[patch 37/39] remap_file_pages protection support: wrong "historical" code for review - 1

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This "fast-path" was contained in the original remap-file-pages-prot-2.6.4-rc1-mm1-A1.patch from Ingo Molnar*; I think this code is wrong, but I'm sending it for review anyway, because I'm unsure (and in

[patch 38/39] [RFC] remap_file_pages protection support: avoid dirtying on read faults for NONUNIFORM pages

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When installing pages on non-uniform VMA's, even for read faults we must install them writable if the VMA is writable (we won't have a chance to fix that). Normally, on write faults, we install the PTE as dirty (there's a comment about

[patch 35/39] remap_file_pages protection support: avoid redundant pte_file PTE's

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For linear VMA's, there is no need to install pte_file PTEs to remember the offset. We could probably go as far as checking directly the address and protection like in include/linux/pagemap.h:set_nonlinear_pte(), instead of vma->vm_flags.

[patch 22/39] remap file pages protection support: use FAULT_SIGSEGV for protection checking, uml bits

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This adapts the changes to the i386 handler to the UML one. It isn't enough to make UML work, however, because UML has some peculiarities. Subsequent patches fix this. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[patch 23/39] remap_file_pages protection support: fix try_to_unmap_one for VM_NONUNIFORM vma's

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When unmapping linear but non uniform VMA's in try_to_unmap_one, we must encode the prots in the PTE. However, we shouldn't use the generic set_nonlinear_pte() function as it allows for nonlinear offsets, on which we should instead BUG()

[patch 36/39] remap_file_pages protection support: avoid lookup of pages for PROT_NONE remapping

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This optimization avoid looking up pages for PROT_NONE mappings. The idea was taken from the "wrong "historical" code for review - 1" one (the next one) from mingo, but I fixed it, by adding another "detail" parameter. I've also fixed the

RE: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>>From what Allen said, the implication to me is that something >in the current NVIDIA stat NCQ chipset is *not* fully under >NVIDIA's control, ie they got some piece of technology from >someone else and cannot disclose its details, which would be >why the could release a "clean" redesigned one.

[patch 29/39] remap_file_pages protection support: ppc64 bits

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ppc64 bits for remap_file_pages w/prot (no syscall table). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.git-paolo/include/asm-ppc64/pgtable.h | 12 +--- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

[patch 21/39] remap_file_pages protection support: use EOVERFLOW ret code

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use -EOVERFLOW ("Value too large for defined data type") rather than -EINVAL when we cannot store the file offset in the PTE. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/fremap.c |2

[patch 31/39] remap_file_pages protection support: s390 bits

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s390 memory management changes for remap-file-pages-prot patch: - Add pgoff_prot_to_pte/pte_to_pgprot, remove pgoff_to_pte (required for 'prot' parameteter in shared-writeable mappings). - Handle VM_FAULT_SIGSEGV from handle_mm_fault in

[patch 28/39] remap_file_pages protection support: sparc64 bits.

2005-08-12 Thread blaisorblade
From: William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Implement remap_file_pages-with-per-page-protections for sparc64. See ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.4/2.6.4-mm1/broken-out/remap-file-pages-prot-2.6.4-rc1-mm1-A1.patch and

Re: These guys can't spell Linux ;)

2005-08-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> http://eng.cowon.com/product/iAUDIOU2/feature.html >> >> Mac and Lynux OS >> Use Mac or Lynux? No problem!! >> iAUDIO U2 is available to be used on Mac or Lynux OS. > >Didn't 'Linux' originate from a mis-spelling of Linus' name when his first >account on some box in Helsinki Uni was created

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