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

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, the attached instead revalidates that the task struct still > references the sighand_struct after obtaining the lock (and passes > kernbench and LTP, which tells me I need to get better tests!). i've applied this to the -RT tree, and it's

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH repost] PROT_DONTCOPY: ifiniband uverbs fork support

2005-08-16 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:37:50PM -0400, Bill Jordan wrote: > On 8/11/05, Gleb Natapov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What about the idea that was floating around about new VM flag that will > > instruct kernel to copy pages belonging to the vma on fork instead of mark > > them as cow? > > > >

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This patch set is based on 2.6.13-rc6 -mm1 broken out series. It applies > and builds i386, x86_64, and um-i386 on 2.6.13-rc5. I've tested PAE and > non-PAE SMP kernels and am working on an LDT test suite. Depends on > the i386 cleanups, sub-arch

Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays - bisection complete

2005-08-16 Thread Helge Hafting
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:24:25AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > > I'm a little surprised, as a ppc64 fix theoretically shouldn't matter for > > > x86_64? But perhaps they share something? > > > > My guess is that it is maybe the DRM changes that have done it... the > > 32/64-bit code in

Re: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-16 Thread Andi Kleen
Patch looks good to me now. Thanks. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:10:23 CDT, Michael E Brown said: > Ok, very nice. Finally some actual code review, thanks. :-) I have to admit I'm not qualified to do a detailed review, but I try.. ;) > These are all just standard CMOS port numbers that pretty much every > chipset uses to access CMOS.

Re: [PATCH 6/6] i386 virtualization - Attempt to clean up pgtable code motion

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Virtualization aware Linux kernels may need to redefine functions which write > to hardware page tables at the sub-architecture layer. Previously, this was > done by encapsulation in a split mach-xxx/pgtable-{2|3}level-ops.h file, but > having 8

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

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:39 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > I haven't looked at this new code all that closely as yet. One thing I > did notice is that there is an assumption that the "timer being > delivered flag" can be shared between LR timers and HR timers. I > suspect this is wrong as

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0500, Doug Warzecha wrote: > This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support. > > This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage. Much better, but I still have a few questions: > +System Management Interrupt > + > +On some Dell

Re: [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > >>@@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ > >>static inline unsigned long get_desc_base(struct desc_struct *desc) > >>{ > >>unsigned long base; > >>- base = ((desc->a >> 16) & 0x) | > >>+ base = (desc->a >> 16) | > > > >Seemingly

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Michael E Brown
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:58:43 CDT, Michael E Brown said: > > > No, this is an _EXCELLENT_ reason why _LESS_ of this should be in the > > kernel. Why should we have to duplicate a _TON_ of code inside the > > kernel to figure out which

Re: [-mm PATCH] set enable bit instead of lock bit of Watchdog Timer in Intel 6300 chipset

2005-08-16 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi All, > >This patch sets the WDT_ENABLE bit of the Lock Register to enable the > >watchdog and WDT_LOCK bit only if nowayout is set. The old code always > >sets the WDT_LOCK bit of watchdog timer for Intel 6300ESB chipset. So, we > >end up locking the watchdog instead of enabling it. > > >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:29 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Aug 15, 2005, at 18:58:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Why can't you just implement the system management actions in > > >> the kernel driver? This is tantamount to

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Nathan Lutchansky
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:29 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Aug 15, 2005, at 18:58:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why can't you just implement the system management actions in the kernel driver? This is tantamount to a binary

Re: [-mm PATCH] set enable bit instead of lock bit of Watchdog Timer in Intel 6300 chipset

2005-08-16 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi All, This patch sets the WDT_ENABLE bit of the Lock Register to enable the watchdog and WDT_LOCK bit only if nowayout is set. The old code always sets the WDT_LOCK bit of watchdog timer for Intel 6300ESB chipset. So, we end up locking the watchdog instead of enabling it. Signed-off-by:

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Michael E Brown
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:58:43 CDT, Michael E Brown said: No, this is an _EXCELLENT_ reason why _LESS_ of this should be in the kernel. Why should we have to duplicate a _TON_ of code inside the kernel to figure out which platform

Re: [PATCH 3/6] i386 virtualization - Make ldt a desc struct

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Chris Wright wrote: @@ -30,7 +33,7 @@ static inline unsigned long get_desc_base(struct desc_struct *desc) { unsigned long base; - base = ((desc-a 16) 0x) | + base = (desc-a 16) | Seemingly unrelated. Yes, alas my bucket

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 03:05:22PM -0500, Doug Warzecha wrote: This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support. This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage. Much better, but I still have a few questions: +System Management Interrupt + +On some Dell systems,

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

2005-08-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 16:39 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: I haven't looked at this new code all that closely as yet. One thing I did notice is that there is an assumption that the timer being delivered flag can be shared between LR timers and HR timers. I suspect this is wrong as the

Re: [PATCH 6/6] i386 virtualization - Attempt to clean up pgtable code motion

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Virtualization aware Linux kernels may need to redefine functions which write to hardware page tables at the sub-architecture layer. Previously, this was done by encapsulation in a split mach-xxx/pgtable-{2|3}level-ops.h file, but having 8

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:10:23 CDT, Michael E Brown said: Ok, very nice. Finally some actual code review, thanks. :-) I have to admit I'm not qualified to do a detailed review, but I try.. ;) These are all just standard CMOS port numbers that pretty much every chipset uses to access CMOS. The

Re: [RFC][2.6.12.3] IRQ compression/sharing patch

2005-08-16 Thread Andi Kleen
Patch looks good to me now. Thanks. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays - bisection complete

2005-08-16 Thread Helge Hafting
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:24:25AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: I'm a little surprised, as a ppc64 fix theoretically shouldn't matter for x86_64? But perhaps they share something? My guess is that it is maybe the DRM changes that have done it... the 32/64-bit code in 2.6.13-rc6 may have

Re: [PATCH 0/6] i386 virtualization patches, Set 3

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: This patch set is based on 2.6.13-rc6 -mm1 broken out series. It applies and builds i386, x86_64, and um-i386 on 2.6.13-rc5. I've tested PAE and non-PAE SMP kernels and am working on an LDT test suite. Depends on the i386 cleanups, sub-arch

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH repost] PROT_DONTCOPY: ifiniband uverbs fork support

2005-08-16 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:37:50PM -0400, Bill Jordan wrote: On 8/11/05, Gleb Natapov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the idea that was floating around about new VM flag that will instruct kernel to copy pages belonging to the vma on fork instead of mark them as cow? I think the

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

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul E. McKenney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, the attached instead revalidates that the task struct still references the sighand_struct after obtaining the lock (and passes kernbench and LTP, which tells me I need to get better tests!). i've applied this to the -RT tree, and it's looking

Upgrade from 2.6.10-ac8 to 2.6.12.5 broke lvm rootfs

2005-08-16 Thread Ville Herva
After upgrading the kernel from 2.6.10-ac8 to 2.6.12.5 the initramfs was no longer able to mount rootfs. mount: error 6 mounting ext3 All the configuration options are identical, and upgrading lvm2 package: lvm2-2.00.25-1.01 - lvm2-2.01.14-1.0 device-mapper-1.00.19-2 -

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: To take a concrete example, I suggested to Doug to mention fan status. I get the feeling that you possibly think that this would be better integrated into lmsensors, or something like that. Yes it should. That way you get the

Re: [PATCH] to drivers/input/evdev.c to add mixer device /dev/input/events

2005-08-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Joe Peterson wrote: Dave Neuer wrote: On 8/15/05, Joe Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, overall, I agree that we should not invent hacks to make up for another software package's problems... but also wrote: If the kernel could handle that aspect, it would make all

Re: [PATCH] pmtmr and PRINTK_TIME timings display

2005-08-16 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 00:18, john stultz wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 17:23 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: I get it. Actually, I wasn't very sure whether this is the right solution since my desktop machine uses tsc timer as default while the laptop the pmtmr. I also remember that there

Re: rc6 keeps hanging and blanking displays - bisection complete

2005-08-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Helge Hafting wrote: This was interesting. At first, lots of kernels just kept working, I almost suspected I was doing something wrong. Then the second last kernel recompiled a lot of DRM stuff - and the crash came back! The kernel after that

2.6.13-rc6-rt1

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
i've released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ as the name already suggests, i've switched to a new, simplified naming scheme, which follows the usual naming convention of trees tracking the mainline kernel.

Re: Kernel 2.6.5 - Compaq Fibre Channel 64-bit/66Mhz HBA [PATCH]

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Bolke de Bruin wrote: Rolf Eike Beer wrote: If I can still help you then depends on your scheduling of this job. I'll try to do some hacking at the weekends. Does this mean you will not have time until October 5th or just time in the weekend until that time? For the moment my weekends are more

2.6.12.[45] oops at boot

2005-08-16 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, here is an oops I got during boot with kernel 2.6.12.4 or .5. Using debian kernel 2.6.8 it's ok. (Dmesg from 2.6.8 kernel is attached) PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller :00:1f.1 PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] remove dead reset function from cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
cpqfcTS_reset() is never referenced from anywhere. By using the nonexistent constant SCSI_RESET_ERROR it causes just another unneeded compile error. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSinit.c2005-08-13 09:34:20.0 +0200 +++

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] remove 2.4 compat code from cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Remove compat code for Linux 2.4 and earlier. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTScontrol.c 2005-08-13 19:00:35.0 +0200 +++ b/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTScontrol.c 2005-08-14 11:02:09.0 +0200 @@ -28,8 +28,6 @@ Hewlitt Packard Manual Part

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] remove superfluos ioctls from cpqfcTS

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Remove ioctls to get PCI information and driver version. These information can be found via lspci or dmesg. Also remove two typedefs already commented out. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSioctl.h 2005-08-07 20:18:56.0 +0200 +++

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] more whitespace cleanups for cpqfcTS

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
More whitespace cleanups: -remove trailing whitespace -remove brakets around return statements -remove some double (or more) newlines Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSi2c.c 2005-08-07 20:18:56.0 +0200 +++ b/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSi2c.c 2005-08-14

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] remove dead reset function from cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:11:06AM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: cpqfcTS_reset() is never referenced from anywhere. By using the nonexistent constant SCSI_RESET_ERROR it causes just another unneeded compile error. That was the old reset handler. Do you actually have this hardware? The driver

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
cpqfcTSinit has a static array of PCI device and vendor ids supported by the driver. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Use pci_device_id as type for the entries of this array and declare the array as MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE. Also use pci_get_device() instead of pci_find_device() and remove some

Re: kernel 2.4.27-10: isofs driver ignore some parameters with mount

2005-08-16 Thread Horms
Hi, On Marcelo's request I have taken a closer look at this. It seems that Alexander Pytlev's original (simple) patch was correct. Without it the logic looks a bit like this. while (...) { if iocharset ... else if map ... if session

[PATCH] Bogus code in parsing of iocharset in isofs

2005-08-16 Thread Horms
Hi, this is a followup for the patch I sent earlier (like about 2 minutes ago) regarding isofs options parsing. In the course of debuging this Marcelo pointed out the following code #ifdef CONFIG_JOLIET if (!strcmp(this_char,iocharset) value) {

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] remove dead reset function from cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:11:06AM +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: cpqfcTS_reset() is never referenced from anywhere. By using the nonexistent constant SCSI_RESET_ERROR it causes just another unneeded compile error. That was the old reset handler. Do you actually have

2.6.13-rc6-rt2

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
i have released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt2 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ it includes a single bugfix, which fixes a HRT timer-latency problem, and which could explain some of the crashes/reboots Thomas Gleixner was seeing on his

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Thats great for the perl6 people. http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/syn/S03.html says they are going to be using « and » as operators... Is Larry smoking crack? That's one of the worst ideas I've heard in a long time. There's no easy way to enter those at the keyboard! I have

atime on devices

2005-08-16 Thread Lev A. Melnikovsky
Hi! It is sometimes useful to know device access time. Things that I have in mind are the software-based hard disk inactivity spindown (some brain damaged IDE drives fail to follow hdparm -S if the argument is longer than 1/2 hour) and sound card muting if it is not touched for a while.

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt1

2005-08-16 Thread Milan Svoboda
Hello, HRT are really very cool, but my test program indicates a bug: 4612304528077750272 4612304528077750272 4612304528077750272 4612304528077750272 4612304528077750272 ... When CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR is changed to CLOCK_MONOTONIC the numbers are OK. Problem is with clock_gettime (I haven't tried

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-git5 : PCI mem resource alloc failure

2005-08-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
With 2.6.13-rc6-git5 I started getting the below errors. Despite of the errors everything works fine. (only problem is that I have to disconnect /reconnect the usb mouse for it to get detected..) [ 47.883970] PCI: Failed to allocate mem resource #10:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for 000 0:02:04.0 [

Defination of Flag CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP in AS4 UP1

2005-08-16 Thread shahid shaikh
Hi all, While doing insmod for a psuedo driver, kernel is dumping a stack because sleep function is called. My init_module function for psuedo driver calls add_disk to register admin device. In add_disk(), kernel is allocating memory using kmalloc with flag GFP_KERNEL. This is hardcoded in kernel

Re: Defination of Flag CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP in AS4 UP1

2005-08-16 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 15:37 +0530, shahid shaikh wrote: Hi all, While doing insmod for a psuedo driver, kernel is dumping a stack because sleep function is called. My init_module function for psuedo driver calls add_disk to register admin device. In add_disk(), kernel is allocating memory

2.6.12.3 clock drifting twice too fast (amd64)

2005-08-16 Thread jerome lacoste
Installed stock 2.6.12.3 on a brand new amd64 box with an Asus extreme AX 300 SE/t mainboard. I remember seeing a message in the boot saying something along: cannot connect to hardware clock. And now I see that the time is changing too fast (about 2 seconds each second). I don't have visual

Re: Defination of Flag CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP in AS4 UP1

2005-08-16 Thread Christoph Hellwig
What's AS UP1 in your subject? On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:37:07PM +0530, shahid shaikh wrote: Hi all, While doing insmod for a psuedo driver, kernel is dumping a stack because sleep function is called. My init_module function for psuedo driver calls add_disk to register admin device. In

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

2005-08-16 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On 8/15/05, Bjorn Helgaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 2:40 am, Alan Cox wrote: Assuming all IA-64 boxes are PCI or better then you actually want to edit include/asm-ia64/ide.h and edit ide_default_io_base where someone years ago cut and pasted x86-32 values so

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

2005-08-16 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/16/05, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 8/15/05, Bjorn Helgaas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 August 2005 2:40 am, Alan Cox wrote: Assuming all IA-64 boxes are PCI or better then you actually want to edit include/asm-ia64/ide.h and edit

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

2005-08-16 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/11/05, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:24:43PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: IA64 boxes only have PCI IDE devices, so there's no need to blindly poke around in I/O port space. Poking at things that don't exist causes MCAs on HP ia64 systems.

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-16 Thread Hiro Yoshioka
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] My code does nothing do it. I need a volunteer to implement it. it's actually not too hard; all you need is to use SSE and not MMX; and then just store sse register you're overwriting on the stack or so... oh, really? Does the linux kernel take

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-16 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi My code does nothing do it. I need a volunteer to implement it. it's actually not too hard; all you need is to use SSE and not MMX; and then just store sse register you're overwriting on the stack or so... oh, really? Does the linux kernel take care of SSE save/restore on

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-16 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:16 +0900, Hiro Yoshioka wrote: From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] My code does nothing do it. I need a volunteer to implement it. it's actually not too hard; all you need is to use SSE and not MMX; and then just store sse register you're overwriting

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

2005-08-16 Thread David Howells
Daniel Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to know when a page is going to be modified so that I can predict the state of the cache as much as possible. I don't want userspace processes corrupting the cache in unrecorded ways. There are two cases: 1) Metadata. If anybody is

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-16 Thread Hirokazu Takahashi
Hi, My code does nothing do it. I need a volunteer to implement it. it's actually not too hard; all you need is to use SSE and not MMX; and then just store sse register you're overwriting on the stack or so... oh, really? Does the linux kernel take care of SSE

Re: Re: [patch] net/tulip: LAN driver for ULI M5261/M5263

2005-08-16 Thread Peer . Chen
Jeff: The attached file is the incremental patch to the original uli526x.c I send you first time, I modify the source according to your advice, thanks. Signed-off-by: Peer Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] (See attached file: patch_uli526x_inc) Best Regards Peer |-+--- |

Re: [patch] unexport __mntput()

2005-08-16 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Nfsd uses it to serve up nfs exports that don't cross mountpoints (or do, if crossmnt is specified in /etc/exports. Is not this called nohide? Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

[patch] Cleanups/debugging fixes in pcmcia/soc_common.c

2005-08-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This fixes debugging in soc_common.c (vprintk, not printk may be used at that point), makes no cpufreq hooks a little bit safer and fixes whitespace a tiny bit. Please apply, Pavel diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/soc_common.c

Re: PowerOP 0/3: System power operating point management API

2005-08-16 Thread Dominik Brodowski
Hi! The PowerOP infrastructure you suggest surely is one path to better runtime power management in the Linux kernel. However, I don't like it at all in its current implementation. Here are a few suggestions for improvements, rewrites, and so on: First, the table interface you suggest is ugly.

Re: PowerOP 0/3: System power operating point management API

2005-08-16 Thread Dominik Brodowski
A small add-on: We need to make sure that we're capable of handling smart CPUs like Transmeta Crusoe processors in a sane way. This means b)Setting of values is optional if the hardware itself can be set to a min/max value (step a above in previous mail). Dominik - To unsubscribe

intel_agp resume problems

2005-08-16 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hello Dave, after suspend-to-ram and a subsequent resume the configuration of my AGP bridge/controller is different and X will refuse to start after resume if it wasn't running during suspend. I'm using radeonfb as console driver and kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git6. Diff between lspci -vvvxxx before and

error compiling 2.6.13.rc6 with realtime-preempt patch -rt2 ('quirk_via_irq')

2005-08-16 Thread Mr Machine
i get this error during compile of pci drivers: CC drivers/pci/access.o CC drivers/pci/bus.o CC drivers/pci/probe.o CC drivers/pci/remove.o CC drivers/pci/pci.o CC drivers/pci/quirks.o drivers/pci/quirks.c: In function ‘quirk_via_irq’:

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

2005-08-16 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Paul E. McKenney wrote: OK, the attached instead revalidates that the task struct still references the sighand_struct after obtaining the lock Personally I think this is a way to go. A nitpick suggestion, could you make a separate function (say, lock_task_sighand) which does all this job?

Re: error compiling 2.6.13.rc6 with realtime-preempt patch -rt2 ('quirk_via_irq')

2005-08-16 Thread Serge Noiraud
mardi 16 Août 2005 13:41, Mr Machine wrote/a écrit : i get this error during compile of pci drivers: CC drivers/pci/access.o CC drivers/pci/bus.o CC drivers/pci/probe.o CC drivers/pci/remove.o CC drivers/pci/pci.o CC drivers/pci/quirks.o

Re: [PATCH 1/5] call i2c_probe from i2c core

2005-08-16 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nathan, if (driver-flags I2C_DF_NOTIFY) { list_for_each(item,adapters) { adapter = list_entry(item, struct i2c_adapter, list); - driver-attach_adapter(adapter); + if (driver-attach_adapter) +

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Andrey Panin
On 228, 08 16, 2005 at 01:36:19AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:58:43 CDT, Michael E Brown said: No, this is an _EXCELLENT_ reason why _LESS_ of this should be in the kernel. Why should we have to duplicate a _TON_ of code inside the kernel to figure out which

2.6.13-rc6-rt3

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
i have released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt3 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ Changes since 2.6.13-rc6-rt2: - reverted an incorrect tasklist_lock - lock_task() conversion that slipped in via an earlier hack in the HRT code. The issue

Re: error compiling 2.6.13.rc6 with realtime-preempt patch -rt2 ('quirk_via_irq')

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mr Machine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i get this error during compile of pci drivers: if this helps, here's the realtime configuration section from my .config file: could you send me the full .config file? That's the easiest way for me to reproduce your build problem. Ingo - To

linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org RTRJWZHWPS

2005-08-16 Thread chdqpw
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 16.08.2005 OCPPXXMPTMIYRYJRONKSJBYMIPRJRKFGPJIRWH attachment: R587DK324V.jpg

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

2005-08-16 Thread Etienne Lorrain
Do you see grub saying uncompressing kernel... or whatever that says? Grub says... root (hd2,2) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12.4 root=/dev/md0 ro nodma [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1302ff] May I suggest to try a boot with Gujin

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

2005-08-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 11:38 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * removing IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT define has some implications, * non-functional ide-cs driver (but there is no PCMCIA on IA64?) IA64 systems can support PCI-Cardbus/PCMCIA cards so they do actually need this support. They

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt1

2005-08-16 Thread Michal Schmidt
Ingo Molnar wrote: i've released the 2.6.13-rc6-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ as the name already suggests, i've switched to a new, simplified naming scheme, which follows the usual naming convention of trees tracking the

PCI quirks not handled and config space differences on resume from S3

2005-08-16 Thread Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
Hi, it seems that PCI quirks are not handled on resume which results in all kinds of strange effects, like disappeared PCI devices. Below is a diff between lspci -vvvxxx before and after resume for my SMBus device which only gets enabled by PCI quirk handling. -:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp.

Re: error compiling 2.6.13.rc6 with realtime-preempt patch -rt2 ('quirk_via_irq')

2005-08-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Serge Noiraud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mardi 16 Août 2005 13:41, Mr Machine wrote/a écrit : i get this error during compile of pci drivers: I have the same problem with rt1 and rt2. i have fixed this in -rt4 (just uploaded). One 'bizarre' thing : If I patch directly 2.6.13.rc6 with the

Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-5.2.4 for 2.6.12 and 2.6.13-rc6

2005-08-16 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, On 8/16/05, Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Williams wrote: Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, here are my benchmarks (part1): Would you mind doing a few extra runs when you do Zaphod with different configuration parameters? Namely: 1. default value for

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-16 Thread Andi Kleen
Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not on kernel entry afaik. However just save the register on the stack and put it back at the end... You need to do more than that, like disabling lazy FPU mode. That is what kernel_fpu_begin/end takes care of. However it disables preemption,

PROBLEM: blocking read on socket repeatedly returns EAGAIN

2005-08-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
A read() on a TCP/IP socket, which should block returns -1 with errno=EAGAIN Unless I am mistaken, the read() should block as the socket is active with no problems. The only unusual items are that I have set the network buffer size to 32K (32 * 1024), IPTOS_THROUGHPUT, and keepalive. In

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Jiri Slaby
Rolf Eike Beer napsal(a): Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSinit.c2005-08-14 14:20:40.0 +0200 +++ b/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSinit.c2005-08-14 14:25:33.0 +0200 @@ -264,18 +264,14 @@ static void launch_FCworker_thread(struc *

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

2005-08-16 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:30:51AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: Time definitely was lost the longer the machine was running. I think I found the reason for time drift. Basically cur_timer-mark_offset doesnt expect to be called from non-timer interrupt handler. Hence it drops one jiffy from the lost

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

2005-08-16 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:19, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:30:51AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: Time definitely was lost the longer the machine was running. I think I found the reason for time drift. Basically cur_timer-mark_offset doesnt expect to be called from non-timer

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-16 Thread Michael E Brown
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 01:16 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:10:28PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote: To take a concrete example, I suggested to Doug to mention fan status. I get the feeling that you possibly think that this would be better integrated into lmsensors, or

Re: Linux Kernel Hang or stop after uncompressing MPC8245

2005-08-16 Thread mustang4
Thanks a lot Willy, I try to find something in this way... Note, that i test my board with an image with Kernel 2.4 and work well.. but it's a no-free version (i don't have source or configuration) ... Me, i want to boot with my own kernel and find correct configuration... This system use, i

RE: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

2005-08-16 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Lenneart, Good Morning. Sorry for the delay. It is Independence Day celebration Week in INDIA. And it's time for my independence from this problem. Please see my advances in-lined below. Work time --- And is it due to lack of partition support in the driver that will affect the

RE: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

2005-08-16 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Lennart, I have bought a entermultimedia USB 2.0 21-in-1 card. There are no Linux driver support in the CD provided. Can u suggest me what is best bug (USB card reader) with Linux driver support in the Market. Regards, Mukund Jampala -Original Message- From: Lennart Sorensen

Re: PROBLEM: blocking read on socket repeatedly returns EAGAIN

2005-08-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 15:19 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: have written, nor does it write() anything. When my read() is issued, I expect it to block, but it immediately returns with -1 and errno set to EAGAIN. If the read() is re-issued, a CPU intensive loop results as long as the other end

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-16 Thread David Madore
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 08:00:31PM +, Lee Revell wrote: We write code in ASCII, dammit. URL: http://www.madore.org/~david/weblog/2004-12.html#d.2004-12-03.0813 :-) -- David A. Madore ([EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.madore.org/~david/ ) - To unsubscribe from

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

2005-08-16 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:04:34PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: Dear Lennart, I have bought a entermultimedia USB 2.0 21-in-1 card. There are no Linux driver support in the CD provided. Can u suggest me what is best bug (USB card reader) with Linux driver support in the Market. It doesn't

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Rename PageChecked as PageMiscFS

2005-08-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! You also achieved some sort of new low point in the abuse of StudlyCaps there. Please, let's not get started on mixed case acronyms. My patch has been around for quite a while, and no-one else has complained, not even you before this point. Plus, you don't seem to be complaining

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-16 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/15/05 20:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I view this as being a little odd... What is :00:04:0 in this case ? The device is not a serial port, which is what the ttyXX back link would lead you to believe. Thus, it's a serial port multiplexer that supports up to N ports,

Re: [PATCH] add transport class symlink to device object

2005-08-16 Thread Luben Tuikov
On 08/15/05 21:08, James Bottomley wrote: Think if SCSI used this same style of representation. For example, if there was no scsi target device entity, but class entities did exist and they just pointed back to the scsi host device entry. Yes, it's theoretically possible to have had SCSI do

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE for cpqfcTS driver

2005-08-16 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Jiri Slaby wrote: Rolf Eike Beer napsal(a): Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSinit.c 2005-08-14 14:20:40.0 +0200 +++ b/drivers/scsi/cpqfcTSinit.c 2005-08-14 14:25:33.0 +0200 @@ -264,18 +264,14 @@ static void

Re: PROBLEM: blocking read on socket repeatedly returns EAGAIN

2005-08-16 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:03, Alan Cox wrote: On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 15:19 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: have written, nor does it write() anything. When my read() is issued, I expect it to block, but it immediately returns with -1 and errno set to EAGAIN. If the read() is re-issued, a CPU

[PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phone

2005-08-16 Thread Henk
interface. + * 20050610 henk Cleanups, make it ready for public consumption. + * 20050630 henk Cleanups, fixes in response to comments. + * 20050701 henk sysfs write serialisation, fix potential unload races + * 20050801 henk Added ringtone, restructure USB + * 20050816 henk

Re: PROBLEM: blocking read on socket repeatedly returns EAGAIN

2005-08-16 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-08-16 at 16:12 +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: I verified that I have not explicitly set nonblocking on the socket, so expect it to be default blocking. Depends where it came from and what OS. In particular the blocking state of a socket returned from accept may be the same as the

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc6-V0.7.53-11

2005-08-16 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-git7-RT-V0.7.53-11/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c~ 2005-08-15 21:23:45.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-git7-RT-V0.7.53-11/drivers/usb/core/hcd.c 2005-08-15 22:03:33.0 +0200

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