Re: [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmm. I was thinking it would be compile time variable with defaults -- like > > config MEMORY_HOLE > int "Create hole at top of memory (0-512 MB)" > range 0 512 > default "0" > default 168 if (CONFIG_X86_PAE &&

Re: [PATCH] kernel spams syslog every 10 sec with w1 debug

2005-08-24 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Freitag, 12. August 2005 18:00 schrieb Dave Jones: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:38:37PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Olaf Hering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Bug 104020 - kernel spams syslog every 10 sec with: w1_driver > > > w1_bus_master1: No devices present on the wire. > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 00/15] Remove asm/segment.h from low hanging architectures

2005-08-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-24 at 11:43 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > The following set of patches removes the use and existence of > asm/segment.h from the architecture ports You've broken various things by doing this because some driver code rightly or wrongly uses segment.h. That is fine because they

Re: Memory problem w/ recent kernels on 2x Opteron with 12 GB RAM

2005-08-24 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 23:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently seeing a memory problem on a NUMA-enabled dual-Opteron 250 > box with the 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.13-rc* (up to 7) kernels. Namely, the box > has 12 GB of RAM, 8 GB of which is installed on the first node. The whole >

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Allow compile time creation of a hole at the high end of linear address space. This makes accomodating a hypervisor a much more tractable problem by giving it ample playground to live in. Currently, the hole size is fixed at

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add pagetable allocation notifiers

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > >* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > >>--- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-08-24 > >>09:31:05.0 -0700 > >>+++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/mm/init.c2005-08-24 09:31:31.0 >

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-24 at 12:53 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > writel() ensures ordering? Only from one CPU, another CPU issuing a > write at some later time may have its write arrive first. See > Documentation/io_ordering.txt for some documentation I put together on > this issue. And in more

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/24/05, Horst von Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > - if ('\n' == *type) { > > + if (!*type || '\n' == *type) { > > Redundant. If *type == '\n', it is certainly != 0. Hmm, I added that since if we get past the if

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 22:39, Brian Gerst wrote: > > Do this instead: > char ln[LINE_SIZE], *line; > Right, now why didn't I think of that :) Jeff: Does the patch below agree with you more? Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- usr/gen_init_cpio.c | 22

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add pagetable allocation notifiers

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Chris Wright wrote: * Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-08-24 09:31:05.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/mm/init.c2005-08-24 09:31:31.0 -0700 @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static pte_t * __init one_page_table_ini {

Memory problem w/ recent kernels on 2x Opteron with 12 GB RAM

2005-08-24 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, I'm currently seeing a memory problem on a NUMA-enabled dual-Opteron 250 box with the 2.6.12.5 and 2.6.13-rc* (up to 7) kernels. Namely, the box has 12 GB of RAM, 8 GB of which is installed on the first node. The whole memory is detected but then only the first 8 GB of it is made available

Re: [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fix

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Jackson
Dave wrote: > It does build, but I'm unable to boot test it. Ok - thanks. Looks like Nick might be leaning toward the simpler path of disabling this feature (defining dynamic sched domains using exclusive cpusets) for 2.6.13, or some such. We'll see. -- I won't rest till

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Horst von Brand
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Convert strtok() use to strsep() in usr/gen_init_cpio.c This is userland code... No, I'm not looking it over carfully, just a fast look over. > I've compile tested this patch and it compiles fine. You should be able ti test it then. > I build a

Re: [RFC] RT-patch update to remove the global pi_lock

2005-08-24 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 16:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > Also Thomas, > > I'm still triggering that "huh?" statement in pi_setprio, and it is > always with the softirq-hrtimer thread. It likes to change its > priorities, but there's a time when p->normal_prio != normal_prio(p). > And this is

[PATCH] Ext3 online resizing locking issue

2005-08-24 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
This simple patch provides a fix for a locking issue found in the online resizing code. The problem actually happened while trying to resize the filesystem trough the resize=xxx option in a remount. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -up

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:52:37PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: > Care to send me the patch? Heh. Not really as I don't really know if people should be using it in it's current state --- the shmem init is very very hacky and I have other changes I've not had a chance to do. Anyhow, here is an

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Brian Gerst
Jesper Juhl wrote: On 8/24/05, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Gerst wrote: Jesper Juhl wrote: Convert strtok() use to strsep() in usr/gen_init_cpio.c I've compile tested this patch and it compiles fine. I build a 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel with the patch applied without

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-24 Thread john stultz
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 17:29 -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > > > > > >>I'm assuming gettimeofday()/clock_gettime() looks something like: > >> xtime + (get_cycles()-last_update)*(mult+ntp_adj)>>shift > > > > > >

Re: Initramfs and TMPFS!

2005-08-24 Thread Wakko Warner
Chris Wedgwood wrote: > I have a path for initramfs to use tmpfs. It's sorta hacky so I never > submitted it and solves a niche problem for embedded people. > > Ultimately we might one day still want to change how we initialize the > early userspace (Al suggesting a reasomably nice way to move

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] cpu_exclusive sched domains build fix

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Jackson
Nick wrote: > I get the feeling that exclusive cpusets should just be > completely disabled for 2.6.13 No no - not disable exclusive cpusets - disable using them to try to define sched domains. That is, I hope you mean that Dinakar's patch that uses cpu_exclusive cpusets to define sched domains

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/24/05, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Gerst wrote: > > Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > >> Convert strtok() use to strsep() in usr/gen_init_cpio.c > >> > >> I've compile tested this patch and it compiles fine. > >> I build a 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel with the patch applied without > >>

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-24 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 12:13:02AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > sh64: need kernel headers that would make glibc happy enough > > to build libc headers for that puppy; > > binutils already compiled. Will drop a line. Or file a bug. :-\ By some miracle gcc is also compiled. As of now

Re: [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fix

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:13:40PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > I'm still a couple of hours from actually verifying that ppc64 builds with > this - due to unrelated confusions on my end. Perhaps you or Mackerras will > report in first, to verify if this patch works as advertised. It does

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread Oliver Neukum
> > The sequence point argument is obviously wrong, BTW - if it were the > > case that a mere sequence point required the compiler to have completed > > all externally-visible side effects, then almost every optimization that > > gcc does with -O2 would be impossible. CSE, loop splitting, etc. >

RE: [PATCH 05/15] ia64: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Luck, Tony
>There are still a few drivers that include asm/segment.h, so >I don't think we should remove asm/segment.h itself just yet. Agreed. The sequence should be to send patches to get rid of all "#include " references. Once they have all gone, then a patch can remove the files. If you are concerned

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Allow compile time creation of a hole at the high end of linear address space. > This makes accomodating a hypervisor a much more tractable problem by giving > it ample playground to live in. Currently, the hole size is fixed at config > time; I have

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Brian Gerst wrote: Jesper Juhl wrote: Convert strtok() use to strsep() in usr/gen_init_cpio.c I've compile tested this patch and it compiles fine. I build a 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel with the patch applied without problems, and the resulting kernel boots and runs just fine (using it right now).

Re: [PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Brian Gerst
Jesper Juhl wrote: Convert strtok() use to strsep() in usr/gen_init_cpio.c I've compile tested this patch and it compiles fine. I build a 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel with the patch applied without problems, and the resulting kernel boots and runs just fine (using it right now). But despite this basic

Re: [PATCH 05/15] ia64: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 10:53 am, Kumar Gala wrote: > Removed IA64 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and > asm-ia64/segment.h itself I posted a similar patch a month ago, but I only removed the arch/ia64 includes of asm/segment.h. There are still a few drivers that include

Re: 2.6.13-rc7 qla2xxx unaligned accesses

2005-08-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:22:52 -0700, Andrew Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Keith Owens wrote: > >> 2.6.13-rc7 + kdb on ia64. The qla2xxx drivers are getting unaligned >> accesses at startup. >> >> qla2300 :01:02.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 66, iobase 0xc0080f30

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] cpu_exclusive sched domains build fix

2005-08-24 Thread Nick Piggin
Paul Jackson wrote: Dinakar wrote: Can we hold on to this patch for a while, as I reported yesterday, Sure - though I guess it's Linus or Andrew who will have to do the holding. I sent it off contingent on the approval of yourself, Hawkes and Nick. I get the feeling that the problem

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-24 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 08:15:44PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > Most of the remaining stuff is for > m68k (and applies both to Linus' tree and m68k CVS); I'll send that today > and if Geert ACKs them, we will be _very_ close to having 2.6.13 build > out of the box on the following set: > alpha, Do I

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Andy Isaacson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:31:31PM +0200, moreau francis wrote: >> --- "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : >>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, moreau francis wrote: I'm currently trying to write a USB driver for Linux. The device must be

Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS: update documentation (take #2)

2005-08-24 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, This is my second go at giving you my comments. The first time the email got lost due to a connection crash. )-: Anyway, its great to see this updated! On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote: > This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt back > to life.

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Make set_wrprotect() value safe

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The macro set_wrprotect() should not be defined to have a value. Make it > a do {} while(0) instead of ({}). > Noticed by Chris Wright. I already fixed that one in the virt-2.6 git tree. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread Oliver Neukum
> And you never even bothered to read what I said about that??? > The write ORDER will NOT change. Period. It's a FIFO. Writes On current implementations of i386. That is not good enough. We want code that works everywhere. You are wrong. If you need to have ordered writes to a bus, use wmb().

Re: 2.6.13-rc6: halt instead of reboot

2005-08-24 Thread Meelis Roos
It does not hang, it just powers off like on halt. Ok. Then at least in part the kernel behavior is either intersecting with a BIOS bug, a bad reboot script that calls halt instead, or a driver that is scribbling on the wrong register. There is nothing in that code path that should remove the

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Wednesday, August 24, 2005 12:48 pm, Andy Isaacson wrote: > The first register write will be completed before the second register > write because you use writel, which is defined to have the semantics > you want. (It uses a platform-specific method to guarantee this, > possibly "volatile" or

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-24 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > from your example: > > // at init: system_update = update_cycles * mult; > > system_time += system_update; > > and: > > error = system_time - (xtime.tv_nsec << shift); > > This doesn't seem to make sense with the above.

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2005 20:22 schrieb linux-os (Dick Johnson): >>> sorry but I'm not sure to understand you...Do you mean that the first write >>> into reg_a pointer will be completed before the second write because they're >>> separated by a (;)

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:31:31PM +0200, moreau francis wrote: > --- "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, moreau francis wrote: > > > I'm currently trying to write a USB driver for Linux. The device must be > > > configured by writing some values into

Re: [PATCH 1/5] Add pagetable allocation notifiers

2005-08-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Zachary Amsden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --- linux-2.6.13.orig/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-08-24 09:31:05.0 > -0700 > +++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/mm/init.c 2005-08-24 09:31:31.0 -0700 > @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ static pte_t * __init one_page_table_ini > { > if

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Virtualization patches, set 4

2005-08-24 Thread Antonio Vargas
On 8/24/05, Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Transparent paravirtualization patches, set 4. This batch includes > mostly MMU hooks that can be used by the hypervisor for page allocation, > and allows the kernel to be compiled to step out of the way of the > hypervisor by making a hole

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Mittwoch, 24. August 2005 20:22 schrieb linux-os (Dick Johnson): > > sorry but I'm not sure to understand you...Do you mean that the first write > > into reg_a pointer will be completed before the second write because they're > > separated by a (;) ? > > Yes. The compiler must make sure that

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-24 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 20:48 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > > > Ok, so then to clarify the above (as you mention gettimeofday uses > > system_time), would your gettimeofday look something like: > > > > gettiemofday(): > > return (system_time +

Re: [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fix

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Jackson
Dave wrote: > > [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fix > > This broke ppc64 for me. Thanks to Paul Mackerras's report, I sent a patch for this a few hours ago: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] cpu_exclusive sched domains build fix It just makes a local copy of the cpumask_t in a

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-24 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:43:51AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Al Viro wrote: > > ... breaks ppc64 since there we have node_to_cpumask() done as inlined > > function, not a macro. So we get __first_cpu(_to_cpumask(...),...), > > with obvious consequences. > > I sent a patch for this a few hours

[PATCH 2/3] exterminate strtok - drivers/video/au1100fb.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
Since strtok() died in 2002 let's not use it - use strsep() instead which is the replacement function. Note: I've not been able to test this patch since I lack both hardware and a cross compiler, so if someone else could please check it and sign off on it before I send it to Andrew for

[PATCH 1/3] exterminate strtok - arch/frv/kernel/frv_ksyms.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
Since strtok() died in 2002 this EXPORT_SYMBOL appears meaningless. Note: I've not been able to test this patch since I lack both hardware and a cross compiler, so if someone else could please check it and sign off on it before I send it to Andrew for inclusion in -mm I'd appreciate it.

[PATCH 0/3] exterminate strtok

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
In 1999 Ingo Oeser commented in lib/string.c : * - Added strsep() which will replace strtok() soon (because strsep() is *reentrant and should be faster). Use only strsep() in new code, please. Then in 2002 strtok was removed. There are still a few cases of strtok in the kernel to this

[PATCH 3/3] exterminate strtok - usr/gen_init_cpio.c

2005-08-24 Thread Jesper Juhl
Convert strtok() use to strsep() in usr/gen_init_cpio.c I've compile tested this patch and it compiles fine. I build a 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel with the patch applied without problems, and the resulting kernel boots and runs just fine (using it right now). But despite this basic testing it would

Re: [PATCH] cpu_exclusive sched domains on partial nodes temp fix

2005-08-24 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:01:52PM -0700, Linux Kernel wrote: > tree c81c261274011d301dfbcfd1a3e13480b93c167e > parent ae75784bc576a1af70509c2f3ba2b70bb65a0c58 > author Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 23 Aug 2005 15:04:27 -0700 > committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 24 Aug

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-24 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > Ok, so then to clarify the above (as you mention gettimeofday uses > system_time), would your gettimeofday look something like: > > gettiemofday(): > return (system_time + (cycle_offset * mult) + error)>> shift > > ? No.

Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS: update documentation (take #2)

2005-08-24 Thread Trond Myklebust
on den 24.08.2005 Klokka 21:36 (+0300) skreiv Pekka Enberg: > > struct file_system_type { > const char *name; > int fs_flags; > - struct super_block *(*read_super) (struct super_block *, void *, int); > - struct file_system_type * next; > +struct super_block

[PATCH 4/5] Add address translation

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Add a helper function to convert an arbitrary mapped virtual address to a physical frame number. Adapted from code by Chris Wright, added support for large pages. Because of the placement, this needs to be a macro; pgd_offset_k requires init_mm to be defined, and getting the include files right

[PATCH 5/5] Create a hole in high linear address space

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Allow compile time creation of a hole at the high end of linear address space. This makes accomodating a hypervisor a much more tractable problem by giving it ample playground to live in. Currently, the hole size is fixed at config time; I have experimented with dynamically sized holes, and have

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc7

2005-08-24 Thread Paul Jackson
Al Viro wrote: > ... breaks ppc64 since there we have node_to_cpumask() done as inlined > function, not a macro. So we get __first_cpu(_to_cpumask(...),...), > with obvious consequences. I sent a patch for this a few hours ago, thanks to Paul Mackerras's report: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6]

process creation time increases linearly with shmem

2005-08-24 Thread Ray Fucillo
I am seeing process creation time increase linearly with the size of the shared memory segment that the parent touches. The attached forktest.c is a very simple user program that illustrates this behavior, which I have tested on various kernel versions from 2.4 through 2.6. Is this a known

[PATCH 3/5] Make set_wrprotect() value safe

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
The macro set_wrprotect() should not be defined to have a value. Make it a do {} while(0) instead of ({}). Noticed by Chris Wright. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch-subject: Make set_wrprotect() value safe Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h

[PATCH 1/5] Add pagetable allocation notifiers

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Hooks are provided for the mach-XXX subarchitecture at the time prior to a page being used as a page table at all levels, for PAE and non-PAE kernels. Note that in PAE mode, multiple PDP roots may exist on the same page with other data, so the root must be shadowed instead. This is not a

[PATCH 2/5] Add subarch mmu queue flush hook

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Add one more MMU hook to the sub-arch layer. update_mmu_cache() - already defined. This is conveniently used to indicate NP->P transitions which should be reflected in an external TLB, and serves to indicate all points where the page tables must be synchronized. Required for lazy updates in

[PATCH 0/5] Virtualization patches, set 4

2005-08-24 Thread Zachary Amsden
Transparent paravirtualization patches, set 4. This batch includes mostly MMU hooks that can be used by the hypervisor for page allocation, and allows the kernel to be compiled to step out of the way of the hypervisor by making a hole in linear address space. Patches are based off

[RFC][PATCH] VFS: update documentation (take #2)

2005-08-24 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi, This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt back to life. Thanks to Carsten Otte for the description on get_xip_page(). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- vfs.txt | 382 1 file

Re: 2.6.13-rc7 qla2xxx unaligned accesses

2005-08-24 Thread Andrew Vasquez
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Keith Owens wrote: > 2.6.13-rc7 + kdb on ia64. The qla2xxx drivers are getting unaligned > accesses at startup. > > qla2300 :01:02.0: Found an ISP2312, irq 66, iobase 0xc0080f30 > qla2300 :01:02.0: Configuring PCI space... > PCI: slot :01:02.0 has

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, moreau francis wrote: > > --- "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > >> >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, moreau francis wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm currently trying to write a USB driver for Linux. The device must be >>> configured by writing some values into the

Re: kgdbwait in 2.6.13-rc4-mm1?

2005-08-24 Thread Tom Rini
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:22:06AM -0700, Wilkerson, Bryan P wrote: > Is there an equivalent kernel boot option for kgdbwait in > 2.6.13-rc4-mm1? I grep'd the kernel source but didn't find kgdbwait. It's 'kgdb' or 'gdb', I forget which. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To

Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC

2005-08-24 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:52:44PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: > The command rdev can change the default root partition on x86 linux > systems with pre-built kernels. Of course...I meant I don't know of anything like that for PPC. > About the CONFIG_CMDLINE in the kernel configuration, I

Re: [RFC - 0/9] Generic timekeeping subsystem (v. B5)

2005-08-24 Thread john stultz
On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 01:54 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, john stultz wrote: > > > I'm assuming gettimeofday()/clock_gettime() looks something like: > >xtime + (get_cycles()-last_update)*(mult+ntp_adj)>>shift > > Where did you get the ntp_adj from? It's not in my

Re: Problem with kernel image in a Prep Boot on PowerPC

2005-08-24 Thread Márcio Oliveira
John W. Linville wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 12:05:25PM -0300, Márcio Oliveira wrote: I think the kernel is pointing to the wrong root partiotion. In a x86 box, I can change the kernel root partition in the boot loader (root= parameter) or using the "rdev" command. In my case, the IBM

Re: [-mm PATCH] drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h - Fix warnings with -Wundef

2005-08-24 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 01:52:51AM -0400, Nick Sillik wrote: > --- linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2/drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h > +++ linux-2.6.13-rc6-mm2-patched/drivers/char/speakup/synthlist.h > -#undef CFG_TEST > +#undef Thou shal test-compile, then send. Please, be attentive. - To unsubscribe

Re: CFQ + 2.6.13-rc4-RT-V0.7.52-02 = BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled

2005-08-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Aug 24 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > Just found this in dmesg. > > BUG: scheduling with irqs disabled: libc6.postinst/0x2000/13229 > caller is ___down_mutex+0xe9/0x1a0 > [] schedule+0x59/0xf0 (8) > [] ___down_mutex+0xe9/0x1a0 (28) > [] cfq_exit_single_io_context+0x22/0xa0 (84) > []

Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH 07/15] parisc: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
On Aug 24, 2005, at 12:14 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: Removed asm-parisc/segment.h as its not used by anything. Did you already remove all the uses outside the parisc-specific bits of the tree, eg ISDN, media/video/, sound/oss/,

Re: question on memory barrier

2005-08-24 Thread moreau francis
--- "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, moreau francis wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm currently trying to write a USB driver for Linux. The device must be > > configured by writing some values into the same register but I want to be > > sure that the

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/24/05, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Danial Thom wrote: > > > > I think part of the problem is the > continued > > > > misuse of the word "latency". Latency, in > > > >

Re: Another libata TODO item

2005-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: Jeff> Look at net drivers. Theres no real infrastructure beyond Jeff> bit tests and printks. I wouldn't call that a subsystem, Jeff> so, I wouldn't call this one such either. Well, scsi_logging.h isn't much of a subsystem either. You obviously did not grep

Re: Another libata TODO item

2005-08-24 Thread Roland Dreier
Jeff> Look at net drivers. Theres no real infrastructure beyond Jeff> bit tests and printks. I wouldn't call that a subsystem, Jeff> so, I wouldn't call this one such either. Well, scsi_logging.h isn't much of a subsystem either. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [parisc-linux] [PATCH 07/15] parisc: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:55:30AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > Removed asm-parisc/segment.h as its not used by anything. Did you already remove all the uses outside the parisc-specific bits of the tree, eg ISDN, media/video/, sound/oss/, etc? If so, ACK, otherwise, NAK. -- "Next the statesmen

2.6.13-rc6-rt15 won't compile without HR-Timers

2005-08-24 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo, Without the attached patch 2.6.13-rc6-rt15 won't compile for me with CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS not configured. -- kr --- linux-2.6.13/include/linux/timer.h.orig 2005-08-24 11:15:22.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.13/include/linux/timer.h 2005-08-24 11:15:35.0 -0500 @@ -76,6 +76,7

Re: kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:104!

2005-08-24 Thread Parag Warudkar
Karl Hiramoto hiramoto.org> writes: > > Hi, i get this a lot now when doing: "rmmod cp2101 io_edgeport " > > I try and do the rmmod, because i loose comunications on the USB to > RS-232 adapters. > [ cut here ] > kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:104! > invalid

Re: [PATCH] (11/43) Kconfig fix (infiniband and PCI)

2005-08-24 Thread Roland Dreier
Al> PS: note that it's not depends on PCI it's depends on PCI || Al> BROKEN which a) documents that something is wrong b) leaves Al> all setups usable now intact c) prevents broken setups from Al> being picked. Yes, I agree that this makes sense for now. Al> I certainly agree

Re: [PATCH 06/15] mips: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:54:27AM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > Removed MIPS architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and > asm-mips/segment.h itself Thanks, applied. Ralf - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 12/15] sh: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed asm-sh/segment.h as its not used by anything. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit ab81566ace65ac748c885d696c11b5ae839fb328 tree e36ec9a52dc26db8bc20e1c57a9dce5e2b58fd39 parent e2a2b88b3c3d60b07be7908579bb772e6bd4cd01 author Kumar K. Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 24

Re: some missing spin_unlocks

2005-08-24 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:56:58 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > [added alsa-devel to cc:] > > On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 15:26 -0700, Ted Unangst wrote: > > I think these are all real bugs. > > > > sound/synth/emux/emux_synth.c snd_emux_note_on, line 101 > > snd_assert will return without unlocking

Re: new qla2xxx driver breaks SAN setup with 2 controllers

2005-08-24 Thread Patrick Mansfield
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:08:23PM +0200, Frederik Schueler wrote: > Hello, > > no change. What was logged? Any errors? Try setting scsi logging_level for scan, after boot/load: sysctl -w dev.scsi.logging_level=0x1c0 Then reload the qla driver, and post logs. If the qlogic driver

Re: 2.6.12 Performance problems

2005-08-24 Thread Danial Thom
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>If you have preemtion enabled you could > > > disable > > > >>it. Low latency comes > > > >>at the cost of decreased throughput - > can't > > > >>have both. Also try using > > > >>a HZ of 100 if you are currently using > 1000, > > > >>that

Re: delay

2005-08-24 Thread Tim Bird
raja wrote: > Hi, > Would you please tell me how to write a function that generates a > delay of Less than a sec.(ie for 1 milli se or one microsec etc). See udelay() (follow the trail from: include/linux/delay.h) = Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux

[PATCH 14/15] sparc: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed sparc architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-sparc/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit bd988bbd37cb610800f19ac6891a519c81c96d95 tree dff7982106a16af59a65c158631f76d9fa118a1e parent 4c42a86cb24cd46d20ccb883b196e29bef6df18f author Kumar

[PATCH 13/15] sparc64: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed sparc64 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-sparc64/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 4c42a86cb24cd46d20ccb883b196e29bef6df18f tree 83888c48157ecf0783f19cd73634d6446ac29482 parent 6ee9ded730a875d63e42add1c3094eca7d5a6cdf author

[PATCH 11/15] sh64: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed asm-sh64/segment.h as its not used by anything. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 36b349eaba7a399c06219d3553d571261dbf6333 tree 5ac502496f084585407bf5d8fd9040a489525edf parent ab81566ace65ac748c885d696c11b5ae839fb328 author Kumar K. Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 24

[PATCH 15/15] xtensa: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed asm-xtensa/segment.h as its not used by anything. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 51e70a5236bf8f2f30f1a86513c18e05e3cb6fee tree 57c39eaf3761a71b9d78c25893f7696fdc703915 parent 36b349eaba7a399c06219d3553d571261dbf6333 author Kumar K. Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed,

[PATCH 06/15] mips: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed MIPS architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-mips/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 8f20e153d5d5c3efd95835e814fae7b3ccbfcd08 tree 17e9ae88b3fe1762302179a4ea08e61360805a29 parent 503a812c1f9cef08e6f96b2b2cf1f32bbfef2bc6 author Kumar K.

[PATCH 10/15] s390: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed S390 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-s390/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 6ee9ded730a875d63e42add1c3094eca7d5a6cdf tree 5d340a409fd593e5f5d7e71467a038fd90def51b parent 8f20e153d5d5c3efd95835e814fae7b3ccbfcd08 author Kumar K.

[PATCH 08/15] ppc32: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed ppc32 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-ppc/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 503a812c1f9cef08e6f96b2b2cf1f32bbfef2bc6 tree b61a93eb582e90fafda6ff9d064b2ab25e7d3ede parent 21a31cb366a764793dc532b525b95bfc3e1723a2 author Kumar K.

[PATCH 07/15] parisc: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed asm-parisc/segment.h as its not used by anything. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit e2a2b88b3c3d60b07be7908579bb772e6bd4cd01 tree f87e38b7cfa643825a937c2d4a65a042ebfe263d parent 18c435f8b99db307732a02a07bf2099ad64174db author Kumar K. Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed,

[PATCH 09/15] ppc64: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed PPC64 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-ppc64/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 21a31cb366a764793dc532b525b95bfc3e1723a2 tree 2c40ec80e781b61fef42e5914d8f336dc72f2200 parent 53cbc8f4b0d47965e2d673bcc9dc5e6a8388350b author Kumar

Re: Another libata TODO item

2005-08-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Roland Dreier wrote: Jeff> In any case, I also contine to be skeptical of in-kernel Jeff> logging subsystems. Aren't you proposing a libata logging subsystem? Look at net drivers. Theres no real infrastructure beyond bit tests and printks. I wouldn't call that a subsystem, so, I

[PATCH 05/15] ia64: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed IA64 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-ia64/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 53cbc8f4b0d47965e2d673bcc9dc5e6a8388350b tree d05c25c406d023dce7c797ede8119b8ab68767e5 parent 352a43ca6e4cb29ca7ee1742a00f3b6d98465a0d author Kumar K.

[PATCH 04/15] cris: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed cris architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-cris/segment.h itself Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 352a43ca6e4cb29ca7ee1742a00f3b6d98465a0d tree b3816f312ed0b9206e344ceb62bb4f82a5c469e6 parent 13e9876eff93029eb24affd8842db94035c370f5 author Kumar K.

[PATCH 03/15] arm: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed asm-arm/segment.h as its not used by anything. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 13e9876eff93029eb24affd8842db94035c370f5 tree acb6c189dd89aef958961eedba5641449865c5aa parent 1d8c8bf789b6925529d84f3ad787cf973763793f author Kumar K. Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wed, 24

[PATCH 02/15] arm26: remove use of asm/segment.h

2005-08-24 Thread Kumar Gala
Removed ARM26 architecture specific users of asm/segment.h and asm-alpha/segment.h itself. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 1d8c8bf789b6925529d84f3ad787cf973763793f tree 8b009fca0a2f15ac71e72f09d16330990609c4bc parent 19150fe1698293dc2c4f4f48c6b05d83595544e6 author Kumar

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