Re: 2.6.13-rt1

2005-08-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo, > > I just found another deadlock in the pi_lock logic. The PI logic is > very dependent on the P1->L1->P2->L2->P3 order. But our good old > friend is back, the BKL. > > Since the BKL is let go and regrabbed even if a task is grabbing >

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt4, fails to build

2005-08-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 01:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm getting a build error for 2.6.13-rc7-rt4 with PREEMPT_DESKTOP for > > > i386: > > > > hm, cannot reproduce this build

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread David S. Miller
From: Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:35:11 -0400 > As far as I can tell no one has built recent hardware this way. But I > believe there are some old SCSI controllers that do this. I provided a > ROM API for disabling sysfs access, if we identify one of these cards > we

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I was just testing a slightly different one that appear to fix the > problem : ... > + rom_addr = region.start | (res->flags & PCI_REGION_FLAG_MASK); I worry about this one. It's not really correct. The low en bits are "reserved", and

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Jon Smirl wrote: > > I was reading the status out of the PCI config space to account for > our friend X which enables ROMs without informing the OS. With X > around PCI config space can get out of sync with the kernel > structures. Well, yes, except that we use the

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > So what about fixing pci_map_rom() to call pcibios_resource_to_bus() and > then write the resource back to the BAR ? I'm still a bit annoyed that > we re-allocate the address while the original one was perfectly good > (though not enabled)

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > I was reading the status out of the PCI config space to account for > our friend X which enables ROMs without informing the OS. With X > around PCI config space can get out of sync with the kernel > structures. Well, X isn't supposed to keep the ROM enabled is it ? besides, most of the

Re: Oops in 2.4.30-hf2

2005-08-29 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:29:00AM +0200, Ake wrote: > I got the following Oops. > Known problem? Fix? Nothing known here. You can retry with -hf7 if you want, which fixes other bugs, but I guess it will not change anything. > The kernel is a plain 2.4.30-hf2 I have some question : what is

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/30/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > So I think the kernel, by not enabling the ROM, is doing the > > right thing here. > > Notice that on ppc even older versions didn't actually _enable_ the rom, > but they would write

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > > > So I think the kernel, by not enabling the ROM, is doing the > > right thing here. > > Notice that on ppc even older versions didn't actually _enable_ the rom, > but they would write

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/29/05, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > pci_map_rom "sees" that the resource is unassigned by testing the parent > > pointer, and calls pci_assign_resource() which, with this new patch, > > will do nothing. > > Ehh..

[PATCH][FAT] FAT dirent scan with hin take #2

2005-08-29 Thread Machida, Hiroyuki
Here is a revised version of dirent scan patch, mentioned at following E-mail. This patch addresses performance damages on "ls | xargs xxx" and reverse order scan which are reported to the previous patch. With this patch, fat_search_long() and fat_scan() use hint value as start of scan. For

[PATCH] cpm_uart: use schedule_timeout instead of direct call to schedule

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Gala
use schedule_timeout instead of direct call to schedule Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 85e29936d8eab1c16120ab319cc50828f3863aba tree a6fbb48fc860c6f5dbef0d518a500b37576caf40 parent

[PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix baseaddress for SMC 1 and 2

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Gala
Base addess register for SMC 1 and 2 are never initialized. This means that they will not work unless a bootloader already configured them. The DPRAM already have space reserved, this patch just makes sure the base addess register is updated correctly on initialization. Signed-off-by: Rune

Re: [patch 8/8] PCI Error Recovery: PPC64 core recovery routines

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linas Vepstas writes: > > One way to clean this up would be to make rpaphp the driver for the > > EADS bridges (from the pci code's point of view). > > I guess I don't understand what that means. Are you suggesting moving > pSeries_pci.c into the rpaphp code directory? No, not at all. :)

2.6.13 kernel OOPS

2005-08-29 Thread M.H.VanLeeuwen
Hi, Is this a known problem? Thanks, Martin cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/rp_filter <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 419a91d8 printing eip: c0116644 *pde = Oops: [#6] Modules linked in: CPU:0 EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 21:20 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:09:24 -0700 (PDT) > > > So 2.6.13 is being "safe". It allocates the space for the ROM in the > > resource tables, but it neither enables it nor does it write the > >

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, David S. Miller wrote: > > So I think the kernel, by not enabling the ROM, is doing the > right thing here. Notice that on ppc even older versions didn't actually _enable_ the rom, but they would write the non-enabled address to the PCI_ROM_ADDRESS register, so that

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> What you want is a "zombie state", where we write the partial information > to hardware. It's what we used to do, but it's certainly no more logical > than what it does now, and it led to problem reports. > > Btw, why does this happen on powerpc, but not x86? I'm running a radeon > laptop

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/29/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While looking there, I also noticed pci_map_rom_copy() stuff and I'm > surprised it was ever accepted in the tree. While I can understand that > we might need to keep a cached copy of the ROM content (due to cards > like matrox who

Re: [PATCH] MPC8xx PCMCIA driver

2005-08-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:39:02PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Marcelo Tosatti wrote: +static int voltage_set(int slot, int vcc, int vpp) +{ + u_int reg = 0; + + switch(vcc) { + case 0: break; + case 33: + reg |= BCSR1_PCVCTL4; +

Re: [PATCH] MPC8xx PCMCIA driver

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Mackerras
Marcelo Tosatti writes: > The memory map structure which contains device configuration/registers > is _always_ directly mapped with pte's (the 8xx is a chip with builtin > UART/network/etc functionality). > > I don't think there is a need to use read/write acessors. Generally on PowerPC you

Re: [PATCH] ppc32 :Added PCI support for MPC83xx

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Gala
Hmm, well the PCI spec seems to be clear on the fact that PCI interrupts should be level sensitive. - kumar On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:02 PM, Li Tony-r64360 wrote: I think it is OK. The external interrupt can be edged. And it works well in my board. Tony Li -Original Message- From:

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread David S. Miller
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 21:09:24 -0700 (PDT) > So 2.6.13 is being "safe". It allocates the space for the ROM in the > resource tables, but it neither enables it nor does it write the > (disabled) address out to the device, since both of those actions have >

Re: ppp_mppe+pptp for 2.6.14?

2005-08-29 Thread James Cameron
My problems with ENOPROTOOPT were due to lack of coffee. They were caused by ICMP protocol unreachable responses from the test server because I'd taken away it's pppd. My mistake. On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:10:34PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > I've asked James Cameron, pptp project lead, to try

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What you want is a "zombie state", where we write the partial information > to hardware. It's what we used to do, but it's certainly no more logical > than what it does now, and it led to problem reports. Btw, the fundamental reason for the

Second "CPU" of 1-core HyperThreading CPU not found in 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Chase Venters
Greetings kind hackers... I recently switched to 2.6.13 on my desktop. I noticed that the second "CPU" (is there a better term to use in this HyperThreading scenario?) that used to be listed in /proc/cpuinfo is no longer present. Browsing over the archives, it appears as if someone else

Re: [PATCH] MPC8xx PCMCIA driver

2005-08-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:39:02PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >+static int voltage_set(int slot, int vcc, int vpp) > >+{ > >+u_int reg = 0; > >+ > >+switch(vcc) { > >+case 0: break; > >+case 33: > >+reg |= BCSR1_PCVCTL4; > >+break;

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Ok, it won't do nothing in fact. It's worse. It will return 0 (success), > will actually assign a completely new address to the resource, will > update the resource structure ... and will _not_ update the PCI resource > BAR for the ROM. >

Re: Oops in 2.6.13 (was Linux 2.6.13 )

2005-08-29 Thread Masoud Sharbiani
Yes. I did also report it (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/26/252) cheers, Masoud Sharbiani Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:23 -0400, Masoud Sharbiani wrote: Sadly, with 2.6.13 (as in with 2.6.13-rc7), it crashes on boot, on a dual P3 machine It works just fine when compiled

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-29 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:54 pm, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:05:06AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:42, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the > > > > urgency of getting

Re: [PATCH] MPC8xx PCMCIA driver

2005-08-29 Thread Jeff Garzik
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: +static int voltage_set(int slot, int vcc, int vpp) +{ + u_int reg = 0; + + switch(vcc) { + case 0: break; + case 33: + reg |= BCSR1_PCVCTL4; + break; + case 50: + reg |= BCSR1_PCVCTL5; + break; +

Re: 2.6.13-rt1

2005-08-29 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, I just found another deadlock in the pi_lock logic. The PI logic is very dependent on the P1->L1->P2->L2->P3 order. But our good old friend is back, the BKL. Since the BKL is let go and regrabbed even if a task is grabbing another lock, it messes up the order. For example, it can do the

Re: [PATCH] Only process_die notifier in ia64_do_page_fault if KPROBES is configured.

2005-08-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Rusty Lynch wrote: > So, assuming inlining the notifier_call_chain would address Christoph's > conserns, is the following patch something like what you are sugesting? > This would make all the kdebug.h::notify_die() calls use the inline version. Please do not generate any

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> pci_map_rom "sees" that the resource is unassigned by testing the parent > pointer, and calls pci_assign_resource() which, with this new patch, > will do nothing. Ok, it won't do nothing in fact. It's worse. It will return 0 (success), will actually assign a completely new address to the

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6-mm2] ppp_mppe: author email change

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Domsch
Frank Cusack, primary author of the ppp_mppe kernel module, is no longer at Google. This updates his email address in the module, as agreed to by Frank privately. ppp_mppe.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Matt

Re: [PATCH] make radix tree gang lookup faster by using a bitmap search

2005-08-29 Thread Nick Piggin
James Bottomley wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:56 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Gang lookup is mainly used on IO paths but also on truncate, which is a reasonably fast path on some workloads (James, this is my suggestion for what you should test - truncate). Actually, I don't think I can

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > pci_map_rom "sees" that the resource is unassigned by testing the parent > pointer, and calls pci_assign_resource() which, with this new patch, > will do nothing. Ehh.. It didn't do anything with the old code either for that case, so

KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-29 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Hello, During the Kernel Summit somebody raised the point that it's not clear how much testing each rc/pre/git kernel gets before the final release. So I setup a server to track automatically the amount of testing that each kernel gets. Clearly this will be a very rough approximation and it

Re: Trailing comments in broken-out series file break quilt

2005-08-29 Thread Andrew Morton
Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > md-fix-rh_dec-rh_inc-race-in-dm-raid1c.patch # wait > > ... > Question - should I be asking Andrew not to comment this way, or > should I be asking quilt to recognize a comment convention here? I'll just stop using them. - To unsubscribe from

[RFC][FAT] diren scan profiling report

2005-08-29 Thread Machida, Hiroyuki
As I said in "[RFC] FAT dirent scan with hint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, we realized that FAT/VFAT has poor performance with scanning directory entries. Per discussions with Ogawa-san, VFAT maintainer, I took profiling data to seek better solution. Here are results attached. In short, I

RE: [PATCH] ppc32 :Added PCI support for MPC83xx

2005-08-29 Thread Li Tony-r64360
I think it is OK. The external interrupt can be edged. And it works well in my board. Tony Li -Original Message- From: Gala Kumar K.-galak Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:43 AM To: Li Tony-r64360 Cc: linuxppc-embedded; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Gala Kumar K.-galak; Chu

[PATCH] MPC8xx PCMCIA driver

2005-08-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the 8xx PCMCIA driver, originally written by Magnus Damm, with several improvements and fixes. The driver was merged in v2.4 but never forward ported to v2.6. Please review, comments are welcome (including aesthetic enhancements). Russell: The driver is using

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-29 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:05:06AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:42, Christopher Friesen wrote: > > Lee Revell wrote: > > > The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the > > > urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14. > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 0/5] improve i2c probing

2005-08-29 Thread David Brownell
> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 00:33:48 +0100 (BST) > From: Mark Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ... > Interestingly (we for me at least ;-) I have been > working on an SPI subsystem that was/is a copy of the > I2C subsystem with changes as SPI doesn't have a > protocol like I2C. ... > > To me, what I

Re: [PATCH] make radix tree gang lookup faster by using a bitmap search

2005-08-29 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 10:56 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Sonny Rao wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:37:48PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > >>s/common/only ? > >> > >>But the page tree is indexed by file offset rather than virtual > >>address, and we try to span the file's pagecache with the

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 11:59 -0700, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > tree d8b7aaaec93de93841b46e8e05a3b454d05bd357 > parent 26aad69e3dd854abe9028ca873fb40b410a39dd7 > author Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:49:22 -0700 > committer Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 27

SPI redux ... driver model support

2005-08-29 Thread David Brownell
The last couple times SPI frameworks came up here, some of the feedback included "make it use the driver model properly; don't be like I2C". In hopes that it'll be useful, here's a small SPI core with driver model support driven from board-specific tables listing devices. I expect the I/O

Trailing comments in broken-out series file break quilt

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Jackson
Apparently Andrews patch tools allow trailing comments on active lines in the series file, as in these lines culled from the series file for 2.6.13-rc6-mm2: e1000-numa-aware-allocation-of-descriptors-v2.patch # hold nfs-nfs3-page-null-fill-in-a-short-read-situation.patch # wait

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt4, fails to build

2005-08-29 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:45, Lee Revell wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:15 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 01:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > I'm getting a build error for 2.6.13-rc7-rt4 with

Re: [PATCH] make radix tree gang lookup faster by using a bitmap search

2005-08-29 Thread Andrew Morton
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But of course gang lookup is only useful if a single read() call > asks for more than 1 page - is that a performance critical path? readahead should do gang lookups (or, preferably, find-next, when it's implemented). But nobody got around to it. - To

Re: [PATCH] i386, x86_64 Initial PAT implementation

2005-08-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 02:20, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> PAT (or setting caching policy in the page table entries) has been a >> long desired feature in the kernel and as large memory sizes become >> more prevalent it becomes increasingly hard to

Re: [PATCH 00/14] ppc32: Remove board ports that are no longer maintained

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 27, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The following board ports are no longer maintained or have become obsolete: adir ash beech cedar ep405 k2 mcpn765 menf1 oak pcore rainier redwood sm850 spd823ts We are there for

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-rt4, fails to build

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:15 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 01:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm getting a build error for 2.6.13-rc7-rt4 with PREEMPT_DESKTOP for > > > i386: > > > > hm, cannot reproduce

Re: [PATCH] make radix tree gang lookup faster by using a bitmap search

2005-08-29 Thread Nick Piggin
Sonny Rao wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:37:48PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: s/common/only ? But the page tree is indexed by file offset rather than virtual address, and we try to span the file's pagecache with the smallest possible tree. So it will tend to make the trees taller. I did

Re: [discuss] Re: [patch 2.6.13] x86_64: implement dma_sync_single_range_for_{cpu,device}

2005-08-29 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 29 August 2005 23:48, John W. Linville wrote: > Perhaps...but I think that sounds more like a discussion of _how_ to > implement the API, rather than _whether_ it should be implemented. > Using some new variant of the swiotlb_* API might be appropriate > for the x86_64 implementation.

Re: [PATCH] Only process_die notifier in ia64_do_page_fault if KPROBES is configured.

2005-08-29 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 02:19, Rusty Lynch wrote: > > So, assuming inlining the notifier_call_chain would address Christoph's > conserns, is the following patch something like what you are sugesting? Yes. Well in theory you could make fast and slow notify_die too, but that's probably not

Re: [patch 16/16] Add hardware breakpoint support for i386

2005-08-29 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:12:08 -0700, Tom Rini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >This adds hardware breakpoint support for i386. This is not as well tested as >software breakpoints, but in some minimal testing appears to be functional. Hardware breakpoints must be per cpu, not global. Also you will

Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Andrew, did you pick up the patch or should I resend to someone? I picked it up. If it causes performance regressions, we can fix them, and if it causes other problems then that will be interesting in itself. Linus - To unsubscribe

Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem

2005-08-29 Thread Nick Piggin
Ray Fucillo wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: How does the following look? (I changed the comment a bit). Andrew, please apply if nobody objects. Nick, I applied this latest patch to a 2.6.12 kernel and found that it does resolve the problem. Prior to the patch on this machine, I was seeing

Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem

2005-08-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Ray Fucillo wrote: > > FWIW, an interesting side effect of this occurs when I run the database > with this patch internally on a Linux server that uses NIS. Its an > unrelated problem and not a kernel problem. Its due to the children > calling initgroups()...

[PATCH] i386, x86_64 Initial PAT implementation

2005-08-29 Thread Eric W. Biederman
PAT (or setting caching policy in the page table entries) has been a long desired feature in the kernel and as large memory sizes become more prevalent it becomes increasingly hard to specify all of the regions that need write-back caching with just 8 MTRRs much less add in the write-combining

Re: [PATCH] Only process_die notifier in ia64_do_page_fault if KPROBES is configured.

2005-08-29 Thread Rusty Lynch
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:24:25AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:05, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Rusty Lynch wrote: > > > Just to be sure everyone understands the overhead involved, kprobes only > > > registers a single notifier. If kprobes is

Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Drop I2C_DEVNAME and i2c_clientname

2005-08-29 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi, Jean, Em Qui, 2005-08-25 às 00:19 +0200, Jean Delvare escreveu: > Hi Mauro, > > > That's not true. We keep V4L tree compatible with older kernel > > releases. Each change like this does generate a lot of work at V4L > > side to provide #ifdefs to check for linux version and provide a > >

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-29 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:42, Christopher Friesen wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the > > urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14. > > > > Anyone care to give a status report? Con, do you feel that the last > >

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200, > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > I don't see why we should break a bunch of drivers by doing that. > > Much better, in my oppinion, to fix the few remaining drivers still > > using

Re: Linux 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Ricardo Galli
> There it is. 2.6.13 does not boot in my PPC (iBook, 500 MHz), it hangs just at the very begining and the machines is automatically rebooted after a couple of minutes. The on-screen messages finishes with a few "openpic" messages: http://mnm.uib.es/gallir/tmp/linux-13-ppc.jpg I used the

PROBLEM: 2.6.13, Inconsistent kallsyms data

2005-08-29 Thread Jim McCloskey
When I try to compile 2.6.13, using a complete tarball from kernel.org, the compilation fails with: --- SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map Inconsistent kallsyms data Try setting CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS make: *** [vmlinux]

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:34:25 +0200, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I don't see why we should break a bunch of drivers by doing that. > Much better, in my oppinion, to fix the few remaining drivers still > using check_region and *then* kill it. Even unmaintained drivers may I'd

Re: kernel panic

2005-08-29 Thread Robert Hancock
manomugdha biswas wrote: Hi, I am using the following makefile and the .c file to generate a kernel module. I can load this module without error and warning. But when I call ioctl() from user application to run this module it gets kernel panic! I think there's something wrong with the way

Re: ppp_mppe+pptp for 2.6.14?

2005-08-29 Thread James Cameron
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:10:34PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > I've asked James Cameron, pptp project lead, to try a test to force > the server side to issue a CCP DOWN, to make sure the client-side > kernel ppp_generic module does the right thing and drops packets. I'm still working on this;

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Diego Calleja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > /me wonders why check_region has not been killed, it has been > deprecated for years; killing it would force developers to fix it > and would help to identify unmaintained drivers... I don't see why we should break a bunch of

Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem

2005-08-29 Thread Ray Fucillo
Nick Piggin wrote: How does the following look? (I changed the comment a bit). Andrew, please apply if nobody objects. Nick, I applied this latest patch to a 2.6.12 kernel and found that it does resolve the problem. Prior to the patch on this machine, I was seeing about 23ms spent in fork

Re: list.h copyright owner

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2005-08-30 at 00:40 +0200, Daniele Orlandi wrote: > So, who is the copyright holder of that file, so that I can ask him > permission > to use the file in a Lesser GPL project? Linus I believe for the most part. I wrote the prefetching changes to for_each_ functions and I'd consider

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Diego Calleja
El Tue, 30 Aug 2005 01:14:17 +0200, Stephane Wirtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Is there a function to replace this deprecated function ? request_region > Why is it deprecated ? >From http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/kernel-janitors/2004-January/000346.html: "The reason that check_region()

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Stephane Wirtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > By compiling my kernel, I can see that the __check_region function (in > kernel/resource.c) is deprecated. > [snip] > > Is there a function to replace this deprecated function ? > Yes, you just call request_region() and check its

Re: Linux-2.6.13 : __check_region is deprecated

2005-08-29 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Stephane Wirtel wrote: > Hi, > > By compiling my kernel, I can see that the __check_region function (in > kernel/resource.c) is deprecated. > > With a grep on the source code of the last release, I get this result. > > drivers/pnp/resource.c:255: if

Re: 2.6: how do I this in sysfs?

2005-08-29 Thread gcoady
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:24:18 -0500, "Miller, Mike (OS Dev)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This is after my minimal sas transport class, please also >> read the thread about it on linux-scsi >> >In the referenced code for using sysfs, there only appear to be methods >for reading attributes.

[PATCH] fix compiler warning in aic7770

2005-08-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Fix compiler warning in drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c : drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c:129: warning: unused variable `l' Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7770.c |1 - 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-) ---

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-29 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Holger" == Holger Kiehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Holger> Hello I have a system with the following setup: (4-way CPUs, 8 spindles on two controllers) Try using XFS. See http://scalability.gelato.org/DiskScalability_2fResults --- ext3 is single threaded and tends not to get the

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/s2io.h - lvalue fix

2005-08-29 Thread Stephane Wirtel
Hi Jesper, > Hmm, neither do I. Looking in MAINTAINERS I don't see anybody, and > looking in the sources I find just a company name `Neterion'. > So, lacking an email address for a maintainer, sending your patch to > linux-kernel is the right thing to do (even if you had found a > maintainer,

[PATCH] isdn_v110 warning fix

2005-08-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
Warning fix : drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_v110.c:523: warning: `ret' might be used uninitialized in this function Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_v110.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) ---

[PATCH] IDE: move CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS into linux/ide.h (resend)

2005-08-29 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
Ping... any objection to this? CONFIG_IDE_MAX_HWIFS is a generic thing, no need to have it duplicated by every arch that uses it. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: work-ide/include/asm-alpha/ide.h === ---

Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/s2io.h - lvalue fix

2005-08-29 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Stephane Wirtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all , > > Sorry if I don't send this patch to the maintainer of s2io, but I don't > know who is he. > Hmm, neither do I. Looking in MAINTAINERS I don't see anybody, and looking in the sources I find just a company name `Neterion'. So,

Re: Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-29 Thread Christopher Friesen
Lee Revell wrote: The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14. Anyone care to give a status report? Con, do you feel that the last version you posted is ready to go in? Last time I got interested in this,

Re: 2.6.13-rc6-rt1

2005-08-29 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:32:01PM +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote: > > 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

[PATCH 6/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (ppc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_cds_common.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mpc85xx_cds_common.c | 11 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_cds_common.c b/arch/ppc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_cds_common.c ---

Re: 2.6: how do I this in sysfs?

2005-08-29 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:24:18PM -0500, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > > > This is after my minimal sas transport class, please also > > read the thread about it on linux-scsi > > > In the referenced code for using sysfs, there only appear to be methods > for reading attributes. How about if

[PATCH 5/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (ppc/kernel/pci.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pci.c | 21 +++-- 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/pci.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/pci.c --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/pci.c +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/pci.c @@

[PATCH 7/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (sparc64/kernel/ebus.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ebus.c | 17 ++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/ebus.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/ebus.c --- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/ebus.c +++

[PATCH 2/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (alpha/kernel/sys_sio.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_sio.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/sys_sio.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/sys_sio.c --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/sys_sio.c +++

[PATCH 3/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-frv.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pci-frv.c |8 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-frv.c b/arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-frv.c --- a/arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-frv.c +++

[PATCH 4/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-irq.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pci-irq.c |4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-irq.c b/arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-irq.c --- a/arch/frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-irq.c +++

Dynamic tick for 2.6.14 - what's the plan?

2005-08-29 Thread Lee Revell
The controversy over the introduction of CONFIG_HZ demonstrated the urgency of getting a dynamic tick solution merged before 2.6.14. Anyone care to give a status report? Con, do you feel that the last version you posted is ready to go in? Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

[PATCH 1/7] arch: pci_find_device remove (alpha/kernel/sys_alcor.c)

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Generated in 2.6.13-rc6-mm2 kernel version. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sys_alcor.c |3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/sys_alcor.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/sys_alcor.c --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/sys_alcor.c +++

[PATCH] drivers/net/s2io.h - lvalue fix

2005-08-29 Thread Stephane Wirtel
Hi all , Sorry if I don't send this patch to the maintainer of s2io, but I don't know who is he. This patch is based on Kernel 2.6.13 release from the Linus tree. Is there a process to send patch to the mailing list ? Best regards, Stephane -- Stephane Wirtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 0/7] arch: pci_find_device remove

2005-08-29 Thread Jiri Slaby
Set of patches, which removes pci_find_device from arch subtree. alpha/kernel/sys_alcor.c|3 ++- alpha/kernel/sys_sio.c |6 +++--- frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-frv.c |8 ++-- frv/mb93090-mb00/pci-irq.c |4 +---

Re: ppp_mppe+pptp for 2.6.14?

2005-08-29 Thread Matt Domsch
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:12:20PM +0100, Daniel Drake wrote: > Hi, > > If there are no known issues it would be nice to push this for inclusion in > 2.6.14. The relevant patches from -mm are named > ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module.patch and >

Re: [PATCH] ppc32 :Added PCI support for MPC83xx

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Gala
On Aug 29, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Dan Malek wrote: On Aug 29, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: diff --git a/arch/ppc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_sys.c b/arch/ppc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_sys.c --- a/arch/ppc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_sys.c +++ b/arch/ppc/platforms/83xx/mpc834x_sys.c @@ -62,9 +62,29 @@

RE: [PATCH] acpi: Handle cpu_index greater than 256 properly in processor_core.c

2005-08-29 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
>-Original Message- >From: Ingo Oeser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 5:23 AM >To: Pallipadi, Venkatesh >Cc: linux-kernel; Andrew Morton; Brown, Len >Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi: Handle cpu_index greater than 256 >properly in processor_core.c > >Hi Venkatesh, >

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