Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-30 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Knut Petersen wrote: > >> How could I make it an inline function? It is used in console/bitblit.c, >> nvidia/nvidia.c, >> riva/fbdev.c and softcursor.c. > > Something like below, which has the advantange that there is still only > one implement

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Remove unnecesary capability hooks in rootplug.

2005-08-30 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:20:33PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > Now that capability functions are default, rootplug no longer needs to > manually add them to its security_ops. > > Cc: Greg Kroah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can add: Signed-off-by: Gre

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Allen Akin
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:26:53PM -0400, David Reveman wrote: | On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: | > In general, the whole concept of programmable graphics hardware is | > not addressed in APIs like xlib and Cairo. This is a very important | > point. A major new GPU feature, pro

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Anholt
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > I've written an article that surveys the current State of Linux > graphics and proposes a possible path forward. This is a long article > containing a lot of detailed technical information as a guide to > future developers. Skip over the detaile

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Jon Smirl
Access has been restored. The URL is good again. http://www.freedesktop.org/~jonsmirl/graphics.html -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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.or

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Jon Smirl
Before you shut my account off I made you this offer: On 8/31/05, Jon Smirl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quit being a pain and write a response to the article if you don't > like it. Censorship is not the answer. Open debate in a public format > is the correct response. If you want me to I'll add

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/31/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:50 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > On 8/30/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 'As a whole, the X.org community barely has enough resources to build a > > > single server. Splitting these resources over many pa

Re: jack, PREEMPT_DESKTOP, delayed interrupts?

2005-08-30 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:39, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:03 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > Hi, I'm starting to look at a strange problem. The configuration is: > > hardware: AMD X2 4400+ dual core, NForce3 chipset, Midiman 66 soundcard > > software: 2.6.13 smp + patch-2.6

Re: strange CPU speedups with SMP on Athlon 64 X2

2005-08-30 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, stupid question : isn't it possible that your motherboard does some sort of overclocking when it detects high cpu usage (bus activity, etc...) ? It should not be easy to check (rdtsc every second ?), but you might want to explore such a possibility. Regards, willy On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Tom Zanussi
Nathan Scott writes: > Hi Tom, > > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:19:04PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > You're right, it should be using simple_rmdir rather than > > simple_unlink for removing directories. Thanks for sending the patch, > > No problem. > > > which I've modified a bit to avo

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:33:10PM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > ... > On an unrelated note, are there any known issues with using epoll > on relayfs file descriptors? I'm having a few troubles, and just > wondering if its me doing something silly, or if its known to not > work...? Symptoms of the

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/30/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > The article has been reviewed but if it still contains technical > > errors please let me know. Opinions on the content are also > > appreciated. > > 'As a whole, the X.org community barel

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi Tom, On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:19:04PM -0500, Tom Zanussi wrote: > You're right, it should be using simple_rmdir rather than > simple_unlink for removing directories. Thanks for sending the patch, No problem. > which I've modified a bit to avoid splitting the rmdir/unlink cases > into separ

Re: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-30 Thread Al Boldi
Holger Kiehl wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Al Boldi wrote: > > You may be hitting a 2.6 kernel bug, which has something to do with > > readahead, ask Jens Axboe about it! (see "[git patches] IDE update" > > thread) Sadly, 2.6.13 did not fix it either. > > I did read that threat, but due to my limit

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Jon Smirl
On 8/30/05, Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > The article has been reviewed but if it still contains technical > > errors please let me know. Opinions on the content are also > > appreciated. > > 'As a whole, the X.org community barel

Re: Ignore disabled ROM resources at setup

2005-08-30 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Here's a new patch based on Linus latest one with better error checking. Please push if you are fine with it. This patch fixes a problem with pci_map_rom() which doesn't properly update the ROM BAR value with the address thas allocated for it by the PCI code. This problem, among other, breaks boot

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Tom Zanussi
Nathan Scott writes: > Hi there, > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:48:23AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > > ... > > # find /relay > > /relay > > /relay/block > > /relay/block/sdd > > /relay/block/sdd/trace3 > > /relay/block/sdd/trace2 > > /relay/block/sdd/trace1 > > /relay/block/sdd/trace0

Re: inotify and IN_UNMOUNT-events

2005-08-30 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 30, 2005, at 23:33:27, Robert Love wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:46 +0200, Juergen Quade wrote: Playing around with inotify I have some problems to generate/receive IN_UNMOUNT-events (using a self written application and inotify_utils-0.25; kernel 2.6.13). Doing: - mount /dev/hda1 /mn

Re: inotify and IN_UNMOUNT-events

2005-08-30 Thread Robert Love
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:46 +0200, Juergen Quade wrote: > Playing around with inotify I have some problems > to generate/receive IN_UNMOUNT-events (using > a self written application and inotify_utils-0.25; > kernel 2.6.13). > > Doing: > - mount /dev/hda1 /mnt > - add a watch to the path /mnt/ (".

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:03 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > The article has been reviewed but if it still contains technical > errors please let me know. Opinions on the content are also > appreciated. 'As a whole, the X.org community barely has enough resources to build a single server. Splitting these

Re: jack, PREEMPT_DESKTOP, delayed interrupts?

2005-08-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 19:03 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > Hi, I'm starting to look at a strange problem. The configuration is: > hardware: AMD X2 4400+ dual core, NForce3 chipset, Midiman 66 soundcard > software: 2.6.13 smp + patch-2.6.13-rt1, PREEMPT_DESKTOP > jack 0.100.4, curr

jack, PREEMPT_DESKTOP, delayed interrupts?

2005-08-30 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
Hi, I'm starting to look at a strange problem. The configuration is: hardware: AMD X2 4400+ dual core, NForce3 chipset, Midiman 66 soundcard software: 2.6.13 smp + patch-2.6.13-rt1, PREEMPT_DESKTOP jack 0.100.4, current cvs alsa 1.0.10rc1 This is the sequence of events. Start J

Re: [patch 1/1] Ptrace - i386: fix "syscall audit" interaction with singlestep

2005-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > From: Bodo Stroesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Avoid giving two traps for singlestep instead of one, when syscall auditing is > enabled. > > In fact no singlestep trap is

Re: [PATCH] libata: add ATAPI module option

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mark Lord wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: -#ifndef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI -if (unlikely(dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI)) -return NULL; -#endif +if (atapi_enabled) { +if (unlikely(dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI)) +return NULL; +} .. Is that if-stmt the right way around?

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-30 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:11:26PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > the system, like load. A week running while I was on vacation doesn't > test much, a week running on a loaded server tests other things. btw, I thought about adding the load average too but it wasn't really interesting, since someti

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

2005-08-30 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch couldn't compile. I assume you post a wrong patch...? ^ version -- OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] i386, x86_64 Initial PAT implementation

2005-08-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:45:36PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Llu, 2005-08-29 at 18:20 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > ways. Currently this code only allows for an additional flavor > > > of uncached access to physical memory addresses which sh

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

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Jackson
Jean wrote: > You should simply be using an up-to-date version of quilt, namely > version 0.42, which supports Andrew-style comments in series files just > fine. Right you are - that works too. Thanks for the good work on quilt and thanks for pointing this out. -- I won't rest

Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-30 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Knut Petersen wrote: > This trivial patch gives a performance boost to the framebuffer console > > Constructing the bitmaps that are given to the bitblit functions of the > framebuffer > drivers is time consuming. Here we avoide a call to the slow > fb_pad_aligned_buffer(). > The patch replaces th

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-30 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
Knut Petersen wrote: > fb_pad_aligned_buffer() is also slower for those cases. But does anybody > use such fonts? Yes, there are 16x30 fonts out there in the wild. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More ma

Re: 2.6.13-rt1

2005-08-30 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:34 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > Have you tried turning on > "Non-preemptible critical section latency timing" or "Latency tracing" I just turned on the following: CONFIG_CRITICAL_PREEMPT_TIMING CONFIG_CRITICAL_IRQSOFF_TIMING CONFIG_LATENCY_TRACE recompiled and bo

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-30 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Knut Petersen wrote: > How could I make it an inline function? It is used in console/bitblit.c, > nvidia/nvidia.c, > riva/fbdev.c and softcursor.c. Something like below, which has the advantange that there is still only one implementation of the function and if it's sti

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.1 for 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Peter Williams
This version contains a modified spa_ws scheduler with a more persistent bonus mechanism. Although the "bonus only at wake up" mechanism of the original worked well on the first systems it was tested on (an old SMP system and a 3GHz SMT system) subsequent tests on a 2GHz single processor system

Re: IDE HPA

2005-08-30 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 8/30/05, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Maw, 2005-08-30 at 18:16 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > HPA shouldn't be disabled by default and new kernel parameter ("hdx=hpa") > > should be added for disabling HPA (yep, people with buggy BIOS-es will > > have to add this paramet

MAX_ARG_PAGES has no effect?

2005-08-30 Thread Nick Matteo
The other day I was running a grep on a big directory tree and got a "Argument list too long" error. Since I'd like to have this work without messing with find and xargs each time, I went into include/linux/binfmts.h and changed #define MAX_ARG_PAGES 32 to #define MAX_ARG_PAGES 64 I recomp

Re: [patch] IBM HDAPS accelerometer driver.

2005-08-30 Thread Yani Ioannou
Please refer to my IDE freeze patch last week: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/25/140 It provides userspace with a method to freeze the queue and park the head (through sysfs), along with a timeout to unfreeze, and works quite well. It is in the process of being moved to the block layer however so th

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:49:37 +1000 (EST) > > > > install-8_23.tar.bz2 > > Just look for references to CHIP_REV_YU_LITE_A3 in > the driver > sk98lin/skgeinit.c and sk98lin/skxmac2.c > The comparison should always be: Have a look but no c

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

2005-08-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:54, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Certainly not a big effect (if we make sure the compiler knows that > this test mostly fails and insure that the variable is in > __mostly_read) Currently neither, but that could be easily fixed. > but this is a frequently executed c

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi there, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:48:23AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > ... > # find /relay > /relay > /relay/block > /relay/block/sdd > /relay/block/sdd/trace3 > /relay/block/sdd/trace2 > /relay/block/sdd/trace1 > /relay/block/sdd/trace0 > /relay/block/sdb > /relay/block/sdb/trace3 > /relay/blo

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Joel Becker
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The fact that sysfs and configfs have similar backing stores > > does not make them the same thing. > > > > Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks. I'm sure there's some >

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

2005-08-30 Thread David S. Miller
From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Only process_die notifier in ia64_do_page_fault if KPROBES is configured. Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:38:08 +0200 > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:05, Luck, Tony wrote: > > >Please do not generate any code if the feature cannot ever be > > >

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi Jens, On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:28:39AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Ok, updated version. One thing I found a bit awkward was the way its putting all inodes in the root of the relayfs namespace, with the cpuid tacked on the end of the bdevname - I was a bit confused at first when a trace of sdd

Re: [PATCH] libata: add ATAPI module option

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Lord
Jeff Garzik wrote: -#ifndef ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI - if (unlikely(dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI)) - return NULL; -#endif + if (atapi_enabled) { + if (unlikely(dev->class == ATA_DEV_ATAPI)) + return NULL; + } .. Is that if-stmt the rig

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

2005-08-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > Also with the inline the test should be essentially a single test of > a global variable and jump. Hardly a big performance issue, no? There are multiple effects of this code. - Additional cacheline in use in the page fault handler increasing the cac

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks. I'm sure there's > > some way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same > > codebase? > > Careful

Re: [PATCH] blk queue io tracing support

2005-08-30 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi Jens, On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:28:39AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > Patch attached is against 2.6.13-rc6-mm2. Still a good idea to apply the > relayfs read update from the previous mail [*] as well. There's a small memory leak there on one of the start-tracing error paths (relay_open failure).

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

2005-08-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:05, Luck, Tony wrote: > >Please do not generate any code if the feature cannot ever be > >used (CONFIG_KPROBES off). With this patch we still have lots of > >unnecessary code being executed on each page fault. > > I can (eventually) wrap this call inside the #ifdef CO

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:28, Andrew Morton wrote: > Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in > > > sysfs or to forbid kernel modules from directly tweak

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:25, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:13, Joel Becker wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in > > > sysfs or to forbid kernel modules fr

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread viro
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:28:46PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Sure, but all that copying-and-pasting really sucks. I'm sure there's some > way of providing the slightly different semantics from the same codebase? Careful - you've almost reinvented the concept of library, which would violate an

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Joel Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in sysfs > > or > > to forbid kernel modules from directly tweaking a configfs namespace. Why > > should the kernel no

Re: [RFC][PATCH 4 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
(without kmail bugs this time) A kernel code example that uses the modified configfs to define a simple configuration interface. Note the use of kobjects and ksets instead of config_items and config_groups. Also notice how much code is required to get a simple value from userspace to kernel spac

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:13, Joel Becker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in sysfs > > or to forbid kernel modules from directly tweaking a configfs namespace. > > Why should the ker

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
(avoiding the kmail formatting problems this time.) Sysfs rearranged as a single file for analysis purposes. diff -up --recursive 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.clean/fs/sysfs/Makefile 2.6.13-rc5-mm1/fs/sysfs/Makefile --- 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.clean/fs/sysfs/Makefile 2005-06-17 15:48:29.0 -0400 +++ 2.6.1

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-30 Thread Sven Ladegast
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote: "Register a box + optional PCI id list/CPU info" Reply with a secured serial number Registering means to create an ID for the system? Something out of timestamp plus your PCI IDs and CPU info and so on? Sven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [RFC][PATCH 3 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 19:06, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:59:55 +1000 > > Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Configfs rewritten as a single file and updated to use kobjects instead > > of its own clone of kobjects (config_items). > > Some style issues: > Mixed

Re: [RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Joel Becker
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:39AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote: > But it would be stupid to forbid users from creating directories in sysfs or > to forbid kernel modules from directly tweaking a configfs namespace. Why > should the kernel not be able to add objects to a directory a user created

Re: GDT initialization and location question.

2005-08-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Chris Wright wrote: > * Pritesh Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I was wondering as to where is the GDT initialized during the boot > > sequence? I will need the filename and the name of the routine that > > does this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Search for c

Re: [RFC][PATCH 3 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 08:59, Daniel Phillips wrote: > -obj-$(CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS) += configfs.o > +obj-$(CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS) += configfs.o ddbond.config.o This should just be: +obj-$(CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS) += configfs.o However, the wrong version does provide a convenient way of compiling the

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

2005-08-30 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, This patch contains my previous change as well as an update to fix the race conditions that the BKL may hold. It is against -rt2. The first part of the patch will stop the pi_setprio loop if the process has a lock_depth greater than or equal to zero. Since that would mean that the proces

RE: Where is the performance bottleneck?

2005-08-30 Thread Guy
In most of your results, your CPU usage is very high. Once you get to about 90% usage, you really can't do much else, unless you can improve the CPU usage. Guy > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:linux-raid- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Holger Kiehl > Sent: Tuesday

Re: [RFC][PATCH 3 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:59:55 +1000 Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Configfs rewritten as a single file and updated to use kobjects instead of its > own clone of kobjects (config_items). > Some style issues: Mixed case in labels Bad identation > +static int sysfs_cre

[RFC][PATCH 4 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
A kernel code example that uses the modified configfs to define a simple configuration interface. Note the use of kobjects and ksets instead of config_items and config_groups. Also notice how much code is required to get a simple value from userspace to kernel space. This is a big problem that n

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

2005-08-30 Thread Luck, Tony
>Please do not generate any code if the feature cannot ever be >used (CONFIG_KPROBES off). With this patch we still have lots of >unnecessary code being executed on each page fault. I can (eventually) wrap this call inside the #ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES. But I'd like to keep following leads on maki

Re: GDT initialization and location question.

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Pritesh Shah ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I was wondering as to where is the GDT initialized during the boot > sequence? I will need the filename and the name of the routine that > does this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Search for cpu_gdt_table (one is literal, the other is per_cpu).

[RFC][PATCH 3 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
Configfs rewritten as a single file and updated to use kobjects instead of its own clone of kobjects (config_items). diff -up --recursive 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.clean/fs/configfs/Makefile 2.6.13-rc5-mm1/fs/configfs/Makefile --- 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.clean/fs/configfs/Makefile 2005-08-09 18:23:30.0 -040

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

2005-08-30 Thread Chase Venters
> Complete 'dmesg' please. See below. Thanks, Chase Linux version 2.6.13 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5-20050130 (Gentoo Linux 3.3.5.20050130-r1, ssp-3.3.5.20050130-1, pie-8.7.7.1)) #2 SMP Sun Aug 28 23:54:34 CDT 2005 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 000

[RFC][PATCH 2 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
Sysfs rearranged as a single file for analysis purposes. diff -up --recursive 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.clean/fs/sysfs/Makefile 2.6.13-rc5-mm1/fs/sysfs/Makefile --- 2.6.13-rc5-mm1.clean/fs/sysfs/Makefile 2005-06-17 15:48:29.0 -0400 +++ 2.6.13-rc5-mm1/fs/sysfs/Makefile 2005-08-29 17:13:59.0 -

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-08-31 at 00:43 +0200, Sven Ladegast wrote: > collection has. What data does klive send? Is the data just a hash of > different system variables or is it also possible to identify one single > computer (or person)? Data protection...laws etc. are things that must be > considered too m

[RFC][PATCH 1 of 4] Configfs is really sysfs

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Andrew, Configfs blithely ingests kobject.h and kobject.c into itself, just changing the names. Furthermore, more than half of configfs is copied verbatim from sysfs, the only difference being the name changes. After undoing the name changes and adding a few new fields to kobject structure

Re: 2.6.13 and the IRQs

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/31/05, Stephan Grein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, i updated my laptop to 2.6.13 vanilla kernel. > When i booted up it gave me some strange irq messages (debug) which > showed not up on 2.6.12.2 vanilla. I added irqpoll to lilo.conf, and

[PATCH] PREEMPT_RT vermagic

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Walker
Ingo, This patch adds a vermagic hook so PREEMPT_RT modules can be distinguished from PREEMPT_DESKTOP modules. Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.10/include/linux/vermagic.h === --- linu

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-30 Thread Sven Ladegast
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Alan Cox wrote: but it would have to be opt in. That might lower coverage but should increase quality, especially id the id in the cookie can be put into bugzilla reports, and the hardware reporting is done so it can be machine processed (ie so you can ask stuff like 'reliab

[PATCH 1/1] block: CFQ refcounting fix

2005-08-30 Thread brking
I ran across a memory leak related to the cfq scheduler. The cfq init function increments the refcnt of the associated request_queue. This refcount gets decremented in cfq's exit function. Since blk_cleanup_queue only calls the elevator exit function when its refcnt goes to zero, the request_q nev

Re: Linux 2.6.13

2005-08-30 Thread Henrik Persson
Linus Torvalds wrote: > There it is. > > The most painful part of 2.6.13 is likely to be the fact that we made x86 > use the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources. > That uncovered rather a lot of nasty small details, but should also mean > that a lot of laptops in parti

Re: ip_queue.c and TCP resets

2005-08-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
Michael Rash wrote: > Attached is a patch against > linux-2.6.11.12/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_queue.c to put Ethernet MAC > addresses directly into the indev_name and outdev_name portions of the > ipq_packet_msg struct. This is a total kludge and I doubt anyone else > will find this useful, but for li

2.6.13 and the IRQs

2005-08-30 Thread Stephan Grein
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i updated my laptop to 2.6.13 vanilla kernel. When i booted up it gave me some strange irq messages (debug) which showed not up on 2.6.12.2 vanilla. I added irqpoll to lilo.conf, and it removed some output. However before i did add irqpoll to lilo

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

2005-08-30 Thread John Rose
Hi Paul- > I'm suggesting that the rpaphp code has a struct pci_driver whose > id_table and probe function are such that it will claim the EADS > bridges. (It would probably be best to match on vendor=IBM and > class=PCI-PCI bridge and let the probe function figure out which of > the bridges it g

Re: State of Linux graphics

2005-08-30 Thread Dave Airlie
> > As the author of Xgl and glitz I'd like to comment on a few things. > > >From the article: > > > Xgl was designed as a near term transition solution. The Xgl model > > was to transparently replace the drawing system of the existing > > X server with a compatible one based on using OpenGL as

Re: LSM root_plug module questions

2005-08-30 Thread Crispin Cowan
Chris Wright wrote: > * David Härdeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> 2) root_plug currently scans the usb device tree looking for the >> appropriate device each time it's needed. In the interest of making the >> result of the lookup cached, it is possible for a module to register so >> that

Re: 2.6.13-rt1

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Walker
Have you tried turning on "Non-preemptible critical section latency timing" or "Latency tracing" I don't know if it's related to the PI changes, but I'm getting a crash with those on em64t . With both above options I get <0>init[1]: segfault at 8010ef44 rip 8010ef44 rsp 7f

Re: Kernel 2.6.13: TCP (libnet?)

2005-08-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
John McGowan wrote: > Kernel 2.6.13: TCP (libnet?) > > Broken libnet? > > KERNEL: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > LIBNET 1.1 (c) 1998 - 2004 Mike D. Schiffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't like spam. I track spamvertized sites. Many only respond to TCP > packets sent to port 80. I need a TCP tr

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:49:37 +1000 (EST) Steve Kieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was > > affected > > by a fix in 2.6.13. > > skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9 > > > > Both

Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/31/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 14:19, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > On 8/30/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Mark Gross wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:16, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > > > >

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/1 2.6.13] framebuffer: bit_putcs() optimization for 8x* fonts

2005-08-30 Thread Knut Petersen
Hi Roman, Could you try the patch below, for a few extra cycles you might want to make it an inline function. No, it does not help. If there is any difference, it is too small to be measured on my system ... and my system does run at 1000 Hz. After 2.6.12 fb_pad_aligned_buffer() was change

Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Dike
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:42:15PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > The generic one should work too, it's just less efficient. > So you can probably easily replace them. Yup, just something that hasn't been done yet. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

2005-08-30 Thread Mark Gross
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 14:19, Jesper Juhl wrote: > On 8/30/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Mark Gross wrote: > > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:16, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > > Mark, > > > > > > > > Please fix identation accordingly to Cod

[PATCH 1/1] Implement shared page tables

2005-08-30 Thread Dave McCracken
This patch implements page table sharing for all shared memory regions that span an entire page table page. It supports sharing at multiple page levels, depending on the architecture. Performance testing has shown no degradation with this patch for tests with small processes. Preliminary tests

Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

2005-08-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rogier Wolff wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:53:13AM +0200, Sven Ladegast wrote: A trick to use would be to send an UDP packet at boot (after 1 minute or so), and then randomly say "once a month" (i.e. about 1/30 chance of sending a packet on the first day) The number of these random packets

Re: LSM root_plug module questions

2005-08-30 Thread Chris Wright
* David Härdeman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm currently playing around with the security/root_plug.c LSM module > and I have two questions: you'll have better luck on the lsm list > 1) What's the recommended way of telling that someone is logging in to > the computer (via ssh, virtual cons

[PATCH] libata: add ATAPI module option

2005-08-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Though DMA alignment, CDB interrupt, DMADIR, and PIO support issues keep libata's ATAPI support turned off by default, as of 2.6.13-git1 PATA users with non-ancient CDROM and DVD drives can start testing the ATAPI code. I just checked the following patch into the 'upstream' branch of libata-dev.g

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

2005-08-30 Thread tony . luck
> This is alive and well in 2.6.13 (final) on ia64. Or perhaps not. When I went into the machine room to take a look at this machine, I found that the disk drive in question was making some very bad noises. A few minutes later it stopped responding at all. Putting in a new drive, I see a consis

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Steve Kieu
--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was > affected > by a fix in 2.6.13. > skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9 > > Both the skge and sk98lin driver were fixed to check > for this. > Without the fix, the chip will be

Consulting Opportunity - Ph.D. Preferred

2005-08-30 Thread Karene
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LSM root_plug module questions

2005-08-30 Thread David Härdeman
Hi, I'm currently playing around with the security/root_plug.c LSM module and I have two questions: 1) What's the recommended way of telling that someone is logging in to the computer (via ssh, virtual console, serial console, X, whatever) with LSM? Look for open() on /dev/pts? 2) root_plu

Re: [PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers do not need to check for NULL

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Sridhar Samudrala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:45 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > Since the patch to add a NULL short-circuit to crypto_free_tfm() went in, > > there's no longer any need for callers of that function to check for NULL. > > This patch removes the re

Re: Telecom Clock driver for MPCBL0010 ATCA compute blade.

2005-08-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 8/30/05, Mark Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, Mark Gross wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:16, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > Mark, > > > > > > Please fix identation accordingly to CodingStyle and repost, it > > > looks quite ugly at the moment. > >

[PATCH] New SBC8360 watchdog driver (revised)

2005-08-30 Thread Ian E. Morgan
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch titled watchdog: new SBC8360 driver has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is watchdog-new-sbc8360-driver.patch On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch titled watchdog-new-sbc8360-driver-tidy has been

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

2005-08-30 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Mauro, > (...) it would be nice not to have a different I2C > API for every single 2.6 version :-) It would be nice to change I2C > API once and keep it stable for a while. As nice as you seem to think it would be, I don't think it's not realistic. For one thing, we don't necessarily know in a

Re: [PATCH] crypto_free_tfm callers do not need to check for NULL

2005-08-30 Thread Sridhar Samudrala
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:45 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Since the patch to add a NULL short-circuit to crypto_free_tfm() went in, > there's no longer any need for callers of that function to check for NULL. > This patch removes the redundant NULL checks and also a few similar checks > for NULL bef

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