Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

2006-11-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:15:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > ACK the pci_intx() calls, NAK the obviously overweight spinlock changes. > The spinlock changes are completely unnecessary. Just look at any > other (non-ALSA) PCI driver. Existing "spin_lock()" is fine for both > PCI shared irq

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:21, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Subject: [patch] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > fix x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c build bug: > > arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c: In function ‘threshold_remove_bank’: >

smbfs (Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (2.6.18.2))

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
[ Adding e-mail of Andrew Morton, he may have clue about who to ping ;] [ MAINTAINERS.smbfs seems to be emply ] On 2006-11-14, Rasmus BЬg Hansen wrote: [] > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > Kernel BUG's and freezes after a soft lockup. > > [2.] Full

[patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fix x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c build bug: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c: In function ‘threshold_remove_bank’: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c:597: error: ‘shared_bank’ undeclared (first use in

[PATCH] usb: generic calibration support

2006-11-16 Thread Holger Schurig
From: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Generic calibration support for usbtouchscreen. Signed-off-by: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- With build-in calibration support, the "swap_xy" kernel parameter vanishes and usbtouchscreen instead gains a new kernel-parameter which holds 7

Re: locking sectors of raw disk (raw read-write test of mounted disk)

2006-11-16 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 11/15/06, Phillip Susi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, you can not tamper with the underlying data while the kernel has it mounted. I don't want to tamper wuith data. I want to raw write back exacty same raw data that I read in. I only want to make sure that kernel doesn't write modified data

[patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> lockdep can be used to print held locks when printing a backtrace. This can be useful when debugging things like 'scheduling while atomic' asserts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:48, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 > > > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > > > >

Re: [Madwifi-devel] ANNOUNCE: SFLC helps developers assess ar5k (enabling free Atheros HAL)

2006-11-16 Thread Nick Kossifidis
Just in case you want to experiment, i have a working port of ar5k that works on madwifi-old before the BSD - HEAD merge... well i'm no good programmer (yet), i did what i could (i'm sure those define macros are nasty for most people :P) and hope that helps... you can git clone from the

[PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default]

2006-11-16 Thread Brice Goglin
(forgot to cc: LKML) Roland Dreier wrote: > > A whitelist is an awkward solution, the problem is the number of > > chipsets available with MSI will continue to grow. And the assumption > > is that after Microsoft OS supports MSI, that newer chipsets will work. > > Maybe a whitelist for older

AW: Promise SATA vendor drivers uploaded

2006-11-16 Thread Martin Bene
> To further assist anyone wishing to hack on sata_promise.c, I just > uploaded the long-since-GPL'd vendor drivers for Generation-I and > Generation-II chipsets to > http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/promise/ > > This should help with isolating the proper initialization > sequence for a

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:37:17 +0300 Alex Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton (AM) writes: > > AM> What lock protects the fields in struct ext[234]_reserve_window from > being > AM> concurrently modified by two CPUs? None, it seems. Ditto > AM>

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:48:09 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:37:17 +0300 > Alex Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Andrew Morton (AM) writes: > > > > AM> What lock protects the fields in struct ext[234]_reserve_window from > > being > > AM>

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 > > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > > > hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0); > > > +#endif > > > > this

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on_each_cpu() does this and one caller (at least) relies upon it > > (invalidate_bh_lrus(), iirc). > > ok, fair enough. Then this is a (minor) bugfix as well. ok, this doesnt build on some configs - so the replacement patch below moves the UP

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Alex Tomas
> Andrew Morton (AM) writes: AM> What lock protects the fields in struct ext[234]_reserve_window from being AM> concurrently modified by two CPUs? None, it seems. Ditto AM> ext[234]_reserve_window_node. i_mutex will cover it for write(), but not AM> for pageout over a file hole. If we

[patch] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > x86_64 does not build cleanly on UP: > > updated patch below - i left out the cpu.h bits because they caused > problems elsewhere. the cpu-hotplug related warning is solved by the cleanup below. Identity patch, does not change the code.

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:48:55 +0100 > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +static inline int > > +smp_call_function_single(int cpuid, void (*func) (void *info), void *info, > > +int retry, int wait) > > +{ > > +

git web (Re: nightly 2.6 LXR run?)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:19:20PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: [] > try to use `git2.kernel.org` instead of `git.kernel.org`. The second server > somehow only has an average load of ~4 instead of ~250. Looking closer, i see all gitweb links (C) on both servers links are poining to

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:49:20 -0800 Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 23:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:55:43 -0800 > > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hmm, maxblocks, in bitmap_search_next_usable_block(), is the end

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > > hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0); > > +#endif > > this part isn't needed - the definition handles that. Thanks.

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0); > +#endif this part isn't needed - the definition handles that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:11:22 + (GMT) > Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 > > > > > > Am seeing errors with systems using ext2. First machine is a plan old x86 > >

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > x86_64 does not build cleanly on UP: updated patch below - i left out the cpu.h bits because they caused problems elsewhere. Ingo ---> Subject: x86_64: build fixes From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x86_64 does not build

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 09:48, Ingo Molnar wrote: > arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: In function 'cpu_vsyscall_notifier': > arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c:282: warning: implicit declaration of function > 'smp_call_function_single' > arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: At top level: >

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:48:55 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static inline int > +smp_call_function_single(int cpuid, void (*func) (void *info), void *info, > + int retry, int wait) > +{ > + func(info); > + > + return 0; > +} > + Given that on SMP the

[patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: x86_64: UP build fixes From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> x86_64 does not build cleanly on UP: arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: In function 'cpu_vsyscall_notifier': arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c:282: warning: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_single'

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 23:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:55:43 -0800 > Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmm, maxblocks, in bitmap_search_next_usable_block(), is the end block > > number of the range to search, not the lengh of the range. maxblocks > > get

Re: [Q] PCI Express and ide (native) leads to irq storm?

2006-11-16 Thread Vasily Averin
Tejun Heo wrote: > Vasily Averin wrote: >> Alan Cox wrote: >>> Ar Gwe, 2006-10-27 am 17:17 +0400, ysgrifennodd Vasily Averin: Could somebody please help me to troubleshoot this issue? I've seen this issue on the customer nodes and would like to know how I can work-around this

Re: ACPI output/lcd/auxdisplay mess

2006-11-16 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On 11/15/06, James Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, we were aware of video/backlight/* (read below). Anyway, > auxdisplay doesn't create a class; it did in first versions, but right > now it behaves just like a framebuffer, no classes in the playground > (maybe you read a old

[PATCH -mm 0/2] Use freezeable workqueues to avoid suspend-related XFS corruptions

2006-11-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, The following two patches introduce a mechanism that should allow us to avoid suspend-related corruptions of XFS without the freezing of bdevs which Pavel considers as too invasive (apart from this, the freezing of bdevs may lead to some undesirable interactions with dm and for now it seems

[PATCH -mm 1/2] Support for freezeable workqueues

2006-11-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Make it possible to create a workqueue the worker thread of which will be frozen during suspend, along with other kernel threads. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/workqueue.h |8 +--- kernel/workqueue.c| 20 ++-- 2 files

[PATCH -mm 2/2] Use freezeable workqueues in XFS

2006-11-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Make the workqueues used by XFS freezeable, so their worker threads don't submit any I/O after the suspend image has been created. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index:

[PATCH] usb: Support for DMC TSC-10 (take 2)

2006-11-16 Thread Holger Schurig
From: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basic support support for the USB-based DMC TSC-10 touchscreen controller. Signed-off-by: Holger Schrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- The previous patch was word-wrapped, sorry. Please review this patch and schedule it for inclusion once 2.6.19 comes out.

[PATCH] usb: Support for DMC TSC-10

2006-11-16 Thread Holger Schurig
From: Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basic support support for the USB-based DMC TSC-10 touchscreen controller. Signed-off-by: Holger Schrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Please review this patch and schedule it for inclusion once 2.6.19 comes out. The DMC TSC-10 comes in various

[PATCH -mm 2/2] Use freezeable workqueues in XFS

2006-11-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Make the workqueues used by XFS freezeable, so their worker threads don't submit any I/O after the suspend image has been created. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index:

[PATCH -mm 1/2] Support for freezeable workqueues

2006-11-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Make it possible to create a workqueue the worker thread of which will be frozen during suspend, along with other kernel threads. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/workqueue.h |8 +--- kernel/workqueue.c| 20 ++-- 2 files

[PATCH -mm 0/2] Use freezeable workqueues to avoid suspend-related XFS corruptions

2006-11-16 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, The following two patches introduce a mechanism that should allow us to avoid suspend-related corruptions of XFS without the freezing of bdevs which Pavel considers as too invasive (apart from this, the freezing of bdevs may lead to some undesirable interactions with dm and for now it seems

Re: ACPI output/lcd/auxdisplay mess

2006-11-16 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On 11/15/06, James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, we were aware of video/backlight/* (read below). Anyway, auxdisplay doesn't create a class; it did in first versions, but right now it behaves just like a framebuffer, no classes in the playground (maybe you read a old version?). ...

[patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: x86_64: UP build fixes From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] x86_64 does not build cleanly on UP: arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: In function 'cpu_vsyscall_notifier': arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c:282: warning: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_single'

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:48:55 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline int +smp_call_function_single(int cpuid, void (*func) (void *info), void *info, + int retry, int wait) +{ + func(info); + + return 0; +} + Given that on SMP the function

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 09:48, Ingo Molnar wrote: arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: In function 'cpu_vsyscall_notifier': arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c:282: warning: implicit declaration of function 'smp_call_function_single' arch/x86_64/kernel/vsyscall.c: At top level:

Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds

2006-11-16 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 11:31 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:11:22 + (GMT) Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Mel Gorman wrote: 2.6.19-rc5-mm2 Am seeing errors with systems using ext2. First machine is a plan old x86 using initramfs.

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x86_64 does not build cleanly on UP: updated patch below - i left out the cpu.h bits because they caused problems elsewhere. Ingo --- Subject: x86_64: build fixes From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] x86_64 does not build cleanly on

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0); +#endif this part isn't needed - the definition handles that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0); +#endif this part isn't needed - the definition handles that. Thanks. Updated

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:48:55 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline int +smp_call_function_single(int cpuid, void (*func) (void *info), void *info, +int retry, int wait) +{ + func(info); + +

git web (Re: nightly 2.6 LXR run?)

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 03:19:20PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: [] try to use `git2.kernel.org` instead of `git.kernel.org`. The second server somehow only has an average load of ~4 instead of ~250. Looking closer, i see all gitweb links (C) on both servers links are poining to

[patch] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() use

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: x86_64 does not build cleanly on UP: updated patch below - i left out the cpu.h bits because they caused problems elsewhere. the cpu-hotplug related warning is solved by the cleanup below. Identity patch, does not change the code. Ingo

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on_each_cpu() does this and one caller (at least) relies upon it (invalidate_bh_lrus(), iirc). ok, fair enough. Then this is a (minor) bugfix as well. ok, this doesnt build on some configs - so the replacement patch below moves the UP variant to a

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU hotcpu_notifier(cpu_vsyscall_notifier, 0); +#endif this part isn't needed - the

[PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default]

2006-11-16 Thread Brice Goglin
(forgot to cc: LKML) Roland Dreier wrote: A whitelist is an awkward solution, the problem is the number of chipsets available with MSI will continue to grow. And the assumption is that after Microsoft OS supports MSI, that newer chipsets will work. Maybe a whitelist for older systems

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:48, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 10:17, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:01:01 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU

[patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] lockdep can be used to print held locks when printing a backtrace. This can be useful when debugging things like 'scheduling while atomic' asserts. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locking sectors of raw disk (raw read-write test of mounted disk)

2006-11-16 Thread Yakov Lerner
On 11/15/06, Phillip Susi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, you can not tamper with the underlying data while the kernel has it mounted. I don't want to tamper wuith data. I want to raw write back exacty same raw data that I read in. I only want to make sure that kernel doesn't write modified data

[patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] fix x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c build bug: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c: In function ‘threshold_remove_bank’: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c:597: error: ‘shared_bank’ undeclared (first use in

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 11:21, Ingo Molnar wrote: Subject: [patch] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] fix x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c build bug: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c: In function ‘threshold_remove_bank’:

Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

2006-11-16 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:15:45 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: ACK the pci_intx() calls, NAK the obviously overweight spinlock changes. The spinlock changes are completely unnecessary. Just look at any other (non-ALSA) PCI driver. Existing spin_lock() is fine for both PCI shared irq handlers

[patch] x86_64: fix CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR build bug

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] x86_64: fix CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR build bug From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] on x86_64, the CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR build fails if used in a distcc setup that has CC defined to distcc gcc: gcc: gcc: linker input file unused because linking not done gcc: gcc: linker

Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

2006-11-16 Thread Alan
On 15 Nov 2006 23:24:32 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, before giving up entirely, assume that *some* device owns that interrupt, it's just mis-routed. So start calling the IRQ handlers for *every* PCI device until the damn interrupt goes away, or you've really proved that it can't be

[PATCH] mempolicy: use vma_policy and vma_set_policy macros

2006-11-16 Thread David Rientjes
Use vma_policy() and vma_set_policy() macros provided in include/linux/mempolicy.h. Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: David Rientjes [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/mempolicy.c | 14 +++--- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Indian Divine Books, Cds, Cassettes Pooja Articles

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Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

2006-11-16 Thread Mws
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 22:10, Mws wrote: On Wednesday 15 November 2006 21:14, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Mws wrote: after some small discussions on alsa-user ml i recognised this thread today. i thought my problem could also exist on this msi stuff. i

Re: [PATCH] mempolicy: use vma_policy and vma_set_policy macros

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 12:00, David Rientjes wrote: Use vma_policy() and vma_set_policy() macros provided in include/linux/mempolicy.h. Why? I don't think it makes the code any more readable -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fix, arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c: In function ‘threshold_remove_bank’: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c:597: error: ‘shared_bank’ undeclared (first use in this function) arch/x86_64/kernel/mce_amd.c:597: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported

diabling interrupts on pentium 4 processor

2006-11-16 Thread ranjith kumar
Hi, How to disable interrupts on pentium 4 (or any i386) machine? I tried to include cli instruction in a kernel module. But got runtime error. Thanks in advance. ___ Try the all-new Yahoo! Mail. The New

[-mm patch] remove arch/i386/kernel/time_hpet.c:hpet_reenable()

2006-11-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 01:41:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.19-rc5-mm2: ... +updated-i386-convert-to-clock-event-devices.patch ... Updated/fixed/reworked/redone hrtimer and dynticks patches. ... This patch removes the no longer used hpet_reenable() Signed-off-by:

[2.6 patch] make arch/i386/pci/common.c:pci_bf_sort static

2006-11-16 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global pci_bf_sort static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/arch/i386/pci/common.c.old 2006-11-16 00:20:15.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc5-mm2/arch/i386/pci/common.c 2006-11-16 00:20:32.0 +0100 @@ -20,7 +20,7

Re: [PATCH] avoid compiler warnings

2006-11-16 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:47:59 +, Jan Beulich wrote: Pointers should not be casted to u32 as this results in compiler warnings on 64-bit platforms. NAK. Use %p for formatting pointers. No casts needed. Indeed, how did I not see this... While at this, I saw that there were a few more

Re: strange behaviour with x86_64

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
On 2006-11-15, Fabio Coatti wrote: Hi all, I'm just trying to move things forward, i'm not a developer. I'm seeing a strange behaviour on a dual opteron machine (or, at least it seem so to me) and I need some advice. The hardware is: dual opteron 2.4, dual core, 2GB ram This machine runs

Re: [patch] floppy: suspend/resume fix

2006-11-16 Thread Russell King
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 09:49:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Suspending with mounted floppy is a user error. Huh? How so? Floppy is removable, and you are expected to umount removable devices before suspend. That seems pretty crude. There are lots of cases where an

Re: [2.6 patch] make arch/i386/pci/common.c:pci_bf_sort static

2006-11-16 Thread Matt Domsch
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:16:23PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes the needlessly global pci_bf_sort static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Matt Domsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com

Re: Initial ramdisk support does not work (for me) on 2.6.17.13

2006-11-16 Thread Oleg Verych
In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote: Hi! Hallo. We are building embedded devices based on Linux and we use a ramdisk as our root device in order to avoid problems with people switching off the unit without a proper shutdown and to save write-cycles on our flash disc. Using a 2.6.12 kernel it

the Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) archive

2006-11-16 Thread Jesper Juhl
I just stumbled across the Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB) archive - http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/ It's a page that will release 1 kernel bug each day for all of this month. There are some Linux kernel bugs listed as well as bugs for other OS kernels. Just wanted to bring it to the attention

Re: [patch, -rc6] x86_64: UP build fixes

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my hotplug-CPU cleanup patch solves this in a cleaner way: by removing all those #ifdefs as well. Fine, but I suspect that late in the release it's better to go for minimal obvious fixes. Later it can then be cleaned up properly. we are not /that/

Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory

2006-11-16 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:45, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Arnd Bergmann wrote: - we want to be able to boot with the 'mem=512M' option, which effectively   disables the memory on the second node (each node has 512MiB). - Each node has 8 SPUs, all of which we want

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.18.2 kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:606!

2006-11-16 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 02:43:30 +0100 Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today i fetched the newest suspend2 patches and rebooted the machine with a 2.6.18.2 kernel containing them. Now let's see if the problem i reported persists. If yes, i'll report them to Nigel Cunningham instead. You can

Re: Initial ramdisk support does not work (for me) on 2.6.17.13

2006-11-16 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
Hi! Hallo. We are building embedded devices based on Linux and we use a ramdisk as our root device in order to avoid problems with people switching off the unit without a proper shutdown and to save write-cycles on our flash disc. Using a 2.6.12 kernel it was no problem to boot the

Re: [PATCH 12/28] readahead: state based method - aging accounting

2006-11-16 Thread Wu Fengguang
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:54:44AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Wu Fengguang wrote: Collect info about the global available memory and its consumption speed. The data are used by the stateful method to estimate the thrashing threshold. Looks like you should use

reply to your resume

2006-11-16 Thread Rodger
Good afternoon. I got your resume from SEEK Australia job-site and it suites our company requirements. My name is Roger Longbotham, I represent George Metway Inc company located in Europe. Our company is seekeing for a representatives in Australia for full and part-time jobs. No relocation is

Re: qstor driver - irq 193: nobody cared

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Lord
Alberto Alonso wrote: Sorry for the long delay, I've been called on too many issues at work this week. Anyway, the patch basically made the drives not usable. Mmm.. Okay, thanks for helping track this down. It appears that this got broken when the ATA_TFLAG_POLLING got introduced into

Re: [RFC, Patch 1/1] OProfile for Cell: Initial profiling support -- new patch

2006-11-16 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:51:08PM -0600, Maynard Johnson wrote: +/* This function is called once for all cpus combined */ +static void +cell_reg_setup(struct op_counter_config *ctr, +struct op_system_config *sys, int num_ctrs) +{ [SNIP] + for (i = 0; i num_ctrs; ++i) { +

Re: [patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump

2006-11-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] lockdep can be used to print held locks when printing a backtrace. This can be useful when debugging things like 'scheduling while atomic'

[PATCH] x86-64 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2)

2006-11-16 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andi, Here is a small patch for x86-64 which adds a cpufeature flag and detection code for Intel's Branch Trace Store (BTS) feature. This feature can be found on Intel P4 and Core 2 processors among others. It can also be used by perfmon. The patch is relative to 2.6.19-rc5-git7 +

[PATCH] i386 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2)

2006-11-16 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andi, Here is a small patch for i386 which adds a cpufeature flag and detection code for Intel's Branch Trace Store (BTS) feature. This feature can be found on Intel P4 and Core 2 processors among others. It can also be used by perfmon. The patch is relative to 2.6.19-rc5-git7 +

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 add Intel BTS cpufeature bit and detection (take 2)

2006-11-16 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 16 November 2006 15:20, Stephane Eranian wrote: Andi, Here is a small patch for x86-64 which adds a cpufeature flag and detection code for Intel's Branch Trace Store (BTS) feature. This feature can be found on Intel P4 and Core 2 processors among others. It can also be used by

Re: diabling interrupts on pentium 4 processor

2006-11-16 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:23:12AM +, ranjith kumar wrote: Hi, How to disable interrupts on pentium 4 (or any i386) machine? I tried to include cli instruction in a kernel module. But got runtime error. Read Documentation/cli-sti-removal.txt. - Heikki - To unsubscribe

[Patch -mm 1/2] driver core: Introduce device_find_child().

2006-11-16 Thread Cornelia Huck
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce device_find_child() to match device_for_each_child(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/base/core.c| 33 + include/linux/device.h |2 ++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+) ---

Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default

2006-11-16 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are referring to the standard PCI 2.2 bit, PCI_COMMAND_INTX_DISABLE. Yeah, I figured it, I somewhat forgot about it ... it got introduced in 2.3 though, no ? It's pretty new. 2.2 or 2.3. 2.3. PCI 2.2 defines bits 0-9 only (bit 7 = Stepping

[Patch -mm 2/2] driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent.

2006-11-16 Thread Cornelia Huck
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Provide a function device_move() to move a device to a new parent device. Add auxilliary functions kobject_move() and sysfs_move_dir(). kobject_move() generates a new uevent of type KOBJ_MOVE, containing the previous path (OLD_DEVPATH) in addition to the

[Patch -mm 0/2]driver core: Infrastructure for device moving.

2006-11-16 Thread Cornelia Huck
Hi, this is a basically a resend of the driver core patches I already sent on Nov 14. (They are needed as a base for the s390 cio patches of that patchset which still are in -mm.) Patch 1 is unchanged, patch 2 now also contains the KOBJ_MOVE uevent which will be generated when a kobject has been

Re: [PATCH 1/1] security: introduce fs caps

2006-11-16 Thread Bill O'Donnell
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 10:49:23PM +0100, Chris Friedhoff wrote: | On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:06:34 -0600 | Bill O'Donnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | - snip - | | Probably, Bill didn't update libcap.so. | No, I didn't... | certify:~/libcap-1.10/progs # ls -altr /lib/libcap* | -rwxr-xr-x 1 root

Kernel.org server problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Chris
Hi, Don't know if this is the correct place to bring this up but /pub/linux/kernel/* seems to be unavailable on kernel.org via FTP. Both my linux box and my work Windows box can connect to kernel.org, but cding to the directory (I'm on the Windoze machine at the moment) gives: 230 Login

[RFC/PATCH] arch-neutral GPIO calls: AVR32 implementation

2006-11-16 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:41:32 -0800 David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below, find what I think is a useful proposal, trivially implementable on many ARMs (at91, omap, pxa, ep93xx, ixp2000, pnx4008, davinci, more) as well as the new AVR32. FYI, here's the AVR32 implementation of the API

[PATCH] allow hwrandom core to be a module

2006-11-16 Thread Jan Beulich
Despite it being small, there should be the option of making it a module... Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.19-rc5/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig 2006-09-20 05:42:06.0 +0200 +++ 2.6.19-rc5-modular-rng/drivers/char/hw_random/Kconfig 2006-11-16

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] Use freezeable workqueues in XFS

2006-11-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Make the workqueues used by XFS freezeable, so their worker threads don't submit any I/O after the suspend image has been created. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Looks okay to me. Pavel -- (english)

Re: [PATCH -mm 1/2] Support for freezeable workqueues

2006-11-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Make it possible to create a workqueue the worker thread of which will be frozen during suspend, along with other kernel threads. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACK. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures)

Re: [patch 2/2] enables booting a NUMA system where some nodes have no memory

2006-11-16 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:41 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Martin Bligh wrote: A node is an arbitrary container object containing one or more of: CPUs Memory IO bus It does not have to contain memory. I have never seen a node on Linux without memory. I

Re: RFC -- /proc/patches to track development

2006-11-16 Thread Hesse, Christian
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:17, Marty Leisner wrote: I always want to know WHAT I'm running (or people I'm working with are running) rather than guessing (do you have the most current patch I think so) I've been a proponent of capturing .config information SOMEPLACE where you can look

Re: Kernel.org server problems?

2006-11-16 Thread Stefan Richter
Chris wrote: Don't know if this is the correct place to bring this up but /pub/linux/kernel/* seems to be unavailable on kernel.org via FTP. ... www.kernel.org via http seems to be REALLY slow as well. ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org/ and http://www.uk.kernel.org/ work. -- Stefan Richter

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