Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this fixes issues like rmmod hanging and inodes leaking. thanks ... i have reverted the other dcache.c changes as well. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6][RESEND] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ICH9

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
did I see a resend of this floating around? I can't apply this one... Looks OK though - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: [PATCH] futex: init error ckeck

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Akinobu Mita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch checks register_filesystem() and kern_mount() return > values. > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingo - To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH -mm] sata_nv: fix ATAPI in ADMA mode

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: The attached patch against 2.6.19-rc6-mm1 fixes some problems in sata_nv with ATAPI devices on controllers running in ADMA mode. Some of the logic in the nv_adma_bmdma_* functions was inverted causing a bunch of warnings and caused those functions not to work properly.

Re: [PATCH] pata_hpt366

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: More enablebits Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [PATCH] PATA libata: suspend/resume simple cases

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: This patch adds the suspend/resume callbacks for drivers which don't need any additional help (beyond the pci resume quirk patch I posted earlier anyway). Also bring version numbers back inline with master copies. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied this, and

Re: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc6] sata_promise updates

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:07:17 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: Mikael Pettersson wrote: This patch updates the sata_promise driver as follows: ... Looks pretty decent to me. Two small nits: 1) no_tbg_slew_init should be a bit flag ("1 << 0") inside a 'flags' variable in

Re: [PATCH] PATA libata: suspend/resume simple cases

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: This patch adds the suspend/resume callbacks for drivers which don't need any additional help (beyond the pci resume quirk patch I posted earlier anyway). Also bring version numbers back inline with master copies. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied this, and

Re: [PATCH] pata_hpt366

2006-11-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: More enablebits Signed-off-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

Re: [PATCH] futex: init error ckeck

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch checks register_filesystem() and kern_mount() return values. Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Karsten Wiese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this fixes issues like rmmod hanging and inodes leaking. thanks ... i have reverted the other dcache.c changes as well. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[patch] IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 14

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [patch] IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 14 got this with all SATA/PATA drivers enabled: Calling initcall 0xc05aceed: legacy_init+0x0/0x5b3() ata5: PATA max PIO4 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0x0 irq 14 IRQ handler type mismatch for IRQ 14 current

[patch] x86_64: fix earlyprintk=...,keep regression

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] x86_64: fix earlyprintk=...,keep regression From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] the following cleanup patch: commit 2c8c0e6b8d7700a990da8d24eff767f9ca223b96 Author: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Sep 26 10:52:32 2006 +0200 [PATCH] Convert x86-64 to early param

Re: [2.6 patch] cleanup arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c:smp_tune_scheduling()

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - remove the write-only local variable bandwidth - don't set max_cache_size in the (cachesize 0) case: that's already handled in kernel/sched.c:measure_migration_cost() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

oprofile as user

2006-11-28 Thread J.A. Magallón
Hi First of all, thanks for oprofile ! It's the first tool I can really use to profile my app, with a ton of dynamically loaded plugins and without having to link everything statically... But, it there any sane way to use it as non-root user ? Is there any alternative ? I'm even thinking of

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm1 -- sched-improve-migration-accuracy.patch slows boot

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Don Mullis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This must be a bisection false positive. The patch in question is essentially a no-op for a UP kernel. Testing alternately with 1) all -mm1 patches applied, and 2) all except sched-improve-migration-accuracy*.path applied, confirms

2.6.19-rc6-rt8

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ lots of fixes are included in -rt8. In particular the inode/dentry leak found and fixed by Karsten Wiese (and the related OOMs reported by others) should be

Re: [PATCH 2/2 -mm] fault-injection: lightweight code-coverage maximizer

2006-11-28 Thread Akinobu Mita
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:51:30PM -0800, Don Mullis wrote: Allow all non-unique call stacks, as judged by pushed sequence of EIPs, to be to be ignored as failure candidates. Upon keying in echo 1 probability echo 3 verbose echo -1 times a few dozen stacks are printk'ed,

Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking.

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Leitgeb
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +, Alan wrote: size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are auto-hidden by the drive by means of HPA. Still incorrect? Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged sectors are replaced from a pool of

Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking.

2006-11-28 Thread Tejun Heo
Andreas Leitgeb wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 07:59:40PM +, Alan wrote: size remains still constant, and the exceeding damaged sectors are auto-hidden by the drive by means of HPA. Still incorrect? Still incorrect. HPA has nothing to do with damaged sectors. The damaged sectors are

Re: Which patch fix the 8G memory problem on x64 platform?

2006-11-28 Thread Andi Kleen
I first need to contact the author of test case if we could send the test case to open source. The test case is called crashme, Is that the classical crashme as found in LTP or an enhanced one? Do you run it in a special way? Is the crash reproducible? We normally run crashme regularly as

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_ZR36120 driver

2006-11-28 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Joe, Em Seg, 2006-11-27 às 22:36 -0800, Joe Feise escreveu: Adrian Bunk wrote on 11/27/06 22:07: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:30:27PM -0800, Joe Feise wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote on 11/25/06 11:15: But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older

Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND

2006-11-28 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 05:53 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 18:12 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hm, could you please file a bugzilla report regarding the serial console for the information of its maintainer(s)? Yeah, I'll rummage around a bit first though. The

2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Morton
Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/ Will appear eventually at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/ - Added Francois Romieu's Chelsio driver tree, as git-chelsio.patch Boilerplate: - See the `hot-fixes'

Re: SATA Performance with Intel ICH6

2006-11-28 Thread Martin A. Fink
Dear Alan, You wrote The PIIX interface needs CPU intervention each command, so in practice about every 64K or so, and the CPU gets stalled waiting for the disk during the setup of each I/O. The newer kernels support AHCI which does not have this overhead, but it is only present on the newest

mismatch between default and defconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT values

2006-11-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
not like it's a big deal, but there's a minor incongruity between the default values for LOG_BUF_SHIFT for IA64 depending on whether you're configuring for the first time or not. if i'm configuring with a fresh tree for the first time (so that there's no .config file) and i run: $ make

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Eric Piel
11/27/2006 06:28 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote/a écrit: Hi, I found a thread (about one month old) about an OZ711Mx (O2micro mmc card reader) driver, but unfortunately it uses some closed-source code.[1] :( But I found no thread about the kernel driver for the O2micro PCMCIA smartcard reader.

Re: mismatch between default and defconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT values

2006-11-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
... is it worth trying to bring the Kconfig.debug default values into line with the defconfig file values, to avoid any possible confusion? I don't think so. defconfig is just there to get some working system. You should really pay attention to the config options you care about, and

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Akinobu Mita
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:02:46AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: -input-make-serio_register_driver-return-error.patch -input-check-serio_register_driver-error.patch -input-change-to-gfp_kernel-for-serio_register_driver-event-allocation.patch Please drop

Re: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 28/11/06, Fawad Lateef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/28/06, Jon Ringle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip It looks promising, however, I need to reserve a physical address area that is well known (so that the code running on the other

[patch] Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2

2006-11-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Hi, On the Core2 cpus, the rdtsc instruction is not serializing (as defined in the architecture reference since rdtsc exists) and due to the deep speculation of these cores, it's possible that you can observe time go backwards between cores due to this speculation. Since the kernel already deals

Re: SATA Performance with Intel ICH6

2006-11-28 Thread Alan
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:09:47 +0100 Martin A. Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Alan, You wrote The PIIX interface needs CPU intervention each command, so in practice about every 64K or so, and the CPU gets stalled waiting for the disk during the setup of each I/O. The newer kernels

Re: [patch] Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2

2006-11-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 11:28, Arjan van de Ven wrote: Hi, On the Core2 cpus, the rdtsc instruction is not serializing (as defined in the architecture reference since rdtsc exists) and due to the deep speculation of these cores, it's possible that you can observe time go backwards

Re: mismatch between default and defconfig LOG_BUF_SHIFT values

2006-11-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: ... is it worth trying to bring the Kconfig.debug default values into line with the defconfig file values, to avoid any possible confusion? I don't think so. defconfig is just there to get some working system. You should really pay

Re: autoconf.h and auto.conf missing

2006-11-28 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Lukasz Stelmach wrote: Greetings. It seems that someone has broken *conf programs in 2.6.18 because Unmodified 2.6.18? only make silentoldconfig recreates autoconf.h and auto.conf properly after configuration (.config) has changed. That's correct. The other

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, When CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD is not set then this happens: CC kernel/module.o kernel/module.c:852: error: `initstate' undeclared here (not in a function) kernel/module.c:852: error: initializer element is not constant kernel/module.c:852: error: (near initialization for

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-11-28 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, Agrrh ... tab/spaces thing again. Sorry. Second try: Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-a/kernel/module.c 2006-11-28 12:17:09.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm2-b/kernel/module.c 2006-11-28 12:05:01.0 +0100 @@

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Oliver Neukum
Latest version I've published is there: http://pieleric.free.fr/o2scr/ case OZSCR_OPEN: /* Request ICC */ dprintk(OZSCR_OPEN\n); ATRLength = ATR_SIZE; pRdrExt-IOBase = (PSCR_REGISTERS *) dev-io_base; //XXX necessary? pRdrExt-membase =

Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking.

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Leitgeb
It seems I was too eagerly deleting context from my mails. This made people misunderstand my questions or answer details that have been clarified in previous mails already. I did learn quite a lot already about harddisks during this thread. Thank you to Alan. In particular, about the quantities

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Ben Pfaff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wagner) writes: Well, if you want to talk about really high-value keys like the scenarios you mention, you probably shouldn't be using /dev/random, either; you should be using a hardware security module with a built-in FIPS

Re: Pathetic write performance from Areca PCIe cards

2006-11-28 Thread Areca Support
Dear Sir, This is Kevin Wang from Areca Technology, Tech-Support Team. as you recommend, we will updated driver/firmware to our ftp/website once it released. the firmware V1.42 sent by erich is a beta version and not released yet, it is certifying still. so you can not find it in our ftp site or

Re: O2micro smartcard reader driver.

2006-11-28 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
maybe post once more, and make clear whether you are looking for: - smart card reader support. (smart card as in digital signature card.) o2micro creates such readers, they are usualy usb devices, conform to the ccid standard and work fine (e.g. pcsc-lite plus ccid driver or openct). -

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken VIDEO_ZR36120 driver

2006-11-28 Thread Alan
Hmm, there are people out there (like me) who still use it and have patched it to get it working on 2.6.x. If the maintainer has vanished can you post the patches here instead for review ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

2006-11-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:49:55AM -0800, David Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: From: Ulrich Drepper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:36:06 -0800 David Miller wrote: Now we'll have to have a compat layer for 32-bit/64-bit environments thanks to POSIX timers, which is

Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

2006-11-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:20:50AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: sigev_value is a union and the largest element is a pointer. So, transporting the pointer value is sufficient and it should be passed up to the user in the ptr member of struct ukevent. That is where I've

Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-11-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:23:39AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: With provided patch it is possible to wakeup 'for-free' - just call kevent_ctl(ready) with zero number of ready events, so thread will be awakened if it was in poll(kevent_fd),

Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description.

2006-11-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:43:46AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: It _IS_ how previous interface worked. EXACTLY! No, the old interface committed everything not only up to a given index. This is the huge difference which makes or breaks

Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-11-28 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:12:21AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: It just sets hrtimer with abs time and sleeps - it can achieve the same goals using similar to wait_event() mechanism. I don't follow. Of course it is somehow possible to wait until

Re: [2.6 patch] kill net/rxrpc/rxrpc_syms.c

2006-11-28 Thread David Howells
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch moves the EXPORT_SYMBOL's from net/rxrpc/rxrpc_syms.c to the files with the actual functions. You can if you like. Can you slap a blank line before each EXPORT_SYMBOL() though please? Updated patch below. Acked-By: David Howells

[PATCH] lockdep: fix sk-sk_callback_lock locking

2006-11-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
= [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] 2.6.19-rc6 #4 - nc/1854 just changed the state of lock: (af_callback_keys + sk-sk_family#2){-.-?}, at: [c0268a7f]

Re: Allow turning off hpa-checking.

2006-11-28 Thread Tejun Heo
Andreas Leitgeb wrote: [--snip--] This theory is backed by my observation of a nearly-broken disk, that the quantity 3) gradually goes down one step after some time. The first such step was, when I noticed the problem about half a year ago, and just recently it stepped down by another one.

[RFC/PATCH] arch-neutral GPIO calls: AVR32 implementation [take 2]

2006-11-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
Here's another go at an implementation of the arch-neutral GPIO API for AVR32. I've also thrown in the pin configuration stuff so that you can see how all the pieces fit together. Even though it is possible to tell from the hardware whether a pin is set up for GPIO, I decided to use two

Typo fix for 2.6.19-rc6

2006-11-28 Thread Remi
Hello, Typo fix for 2.6.19-rc6. --- linux-2.6.19-rc6/fs/ext2/ext2.h2006-11-20 19:25:16.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6.fixed/fs/ext2/ext2.h2006-11-28 10:39:04.0 +0100 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ /* * i_block_group is the number of the block group which

Re: Reserving a fixed physical address page of RAM.

2006-11-28 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jon Ringle wrote: Robert Hancock wrote: Jon Ringle wrote: Hi, I need to reserve a page of memory at a specific area of RAM that will be used as a shared memory with another processor over PCI. How can I ensure that the this area of RAM gets reseved so that the Linux's

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread David Wagner
Continuing the tangent: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Ben Pfaff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Wagner) writes: Well, if you want to talk about really high-value keys like the scenarios you mention, you probably shouldn't be using /dev/random, either; you should

rt7 sucess Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt8

2006-11-28 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 10:49 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the 2.6.19-rc6-rt8 tree, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ Hi, yesterday I have done a yum -y update and have installed rt7. I test it with success, boot without

[PATCH] i2c: fix broken ds1337 initialization

2006-11-28 Thread Dirk Eibach
On a custom board with ds1337 RTC I found that upgrade from 2.6.15 to 2.6.18 broke RTC support. The main problem are changes to ds1337_init_client(). When a ds1337 recognizes a problem (e.g. power or clock failure) bit 7 in status register is set. This has to be reset by writing 0 to status

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! - Whether you automatically bump up the entropy estimate when root users write to /dev/random is a design choice where you could reasonably go either way. On the one hand, you might want to ensure that root has to take some explicit action to allege that it is

Re: [PATCH 2.6.18] dz: Fixes to make it work

2006-11-28 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
This a set of fixes mostly to make the driver actually work: 1. Actually select the line for setting parameters and receiver disable/enable. 2. Select the line for receive and transmit interrupt handling correctly. 3. Report the transmitter empty state correctly. 4. Set the I/O type of ports

Re: [Patch1/4]: fake numa for x86_64 patch

2006-11-28 Thread Mel Gorman
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: Hi Mel, On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:18 +, Mel Gorman wrote: On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Rohit Seth wrote: This patch provides a IO hole size in a given address range. Hi, This patch reintroduces a function that doubles up what

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Eran Tromer
On 2006-11-27 23:52, Kyle Moffett wrote: Actually, our current /dev/random implementation is secure even if the cryptographic algorithms can be broken under traditional circumstances. This is far from obvious, and in my opinion incorrect. David explained this very well in his follow-up. Other

Re: failed 'ljmp' in linear addressing mode

2006-11-28 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006, Jun Sun wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:58:57AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: I think it probably resets the instant that you turn off paging. To turn off paging, you need to copy some code (properly linked) to an area where there is a 1:1 mapping between

[PATCH] work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind code

2006-11-28 Thread Jan Beulich
This fixes a problem with gcc4 mis-compiling the stack unwind code under -Os, which resulted in 'stuck' messages whenever an assembly routine was encountered. (The second hunk is trivial cleanup.) Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.19-rc6/kernel/unwind.c2006-11-22

[ALSA PATCH] alsa-git merge request

2006-11-28 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
Linus, please do an update from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git (linus branch) The GNU patch is available at: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/kernel-patches/alsa-git-2006-11-28.patch.gz Additional notes: This update contains only serious fixes. The

Re: [PATCH] work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind code

2006-11-28 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:12:24PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: This fixes a problem with gcc4 mis-compiling the stack unwind code under -Os, which resulted in 'stuck' messages whenever an assembly routine was encountered. mis-compiling and work around are wrong words, the code had undefined

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls.

2006-11-28 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get around, I'll send a patch for that ... In what sense? I have trouble seeing the banner printed at bootup as being

Re: [PATCH] work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind code

2006-11-28 Thread Jan Beulich
mis-compiling and work around are wrong words, the code had undefined behavior (there is no sequence point between evaluation of ptr and get_uleb128(ptr, end) and ptr is modified twice, so the compiler can evaluate it e.g. as: temp = ptr; temp = temp + get_uleb128(ptr, end); ptr = temp; or temp =

Re: [PATCH/RFC] pass dio_complete proper offset from finished_one_bio

2006-11-28 Thread Eric Sandeen
Eric Sandeen wrote: We saw problems w/ xfs doing AIO+DIO into a sparse file. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=217098 It seemed that xfs was doing extent conversion at the wrong offsets, so written regions came up as unwritten (zeros) and stale data was exposed in the region

Re: [PATCH] work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind code

2006-11-28 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:48:15PM +, Jan Beulich wrote: I disagree - the standard says there's a sequence point at a function call after evaluating all function arguments. To me this means that any That's true, that sequence point makes sure e.g. all side effects such as

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls.

2006-11-28 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get around, I'll send a patch for that ... In what sense? I have trouble seeing the

XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c (kernel 2.6.18.1)

2006-11-28 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, One of my NFS servers just gave me a nasty surprise that I think it is relevant to tell you about: Filesystem dm-1: XFS internal error xfs_trans_cancel at line 1138 of file fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c. Caller 0x8034b47e Call Trace: [8020b122] show_trace+0xb2/0x380

[PATCH] ext3: small fix for previous retries patch in ext3_prepare_write()

2006-11-28 Thread Kirill Korotaev
Patch from Dmitry Monakhov: Previous fix for retries in ext3_prepare_write() violation was a bit errorneuos: - it missed return of error code from ext3_journal_stop() - it missed do_journal_get_write_access() before commit_write a few comments added also. Signed-Off-By: Dmitry Monakhov [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix the binary ipc and uts namespace sysctls.

2006-11-28 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:38:25AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 03:40:35PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the linux banner needs some attention too, when I get around, I'll

Re: [PATCH] work around gcc4 issue with -Os in Dwarf2 stack unwind code

2006-11-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 15:12, Jan Beulich wrote: This fixes a problem with gcc4 mis-compiling the stack unwind code under -Os, which resulted in 'stuck' messages whenever an assembly routine was encountered. (The second hunk is trivial cleanup.) Thanks for finally nailing that bug.

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Phillip Susi
Martin Mares wrote: More importantly, it should be possible for root to write to /dev/random _without_ increasing the entropy count, for example when restoring random pool contents after reboot. In such cases you want the pool to contain at least some unpredictable data before real entropy

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! After a reboot the entropy estimate starts at zero, so if you are adding data to the pool from the previous boot, you DO want the estimate to increase because you are, in fact, adding entropy. I'm adding entropy, but unless I record the exact amount of entropy when dumping the pool,

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-rt5

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 06:06 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Ingo, I started building the new kernels a few days ago with your 2.6.19-rc6-rt0 announcement. The kernels have built fine but so far I am unable to build the realtime-lsm package against them so no reason to reboot. I know there

XFS: possible recursive locking detected in 2.6.18 to 2.6.19-rc6-git10 but not 2.6.17.11

2006-11-28 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
Hi, I have a looong time opened a bugreport on XFS at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 and I see it still appear in my kernel output during bootup. I guess this is one of the relatively new kernel self-testing features introduced recently. I just wanted to let you know about that.

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Phillip Susi
Martin Mares wrote: I'm adding entropy, but unless I record the exact amount of entropy when dumping the pool, I don't know how much I am adding, so using any fixed number is obviously wrong. You aren't dumping and restoring the entropy pool; you are dumping random data generated by the pool,

Re: kernel: Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

2006-11-28 Thread Renato S. Yamane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesper Juhl escreveu: Oct 7 18:25:00 laverne kernel: PCI: Bus #04 (-#07) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#04) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Oct 7 18:25:00 laverne kernel: Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently

Re: Entropy Pool Contents

2006-11-28 Thread Phillip Susi
First, please don't remove the Cc: list. David Wagner wrote: Sorry, but I disagree with just about everything you wrote in this message. I'm not committing any logical fallacies. I'm not assuming it works because it would be a bug if it didn't; I'm just trying to Nope, I don't think so.

Re: Scenario passes on 2.6.15.26 but fails on 2.6.11.4-20a kernel

2006-11-28 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 18:21 +0300, realales wrote: Also I analyzed XTEST sources without any success. I know that this is unlikely the right place to ask this but could someone please point me on the right way to move further?! Or may it be already a know problem for somebody? Sounds like a

[RFCPATCH] KDB over the network using netconsole

2006-11-28 Thread Dan Aloni
Hello, Today I had to debug a kernel of a remote machine that has no IPMI or serial console attached to it. So I sat for two hours and cooked a support for interacting with KDB purely over the network, by extending netconsole. The result is very adhoc-ish in nature, but it works nicely. Your

Re: [PATCH 1/38] KVM: Create kvm-intel.ko module

2006-11-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h please move this from drivers/kvm/ to kernel/kvm/ [or even into a toplevel kvm/ directory] - KVM is not a driver, KVM enhances the core Linux kernel with hypervisor functionality.

[PATCH 0/6] KVM: Add AMD SVM support

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
This patchset adds support for AMD processors with SVM (or AMD-V) technology. KVM on AMD is fairly fast despite the naive mmu implementation. It should also support many more guests, since the real mode implementation on AMD is complete. The bulk of the work was performed by Yaniv; I

[PATCH 3/6] KVM: AMD SVM: Add missing tlb flushes to the guest mmu

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Add a couple of missing mmu flushes. The Intel tlb is too coarse to be affected, but they are necessary for AMD. Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/mmu.c

[PATCH 4/6] KVM: AMD SVM: Add data structures

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
This adds the AMD specific vcpu structure. Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/kvm.h === --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/kvm.h +++

[PATCH 2/6] KVM: AMD SVM: Enhance x86 emulator

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Add decoding support for the few instructions AMD SVM does not decode itself, and corresponding entries in the arch function vector. They will never be called on Intel machines. The invlpg instruction is a special case: unlike other instructions with the same main opcode, it may not fetch data

[PATCH 6/6] KVM: AMD SVM: Plumbing

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Wire it all up and we're ready to go. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/Kconfig === --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/kvm/Kconfig +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/Kconfig @@ -24,3 +24,10 @@ config KVM_INTEL

[PATCH 1/6] KVM: AMD SVM: Add architecture definitions for AMD SVM

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
This patch adds definitions for the structures and constants defined by the AMD SVM extensions. It also adds definitions for the three SVM instructions, so that we do not depend on newer assemblers. Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index:

[PATCH 5/6] KVM: AMD SVM: Implementation

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
Implement the kvm function vector. Signed-off-by: Yaniv Kamay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/svm.c === --- /dev/null +++ linux-2.6/drivers/kvm/svm.c @@ -0,0 +1,1622 @@ +/*

[PATCH] KVM: AMD SVM: Avoid three more new instructions

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
The clgi, stgi, and invlpga instructions are all too new to unleash on the world's assemblers. Replace them with the opcode sequences. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -X /home/avi/kvm/linux-2.6/Documentation/dontdiff --exclude=Makefile -ru

[ANNOUNCE] KVM userspace release 5

2006-11-28 Thread Avi Kivity
http://kvm.sourceforge.net Changes: - AMD SVM support (x86-64 hosts only) - Preliminary live migration support - 'make install' also installs kernel modules, if selected - random fixes The kernel package in this release produces three modules: kvm.ko, kvm-intel.ko, and kvm-amd.ko. To use

[PATCH 6/6] ext2 balloc: use io_error label

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
ext2_new_blocks has a nice io_error label for setting -EIO, so goto that in the one place that doesn't already use it. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext2/balloc.c |7 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- 2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/ext2/balloc.c

[PATCH 3/6] ext2 balloc: fix off-by-one against rsv_end

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
rsv_end is the last block within the reservation, so alloc_new_reservation should accept start_block == rsv_end as success. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext2/balloc.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/ext2/balloc.c

[PATCH 1/6] ext2 balloc: fix _with_rsv freeze

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
After several days of testing ext2 with reservations, it got caught inside ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv: alloc_new_reservation repeatedly succeeding on the window [12cff,12d0e], ext2_try_to_allocate repeatedly failing to find the free block guaranteed to be included (unless there's contention).

[PATCH 2/6] ext2 balloc: reset windowsz when full

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
ext2_new_blocks should reset the reservation window size to 0 when squeezing the last blocks out of an almost full filesystem, so the retry doesn't skip any groups with less than half that free, reporting ENOSPC too soon. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext2/balloc.c |1

[PATCH 4/6] ext2 balloc: fix off-by-one against grp_goal

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
grp_goal 0 is a genuine goal (unlike -1), so ext2_try_to_allocate_with_rsv should treat it as such. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext2/balloc.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- 2.6.19-rc6-mm2/fs/ext2/balloc.c 2006-11-24

[PATCH 5/6] ext2 balloc: say rb_entry not list_entry

2006-11-28 Thread Hugh Dickins
The reservations tree is an rb_tree not a list, so it's less confusing to use rb_entry() than list_entry() - though they're both just container_of(). Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/ext2/balloc.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) ---

Re: i686 apicid_to_node compile failure.

2006-11-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 01:38:19 -0500 Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:27:47AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `apicid_to_node': include/asm/mach-summit/mach_apic.h:90: undefined reference to `apicid_2_node' config is at

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