Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 18 December 2006 10:33, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. > > This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, > > sync with

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Brendan Scott
> It's just that I'm so damn tired of this whole thing. I'm tired of > people thinking they have a right to violate my copyright all the time. > I'm tired of people and companies somehow treating our license in ways > that are blatantly wrong and feeling fine about it. Because we are a > loose

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 > Andrei Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file > > content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me > >

[GFS2 & DLM] Pull request

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Please consider pulling the following two compile fixes for GFS2/DLM, Steve. -- The following changes since commit d1998ef38a13c4e74c69df55ccd38b0440c429b2: Ben Collins: ib_verbs: Use explicit

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:38:54AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does acrypto still have the same size restrictions > I ran into with the last release? Actually I do not recall what is 'size retrictions' - if you talk about possibility to use software crypto provider,

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cciss: fix XFER_READ/XFER_WRITE in do_cciss_request

2006-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 15 2006, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > Patch 2 of 2 > > This patch fixes a stupid bug. Sometime during the 2tb enhancement I ended up > replacing the macros XFER_READ and XFER_WRITE with h->cciss_read and > h->cciss_write respectively. It seemed to work somehow at least on x86_64 and

[GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 1003f06953472ecc34f12d9867670f475a8c1af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:16:25 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix Kconfig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here is a patch to fix up the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 18 December 2006 08:52, Karel Zak wrote: > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Fork? Are you saying that you just didn't take over maintainership and now we will have two versions of util-linux!? :/

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: > > i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch that > > uses the kbuild "menuconfig" feature to make numerous entries under > > the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. > > Works for me,

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-18 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:20 +, James Porter wrote: > I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in > a > binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed Plaese name them. AFAICS if there is a response, it is similar to "your kernel

bcm43xx not properly working with 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread t u
Hi, I filed this to the bugzilla, but all the documentation I read about the kernel recommends posting to the mailing lists so here I go: I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 and after booting with the 2.6.19.1 kernel from kernel.org, the wireless card that uses bcm43xx driver does not work properly. It fails

[DLM] Fix compile warning [1/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From c80e7c83d56866a735236b45441f024b589f9e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:31:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] fix compile warning This patch fixes a compile warning in lowcomms-tcp.c indicating that kmem_cache_t is deprecated.

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: > > i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch > > that uses the kbuild "menuconfig" feature to make numerous entries > > under the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. > > Works for me,

Re: [BUG] 2.6.19-rt14 does not compile with CONFIG_NO_HZ

2006-12-18 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello Ingo, -rt15 is indeed better... Thanks! Remy 2006/12/16, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Remy Bohmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For your Information, I get the following compile error when > CONFIG_NO_HZ is NOT configured on 2.6.19.1-rt14: does -rt15 work any better?

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 Andrei Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file > content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me > what to do. Can you please tell us all the steps which we need to

Re: s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using uswsusp and with commit > > 3592695c363c3f3119621bdcf5ed852d6b9d1a5c > uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode") > > > My PC power-light starts flashing during s2disk

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This > project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, sync > with actual distributions and kernel and make development more transparent

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 > > > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>I think the problem Andrew

Linux 2.4.33.6

2006-12-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Same fixes as in 2.4.34-rc3. This one fixes CVE-2006-4814. Willy Summary of changes from v2.4.33.5 to v2.4.33.6 Hugh Dickins (1): zeromap may find a pte Linus Torvalds (1): Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore()

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me what to do. On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 21:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > I can't see how that's exactly

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 > > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I think the problem Andrew identified is real. > > > > > > I don't. In fact I don't think I described

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread David Miller
From: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:56:24 + > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. > > This

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:24AM +, David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. > > This

s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Paolo Ornati
Hello, I'm using uswsusp and with commit 3592695c363c3f3119621bdcf5ed852d6b9d1a5c uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode") My PC power-light starts flashing during s2disk as expected (comment from the commit that fixes the same thing in in-kernel

Re: [PATCH] fallout from atomic_long_t patch

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:08:49AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So with that out of the way, I'll just expect that I'll get whatever you > decide on through Davem's git tree, once his drunken holiday revelry is > over ;) This is important process - never interrupt it for

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the problem Andrew identified is real. I don't. In fact I don't think I described any problem (well, I tried to, but then I contradicted myself). By saying that there shouldn't be any

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

2006-12-18 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 17.12.2006 12:07, Damien Wyart a écrit : Also, I got panics when unmounting reiser4 filesystems with 2.6.20-rc1-mm1 but I guess this is related to your waring about reiser4 being broken in 2.6.19-mm1 (even if it is not listed in notes for 2.6.20-rc1-mm1)... I attach dmesg and config, but the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL

ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! When trying to upgrade a machine from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19.1 I found that it crashed when loading the ebtables rules on startup. This is an example of the crash I get: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e081e004 printing eip:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:35:29PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:52 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > Perhaps forwarding this to fs-devel would be

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters is that the page eventually gets marked dirty. But the point being that

Linux 2.4.34-rc3

2006-12-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, Two changes before -final. The first one fixes a race where one can hit a BUG(), the second one fixes CVE-2006-4814. -final is just a few days ahead (it scares me, I'll have to check my scripts to ensure everything's OK). If you have important fixes you want to see in, or if it does not work

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:52 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Perhaps forwarding this to fs-devel would be good also. > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-18 Thread Haar János
- Original Message - From: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Haar János" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:24 AM Subject: Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug? > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:56:41AM +0100, Haar

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: core dump masking support

2006-12-18 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hello Andrew, Thank you for your reply and advice. I'll send the revised patchset after I fix what you pointed out. Andrew Morton wrote: > Regarding the implementation: if we add > > unsigned char coredump_omit_anon_memory:1; > > into the mm_struct right next to `dumpable' then we

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: core dump masking support

2006-12-18 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hello Andrew, Thank you for your reply and advice. I'll send the revised patchset after I fix what you pointed out. Andrew Morton wrote: Regarding the implementation: if we add unsigned char coredump_omit_anon_memory:1; into the mm_struct right next to `dumpable' then we avoid

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-18 Thread Haar János
- Original Message - From: David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Haar János [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:24 AM Subject: Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug? On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:52 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Perhaps forwarding this to fs-devel would be good also. The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to

Linux 2.4.34-rc3

2006-12-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, Two changes before -final. The first one fixes a race where one can hit a BUG(), the second one fixes CVE-2006-4814. -final is just a few days ahead (it scares me, I'll have to check my scripts to ensure everything's OK). If you have important fixes you want to see in, or if it does not work

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters is that the page eventually gets marked dirty. But the point being that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:35:29PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:52 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Perhaps forwarding this to fs-devel would be good also.

ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! When trying to upgrade a machine from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19.1 I found that it crashed when loading the ebtables rules on startup. This is an example of the crash I get: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e081e004 printing eip:

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

2006-12-18 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 17.12.2006 12:07, Damien Wyart a écrit : Also, I got panics when unmounting reiser4 filesystems with 2.6.20-rc1-mm1 but I guess this is related to your waring about reiser4 being broken in 2.6.19-mm1 (even if it is not listed in notes for 2.6.20-rc1-mm1)... I attach dmesg and config, but the

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem Andrew identified is real. I don't. In fact I don't think I described any problem (well, I tried to, but then I contradicted myself). By saying that there shouldn't be any

Re: [PATCH] fallout from atomic_long_t patch

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:08:49AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: So with that out of the way, I'll just expect that I'll get whatever you decide on through Davem's git tree, once his drunken holiday revelry is over ;) This is important process - never interrupt it for

s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Paolo Ornati
Hello, I'm using uswsusp and with commit 3592695c363c3f3119621bdcf5ed852d6b9d1a5c uswsusp: add pmops-{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka platform mode) My PC power-light starts flashing during s2disk as expected (comment from the commit that fixes the same thing in in-kernel

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem Andrew identified is real. I don't. In fact I don't think I described any problem (well, I

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me what to do. On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 21:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: I can't see how that's exactly a

Linux 2.4.33.6

2006-12-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Same fixes as in 2.4.34-rc3. This one fixes CVE-2006-4814. Willy Summary of changes from v2.4.33.5 to v2.4.33.6 Hugh Dickins (1): zeromap may find a pte Linus Torvalds (1): Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore()

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the problem Andrew identified is real.

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, sync with actual distributions and kernel and make development more transparent end

Re: s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: Hello, I'm using uswsusp and with commit 3592695c363c3f3119621bdcf5ed852d6b9d1a5c uswsusp: add pmops-{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka platform mode) My PC power-light starts flashing during s2disk as expected

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 Andrei Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me what to do. Can you please tell us all the steps which we need to take to

Re: [BUG] 2.6.19-rt14 does not compile with CONFIG_NO_HZ

2006-12-18 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello Ingo, -rt15 is indeed better... Thanks! Remy 2006/12/16, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * Remy Bohmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, For your Information, I get the following compile error when CONFIG_NO_HZ is NOT configured on 2.6.19.1-rt14: does -rt15 work any better?

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the Device drivers menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch that uses the kbuild menuconfig feature to make numerous entries under the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. Works for me, but I

[DLM] Fix compile warning [1/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
From c80e7c83d56866a735236b45441f024b589f9e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:31:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] fix compile warning This patch fixes a compile warning in lowcomms-tcp.c indicating that kmem_cache_t is deprecated.

bcm43xx not properly working with 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread t u
Hi, I filed this to the bugzilla, but all the documentation I read about the kernel recommends posting to the mailing lists so here I go: I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 and after booting with the 2.6.19.1 kernel from kernel.org, the wireless card that uses bcm43xx driver does not work properly. It fails

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-18 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:20 +, James Porter wrote: I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in a binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed Plaese name them. AFAICS if there is a response, it is similar to your kernel is

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the Device drivers menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch that uses the kbuild menuconfig feature to make numerous entries under the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. Works for me, but I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 18 December 2006 08:52, Karel Zak wrote: I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Fork? Are you saying that you just didn't take over maintainership and now we will have two versions of util-linux!? :/

[GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
From 1003f06953472ecc34f12d9867670f475a8c1af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:16:25 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix Kconfig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here is a patch to fix up the Kconfig

[GFS2 DLM] Pull request

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Please consider pulling the following two compile fixes for GFS2/DLM, Steve. -- The following changes since commit d1998ef38a13c4e74c69df55ccd38b0440c429b2: Ben Collins: ib_verbs: Use explicit

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 Andrei Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me what to do.

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Brendan Scott
It's just that I'm so damn tired of this whole thing. I'm tired of people thinking they have a right to violate my copyright all the time. I'm tired of people and companies somehow treating our license in ways that are blatantly wrong and feeling fine about it. Because we are a loose band

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 18 December 2006 10:33, Jan Engelhardt wrote: after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, sync with actual

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:00 +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 Andrei Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file content corruption. If I

Re: s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:36:24 +0100 Stefan Seyfried [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends on the BIOS. Many BIOSes have a setting where you can set the power fail mode to on, off or as before. Ok, I've found the BIOS setting: Restore on AC Poer Loss = {Power Off, Power On, Last State}. Anyway I

[PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove Kconfig comparisons of the form FUBAR || FUBAR=n, since they appear to be superfluous. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- based on what i read in kconfig-language.txt, it would *appear* that those comparisons are redundant, but i'm willing to be convinced

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: This uses atomic_long_t for the workstruct data field, which shares the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:24AM +, David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: This uses atomic_long_t for the workstruct data field, which shares the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. This fixes

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread David Miller
From: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:56:24 + On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: This uses atomic_long_t for the workstruct data field, which shares the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. This fixes

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cciss: fix XFER_READ/XFER_WRITE in do_cciss_request

2006-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 15 2006, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: Patch 2 of 2 This patch fixes a stupid bug. Sometime during the 2tb enhancement I ended up replacing the macros XFER_READ and XFER_WRITE with h-cciss_read and h-cciss_write respectively. It seemed to work somehow at least on x86_64 and ia64.

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:50:43 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix email for S3C2410 and S3C2440

2006-12-18 Thread Ben Dooks
Change the email address for the S3C2410 and S3C2440 maintainer. The old addresses have been deleted due to spam issues. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.20-rc1/MAINTAINERS2006-12-17 23:04:58.0 + +++ linux-2.6.20-rc1-fix2/MAINTAINERS 2006-12-18

Re: [PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-18 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:14:01AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Remove Kconfig comparisons of the form FUBAR || FUBAR=n, since they appear to be superfluous. config FOO tristate 'foo' depends on BAR || BAR=n is not superfluous. The allowed states for FOO with the above

Re: [PATCH] microcode: Fix mc_cpu_notifier section warning

2006-12-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Jean, Ok, your patch is correct, although I assume you realize that it does nothing --- both the function and the data it operates on are inside CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and checking include/linux/init.h I see that __cpuinitdata is nothing in this case. E.g. msr_class_cpu_notifier in the msr

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-18 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 18/12/06, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could also use a simple allocator based on alloc_pages since kmemleak doesn't track pages. [...] actually, i'm quite sure we want to track pages later on too, any reason why kmemleak shouldnt cover

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Dec 14 2006 09:52, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating nearly 1900

[PATCH] watchdog: cleanup s3c2410_wdt probe and release

2006-12-18 Thread Ben Dooks
Cleanup the s3c2410_wdt driver's exit point by using labels instead of multiple returns. Also remove the checks for the resources having been allocate in the exit, as we will now either have fully allocated or not allocated the resources at-all. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff

Re: [PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:14:01AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Remove Kconfig comparisons of the form FUBAR || FUBAR=n, since they appear to be superfluous. config FOO tristate 'foo' depends on BAR || BAR=n is not superfluous.

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I could believe it the corruption is caused by something else completely. Think so. We do have a problem here, but only on threaded apps, I believe. rtorrent doesn't appear to be threaded, and

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
OK, I'll try this on a ext3 box. BTW, what data mode are you using ext3 in? ordered Also, for testings sake, could you give this a go: It's a total hack but I guess worth testing. --- mm/rmap.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index:

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Matthias Koenig
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, sync with actual distributions and kernel and

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Things we can say without being hypocrites and without getting into legal theory: Kernel modules without source, or that don't have a GPL compatible license are inconsiderate and rude. Please don't be rude. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-git4: drivers/connector/connector.c doesn't build due to work_struct changes

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 23:48 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: CC [M] drivers/char/hangcheck-timer.o CC drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.o LD drivers/clocksource/built-in.o CC [M] drivers/connector/cn_queue.o CC [M] drivers/connector/connector.o drivers/connector/connector.c:

Re: [GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 18 2006 09:57, Steven Whitehouse wrote: config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM tristate GFS2 DLM locking module - depends on GFS2_FS + depends on GFS2_FS NET INET (IPV6 || IPV6=n) What is this supposed to do? IPV6 || IPV6=n is a tautology AFAICS. -`J' -- - To

2.4.28: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) ?

2006-12-18 Thread rrcwjpgr
Hello, first thanks for your great support on the Linux kernel. I have a problem with kernel 2.4.28 and maybe somebody has an idea about my problem. When I type dmesg, I get this error messages: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) VM: killing process python For any

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 08:52, Karel Zak wrote: I'm pleased to announce a new util-linux-ng project. This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Fork? Are you saying that you just didn't take over maintainership and

Re: [GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 18 2006 09:57, Steven Whitehouse wrote: config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM tristate GFS2 DLM locking module -depends on GFS2_FS +depends on GFS2_FS NET INET (IPV6 || IPV6=n) What is this supposed to do? IPV6 ||

Re: [GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Dec 18 2006 09:57, Steven Whitehouse wrote: config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM tristate GFS2 DLM locking module -depends on GFS2_FS +depends on GFS2_FS NET INET (IPV6 || IPV6=n) What is this supposed to do? IPV6 || IPV6=n is a

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It could be so simple that it would never need to free any pages, just grow the size as required and reuse the freed memleak objects from a list. sounds good to me. Please make it a per-CPU pool. Isn't there a risk for the pools to

Re: amd64 agpgart aperture base value

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:35:30PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: So, you think that the aperture moving to a different location on every boot is what the BIOS desires? Is it normal for it to move so much? Beats me. I gave up trying to understand BIOS

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
Can we achieve smooth write times in Linux? if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, since bumpy writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the kernel will favor those. to get smooth writes you'll need to do a threaded setup where you do an

[PATCH] lockdep: returns after DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ONs etc.

2006-12-18 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Hello, If any of this proposals should be omitted or separated let me know. Regards, Jarek P. --- [PATCH] lockdep: returns after DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ONs etc. lockdep.c changes: - returns after DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON added in 3 places - debug_locks checking after lookup_chain_cache() added in

OOPS: divide error while s2dsk (2.6.20-rc1-mm1)

2006-12-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi. I got this oops while suspending: [ 309.366557] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... [ 309.386563] CPU 1 is now offline [ 309.387625] CPU1 is down [ 309.387704] Stopping tasks ... done. [ 310.030991] Shrinking memory... -0divide error: [#1] [ 310.456669] SMP [ 310.456814] last sysfs file:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-18 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 18/12/06, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Catalin Marinas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] It could be so simple that it would never need to free any pages, just grow the size as required and reuse the freed memleak objects from a list. sounds good to me. Please make it a

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

2006-12-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 22:18 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware. Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the APIs evolve) Sure, I expect they do - but

[PATCH] IA64: virt_to_page() can be called with NULL arg

2006-12-18 Thread Kirill Korotaev
[IA64] virt_to_page() cannot be called with NULL (mainstream bug) It does not return NULL when arg is NULL. Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linus-2.6.git/include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h.orig 2006-12-18 14:59:09.0

[PATCH] IA64: alignment bug in ldscript

2006-12-18 Thread Kirill Korotaev
[IA64] bug in ldscript (mainstream) Occasionally, in mainstream number of fsys entries is even. In OpenVZ it is odd and we get misaligned kernel image, which does not boot. Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -urp

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock) support V8: mmc_sysfs.diff

2006-12-18 Thread Anderson Briglia
ext Russell King wrote: On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:13:39PM -0400, Anderson Briglia wrote: Implement MMC password force erase, remove password, change password, unlock card and assign password operations. It uses the sysfs mechanism to send commands to the MMC subsystem. Sorry, this is

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