For both static and dynamic linking, you might claim the output is an
aggregate, but that doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not
the output is a work based on the program, and whether the mere
aggregation paragraph kicks in.
If the output is not an aggregate, which is quite likely
Combined responses:
So therefore I don't think you can reasonably claim that static
vs. dynamic linking is only a technical difference. There are clearly
other differences when it comes to distribution of the resulting
binaries.
We're only talking about the special case of GPL'd works. You
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:30 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What happens if you only ifdef out that single thing?
The actual page-cleaning functions make sure to only clear the TAG_DIRTY
bit _after_ the
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:57 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote:
nope, no file corruption at all.
Ok. That's interesting, but I think you actually #ifdef'ed out too
much:
It was really just the _inner_ if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(..
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:44:51 +0200
Andrei Popa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:30 -0800 (PST)
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What happens if you only ifdef out that single thing?
The actual
If all of test_clear_page_dirty() has been commented out then the page
will
never become clean hence will never fall out of pagecache, so unless
Andrei
is doing a reboot before checking for corruption, perhaps the underlying
data on-disk is incorrect, but we can't see it.
OK, got the 2.6.19 kernel installed and running OK, full libata wrapping of
existing IDE controllers and hard disks.
I'm experiencing some odd, random periodic system lockups without any sort
of debugging information being captured in the system message log. Perhaps
it's a hard disk that's
kyle wrote:
Hi,
Recently my mysql servershows something like:
Dec 18 18:24:05 sql kernel: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value
from c0284efd
Dec 18 18:24:36 sql last message repeated 19939 times
Dec 18 18:25:37 sql last message repeated 33392 times
from syslog every 1 or 2 days.
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:39:46AM +0100, Haar János wrote:
From: David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Haar János wrote:
From: David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, I've never heard of a problem like this before and you are doing
something that very
Hi all,
When I setup two zones (NORMAL and DMA) in my system, I got the
following wired result from /proc/buddyinfo.
-
root:~ cat /proc/buddyinfo
Node 0, zone DMA 2 1 2 1 1
On Monday 18 December 2006 14:41, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the other hand, certain projects like OpenAFS, while not license-
compatible, are certainly not derivative works.
Certainly a big chunk of OpenAFS might not be, just like a big
It would help if one could actually get hold of the changes.
Neither at home nor on my gmail account did I get them all. The gmane
also only has 5 of the 9 mails or so. Your archive only has sources
from a couple of versions back.
--
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧
User applications using the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl through libata
expect specific ATA registers to be returned to userspace. Verified
that ata_task_ioctl correctly returns register values to the
smartctl application.
Signed-off-by: David Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
diff --git
Hi!
Our server(running Oracle 10g) is having a kernel panic problem:
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo 80582000, task 80464300)
Stack: 0296 8013f325 81007f7f54d0 0100
0001 000e 8053e098 8013f3a5
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:47:21 -0800 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
It would help if one could actually get hold of the changes.
Neither at home nor on my gmail account did I get them all. The gmane
also only has 5 of the 9 mails or so. Your archive only has sources
from a couple of versions back.
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 12:49:35AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
I just saw the commit message below.
There seems to have been some although unmerged work on APUS support by
Roman, but I didn't find any recent work on bringing the GEMINI support
back into life.
Is this a wrong impression,
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- move all EXPORT_SYMBOL's directly below the code they are exporting
- move all DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_*'s directly below the functions they
are calling
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/pci/pci.c|4
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:35, David Schwartz wrote:
For both static and dynamic linking, you might claim the output is an
aggregate, but that doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not
the output is a work based on the program, and whether the mere
aggregation paragraph kicks in.
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Static vs dynamic matters for whether it's an AGGREGATE work. Clearly,
static linking aggregates the library with the other program in the same
binary. There's no question about that. And that _does_ have meaning from
a copyright law angle, since
I have a fun little test program for people to try. It creates zombies
that persist until reboot, despite being reparented to init. Sometimes
it creates processes that block SIGKILL, sit around with pending SIGKILL,
or both.
You'll want:
a. either assembly skills or the ability to run 32-bit
Aubrey wrote:
Hi all,
When I setup two zones (NORMAL and DMA) in my system, I got the
following wired result from /proc/buddyinfo.
-
root:~ cat /proc/buddyinfo
Node 0, zone DMA 2 1 2
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:52:29PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:39:46AM +0100, Haar János wrote:
From: David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#define POISON_FREE 0x6b
Can you confirm that you are running with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y?
Yes, i build with this option
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:47:21PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
It would help if one could actually get hold of the changes.
Neither at home nor on my gmail account did I get them all. The gmane
also only has 5 of the 9 mails or so. Your archive only has sources
from
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
This should be safe; page_mkclean walks the rmap and flips the pte's
under the pte lock and records the dirty state while iterating.
Concurrent faults will either do set_page_dirty() before we get around
to doing it or vice
this small patch checks to see if `${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage` exists and
if not, fall back to the standard `mkimage`
the Blackfin toolchain includes mkimage, but we dont want to namespace
collide with any of the user's system setup, so we prefix it with our
toolchain name
-mike
Check to see if the
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use expected function return type to fix warning.
init/noinitramfs.c:42: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
init/noinitramfs.c |3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
David Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:22:44PM +0300, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote:
diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c
index 8332c77..7c571dd 100644
--- a/mm/filemap.c
+++ b/mm/filemap.c
@@ -2044,8 +2044,9 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb *
/*
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 00:47 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
So we have the following situation:
- 2.6.16- 2.6.16.16 : problems for Chris
(and possibly many other people)
- 2.6.16.17 - 2.6.16.35 : problems for many other people
(I remember 4-5
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your reply again, ;-).
On 12/19/06, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This should not happen because the pages are checked to ensure they are
from the same zone before merging.
How? page_is_buddy() only check if the buddy has the buddy flag and
has the same order.
Now that the second round of removing options for OSS drivers where ALSA
drivers without regressions exist for the same hardware got included in
Linus' tree, it's time for a third round amongst the remaining drivers.
Removing OSS drivers where ALSA drivers for the same hardware exists has
two
Matt wrote:
- Task watchers can actually improve kernel performance slightly (up to
2% in extremely fork-heavy workloads for instance).
Nice.
Could you explain why?
--
I won't rest till it's the best ...
Programmer, Linux Scalability
Paul
Dave Jones wrote:
Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-2)
Hmm, probably happened once before, too.
page-flags = 404
What's that? PG_referenced|PG_reserved? So I'd say it is likely
that some driver has got its refcounting wrong.
Unfortunately, this debugging output is almost
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
I've uploaded the latest changes to the homepage.
Thanks. But could you now update the patch so that it can be compiled
with the current upstream kernel? At least linux/kevent.h has
problems because of file-st accesses.
--
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444
On 12/18/06, Erik Mouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...snip...
But isn't O_DIRECT supposed to bypass buffering in Kernel?
It is.
Doesn't it directly write to disk?
Yes, but it still uses an IO scheduler.
Ok. but i also tried with noop to turnoff disk scheduling effects.
There was still
Chen, Kenneth W [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dmitriy Monakhov wrote on Monday, December 18, 2006 5:23 AM
This patch is result of discussion started week ago here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/11/66
changes from original patch:
- Update wrong comments about i_mutex locking.
- Add
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:30:34AM -0800, J.H. wrote:
(...)
Since it's apparent not everyone is aware of what we are doing, I'll
mention briefly some of the bigger points.
- We have contacted HP to see if we can get additional hardware, mind
you though this is a long term solution and will
Hi Aubery!
Aubrey wrote:
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your reply again, ;-).
On 12/19/06, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This should not happen because the pages are checked to ensure they are
from the same zone before merging.
How? page_is_buddy() only check if the buddy has the buddy
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
We never want to drop dirty data! (ignoring the truncate case, which is
handled privately by truncate anyway)
Bzzt.
SURE we do.
We absolutely do want to drop dirty data in the writeout path.
How do you think dirty data ever _becomes_ clean data?
On Monday 18 December 2006 12:16, David Schwartz wrote:
Combined responses to save bandwidth and reduce the number of times people
have to press d.
Agreed. You missed the point.
I don't understand how you could lead with agreed and then proceed to
completely ignore the entire point I just
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:21:34PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
I've uploaded the latest changes to the homepage.
Thanks. But could you now update the patch so that it can be compiled
with the current upstream kernel? At least linux/kevent.h
Manish Regmi wrote:
Nick Piggin:
but
they look like they might be a (HZ quantised) delay coming from
block layer plugging.
Sorry i didn´t understand what you mean.
When you submit a request to an empty block device queue, it can
get plugged for a number of timer ticks before any IO is
Hello David,
Tuesday, December 19, 2006, 2:59:11 AM, you wrote:
On Monday 18 December 2006 4:54 pm, David Brownell wrote:
http://handhelds.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux/kernel26/drivers/rtc/rtc-sa1100.c.diff?r1=1.5r2=1.6f=h
That patch you applied looks right to me -- why don't you forward
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:20:37PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-2)
Hmm, probably happened once before, too.
You're right. Going back further in the log, I noticed
that it had happened again exactly at the time that cron
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:50:08PM +, David Wragg wrote:
This patch (against 2.6.19/2.6.19.1) adds the four context switch
values (voluntary context switches, involuntary context switches, and
the same values accumulated from terminated child processes) to the
end of /proc/*/stat,
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:42:56PM -0800, J.H. wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 00:37 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:23:54AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
J.H. wrote:
...
The root cause boils down to with git, gitweb and the normal mirroring
on the frontend machines
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
We never want to drop dirty data! (ignoring the truncate case, which is
handled privately by truncate anyway)
Bzzt.
SURE we do.
We absolutely do want to drop dirty data in the writeout path.
How do you think dirty data ever
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 07:34 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 11:30:34AM -0800, J.H. wrote:
(...)
Since it's apparent not everyone is aware of what we are doing, I'll
mention briefly some of the bigger points.
- We have contacted HP to see if we can get additional
for the last couple of days, i've been unable to pull from linus'
2.6 repository. i consistently get:
$ git pull
fatal: unexpected EOF
Fetch failure:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
No changes.
even after several retries. i can clone it from scratch, i
Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:20:37PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
Dave Jones wrote:
Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-2)
Hmm, probably happened once before, too.
You're right. Going back further in the log, I noticed
that it had happened again exactly at the
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:22:36 -0500, simo wrote:
With cifs, a directory search shows different sizes but opening
them by name gives identical contents:
$ ll ipt_dscp* ipt_DSCP*
-r 1 me me 1581 Jan 28 2004 ipt_dscp.c
-r 1 me me 2753 Jan
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:06:20 +0800, Hawk Xu wrote:
Our server(running Oracle 10g) is having a kernel panic problem:
Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo 80582000, task 80464300)
Stack: 0296 8013f325 81007f7f54d0
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:39:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
If any of this proposals should be omitted or separated let me know.
thanks for the fixes, they look good to me. I have reorganized the
__lock_acquire() changes a bit.
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 15:36 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
plain text document attachment (fs-fix.patch)
Index: linux-2.6/fs/buffer.c
===
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/buffer.c2006-12-19 15:15:46.0 +1100
+++
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote:
I wouldn't have thought it becomes clean by dropping it ;) Is this a
trick question? My answer is that we clean a page by by taking some
action such that the underlying data matches the data in RAM...
Sure.
We don't drop any data until it has been
Hi Tigran,
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:04:39 + (GMT), Tigran Aivazian wrote:
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
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:18 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index d8a842a..3f9061e 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -448,7 +448,7 @@ static int page_mkclean_one(struct page
goto unlock;
entry = ptep_get_and_clear(mm,
On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 07:46 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 04:42:56PM -0800, J.H. wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 00:37 +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:23:54AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
J.H. wrote:
...
The root cause boils down to with git,
On 12/19/06, Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Aubery!
That's right. I guess you can either align your zone sizes (must be
aligned to MAX_ORDER size), or add the zone check in page_is_buddy.
Adding the zone check in page_is_buddy fix the problem.
Thanks again, :)
-Aubrey
-
To
Hi Linus,
This is just a bunch of minor patches and fixes for the drm tree.
The biggest change is to the intel driver to fix up some tearing issues,
and a small update to the radeon bounds check to fix r300 issue.
The rest are just cleanups and comment fixes..
Dave.
drivers/char/drm/drmP.h
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
In other words, in the GPL, Program does NOT mean binary. Never has.
Agreed. So what? How does this relate with the point above?
The binary is a Program, as much as the sources are a Program. Both
forms are subject to
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
In other words, in the GPL, Program does NOT mean binary. Never has.
Agreed. So what? How does this relate with the point above?
The binary is a Program, as much as the sources are a Program. Both
forms are subject to
o Misc smpboot/cpu hotplug path cleanups. I did those to supress the
warnings generated by MODPOST. These warnings are visible only
if CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y.
o CONFIG_RELOCATABLE compiles the kernel with --emit-relocs option. This
option retains relocation information in vmlinux file and
o Some functions which should have been in init sections as they are called
only once. Put them in init sections. Otherwise MODPOST generates warning
as these functions are placed in .text and they end up accessing something
in init sections.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference
o Entry startup_32 was in .text section but it was accessing some init
data too and it prompts MODPOST to generate compilation warnings.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:boot_params from
.text between '_text' (at offset 0xc0100029) and 'startup_32_smp'
WARNING:
o init() is a non __init function in .text section but it calls many
functions which are in .init.text section. Hence MODPOST generates lots
of cross reference warnings on i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to
o Fix modpost generated warning.
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text
between 'add_one_highpage_hotplug' (at offset 0xc0113d3f) and 'online_page'
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/mm/init.c |4 ++--
1 file changed, 2
This patch removes the unconverted ATM_TNETA1570 option that also lacks
any code in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.20-rc1-mm1/drivers/atm/Kconfig.old2006-12-19
04:42:00.0 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc1-mm1/drivers/atm/Kconfig2006-12-19
This patch contains the following transformations from custom functions
to standard kernel version:
- fore200e_kmalloc() - kzalloc()
- fore200e_kfree() - kfree()
- fore200e_swap() - cpu_to_be32()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/atm/fore200e.c | 166
David Milburn wrote:
User applications using the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl through libata
expect specific ATA registers to be returned to userspace. Verified
that ata_task_ioctl correctly returns register values to the
smartctl application.
Signed-off-by: David Milburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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