Re: ACPI bay - 2.6.20-rc3-mm1 hangs on boot

2007-01-05 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2007-01-05 14:19:41, Jiri Kosina wrote: > Hi, > > 2.6.20-rc3-mm1 hangs on boot on my IBM T42p when compiled with ACPI_BAY=y. > Below is the trace of two BUGs I get. > > When compiled with ACPI_BAY=n, it boots fine. ACPI people usually prefer entries in bugzilla.kernel.org, try that if

RE: [nfsv4] RE: Finding hardlinks

2007-01-05 Thread Halevy, Benny
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Nicolas Williams > Sent: Fri 1/5/2007 18:40 > To: Halevy, Benny > Cc: Trond Myklebust; Jan Harkes; Miklos Szeredi; nfsv4@ietf.org; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Mikulas Patocka; linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; > Jeff Layton; Arjan van de Ven > Subject: Re:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

2007-01-05 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:10:01AM +0100, rday wrote: > > > Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > > Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/char/tty_io.c > > > Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > rday > > > > p.s. just FYI, i have a

Re: 2.6.20-rc3-git4 oops on suspend: __drain_pages

2007-01-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Saw this oops on 2.6.20-rc3-git4 when attempting to > suspend. This only happened in 1 of 3 attempts. Find out how reproducible it is... and if it works with minimum modules loaded. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To

Re: [PATCH] cx88xx: Fix lockup on suspend

2007-01-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Suspending with the cx88xx module loaded causes the > system to lock up because the cx88_audio_thread kthread > was missing a try_to_freeze() call, which caused it to > go into a tight loop and result in softlockup when > suspending. Fix that. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL

Re: kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems

2007-01-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >IMHO you should play such games with "g++ -O9", but > >that's > >a discussion for a different mailing list. > > For a different mailing list indeed; let me just point > out > that for certain important quite common cases it's an > ~50% > overall speedup. Hmm, what code was that?

[PATCH 0/6] adaptive readahead update

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
Andrew, Here're more readahead updates. They go like: --- broken-out/series 2007-01-05 13:13:19.0 +0800 +++ patches/series 2007-01-05 22:11:37.0 +0800 @@ -985,13 +985,17 @@ readahead-sysctl-parameters.patch readahead-sysctl-parameters-use-ctl_unnumbered.patch

[PATCH 6/6] readahead: nfsd case: remove ra_min

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
ra_min => req_size. Now it is for try_context_based_readahead() to compute ra_min from req_size. Please fold it into readahead-nfsd-case.patch to avoid a compiling error. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/readahead.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

[PATCH 1/6] readahead: sysctl parameters: set readahead_hit_rate=1

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
Set default readahead_hit_rate to 1 for the majority users. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt |2 +- mm/readahead.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux.orig/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++

[PATCH 2/6] readahead: min/max sizes: remove get_readahead_bounds()

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
Remove get_readahead_bounds(): - ra_max: we already have get_max_readahead() for it - ra_min: is only used by context based readahead, and will be moved there and set to a more reasonable value Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/readahead.c | 24

[PATCH 3/6] readahead: context based method: update ra_min

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
Classify the 4 cases into 2 classes, and assign proper ra_min for them. Also update comments correspondly. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/readahead.c | 49 +++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) ---

[PATCH 4/6] readahead: context based method: remove readahead_ratio

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
The context based readahead is pretty conservative by nature, so do not apply readahead_ratio here. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/readahead.c |7 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/readahead.c +++

[PATCH 5/6] readahead: call scheme: remove get_readahead_bounds()

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
Remove the one and only get_readahead_bounds() call. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/readahead.c |5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1.orig/mm/readahead.c +++ linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1/mm/readahead.c @@ -1572,7 +1572,6 @@

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(clts); > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(read_cr0); > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(write_cr0); mark these a _GPL export. Perhaps even mark the symbol deprecated, to be unexported once we fix raid6. > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(wbinvd); > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(raw_safe_halt); >

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this doesnt do the most crutial step: the removal of the paravirt_ops > export. [...] ah, you removed it already ... it hid at the very last line of the patch chunk. Good :) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > diff -r 48f31ae5d7b5 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c > --- a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Sat Jan 06 10:32:24 2007 +1100 > +++ b/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c Sat Jan 06 17:23:12 2007 +1100 > @@ -596,6 +596,154 @@ static int __init print_banner(void)

[patch 2.6.20-rc3] rtc-sa1100 correctly reports rtc_wkalrm.enabled

2007-01-05 Thread David Brownell
This fixes one bug in the SA-1100/PXA RTC support: read_alarm() isn't reporting whether the alarm is enabled. This causes a small regression, with procfs no longer reporting that state. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Note there are still bugs with how this driver handles

[patch 2.6.20-rc3] rtc-sh correctly reports rtc_wkalrm.enabled

2007-01-05 Thread David Brownell
This fixes the SH rtc driver to (a) correctly report 'enabled' status with other alarm status; (b) not duplicate that status in its procfs dump Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- An audit of the RTC driver treatment of the "enabled" flag turned up a handful of clear bugs;

[PATCH] kernel-doc: allow a little whitespace

2007-01-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In kernel-doc syntax, be a little flexible: allow whitespace between a function parameter name and the colon that must follow it, such as: @pdev : PCI device to unplug (This allows lots of megaraid kernel-doc to work without tons of editing.)

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 16:31 -0800, Zachary Amsden wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Subject: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops > > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > only export those operations to modules that have been available to them > > historically: irq disable/enable,

Re: [BUG 2.6.20-rc3-mm1] raid1 mount blocks for ever

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 07:59:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:50:02 +0800 > Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jens: can this be a plugging issue? > > > > The following command seems to block for ever: > > # mount /home > > > > It is an ext3 fs on top of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] RAIF: Redundant Array of Independent Filesystems

2007-01-05 Thread Chaitanya Patti
> We are in the process of porting RAIF to 2.6.19 right now. Should be done > in early January. The trick is that we are trying to keep the same source > good for a wide range of kernel versions. In fact, not too long ago we > even were able to compile it for 2.4.24! > > Nikolai. We now have

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:07 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > I would suggest a slightly different carving. For one, no TLB flushes. > > If you can't modify PTEs, why do you need to have TLB flushes? And I > > would allow CR0 read / write for code which saves and restores FPU state >

Re: how to get serial_no from usb HD disk (HDIO_GET_IDENTITY ioctl, hdparm -i)

2007-01-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 12:27:34AM +0200, Yakov Lerner wrote: > How can I get serial_no from usb-attached HD drive ? use the *_id programs that come with udev, they show you how to properly do that. good luck, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell (take 3)

2007-01-05 Thread John Rose
> I dropped this on the floor over Christmas. This has had a few smoke > tests on ppc64 and i386 and is ready for -mm. Against 2.6.20-rc2-mm1. Could this break ia64, given that it uses memmap_init_zone()? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Zachary Amsden
Arjan van de Ven wrote: I would suggest a slightly different carving. For one, no TLB flushes. If you can't modify PTEs, why do you need to have TLB flushes? And I would allow CR0 read / write for code which saves and restores FPU state no that is abstracted away by

Re: BUG: warning at mm/truncate.c:60/cancel_dirty_page()

2007-01-05 Thread Sami Farin
On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 04:39:07 +0200, Sami Farin wrote: > Linux 2.6.19.1 SMP [2] on Pentium D... > I was running dt-15.14 [2] and I ran > "cinfo datafile" (it does mincore()). > Well it went OK but when I ran "strace cinfo datafile"...: > 04:18:48.062466 mincore(0x37f1f000, 2147266560, Forgot

Re: Sony Vaio VGN-SZ340 (was Re: sonypc with Sony Vaio VGN-SZ1VP)

2007-01-05 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Friday 05 January 2007 11:10, Len Brown wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 12:24, MoRpHeUz wrote: > > > What workaround are you using? > > > > This one: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7465 > > Ah yes, the duplicate MADT issue is clearly a BIOS bug. > It is possible that we can

Re: RTC subsystem and fractions of seconds

2007-01-05 Thread David Brownell
> Those rtc's actually have a 1/100th of second > register. Should the generic rtc interface not support that? Are you implying a new userspace API, or just an in-kernel update? Either way, that raises the question of what other features should be included. What sub-second precision?

Re: [patch 2.6.20-rc3 1/3] rtc-cmos driver

2007-01-05 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 05 January 2007 7:10 pm, David Brownell wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 12:45 pm, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > I'd appreciate if someone (Woody?) can test > > this code on ARM. > > There are PPC, M68K, SPARC, and other boards that could also > use this; ARMs tend to integrate some

Re: [BUG 2.6.20-rc3-mm1] raid1 mount blocks for ever

2007-01-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007 10:50:02 +0800 Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jens: can this be a plugging issue? > > The following command seems to block for ever: > # mount /home > > It is an ext3 fs on top of /dev/md0, RAID1. http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc3-mm1x.bz2 is basically

BUG: warning at mm/truncate.c:60/cancel_dirty_page()

2007-01-05 Thread Sami Farin
Linux 2.6.19.1 SMP [2] on Pentium D... I was running dt-15.14 [2] and I ran "cinfo datafile" (it does mincore()). Well it went OK but when I ran "strace cinfo datafile"...: 04:18:48.062466 mincore(0x37f1f000, 2147266560, ... 2007-01-06 04:19:03.788181500 <4>BUG: warning at

Re: [PATCH] romsignature/checksum cleanup

2007-01-05 Thread Rene Herman
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Well, in the Xen case, where the pages are simply not mapped, then the signature simply won't exist. In other cases, I guess its possible the signature might exist but the rest of the ROM doesn't, but that won't happen on normal hardware. In your opinion, is the

Re: [PATCH] qconf: fix SIGSEGV on empty menu items

2007-01-05 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Cyrill V. Gorcunov wrote: > qconf may cause SIGSEGV by trying to show debug > information on empty menu items Thanks, but this is more complex than necessary. It simply lacks some initializers. bye, Roman Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] qconf Search Dialog

2007-01-05 Thread Roman Zippel
On Friday 05 January 2007 11:44, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > I would prefer it as separate smaller steps. > > So one patch where you move the dialog and another where you improve > > the search dialog. > > Move the dialog from where, to where, and in what respect? Move the Find entry to a separate

Re: [patch 2.6.20-rc3 1/3] rtc-cmos driver

2007-01-05 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 05 January 2007 12:45 pm, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 10:01:57 -0800 > David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is an "RTC framework" driver for the "CMOS" RTCs which are standard > > on PCs and some other platforms. That's MC146818 compatible silicon. > >

[BUG 2.6.20-rc3-mm1] raid1 mount blocks for ever

2007-01-05 Thread Fengguang Wu
Jens: can this be a plugging issue? The following command seems to block for ever: # mount /home It is an ext3 fs on top of /dev/md0, RAID1. The call trace is: mount D 00210a34f3b6 5488 5574 (NOTLB) 8100799718c8 0046

[patch 07/50] DVB: lgdt330x: fix signal / lock status detection bug

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In some cases when using VSB, the AGC status register has been known to falsely report "no signal" when in fact there is a carrier lock. The datasheet labels

[patch 14/50] sched: remove __cpuinitdata anotation to cpu_isolated_map

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tim Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The structure cpu_isolated_map is used not only during initialization. Multi-core scheduler configuration changes and exclusive cpusets use this during run time.

[patch 16/50] SCSI: add missing cdb clearing in scsi_execute()

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clear-garbage-after-CDB patch missed scsi_execute() and it causes some ODDs (HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H30N) choke during SCSI scan. Note that this patch is only for

[patch 26/50] ramfs breaks without CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dimitri Gorokhovik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ramfs doesn't provide the .set_dirty_page a_op, and when the BLOCK layer is not configured in, 'set_page_dirty' makes a call via a NULL pointer.

[patch 34/50] SPARC64: Fix "mem=xxx" handling.

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We were not being careful enough. When we trim the physical memory areas, we have to make sure we don't remove the kernel image or initial ramdisk image ranges.

[patch 27/50] Buglet in vmscan.c

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Shantanu Goel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix a rather obvious buglet. Noticed while instrumenting the VM using /proc/vmstat. Cc: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[patch 36/50] NET: Dont export linux/random.h outside __KERNEL__

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Don't add it there please; add it lower down inside the existing #ifdef __KERNEL__. You just made the _userspace_ net.h include random.h, which then fails to

[patch 38/50] VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmaped page writeback

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The VM layer (on the face of it, fairly reasonably) expected that when it does a ->writepage() call to the filesystem, it would write out the full page at that

[patch 45/50] IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order.

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David L Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is important that we only assign dev->ip{,6}_ptr only after all portions of the inet{,6} are setup. Otherwise we can receive packets before the multicast

[patch 39/50] V4L: cx2341x: audio_properties is an u16, not u8

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This bug broke the MPEG audio mode controls. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

2007-01-05 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:10:01AM +0100, rday wrote: > > Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/char/tty_io.c > > Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > rday > > p.s. just FYI, i have a patch that does most of this, but i was going > to hold off

[patch 33/50] PKTGEN: Fix module load/unload races.

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Robert Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/core/pktgen.c | 20 ++-- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.19.1.orig/net/core/pktgen.c +++

[patch 47/50] NetLabel: correctly fill in unused CIPSOv4 level and category mappings

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Back when the original NetLabel patches were being changed to use Netlink attributes correctly some code was accidentially dropped which set all of the undefined

[patch 49/50] fix OOM killing of swapoff

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> These days, if you swapoff when there isn't enough memory, OOM killer gives "BUG: scheduling while atomic" and the machine hangs: badness() needs to do its

[patch 50/50] Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore() (CVE-2006-4814)

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Doug Chapman noticed that mincore() will doa "copy_to_user()" of the result while holding the mmap semaphore for reading, which is a big no-no. While a recursive

[patch 43/50] SOUND: Sparc CS4231: Fix IRQ return value and initialization.

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Georg Chini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fix some initialisation problems. Change period_bytes_min from 4096 to 256 to allow driver to work with low latency (VOIP) applications. Hope this does not break

Re: [patch 00/50] -stable review

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
rollup available (when mirroring completes): http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/chrisw/stable/patch-2.6.19.2-rc1.{gz,bz2} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[patch 37/50] sparc32: add offset in pci_map_sg()

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jan Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add sg->offset to sg->dvma_address in pci_map_sg() on sparc32. Without the offset, transfers to buffers that do not begin on a page boundary will not work as

[patch 44/50] SOUND: Sparc CS4231: Use 64 for period_bytes_min

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This matches what the ISA cs4231 driver uses. Tested by Georg Chini. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL

[patch 48/50] connector: some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Erik Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On ia64, the various functions that make up cn_proc.c cause kernel unaligned access errors. If you are using these, for example, to get notification about all

[patch 46/50] asix: Fix typo for AX88772 PHY Selection

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Hollis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The attached patch fixes a PHY selection problem that prevents AX88772 based devices (Linksys USB200Mv2, etc) devices from working. The interface comes up and

[patch 28/50] softmac: Fixed handling of deassociation from AP

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ulrich Kunitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In 2.6.19 a deauthentication from the AP doesn't start a reassociation by the softmac code. It appears that mac->associnfo.associating must be set and the

[patch 40/50] dvb-core: fix bug in CRC-32 checking on 64-bit systems

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ang Way Chuang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CRC-32 checking during ULE decapsulation always failed on x86_64 systems due to the size of a variable used to store CRC. This bug was discovered on Fedora Core 6

[patch 19/50] sched: fix bad missed wakeups in the i386, x86_64, ia64, ACPI and APM idle code

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano reported frequent scheduling latencies and audio xruns starting at the 2.6.18-rt kernel, and those problems persisted all until current -rt

[patch 30/50] handle ext3 directory corruption better (CVE-2006-6053)

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've been using Steve Grubb's purely evil "fsfuzzer" tool, at http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/fsfuzzer-0.4.tar.gz Basically it makes a filesystem, splats some

[patch 31/50] corrupted cramfs filesystems cause kernel oops (CVE-2006-5823)

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Phillip Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Steve Grubb's fzfuzzer tool (http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/files/ fsfuzzer-0.6.tar.gz) generates corrupt Cramfs filesystems which cause Cramfs to kernel oops in

[patch 22/50] fix aoe without scatter-gather [Bug 7662]

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ed L Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix a bug that only appears when AoE goes over a network card that does not support scatter-gather. The headers in the linear part of the skb appeared to be larger

[patch 24/50] cciss: fix XFER_READ/XFER_WRITE in do_cciss_request

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

[patch 06/50] bonding: incorrect bonding state reported via ioctl

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Andy Gospodarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a small fix-up to finish out the work done by Jay Vosburgh to add carrier-state support for bonding devices. The output in /proc/net/bonding/bondX was

RTC subsystem and fractions of seconds

2007-01-05 Thread Philippe De Muyter
Hi all, A comment in driver/rtc/hctosys says : /* IMPORTANT: the RTC only stores whole seconds. It is arbitrary * whether it stores the most close value or the value with partial * seconds truncated. However, it is important that we use it to store * the truncated value. This

[patch 42/50] ebtables: dont compute gap before checking struct type

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We cannot compute the gap until we know we have a 'struct ebt_entry' and not 'struct ebt_entries'. Failure to check can cause crash. Tested-by: Santiago Garcia

[patch 41/50] V4L: cx88: Fix leadtek_eeprom tagging

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reference to .init.text: from .text between 'cx88_card_setup' (at offset 0x68c) and 'cx88_risc_field' Caused by leadtek_eeprom() being declared __devinit and called

[patch 32/50] ext2: skip pages past number of blocks in ext2_find_entry (CVE-2006-6054)

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This one was pointed out on the MOKB site: http://kernelfun.blogspot.com/2006/11/mokb-09-11-2006-linux-26x-ext2checkpage.html If a directory's i_size is corrupted,

[patch 18/50] i2c: fix broken ds1337 initialization

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dirk Eibach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

[patch 35/50] SPARC64: Handle ISA devices with no regs property.

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> And this points out that the return value from isa_dev_get_resource() and the 'pregs' arg to isa_dev_get_irq() are totally unused. Based upon a patch from Richard

[patch 29/50] zd1211rw: Call ieee80211_rx in tasklet

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ulrich Kunitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PATCH] zd1211rw: Call ieee80211_rx in tasklet The driver called ieee80211_rx in hardware interrupt context. This has been against the intention of the

[patch 25/50] [stable] [stable patch] i386: CPU hotplug broken with 2GB VMSPLIT

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In VMSPLIT mode, kernel PGD might have more entries than user space Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[patch 20/50] Fix for shmem_truncate_range() BUG_ON()

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ran into BUG() while doing madvise(REMOVE) testing. If we are punching a hole into shared memory segment using madvise(REMOVE) and the entire hole is below the

[patch 23/50] UDP: Fix reversed logic in udp_get_port()

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When this code was converted to use sk_for_each() the logic for the "best hash chain length" code was reversed, breaking everything. The original code was of the

[patch 21/50] smc911x: fix netpoll compilation faliure

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Vitaly Wool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix the compilation failure for smc911x.c when NET_POLL_CONTROLLER is set. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

[patch 15/50] IB/srp: Fix FMR mapping for 32-bit kernels and addresses above 4G

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> struct srp_device.fmr_page_mask was unsigned long, which means that the top part of addresses above 4G was being chopped off on 32-bit architectures. Of course

[patch 17/50] Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages (CVE-2006-6106)

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Marcel Holtmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With malformed packets it might be possible to overwrite internal CMTP and CAPI data structures. This patch adds additional length checks to prevent these kinds

[patch 12/50] kbuild: dont put temp files in source

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The as-instr/ld-option need to create temporary files, but create them in the output directory, when compiling external modules. Reformat them a bit and use $(CC)

[patch 04/50] ieee80211softmac: Fix mutex_lock at exit of ieee80211_softmac_get_genie

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ulrich Kunitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ieee80211softmac_wx_get_genie locks the associnfo mutex at function exit. This patch fixes it. The patch is against Linus' tree (commit af1713e0). Signed-off-by:

[patch 09/50] Revert "[PATCH] zd1211rw: Removed unneeded packed attributes"

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This reverts commit 4e1bbd846d00a245dcf78b6b331d8a9afed8e6d7. Quoth Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: "A user reported that commit

[patch 13/50] ARM: Add sys_*at syscalls

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Later glibc requires the *at syscalls. Add them. Signed-off-by: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[patch 10/50] libata: handle 0xff status properly

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> libata waits for !BSY even when the status register reports 0xff. This causes long boot delays when D8 isn't pulled down properly. This patch does the followings. *

[patch 11/50] ieee1394: ohci1394: add PPC_PMAC platform code to driver probe

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7431 iBook G3 threw a machine check exception and put the display backlight to full brightness after ohci1394 was

[patch 08/50] V4L: Fix broken TUNER_LG_NTSC_TAPE radio support

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The TUNER_LG_NTSC_TAPE is identical in all respects to the TUNER_PHILIPS_FM1236_MK3. So use the params struct for the Philips tuner. Also add this LG_NTSC_TAPE tuner

[patch 02/50] sha512: Fix sha384 block size

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The SHA384 block size should be 128 bytes, not 96 bytes. This was spotted by Andrew Donofrio. This breaks HMAC which uses the block size during setup and the final

[patch 01/50] dm-crypt: Select CRYPTO_CBC

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As CBC is the default chaining method for cryptoloop, we should select it from cryptoloop to ease the transition. Spotted by Rene Herman. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu

[patch 05/50] x86-64: Mark rdtsc as sync only for netburst, not for core2

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

[patch 03/50] read_zero_pagealigned() locking fix

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ramiro Voicu hits the BUG_ON(!pte_none(*pte)) in zeromap_pte_range: kernel bugzilla 7645. Right: read_zero_pagealigned uses down_read of mmap_sem, but another

[patch 00/50] -stable review

2007-01-05 Thread Chris Wright
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.19.2 release. There are 50 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

Re: [patch] paravirt: isolate module ops

2007-01-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > I would suggest a slightly different carving. For one, no TLB flushes. > If you can't modify PTEs, why do you need to have TLB flushes? And I > would allow CR0 read / write for code which saves and restores FPU state no that is abstracted away by kernel_fpu_begin/end. Modules have no

Re: PL2303 module

2007-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 January 2007 20:32, Greg KH wrote: [...] >> > >> >It should work like any other serial port on Linux, so try the serial >> >port programming HOWTO. >> >> Maybe so Greg, but I spent quite some time on it a few months back, >> trying to make '7 wire' protocol work, could not. I could

asynchronous memory transfer/transform api(s) (was: Re: [RFC] Heads up on a series of AIO patchsets)

2007-01-05 Thread Dan Williams
[ trimmed the cc to just linux-kernel ] On 1/3/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 02:38:13PM -0700, Dan Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Would you have time to comment on the approach I have taken to > implement a standard asynchronous memcpy interface?

Re: PL2303 module

2007-01-05 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 08:25:59PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 05 January 2007 19:45, Greg KH wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:48:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; > >> > >> Rather offtopic, but: > >> > >> Is there available anyplace, a document that describes how to >

Re: PL2303 module

2007-01-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 05 January 2007 19:45, Greg KH wrote: >On Wed, Dec 27, 2006 at 10:48:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Rather offtopic, but: >> >> Is there available anyplace, a document that describes how to >> configure the PL2303 USB<->serial adaptor to match up with all the >>

[PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell (take 3)

2007-01-05 Thread Dave Hansen
I dropped this on the floor over Christmas. This has had a few smoke tests on ppc64 and i386 and is ready for -mm. Against 2.6.20-rc2-mm1. The following patch fixes an oops experienced on the Cell architecture when init-time functions, early_*(), are called at runtime. It alters the call paths

[2.6 patch] cleanup include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h

2007-01-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
- #ifdef guard this header for multiple inclusion - adjust the #include's to what is actually required by this header - remove an unneeded #ifdef - #endif comments Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h | 24 +++- 1 file changed,

[2.6 patch] cleanup include/linux/xattr.h

2007-01-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
- reduce the userspace visible part - fix the in-kernel compilation Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/Kbuild |2 +- include/linux/xattr.h |8 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1/include/linux/Kbuild.old

[-mm patch] make proc_dointvec_taint() static

2007-01-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:02:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.20-rc2-mm1: >... > +add-taint_user-and-ability-to-set-taint-flags-from-userspace.patch >... > Misc fixes and updates >... This patch makes the needlessly global proc_dointvec_taint() static. Signed-off-by:

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