Re: [PATCH -mm 7/8] user_ns: handle file sigio

2007-01-14 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 12:12:57 -0600 > "Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A process in one user namespace could set a fowner and sigio on a file in a > > shared vfsmount, ending up killing a task in another user namespace. > > > > Prevent

Re: [stable] 2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{, 6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:30:08PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:47:49 -0800 > > > I think it's better to add the fix than withdraw this patch, since > > the original bug is a crash. > > I completely agree. Great, can someone

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 md problem

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system hangs on this > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/euridica/2.6.20-rc4-mm1/bug2.jpg > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/euridica/2.6.20-rc4-mm1/mm-config > > Debug plan: > - revert md-* patches > - binary search > > Does

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Björn Steinbrink writes: > Hi, > > with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite > often, with 2.6.19 there are no such exceptions. dmesg and lspci -v > output follows. In the meantime, I'll start bisecting. > > Thanks > Björn > > > Linux version 2.6.20-rc2

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:37:21AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table > > with the macros defined in pci_ids.h > > > Hi, > > > hmm this is actually the opposite direction

[PATCH] i386: modpost apic related warning fixes

2007-01-14 Thread Vivek Goyal
o Modpost generates warnings for i386 if compiled with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:find_unisys_acpi_oem_table from .text between 'acpi_madt_oem_check' (at offset 0xc0101eda) and 'enable_apic_mode' WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch:

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Antoniac
On Monday 15 January 2007 13:14, Peter Antoniac wrote: > This is more the answer that I expect. But is there a way, function or > constant from **libdc** that can give you the answer, or you have to get it ... What was I thinking... not from libdc but from LIBC :) - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] How to mmap a shadow framebuffer in virtual memory

2007-01-14 Thread Bernardo Innocenti
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > It's known to work for the PS3 frame buffer device driver, which copies the > virtual frame buffer to the GPU on every vsync. Check out ps3fb_mmap() in > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/geoff/ps3-linux.git;a=blob_plain;f=drivers/video/ps3fb.c;hb=HEAD I

[GIT PULL] MMC updates

2007-01-14 Thread Pierre Ossman
Linus, please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/drzeus/mmc.git for-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/mmc/imxmmc.c|3 --- drivers/mmc/omap.c | 15 +-- drivers/mmc/pxamci.c|2 +- drivers/mmc/tifm_sd.c |3 ---

Re: 2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread David Miller
From: David Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 19:47:49 -0800 > I think it's better to add the fix than withdraw this patch, since > the original bug is a crash. I completely agree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Peter Antoniac
On Monday 15 January 2007 05:31, Stefan Richter wrote: > On 14 Jan, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > vmalloc space is limited; you really can't assume you can get any more > > than 64Mb or so (and even then it's thight on some systems already); > > I suppose "grep VmallocChunk /proc/meminfo" shows what

Re: [PATCH] flush_cpu_workqueue: don't flush an empty ->worklist

2007-01-14 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 02:54:10AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > How about the pseudo-code below? Some quick comments: - singlethread_cpu needs to be hotplug safe (broken currently) - Any reason why cpu_populated_map is not modified on CPU_DEAD? - I feel more comfortable if

Re: ahci_softreset prevents acpi_power_off

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I'd be interested in finding out how to best test this; if the bios is > really broken I'd love to add a test to the Linux-ready Firmware > Developer Kit for this, so that BIOS developers can make sure future > bioses do not suffer from this bug... As reported, this is

[PATCH -mm] AVR32: fix build breakage

2007-01-14 Thread Ben Nizette
Remove an unwanted remnant of the recent revert of AVR32/AT91 SPI patches in -mm. Without this patch, the AVR32 build of 2.6.20-rc[34]-mm1 breaks. Signed-off-by: Ben Nizette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.20-rc3/arch/avr32/mach-at32ap/at32ap7000.c

Re: 2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread David Stevens
I expect this is the failure to join the all-nodes multicast group, in which case the fix has already been posted to netdev. I believe the router advertisements are sent to that, and if the join failed, it wouldn't receive any of them. I think it's better to add the fix than withdraw this patch,

2.6.19.2 regression introduced by "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order."

2007-01-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, The patch titled "IPV4/IPV6: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order" shipped in 2.6.19.2 appears to be the cause of this regression: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161907 Is this a known issue? Should this patch be dropped from -stable? Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe from

Re: Proposed changes for libata speed handling

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan wrote: > O> Wouldn't it be better to have ->determine_xfer_mask() and >> ->set_specific_mode() than having two somewhat overlapping callbacks? >> Or is there some problem that can't be handled that way? > > I'm not sure I follow what you are suggesting - can you explain further. > > Right

Re: [PATCH] bonding: Replace kmalloc() + memset() pairs with the appropriate kzalloc() calls

2007-01-14 Thread joe jin
> Hi Joe, > > On 1/12/07, joe jin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > @@ -788,7 +786,7 @@ static int rlb_initialize(struct bonding > > > > spin_lock_init(&(bond_info->rx_hashtbl_lock)); > > > > - new_hashtbl = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL); > > + new_hashtbl = kzalloc(size,

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Looks like all of these errors are from a FLUSH CACHE command and the > >>drive is indicating that it is no longer busy, so presumably done. > >>That's not a DMA-mapped command, so it wouldn't go through the ADMA > >>machinery

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.15 01:34:48 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.14 19:22:51 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Robert Hancock wrote: > > >Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite > > >>often, with 2.6.19 there are no such

[PATCH -mm] sata_nv: cleanup ADMA error handling

2007-01-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Should apply to -mm tree or current libata-dev git tree. Sorry for attaching, but I seem to have misplaced the magic incantations to make Thunderbird not destroy inline patches.. --- This cleans up a few issues with the error handling in sata_nv in ADMA mode to make it more consistent with

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Jeff Garzik wrote: Looks like all of these errors are from a FLUSH CACHE command and the drive is indicating that it is no longer busy, so presumably done. That's not a DMA-mapped command, so it wouldn't go through the ADMA machinery and I wouldn't have expected this to be handled any

Re: SATA hotplug from the user side ?

2007-01-14 Thread Tejun Heo
Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Jeff & Tejun thanks *a lot* for clarifying this. I am quite happy to see > that this is working very reliably! You're welcome. :-) >>> These messages sound eval - so now the question is should I care ? >>> ( On the other hand it did not crash the machine ) >> So, no,

Re: [PATCH] Cell SPU task notification

2007-01-14 Thread Michael Ellerman
> Subject: Enable SPU switch notification to detect currently active SPU tasks. > > From: Maynard Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This patch adds to the capability of spu_switch_event_register so that the > caller is also notified of currently active SPU tasks. It also exports >

Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-14 Thread Florin Iucha
Jiri and Trond, On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:14:09AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > > > All the testing was done via a ssh into the workstation. The console > > was left as booted into, with the gdm running. The remote nfs4 > > directory was mounted on

[ANNOUNCE] Guilt v0.18

2007-01-14 Thread Josef Sipek
Guilt v0.18 is available for download. Guilt (Git Quilt) is a series of bash scripts which add a Mercurial queues-like functionality and interface to git. Tarballs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jsipek/guilt/ Git repo:

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 15 Jan, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: >>>(Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button >>>next to "Help" in *config) >> >> Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for? > > Having "all(tm)" information of

Re: [RFC][PATCH] MMC: Major restructuring and cleanup

2007-01-14 Thread Philip Langdale
Pierre Ossman wrote: > > Eeeeww... This is a problem as the SD spec. clearly states the order of > init commands. So I wouldn't be surprised if we find SD cards that choke > on the MMC init sequence. > > I guess what we lose by not supporting these is 8 bit data bus, but as > we do not currently

Re: [patch] netfilter: implement TCPMSS target for IPv6

2007-01-14 Thread David Madore
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 09:10:45PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Jan 14 2007 20:20, David Madore wrote: > >Implement TCPMSS target for IPv6 by shamelessly copying from > >Marc Boucher's IPv4 implementation. > > Would not it be worthwhile to merge ipt_TCPMSS and > ip6t_TCPMSS to xt_TCPMSS

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.14 19:22:51 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > >Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite > >>often, with 2.6.19 there are no such exceptions. dmesg and lspci -v > >>output follows. In the meantime,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:07:18AM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:31:01AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > On 1/15/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > >> Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:24:21PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table > with the macros defined in pci_ids.h Why not use the PCI_DEVICE() macro too? It should make the lines even smaller. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this

Re: i810fb fails to load (was: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1)

2007-01-14 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:52:36 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With kernel 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and all hotfixes, i810fb fails to load on my > Dell Optiplex GX110. Here's an excerpt of the diff between the boot logs > of 2.6.20-rc5 (working) and 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 (non-working): > > @@

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: Björn Steinbrink wrote: Hi, with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite often, with 2.6.19 there are no such exceptions. dmesg and lspci -v output follows. In the meantime, I'll start bisecting. ... ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0

Re: [patch 00/12] Fix ppc64's writing to struct file_operations

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 10:55 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:54:11 + Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This doesn't appea to do the same thing at all. You need to select > > between two sets of const inode ops instead, otherwise you turn write on > > arbitarily. >

Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-14 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > All the testing was done via a ssh into the workstation. The console > was left as booted into, with the gdm running. The remote nfs4 > directory was mounted on "/mnt". After copying the 60+ GB and testing > that the keyboard was still functioning,

Re: heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-14 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 17:58 -0600, Florin Iucha wrote: > All the testing was done via a ssh into the workstation. The console > was left as booted into, with the gdm running. The remote nfs4 > directory was mounted on "/mnt". > > After copying the 60+ GB and testing that the keyboard was still

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 11:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Boot proceeds, but gets stuck hard at: > > > "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:" > > > > > > No SysRq-T, nothing. > > > > > > The above BUG seems unrelated to that.

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Stefan Richter wrote: > On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > >>(Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button >>next to "Help" in *config) > > > Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for? Having "all(tm)" information of something in one place? Help-Text and

heavy nfs[4]] causes fs badness Was: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-14 Thread Florin Iucha
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 04:57:01PM -0600, wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:54:34AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > It's still possible that this is hardware related; perhaps some component > > just began to wear out. If you return to an earlier kernel, does the > > problem go away? > > As

user pointer bugs

2007-01-14 Thread Suhabe Bugrara
Hello, In linux-2.6.19.2, do the following lines have bugs in them? It looks like they dereference a user pointer without first being checked by the "access_ok" macro to ensure that they point into userspace. Suhabe File: sound/isa/sscape.c Lines: 550, 665 Description:

Re: [PATCH] flush_cpu_workqueue: don't flush an empty ->worklist

2007-01-14 Thread Oleg Nesterov
How about the pseudo-code below? workqueue_mutex is only used to protect "struct list_head workqueues", all workqueue operations can run in parallel with cpuhotplug callback path. take_over_work(), migrate_sequence, CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE/RELEASE go away. I'd like to make a couple of cleanups (and fix

Re: [patch 00/12] Fix ppc64's writing to struct file_operations

2007-01-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 14:54:11 + Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This doesn't appea to do the same thing at all. You need to select > between two sets of const inode ops instead, otherwise you turn write on > arbitarily. Or something like below ... (compile tested on pseries, iseries and

i810fb fails to load (was: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1)

2007-01-14 Thread Tilman Schmidt
With kernel 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and all hotfixes, i810fb fails to load on my Dell Optiplex GX110. Here's an excerpt of the diff between the boot logs of 2.6.20-rc5 (working) and 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 (non-working): @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled. klogd 1.4.1, log

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: Hi, with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite often, with 2.6.19 there are no such exceptions. dmesg and lspci -v output follows. In the meantime, I'll start bisecting. ... ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Matthias Schniedermeyer
Richard Knutsson wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >> Richard Knutsson wrote: >> >> >>> Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: >>> >>> >>> Richard Knutsson wrote: > Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with > this?).

[PATCH 2.6.19] USB HID: proper LED-mapping (support for SpaceNavigator)

2007-01-14 Thread Simon Budig
From: Simon Budig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This change introduces a mapping for LED indicators between the USB HID specification and the Linux input subsystem. The previous code properly mapped the LEDs relevant for Keyboards, but garbeled the remaining ones. With this change all LED enums from the

Re: it821x trouble since 2.6.18

2007-01-14 Thread Alan
> 2. Trying to understand what has happened I found the main difference > is not in the driver but in ide-dma.c: > > --- linux-2.6.17.14/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c 2006-06-18 01:49:35.0 > + > +++ linux-2.6.18.6/drivers/ide/ide-dma.c2006-09-20 03:42:06.0 > + > @@ -752,7

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 06:31:01AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > On 1/15/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > >> Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table > >> with the macros defined in pci_ids.h > >> >

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > (Really liked the idea to have a "Maintainer"-button > next to "Help" in *config) Rhetorical question: What will this button be used for? -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= -===- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2)

2007-01-14 Thread Florin Iucha
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:54:34AM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > It's still possible that this is hardware related; perhaps some component > just began to wear out. If you return to an earlier kernel, does the > problem go away? As reported in my original e-mail and verified just minutes ago, the

it821x trouble since 2.6.18

2007-01-14 Thread Christoph Biedl
Hi, There are ITE 8212-based controllers installed in some of my computers. I had always skipped the build-in RAID things and used them as plain controllers. 1. Beginning with 2.6.18 there was some trouble, basically slowed data transfer, sometimes even a totally stalled system (I cannot

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Stefan Richter wrote: >> gcc -o test3.o test.c test.c >> > That produces just an executable file with a misleading name :) #-) [...] >> 3. When people notice that patches are misdirected too often, they will >>update MAINTAINERS. >> > You mean they

SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Björn Steinbrink
Hi, with 2.6.20-rc{2,4,5} (no other tested yet) I see SATA exceptions quite often, with 2.6.19 there are no such exceptions. dmesg and lspci -v output follows. In the meantime, I'll start bisecting. Thanks Björn Linux version 2.6.20-rc2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115

Re: "svc: unknown version (3)" when CONFIG_NFSD_V4=y

2007-01-14 Thread Neil Brown
On Saturday January 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 06:43:07AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Ok, thanks. I must have missed something else wrong in the code.. > > > > Probably this 'break' in the wrong place... > > > > Could you try this patch instead please - or

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:05 +1100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > raid seems to have severe problems with the plugging change. I'll try > > and find Neil and have a chat with him, hopefully we can work it out. > > Some hints: > > mount(1899): WRITE block

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 09:05 +1100, Jens Axboe wrote: > raid seems to have severe problems with the plugging change. I'll try > and find Neil and have a chat with him, hopefully we can work it out. Some hints: mount(1899): WRITE block 16424 on md3 call md_write_start md3_raid1(438): WRITE block

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 md problem

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Jan 12 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 12/01/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 12/01/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Friday, 12 January 2007 14:33, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > >> > My system hangs on this > >> > >

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1

2007-01-14 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Jan 14 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 11:46 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Boot proceeds, but gets stuck hard at: > > > "Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:" > > > > > > No SysRq-T, nothing. > > > > > > The above BUG seems unrelated to that.

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Richard Knutsson
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Richard Knutsson wrote: Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: Richard Knutsson wrote: Any thoughts on this is very much appreciated (is there any flaws with this?). The thought that crossed my mind was: Why not do the same thing that

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-14 Thread Richard Knutsson
Stefan Richter wrote: On 14 Jan, Richard Knutsson wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: [getting a wrong contact from looking at the MAINTAINERS file] Hopefully, but I think it is asking much of the maintainer and then there will certanly be confused/frustrated submitter who don't know why

Re: umask ignored in mkdir(2)?

2007-01-14 Thread Tigran Aivazian
I figured it out! I thought you might be interested --- the reason is the mismatch between the default mount options stored in the superblock on disk and the filesystem features compiled into the kernel. Namely, dumpe2fs on the offending filesystems showed the following default mount options:

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 20:47 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > When the scanner is not in use, the system automatically suspends it after > > two seconds.  When you use sane the scanner is resumed, but it then > > disconnects itself and reconnects.  Sane is left trying to control the > >

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:31 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > On 14 Jan, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > vmalloc space is limited; you really can't assume you can get any more > > than 64Mb or so (and even then it's thight on some systems already); > > I suppose "grep VmallocChunk /proc/meminfo" shows

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 14 Jan, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > vmalloc space is limited; you really can't assume you can get any more > than 64Mb or so (and even then it's thight on some systems already); I suppose "grep VmallocChunk /proc/meminfo" shows what is available? > it really sounds like vmalloc space isn't the

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread William Heimbigner
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In compiling: CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TTL.o LD [M] drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o CC [M] drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.o CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.o

incorrect TCP checksum on sent TCP-MD5 packets (2.6.20-rc5)

2007-01-14 Thread Torsten Luettgert
Hi, I'm using the new TCP-MD5 option in 2.6.20-rc4 and rc5 to talk BGP to cisco routers. My box connects to the cisco, and the handshake looks fine: SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK all have md5 option and correct TCP checksums. All packets after that, i.e. the ones with payload data, have wrong TCP checksums,

Re: [patch] netfilter: implement TCPMSS target for IPv6

2007-01-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 14 2007 20:20, David Madore wrote: > >Implement TCPMSS target for IPv6 by shamelessly copying from >Marc Boucher's IPv4 implementation. > >Signed-off-by: David A. Madore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Would not it be worthwhile to merge ipt_TCPMSS and ip6t_TCPMSS to xt_TCPMSS instead? -`J'

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: core dump masking support

2007-01-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Well, you can have it as set of 0-1 "limits"... > > I have come up with a similar idea of regarding the ulimit > value as a bitmask, and I think it may work. > But it will be confusable for users to add the new concept of > 0-1 limitation into the traditional resouce limitation feature.

Re: [patch] lockdep: shrink held_lock structure

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: [patch] lockdep: shrink held_lock structure > From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > shrink the held_lock structure from 40 to 20 bytes. This shrinks struct > task_struct from 3056 to 2464 bytes. > > [ From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

[patch] lockdep: shrink held_lock structure

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] lockdep: shrink held_lock structure From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shrink the held_lock structure from 40 to 20 bytes. This shrinks struct task_struct from 3056 to 2464 bytes. [ From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, shrunk hlock->class too. ] Shrunk MAX_KEYS_BITS from

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread icxcnika
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Prakash Punnoor wrote: Am Sonntag 14 Januar 2007 10:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 10:08 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: Am Donnerstag 11 Januar 2007 18:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-14 Thread Bodo Eggert
Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My point is, that there is code to handle sparse data now, without > O_DIRECT involved, and if O_DIRECT bypasses that, it's not a problem > with the idea of O_DIRECT, the kernel has a security problem. The idea of O_DIRECT is to bypass the pagecache,

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Dave Airlie
On 1/15/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table > with the macros defined in pci_ids.h > Hi, hmm this is actually the opposite direction than most of the kernel

[patch] netfilter: implement TCPMSS target for IPv6

2007-01-14 Thread David Madore
Implement TCPMSS target for IPv6 by shamelessly copying from Marc Boucher's IPv4 implementation. Signed-off-by: David A. Madore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Note: The patch for ip6tables to make use of this module can be obtained from ftp://quatramaran.ens.fr/pub/madore/misc/ip6t-TCPMSS/ > (also

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 20:19 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > On 10 Jan, Peter Antoniac wrote: > [...] > > Problem is: how to get the VMALLOC_RESERVED value for the kernel that is > > running? I couldn't find any standard way to do that (something to apply to > > GNU Linux and the like). All the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.20-rc4: usb somehow broken

2007-01-14 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Am Sonntag 14 Januar 2007 10:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > Am Sonntag, 14. Januar 2007 10:08 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: > > > Am Donnerstag 11 Januar 2007 18:28 schrieb Oliver Neukum: > > > > Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 18:20 schrieb Prakash Punnoor:

Re: allocation failed: out of vmalloc space error treating and VIDEO1394 IOC LISTEN CHANNEL ioctl failed problem

2007-01-14 Thread Stefan Richter
On 10 Jan, Peter Antoniac wrote: [...] > Problem is: how to get the VMALLOC_RESERVED value for the kernel that is > running? I couldn't find any standard way to do that (something to apply to > GNU Linux and the like). All the things I could get were the default value > being 128MiB :) and that

[2.6.20-rc5]KVM - Win98SE won't install

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Hardware list attached, and config. When scanning disk at the start of the install, exits with "signal 13 (0)" and no log entry. Just as the kvm dies there's a switch from the blue install screen to a white on black screen, and a message displays for a fraction of a sec, unreadably fast. I

Re: ahci_softreset prevents acpi_power_off

2007-01-14 Thread Faik Uygur
14 Oca 2007 Paz 20:06 tarihinde, Arjan van de Ven şunları yazmıştı: > Hi, Hi, > I'd be interested in finding out how to best test this; if the bios is > really broken I'd love to add a test to the Linux-ready Firmware > Developer Kit for this, so that BIOS developers can make sure future >

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-14 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Bodo Eggert wrote: > > > (*) This would allow fadvise_size(), too, which could reduce fragmentation > > (and give an early warning on full disks) without forcing e.g. fat to > > zero all blocks. OTOH, fadvise_size() would allow users to reserve

Re: Shrink the held_lock struct by using bitfields.

2007-01-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 18:38 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > + unsigned char irq_context:1; > + unsigned char trylock:1; > + unsigned char read:2; > + unsigned char check:1; > + unsigned char hardirqs_off:1; cool! I totally missed those. I'd even do this for 2.6.20, but

Re: ahci_softreset prevents acpi_power_off

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:59 +0200, Faik Uygur wrote: > 14 Oca 2007 Paz 03:23 tarihinde, Robert Hancock şunları yazmıştı: > >> [...] > >> > Since you're getting to this point I think this has to be some kind of > > BIOS interaction causing this. The only thing that happens after the > > "Entering

Re: ahci_softreset prevents acpi_power_off

2007-01-14 Thread Faik Uygur
14 Oca 2007 Paz 03:23 tarihinde, Robert Hancock şunları yazmıştı: >> [...] >> > Since you're getting to this point I think this has to be some kind of > BIOS interaction causing this. The only thing that happens after the > "Entering sleep state" is that the kernel writes to some ACPI registers

Re: ahci_softreset prevents acpi_power_off

2007-01-14 Thread Faik Uygur
14 Oca 2007 Paz 05:18 tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: >> [...] > > Since you're getting to this point I think this has to be some kind of > > BIOS interaction causing this. The only thing that happens after the > > "Entering sleep state" is that the kernel writes to some ACPI registers > > to tell

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:24 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table > with the macros defined in pci_ids.h > Hi, hmm this is actually the opposite direction than most of the kernel is heading in, mostly because the pci_ids.h file is a

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] intel_rng: substitue magic PCI IDs with macros

2007-01-14 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Substitue intel_rng magic PCI IDs values used in the IDs table with the macros defined in pci_ids.h Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I've used a small script to generate this patch then manually tried to make sure it's (hopefully) correct. #!/bin/bash

Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fully agree! NMI watchdog is high risk in terms of interacting with firmware and other things (and the code is sort of broken anyway) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: licence for LGPLed files

2007-01-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 14:32 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >There are various files (in my copy of the Ubuntu 2.6.15 source) which > >have an LGPL licence, but there isn't a copy of the licence in the > >distribution as there should be. Changing them to GPL seems the best > >thing to do. > >

[PATCH][REVISED] Remove all traces of "raw device" support.

2007-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove all traces of raw devices support, which were officially obsolete since 2.6.3. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- crap. the "allyesconfig" build worked, except when it came to installing the sanitized headers, whose include/linux/Kbuild file still had a

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:18:31 EST, Bill Davidsen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:03:49 EST, Lennart Sorensen said: I would expect any distribution should work on these (as long as the kernel they use isn't too old.). Of course if it is a Mac, you

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race

2007-01-14 Thread Eric Sandeen
Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've been looking at a case where many threads are opening, unlinking, and hardlinking files on ext3 . How many concurent threads do you use and how long does it takes to trigger this race? I've tried to reproduce this with two

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-14 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: If I got it right (and please someone tell me if I *really* got it right!), the problem is elsewhere. Suppose you have a filesystem, not at all related to databases and stuff. Your usual root filesystem, with your /etc/ /var and so on directories.

Re: [-mm patch] remove quirk_sis_96x_compatible()

2007-01-14 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Adrian: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:40:49AM -0500, Mark M. Hoffman wrote: > > It's just cruft from the original quirk. The "compatible" printk could have > > had value as a diagnostic in case the new quirk didn't work for some reason, > > but I never saw any complaints about it (apart from

[PATCH] Remove "raw devices" support.

2007-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove all traces of "raw devices" support. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- since this feature is listed as being obsolete since 2.6.3 and was scheduled for removal back in Dec of 2005, I figure there wasn't much harm in getting rid of it. i'm trying a "make

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In compiling: > CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TTL.o > LD [M] drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o > CC [M] drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.o > CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.o > drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.c: In function 'net2280_probe': >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread icxcnika
In compiling: CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_TTL.o LD [M] drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o CC [M] drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.o CC [M] net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.o drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.c: In function 'net2280_probe': drivers/usb/gadget/net2280.c:2969: warning: ignoring return

Re: [patch] disable NMI watchdog by default

2007-01-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > And with this my laptop (Lenovo T60) also stops its sporadic hard > hanging (sometimes in acpi_init(), sometimes later during bootup, > sometimes much later during actual use) as well. It hung with both > nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2, so it's

Re: [patch 00/12] Fix ppc64's writing to struct file_operations

2007-01-14 Thread Alan
> .read = seq_read, > + .write = lparcfg_write, > .open = lparcfg_open, > .release= single_release, > }; > @@ -581,10 +582,8 @@ int __init lparcfg_init(void) > > /* Allow writing if we have FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR */ > if

Re: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1: different values for OHCI_QUIRK_ZFMICRO

2007-01-14 Thread David Brownell
On Sunday 14 January 2007 1:10 am, Adrian Bunk wrote: > <-- snip --> Waiting for Tony to submit bugfixes to his driver... > ... > CC drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.o > /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c:2307:1: > warning: "OHCI_QUIRK_ZFMICRO"

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