Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 4/4] sys_futex64 : allows 64bit futexes

2007-01-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 10:04:53AM +0100, Pierre Peiffer wrote: Hi, This latest patch is an adaptation of the sys_futex64 syscall provided in -rt patch (originally written by Ingo). It allows the use of 64bit futex. Big NACK here, we

Re: Linux 2.6.19.2 : Oops

2007-01-17 Thread Nicolas Bareil
On 18 Jan 2007, Greg KH wrote: Since 2.6.19, I get the following Oops once a day, always with the same process, newspipe[1] which use a lot of CPU, threads and I/O. ... Can you reproduce it without the grsec patch applied? I'm compiling a new kernel and will try it soon! -- Nicolas

Re: [PATCH] Provide an interface to limit total page cache.

2007-01-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Roy Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A patch provide a interface to limit total page cache in /proc/sys/vm/pagecache_ratio. The default value is 90 percent. Any feedback is appreciated. Anything except a default value of 100% will change the behavior and probably reduce the performance on most

Re: after effects of a kernel API change

2007-01-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rajat Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way volunteers like me can help in this exercise? See the /APIchanges in the Kernel Janitors TODO list http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors/Todo Hi, This is regarding the link posted above. 1) How do I make sure if some one is NOT

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1] JFS: Avoid deadlock introduced by explicit I/O plugging

2007-01-17 Thread Josef Sipek
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: ... diff -Nurp linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/fs/jfs/jfs_lock.h linux/fs/jfs/jfs_lock.h --- linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/fs/jfs/jfs_lock.h2006-11-29 15:57:37.0 -0600 +++ linux/fs/jfs/jfs_lock.h 2007-01-17 15:30:19.0 -0600 @@

Re: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl

2007-01-17 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 09:33 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: There has not been much maintenance on sysctl in years, and as a result is there is a lot to do to allow future interesting work to happen, and being ambitious I'm trying to do it all at once :) s390 parts look good. Kernels boots and

Re: [PATCH 14/59] sysctl: C99 convert xfs ctl_tables

2007-01-17 Thread Kirill Korotaev
minor extra space in table below... Kirill From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sysctl.c | 258 1 files changed, 180 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 25/59] sysctl: C99 convert arch/frv/kernel/pm.c

2007-01-17 Thread Kirill Korotaev
another small minor note. From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/frv/kernel/pm.c | 50 +++--- 1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: [PATCH 33/59] sysctl: s390 move sysctl definitions to sysctl.h

2007-01-17 Thread Kirill Korotaev
IDs not sorted in enum. see below. From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted We need to have the the definition of all top level sysctl directories registers in sysctl.h so we don't conflict by accident and cause abi problems. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 50/59] sysctl: Move utsname sysctls to their own file

2007-01-17 Thread Kirill Korotaev
Eric, though I personally don't care much: 1. I ask for not setting your authorship/copyright on the code which you just copied from other places. Just doesn't look polite IMHO. 2. I would propose to not introduce utsname_sysctl.c. both files are too small and minor that I can't see much

Re: [PATCH 51/59] sysctl: Move SYSV IPC sysctls to their own file

2007-01-17 Thread Kirill Korotaev
1. I ask for not setting your authorship/copyright on the code which you just copied from other places. Just doesn't look polite IMHO. 2. please don't name files like ipc/ipc_sysctl.c ipc/sysctl.c sounds better IMHO. 3. any reason to introduce CONFIG_SYSVIPC_SYSCTL? why not simply do

Re: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl

2007-01-17 Thread Kirill Korotaev
Eric, really good job! Patches: 1-13, 15-24, 26-32, 34-44, 46-49, 52-55, 57 (all except below) Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/59 - minor (extra space) 25/59 - minor note 33/59 - not sorted sysctl IDs 45/59 - typo 50/59 - copyright/file note 51/59 - copyright/file

Re: [PATCH 0/59] Cleanup sysctl

2007-01-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, really good job! Patches: 1-13, 15-24, 26-32, 34-44, 46-49, 52-55, 57 (all except below) Acked-By: Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] 14/59 - minor (extra space) 25/59 - minor note 33/59 - not sorted sysctl IDs 45/59 - typo 50/59 -

Re: [PATCH 50/59] sysctl: Move utsname sysctls to their own file

2007-01-17 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Kirill Korotaev [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Eric, though I personally don't care much: 1. I ask for not setting your authorship/copyright on the code which you just copied from other places. Just doesn't look polite IMHO. I can't claim complete ownership of the code, there was plenty of feed

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