Re: trouble loading self compiled vanilla kernel

2007-01-18 Thread Jonas Svensson
On 8 Jan 2007 at 9:40, Vadim Lobanov wrote: > In my experience on openSUSE, the following sequence of commands > installs both the kernel and the initrd: > make *config* > make > make modules_install > make install > However, if the order of the last two make invocations

Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?

2007-01-18 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Al Borchers wrote: Thomas Chmielewski wrote: These all unpleasant tasks could be avoided if it was possible to have a "fallback" device. For example, consider this hypothetical command line: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 Here is a patch to do this, though it sounds

REQ: advice on tuning via-velocity parameters

2007-01-18 Thread Brian Hall
I have a GBe Via Velocity NIC on an Abit AV8 motherboard, with 1GB DDR and a 3700+ CPU, running kernel 2.6.19. When I push a lot of data via TCP-mounted NFS, I get a lot of these messages in the system log and the machine is briefly slow to respond: eth0: excessive work at interrupt. I am

[PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt

2007-01-18 Thread Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Documentation for lib/rbtree.c. -- I'm not an expert on this but I was asked to write up some documentation for rbtree in the Linux kernel, and as long as it's there... I'm sure if I screwed something up somebody will point it out to me, loudly.

Re: 2.6.20-rc2: kernel BUG at include/asm/dma-mapping.h:110!

2007-01-18 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote on 2007-01-02: > Kyuma Ohta wrote: > ... >> Now,I'm testing 2.6.20-rc3 for x86_64, submitted patch for this issue; >> "Fault has happened in 'cleanuped' sbp2/1394 module in *not 32bit* >> architecture hardwares ." >> >> As result of, sbp2 driver in 2.6.20-rc3 is seems to running >> w/o

[RESEND][PATCH] 9p: fix bogus return code checks during initialization

2007-01-18 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
There is a simple logic error in init_v9fs - the return code checks are reversed. This patch fixes the return code and adds some messages to prevent module initialization from failing silently. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/9p/mux.c |4 +++- fs/9p/v9fs.c |

Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-01-18 Thread noah
Hi! I'm experiencing data corruption in the following setup: 1. mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n3 -lraid5 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hde1 2. cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiva:sha256 luksFormat /dev/md0 mykey 3. cryptsetup -d mykey luksOpen /dev/md0 cryptvol 4. pvcreate /dev/mapper/cryptvol 5. vgcreate vg0

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Bodo Eggert
Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/18/07, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: >> > 2. Set command_line as __initdata. >> You can't. >> >> > -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; >> > +static char __initdata

2.6.20-rc5: known regressions with patches (v2)

2007-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc5 compared to 2.6.19 with patches available If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any

Re: [PATCH/RFC 2.6.21] ehca: ehca_uverbs.c: refactor ehca_mmap() for better readability

2007-01-18 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
No problem. Will resend the full patch set for 2.6.21. Thanks Nam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18.01.2007 13:56:01: > I've kind of lost the plot here. How does this patch fit in with the > previous series of patches you posted? Does it replace them or go on > top of them? > > Can please you

Re: [RFC 7/8] Exclude unreclaimable pages from dirty ration calculation

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Nikita Danilov wrote: > I think that simpler solution of this problem is to use only potentially > reclaimable pages (that is, active, inactive, and free pages) to > calculate writeout threshold. This way there is no need to maintain > counters for unreclaimable pages. Below

2.6.20-rc5: knwon unfixed regressions (v2) (part2)

2007-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc5 compared to 2.6.19. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

2.6.20-rc5: knwon unfixed regressions (v2) (part1)

2007-01-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in 2.6.20-rc5 compared to 2.6.19. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Questions on PCI express AER support in HBA driver

2007-01-18 Thread Allexio Ju
Hi, I've got some questions on supporting PCI Express AER in Linux HBA drivers. BTW, I'm developing SCSI HBA driver. What are the expected changes on SCSI LLD driver in regards to PCIE AER supporting? I understood that the driver need to call following API during probing, --- if

[ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-18 Thread Alessandro Di Marco
Hi all, this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as

Re: PATCH: Update disable_IO_APIC to use 8-bit destination field (X86_64)

2007-01-18 Thread Benjamin Romer
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:14 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Benjamin Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:30 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:10:55AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > > >>

Re: kernel 2.6.19 bug report --> "atkbd.c:spurious ACK on isa...." when boot from SATA hd, no way to start system

2007-01-18 Thread Alan J. Wylie
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:50:24 +0100, "Daniel Gonzalez Schiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > When boot with SATA HD --> "atkbd.c:spurious ACK on > isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware > directly." > When booting with normal hd no problem. The problems are almost certainly

Re: [PATCH] IDE Driver for Delkin/Lexar/etc.. cardbus CF adapter

2007-01-18 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On 1/13/07, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 23:17, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > My working IDE tree (against Linus' tree) now resides here: > > http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bart/pata-2.6/patches/ Bart, here's a driver I've been keeping

Re: [PATCH/RFC 2.6.21] ehca: ehca_uverbs.c: refactor ehca_mmap() for better readability

2007-01-18 Thread Roland Dreier
I've kind of lost the plot here. How does this patch fit in with the previous series of patches you posted? Does it replace them or go on top of them? Can please you resend me the full series of patch that remove the use of do_mmap(), with all cleanups and bug fixes included? And please roll

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3]: 8139cp: Don't blindly enable interrupts

2007-01-18 Thread Chris Lalancette
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Chris Lalancette wrote: > >> Francois Romieu wrote: >> >>> Chris Lalancette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : >>> [...] >>> >>> Thanks for the comments. While the patch you sent will help, there are still other places that will have problems. For example, in

Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?

2007-01-18 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: I managed to compile a "Testing" 1.4.31 version (in fact, version 1.4 didn't compile because I didn't have a "linux" link pointing to kernel sources; version 1.4.31 tells that it's missing - so both versions compile fine). At this point, 1.4.31 is probably what

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 06:31:53PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > skbs are the most extensively used path. > > Actually the same is applied to route - dst_entries and rtable are > > allocated through own wrappers. > > Still, edit all places and perhaps forget one and make

Re: [RFC] pci_bus conversion to struct device

2007-01-18 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Thursday, January 18, 2007 1:00 am, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 09:14:06AM +0100, Martin Mares wrote: > > Hello! > > > > > I recommend we just delete the pci_bus class. I don't think it > > > serves any useful purpose. The bridge can be inferred frmo the > > > sysfs hierarchy

Re: PATCH: Update disable_IO_APIC to use 8-bit destination field (X86_64)

2007-01-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Benjamin Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:30 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:10:55AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > >> > > Or how about making physical_dest field also 8bit like logical_dest

Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

2007-01-18 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Nadia Derbey wrote: > > Trying to mmap /dev/kmem with an offset I take from /boot/System.map, > I get an EIO error on a 2.6.20-rc4. > This is something that used to work on older kernels. > > Had a look at mmap_kmem() in drivers/char/mem.c, and I'm wondering whether > pfn is

Re: [PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros

2007-01-18 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:35:18PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove > identical (and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source > files. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nice clenaup, thanks!

Re: [PATCH] Print number of oopses in Sysrq-P output

2007-01-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:05:22PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > From: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Useful in deciding whether said output should be ignored > in absence of other info. :) > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL

[PATCH] extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Extend the set of "__attribute__" shortcut macros, and remove identical (and now superfluous) definitions from a couple of source files. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- based on a page at robert love's blog: http://rlove.org/log/2005102601 extend the set

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 18:50 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:58 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > > Network is special in this regard, since it only has one allocation path > >

Re: PATCH: Update disable_IO_APIC to use 8-bit destination field (X86_64)

2007-01-18 Thread Benjamin Romer
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:30 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:10:55AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Or how about making physical_dest field also 8bit like logical_dest field. > > > This will work both for 4bit and 8bit

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the macro definition of "__packed".

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > actually, it *appears* that the standard works this way. the macro > > "__deprecated" is defined in compiler-gcc.h with: > > > > #define __deprecated __attribute__((deprecated)) > > > > while the

Re: A question about break and sysrq on a serial console (2.6.19.1)

2007-01-18 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:52:49AM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:47 +, Russell King wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:19:47AM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:13 +, Russell King wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:56:54PM -0800,

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the macro definition of "__packed".

2007-01-18 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > actually, it *appears* that the standard works this way. the macro > "__deprecated" is defined in compiler-gcc.h with: > > #define __deprecated __attribute__((deprecated)) > > while the more generic compiler.h handles whether or not it was >

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the macro definition of "__packed".

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Tim Schmielau wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > Centralize the attribute macro definition of "__packed" so no > > subsystem has to do that explicitly. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > > > compile tested

[PATCH] Print number of oopses in Sysrq-P output

2007-01-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
From: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Useful in deciding whether said output should be ignored in absence of other info. :) Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/process.c |4 +++-

Re: A question about break and sysrq on a serial console (2.6.19.1)

2007-01-18 Thread Brian Beattie
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:47 +, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:19:47AM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 09:13 +, Russell King wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:56:54PM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: > > > > I'm trying to do a SYSRQ over a serial

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the macro definition of "__packed".

2007-01-18 Thread Tim Schmielau
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Centralize the attribute macro definition of "__packed" so no > subsystem has to do that explicitly. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > compile tested to make sure the HFS subsystem still builds. now > there's

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3]: 8139cp: Don't blindly enable interrupts

2007-01-18 Thread Jeff Garzik
Chris Lalancette wrote: Francois Romieu wrote: Chris Lalancette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] Thanks for the comments. While the patch you sent will help, there are still other places that will have problems. For example, in netpoll_send_skb, we call local_irq_save(flags), then call

unable to mmap /dev/kmem

2007-01-18 Thread Nadia Derbey
Hi there, Trying to mmap /dev/kmem with an offset I take from /boot/System.map, I get an EIO error on a 2.6.20-rc4. This is something that used to work on older kernels. Had a look at mmap_kmem() in drivers/char/mem.c, and I'm wondering whether pfn is correctly computed there: shouldn't we

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:29:14AM +0100, joachim wrote: > Not only has it only been on Nvidia chipsets but we have only seen > reports on the Nvidia CK804 SATA controller. People have reported problems with other controllers. I have one here I can test given a day or so. I don't think it's

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:00:28AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote: > I just tried again and while using iommu=soft does avoid the > corruption problem, as with previous kernels with 2.6.20-rc5 using > iommu=soft still makes my pcHDTV HD5500 DVB cards not work. i would file a separate bug about that,

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the macro definition of "__packed".

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Centralize the attribute macro definition of "__packed" so no > subsystem has to do that explicitly. ummm ... might want to ignore this submission, i want to do some tweaking first. sorry. rday - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Consolidate bust_spinlocks()

2007-01-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:39:25PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > NACK for the s390 part. lib/bust_spinlocks.c does an unblank_screen if > CONFIG_VT is defined. That is not good enough for s390 because we do not > have CONFIG_VT nor unblank_screen but still require that console_unblank > is

Re: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:23:46AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > > > CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size > > might result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some > > platforms (for example typical 32bit

Re: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

2007-01-18 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:23:46AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size > might result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some > platforms (for example typical 32bit MIPS). Make it (and > CARDBUS_IO_SIZE too)

Linux kernel - TI 2430 does not boot in nand

2007-01-18 Thread Ram
Hi, Im using Linux 2.6.14-omap-2430ONLY linux which i downloaded for linux.omap.com (This kernel is a TI specific kernel maintained internally by TI) Im using a TI 2430 SDP board. This kernel, im able to boot in NOR flash, but not in NAND flash. However, im able to boot 2.6.19 in NOR

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:10:52PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:58 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > Network is special in this regard, since it only has one allocation path > > (actually it has one cache for skb, and usual kmalloc, but they are

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control

2007-01-18 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 14:27 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 16:54 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:52 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/inode.c > > > > >

Re: [RFC 7/8] Exclude unreclaimable pages from dirty ration calculation

2007-01-18 Thread Nikita Danilov
Christoph Lameter writes: > Consider unreclaimable pages during dirty limit calculation > > Tracking unreclaimable pages helps us to calculate the dirty ratio > the right way. If a large number of unreclaimable pages are allocated > (through the slab or through huge pages) then write

Re: [PATCH] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers

2007-01-18 Thread Alan Stern
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'll be happy to move this over to the utrace setting, once it is > > > merged. Do you think it would be better to include the current > > > version of kwatch now or to wait for utrace? > > >

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/18/07, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you want to place a variable in a specific section, it must be explicitly initialised. Eg, static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE] = ""; However, there is a bigger question here: that is the tradeoff between making this

[PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

2007-01-18 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size might result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some platforms (for example typical 32bit MIPS). Make it (and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE too) customizable for such platforms. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <[EMAIL

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > >> -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > >> +static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > > > > Uninitialised data is

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: >> -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; >> +static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > > Uninitialised data is placed in the BSS. Adding __initdata to BSS > data causes grief. >

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 16:58 +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Network is special in this regard, since it only has one allocation path > (actually it has one cache for skb, and usual kmalloc, but they are > called from only two functions). > > So it would become > ptr = network_alloc(); > and

[PATCH] Centralize the macro definition of "__packed".

2007-01-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Centralize the attribute macro definition of "__packed" so no subsystem has to do that explicitly. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- compile tested to make sure the HFS subsystem still builds. now there's just 50 gazillion usages of "__attribute__((packed))" that can

Re: PROBLEM: writting files > 100 MB in FAT32

2007-01-18 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
"Condor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I no longer can make tests because i remove my fat32 from my usb stick and > i put it in to FAT16 and i make the exact tests and file is worked but on > fat16 not in fat32. I just report the problem, to be investigate from > kernel developers. Could you

Re: PATCH: Update disable_IO_APIC to use 8-bit destination field (X86_64)

2007-01-18 Thread Benjamin Romer
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:30 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:10:55AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Or how about making physical_dest field also 8bit like logical_dest field. > > > This will work both for 4bit and 8bit

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/18/07, Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > 2. Set command_line as __initdata. You can't. > -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > +static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; Uninitialised data is

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Erik Andersen wrote: > I just tried again and while using iommu=soft does avoid the > corruption problem, as with previous kernels with 2.6.20-rc5 > using iommu=soft still makes my pcHDTV HD5500 DVB cards not work. > I still have to disable memhole and lose 1 GB. :-( Please add this to the

Re: PROBLEM: writting files > 100 MB in FAT32

2007-01-18 Thread Condor
> On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 11:22 +0200, Condor wrote: >> Hello, >> >> [1.] Files if > 100 MB saving in USB memory stick 4 GB with FAT32. While >> saving all files is broken. > im sorry, i do not understand this. > > you are saying that if you copy files larger than 100mb into drive, all > files die?

[PATCH] rdmsr_on_cpu, wrmsr_on_cpu

2007-01-18 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
There was OpenVZ specific bug rendering some cpufreq drivers unusable on SMP. In short, when cpufreq code thinks it confined itself to needed cpu by means of set_cpus_allowed() to execute rdmsr, some "virtual cpu" feature can migrate process to anywhere. This triggers bugons and does wrong things

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

2007-01-18 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
joachim wrote: > Not only has it only been on Nvidia chipsets but we have only seen > reports on the Nvidia CK804 SATA controller. Please write in or add > yourself to the bugzilla entry [1] and tell us which hardware you have > if you get 4kB pagesize corruption and it goes away with

Re: kernel cmdline: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 "fallback"?

2007-01-18 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Al Borchers wrote: Thomas Chmielewski wrote: These all unpleasant tasks could be avoided if it was possible to have a "fallback" device. For example, consider this hypothetical command line: root=/dev/sdb1,/dev/sda1 Here is a patch to do this, though it sounds like you might have other

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

2007-01-18 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 01:30 -0500, Josef Sipek wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > /* > > * jfs_lock.h > > @@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ do { > > \ > > if (cond) \ > >

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Russell King
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > 2. Set command_line as __initdata. You can't. > -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > +static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; Uninitialised data is placed in the BSS. Adding __initdata to BSS data

long disable of Softirqs in br_forward_delay_timer_expired()

2007-01-18 Thread Juergen Pfeiffer
Hi I had problems in my implementation of Profibus-protocol, because my FDL-State machine is implemented in tasklets and sometimes there were situations, where Soft-Irqs were disabled for 20-40mS (Coldfire 5485 / 96MHz). After inserting some testpoints in kernels source, doing dump_stack(),

Re: What does this scsi error mean ?

2007-01-18 Thread Olivier Galibert
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:14:52PM +, Alan wrote: > > Both smart and the internal blade diagnostics say "everything is a-ok > > with the drive, there hasn't been any error ever except a bunch of > > corrected ECC ones, and no more than with a similar drive in another > > working blade". Hence

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

2007-01-18 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > 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. Are you sure percentage is right thing to use? 1% of 200GB machine is 2GB... granularity seems too big here. KB? parts per million?

Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:18:44PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > How would that end up being different, I would have to replace all > > > allocations done in the full network processing path. > > > > > > This seems a much less invasive method, all the (allocation) code

kernel 2.6.19 bug report --> "atkbd.c:spurious ACK on isa...." when boot from SATA hd, no way to start system

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Gonzalez Schiller
When boot with SATA HD --> "atkbd.c:spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly." When booting with normal hd no problem. I've searched in changelog but nothing found. more people with this problem:

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control

2007-01-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 16:54 -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 22:52 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > > > > > Index: linux-2.6-git/fs/inode.c > > > > === > > > > --- linux-2.6-git.orig/fs/inode.c

[patch 15/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - parisc

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/parisc/kernel/setup.c |8 arch/parisc/mm/init.c |4 ++-- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index:

Re: [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout

2007-01-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pierre Peiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar a écrit : > >* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > >>The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the > >>timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real > >>timeout. > > >

[patch 20/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sh64

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/sh64/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 22/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sparc64

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/sparc64/kernel/setup.c |2 +- arch/sparc64/kernel/sparc64_ksyms.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 21/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sparc

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c |2 +- arch/sparc/kernel/sparc_ksyms.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/sparc/kernel/setup.c

[patch 23/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - um

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- arch/um/include/user_util.h |2 +- arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c|2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 10/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ia64

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c |4 ++-- arch/ia64/kernel/sal.c |4 ++-- arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5

[patch 24/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - v850

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- arch/v850/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/v850/kernel/setup.c

[patch 04/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm26

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/arm26/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/arm26/kernel/setup.c

[patch 06/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - cris

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set cris_command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/cris/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/cris/kernel/setup.c

[patch 19/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - sh

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/sh/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 01/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - common

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line, mark as init disposable. 2. Add dynamic allocated saved_command_line. 3. Add dynamic allocated static_command_line. 4. During startup copy: boot_command_line into saved_command_line. arch command_line into static_command_line. 5. Parse

[patch 16/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - powerpc

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/legacy_serial.c |2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c |2 +- arch/powerpc/kernel/udbg.c |2 +- arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/setup.c

[patch 17/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - ppc

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/ppc/kernel/setup.c |2 +- arch/ppc/platforms/lopec.c |2 +- arch/ppc/platforms/pplus.c |2 +- arch/ppc/platforms/prep_setup.c |4 ++-- 4 files changed, 5

[patch 08/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - h8300

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/h8300/kernel/setup.c

[patch 18/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - s390

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/s390/kernel/setup.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/s390/kernel/setup.c

[patch 11/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - m32r

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/m32r/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/m32r/kernel/setup.c

[patch 14/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - mips

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mips/kernel/setup.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c

[patch 12/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - m68k

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c

[patch 07/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - frv

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/frv/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/frv/kernel/setup.c

[patch 13/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - m68knommu

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/m68knommu/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/m68knommu/kernel/setup.c

[patch 09/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - i386

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/head.S |2 +- arch/i386/kernel/setup.c |4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 25/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - x86_64

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- arch/x86_64/kernel/head64.c|4 ++-- arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- include/asm-x86_64/bootsetup.h |2 +- 3 files changed,

[patch 05/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - avr32

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/avr32/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 26/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - xtensa

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/xtensa/kernel/setup.c

[patch 00/26] Dynamic kernel command-line

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch has already been posted by Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in 2nd Dec 2006. He didn't get any response. Because I think that this patch would be really useful being able to increase the command line, I post this patch again to get some response. This patches are against

[patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/arm/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/arm/kernel/setup.c

[patch 02/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - alpha

2007-01-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
1. Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. 2. Set command_line as __initdata. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/arch/alpha/kernel/setup.c

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