[git patches] ocfs2 fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Mark Fasheh
Hi Linus, This update is just a small set of ocfs2 fixes suitable for merging late in the cycle as they're all either straightforward or trivial. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2.git upstream-linus to receive the

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Here is a serial driver patch for the PMC-Sierra MSP71xx device. There are three different fixes: 1. Fix for THRE errata 2. Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write 3. Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue The first fix is handled cleanly using a

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... > -Original Message- > From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:18 AM > To: Marc St-Jean > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Auke Kok
Jeff Garzik wrote: Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus Jeff, is there a reason that you didn't pull the e1000 tree from us? I send you all the information 5 days ago, WITH the changes that you

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl |2 +- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |4 drivers/ata/sata_mv.c |5

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/net/8139cp.c|7 +- drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c | 23 - drivers/net/sis190.c

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > > > Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However,

[BUG] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference...as_move_to_dispatch+0x11/0x135

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Vasquez
All, We've been trying to track down a nagging regression seen during some port-disable/enable testing. The problem occurs anywhere from 20 minutes to 120 minutes of testing under very minimal I/O load: [ 1143.890598] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from > > the list you give below are acpi modules, bluetooth and usb. I'd also be > > consider pcmcia, drm and fuse possibilities. But again, go for unloading > > everything possible in the first instance. > > Actually,

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this > happens every time! > > Anything to try? Any

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:17:33 +0300 > Ugh, I'm not seeing any *actual* support for MW/SW DMA in this driver... Thats long been broken. Should be correct in the libata driver Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: i810fb fails to load

2007-01-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.01.2007 14:42 schrieb Thomas Hellström: >>> 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. [...] >> > Can you try the attached patch to see if that fixes the

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and > K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. K is Kelvin, k is kilo- See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Jakub Narebski
Junio C Hamano wrote: > GIT v1.5.0 Release Notes (draft) > Would they be somewhere besides todo branch of git.git repository, like the v1.5.0 tag comment (content), or the NEWS file? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Rik van Riel
Theodore Tso wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) Understand that one

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On 1/15/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Jens Axboe wrote: >>> I'd be surprised if the device would not obey the 7 second timeout rule >>> that seems to be set in stone and not allow more dirty in-drive cache >>> than it

Re: problems with latest smbfs changes on 2.4.34 and security backports

2007-01-22 Thread dann frazier
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:50:47AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:03:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/other$ uname -r > 2.4.34b > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/other$ mkdir test > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/other$ ln -s test testlink > ln:

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable ->{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize ->ultra_mask in aec62xx, pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old drivers * fix UDMA

[-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: >... > git-ieee1394.patch >... > git trees >... This patch contains the following cleanups: - "extern inline" -> "static inline" - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Carl Worth
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:20:06 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Also, in the same spirit of giving the release an early > exposure, here is the current draft of 1.5.0 release notes. Thanks, these are very good and really show how much great progress has gone into git recently. Congratulations to

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Subject: nfs: fix congestion control I am not sure if its too valuable since I have limited experience with NFS but it looks fine to me. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence().

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 13:28 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete > smp_commence() call. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks, Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingo - To unsubscribe from this

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.22 17:57:08 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.22 17:12:40 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > > Hmm, another miss, apparently.. Has anyone tried removing these lines > > > >from nv_host_intr in 2.6.20-rc5 sata_nv.c and see

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:35:46 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily > > dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, > > and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > > > > > at the

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:20:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:23:30 +0300, Samium Gromoff said: > > > > not "core-dumps" but "core files", in the lispspeak, but anyway. > > > > the reason is trivial -- if i can write programs enjoying setuid > > privileges in C, i want to

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt (updated)

2007-01-22 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 19 January 2007 5:41 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:33:25 -0500 Rob Landley wrote: > > > 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

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > In general, though, I would agree that the major number should change if there > is an incompatible change. Maybe when those incompatible features are enabled by default. Right now they're not. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19

2007-01-22 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Luigi Genoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (e-mail resent because not delivered using my other e-mail account) > > Hi, > this night a linux server 8 dual core CPU Optern 2600Mhz crashed just after > giving this message > > Jan 22 04:48:28 frey kernel: do_IRQ: 1.98 No irq handler for vector Ok.

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 10:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing >> to accept new terms? For my taste, kib and mib are even easier to >> speech, easier than {KiLoBytE} resp. {MeGaBytE} or KaaaBe / eMmmBe. > >There is too much legacy code

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 10:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >as opposed to the 100+ *other* definitions currently cluttering up the >tree, which this patch would allow to be deleted *immediately*. > >forget it. i can see this argument is going nowhere and that, six >months from now, some poor sucker is

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.22 17:12:40 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > >>Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >>>All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ >

[PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs

2007-01-22 Thread Hugh Dickins
Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by a kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666, and mkdir

[PATCH - revised] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Stern
From: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch (as839b) implements the Kwatch (kernel-space hardware-based watchpoints) API for the i386 architecture. The API is explained in the kerneldoc for register_kwatch() in arch/i386/kernel/kwatch.c, and there is demonstration code in

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin D. Kissell
> On Jan 21 2007 00:14, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:42:37PM +, sathesh babu wrote: > > > >> I am trying to run Linux-2.6.18.2 ( with preemption enable) > >> kernel on FPGA board which has MIPS24KE processor runs at 12 > >> MHZ. Programmed the timer to give interrupt

Re: [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-22 Thread Jay Cliburn
Arjan, thank you very much for reviewing the driver. Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 15:06 -0600, Jay Cliburn wrote: [snip] +void atl1_irq_disable(struct atl1_adapter *adapter) +{ + atomic_inc(>irq_sem); + iowrite32(0, adapter->hw.hw_addr + REG_IMR); +

revert "Fix up" of mmap_kmem

2007-01-22 Thread Hugh Dickins
Please revert 2.6.19's 99a10a60ba9bedcf5d70ef81414d3e03816afa3f (shown below) for 2.6.20. Nadia Derbey has reported that mmap of /dev/kmem no longer works with the kernel virtual address as offset, and Franck has confirmed that his patch came from a misunderstanding of what an offset means to

[GIT PATCH] HID fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jiri Kosina
Hi Linus, could you please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus or master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive bugfixes for HID code. Thanks. --- MAINTAINERS |5

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Horman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:03:53AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Neil Horman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:59:56PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > > > > > > the ERESTARTNOHAND thing is handled in arch specific signal code, > > > > In the signal handling path

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Liang Yang
Do we need to consider the chunk size when we adjust the value of Striped_Cache_Szie for the MD-RAID5 array? Liang - Original Message - From: "Justin Piszcz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:18 AM Subject: Re: change

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable ->{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize ->ultra_mask in aec62xx, pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old drivers * fix UDMA

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-22 Thread Phillip Susi
Denis Vlasenko wrote: The difference is that you block exactly when you try to access data which is not there yet, not sooner (potentially much sooner). If application (e.g. database) needs to know whether data is _really_ there, it should use aio_read (or something better, something which

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3

2007-01-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 08:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Subject: nfs: fix congestion control > > The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the > backing > device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't mirror this in > nfs_writepage() which makes for

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >>Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >>>All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ > >>> > >>>Björn > >>> > >>OK guys, here's a new patch to try

Re: reiserfs4 primary contact

2007-01-22 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Monday 22 January 2007 18:48, Timothy Webster wrote: > I am curious, who is coordinating reiserfs4 bug fixes, > testing and kernel integration work at this point? > I would like to help out with auto testing the reiserfs4 builds. Thanks > Who is coordinating this work? All

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Neil Horman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:59:56PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > > > > the ERESTARTNOHAND thing is handled in arch specific signal code, > > In the signal handling path yes. Right. > Not always in the case of select, though. Check core_sys_select:

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Linus may be right that perhaps one day the CPU will be so much faster > than disk that such a copy will not be measurable and then O_DIRECT > could be downgraded to O_STREAMING or an fadvise. If such a day will > come by, probably that same day Dr. Tanenbaum will be

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:37:24PM +0200, S.ط£â€،aط¤إ¸lar Onur wrote: > >> 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde ط¥إ¸unlarط¤ï؟½ yazmط¤ï؟½ط¥إ¸tط¤ï؟½nط¤ï؟½z: > >>> RSS feed of the git tree: > >>>

Re: [RFC] Asynchronous Messaging

2007-01-22 Thread Wink Saville
On 1/22/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is accomplished by allocating a page (or more) of memory which > is executable and mapped into every threads address space. Also, all > ISR entry points are modified to detect if the code that was interrupted > was executing within the ACE page.

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:10:00PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > And I cannot seriosly believe that you are cappable of reading his > examples. Megabananas are a ridiculous demonstration becase of the > object beeing counted itself, but if you take stuff from real life then > I doubt that you

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-22 Thread Phillip Susi
Denis Vlasenko wrote: What will happen if we just make open ignore O_DIRECT? ;) And then anyone who feels sad about is advised to do it like described here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/5/11/58 Then database and other high performance IO users will be broken. Most of Linus's rant there is

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> > The C codepaths are essentially untested on this driver. > > Has any part of this driver ever be tested with kernel 2.6? > Or compiled with gcc 4? The C code paths have never been tested at all, the asm ones certainly worked in late 2.4, but I don't; have an ISA box any more. - To

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Same lie like with harddrives. It's around 80, not 100. > But it depends on how you look at it. 80 for Layer3, possibly > a little more for Layer2/1. Strange, I tend to get about 95 for layer 3. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-22 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 06:02 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to > > > > types.h, you should then

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:18:41PM +, Alan wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:13:00 +0100 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Using assembler code for performance in drivers might have been a good > > idea 15 years ago when this code was written, but with today's compilers > >

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Cousins
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:05 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Perhaps the right use of DMA_BIRECTIONAL needs to be > defined. > > Could it be used with a XDWRITE(10) SCSI command > defined in sbc3r07.pdf at http://www.t10.org ? I suspect > using two scatter gather lists would be a better approach.

[PATCH] Fix race in efi variable delete code.

2007-01-22 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Fix race when deleting an EFI variable and issuing another EFI command on the same variable. The removal of the variable from the efivars_list should be done in efivar_delete and not delayed until the kprobes release. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:23:30 +0300, Samium Gromoff said: > > not "core-dumps" but "core files", in the lispspeak, but anyway. > > the reason is trivial -- if i can write programs enjoying setuid > privileges in C, i want to be able to do the same in Lisp. Go read up on how the XEmacs crew

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-22 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 06:02 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to > > > types.h, you should then (theoretically) be able to delete over > > > 100 instances of

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
> Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change > it > at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' > time > and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but

Re: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Atsushi Nemoto wrote: Subject: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable 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

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:13:00 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using assembler code for performance in drivers might have been a good > idea 15 years ago when this code was written, but with today's compilers > that's unlikely to be an advantage. > > Besides this, it also hurts

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-22 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Benny Halevy wrote: > Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. >>> and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag >>> - Add new API to query request direction. >>> - Adjust existing API and implementation. >>> -

[PATCH 3/3] ufs: rellocation fix

2007-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
In blocks reallocation function sometimes does not update some of buffer_head::b_blocknr, which may and cause data damage. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.20-rc5/fs/ufs/balloc.c === ---

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run

Re: [RFC 3/6] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-01-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 01:25 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > - Instantiate another request_io_part in request for bidi_read. > - Define & Implement new API for accessing bidi parts. > - API to Build bidi requests and map to sglists. > - Define new end_that_request_block() function to end a complete

[PATCH 2/3] ufs: truncate negative to unsigned fix

2007-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
During ufs_trunc_direct which is subroutine of ufs::truncate, we try the first of all free parts of block and then whole blocks. But we calculate size of block's part to free in the wrong way. This may cause bad update of used blocks and fragments statistic, and you can got report that you have

[PATCH 1/3]: ufs: alloc metadata null page fix

2007-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
These series of patches result of UFS1 write support stress testing, like running fsx-linux, untar and build linux kernel etc We pass from ufs::get_block_t to levels below: pointer to the current page, to make possible things like reallocation of blocks on the fly, and we also uses this pointer

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I > > > can > > > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > > > like 16384. After I did

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Horman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:59:56PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:13:32 -0500 > Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > As it is currently written, sys_select checks its return code to convert > > ERESTARTNOHAND to EINTR. However, the check is within an if (tvp) clause,

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to it stucked at D state. I

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:14:17AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere > > else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more > > easterly

Re: [RFC] Asynchronous Messaging

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> This is accomplished by allocating a page (or more) of memory which > is executable and mapped into every threads address space. Also, all > ISR entry points are modified to detect if the code that was interrupted > was executing within the ACE page. If it was then the ACE code is > allowed to

Re: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

2007-01-22 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:57:46 +0100, Éric Piel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + cbiosize=nn[KMG]A fixed amount of bus space is > > + reserved for CardBus bridges. > > + The default value is 256 bytes. > > +

Re: [PATCH] Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE customizable

2007-01-22 Thread Éric Piel
01/19/2007 04:57 AM, Atsushi Nemoto wrote/a écrit: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:19:10 +0900 (JST), Atsushi Nemoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, here is a revised patch which uses pci= option instead of config parameters. Sorry, this patch would cause build failure if setup-bus.c was not built

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 15:13:32 -0500 Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it is currently written, sys_select checks its return code to convert > ERESTARTNOHAND to EINTR. However, the check is within an if (tvp) clause, and > so if select is called from userspace with a NULL timeval, then

Re: i810fb fails to load

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Hellström
Andrew Morton wrote: 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

Re: SATA ahci Bug in 2.6.19.x

2007-01-22 Thread Stephen Evanchik
On 1/22/07, Stefan Priebe - FH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've an Asus A8V Mainboard which works wonderful with a 2.6.18.X kernel. But i cannot use the SATA Controller with a 2.6.19.x Kernel. I also have an Asus A8V motherboard that cannot boot a newer kernel because the SATA controller does

serial console problem in linux-2.6-20

2007-01-22 Thread Suresh Chandra Mannava
Hi All, I am working on porting linux-2.6.20-rc2 (DENX) kernel to our board. It consists of powerpc MPC7410, IBM CPC700 system controller and couple of AMD 79C972 network chips. I am using gcc version 4.0.0 (DENX ELDK 4.0 4.0.0) cross compiler for this task. I followed IBM spruce which consists

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> hopefully serve as a seed for something like OLS and LCA in UK/Europe, > and (b) I've told folks that the moving it away from Cambridge is a > one-time experiment, after which point we will re-evaluate. Perhaps that will work out for the best, it may be the right answer long term is to

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Theodore Tso
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > > Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere > else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more > easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) > Understand that one of the

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Power S3 Resume Optimization Patch. Request for Comment

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > My initial idea was to execute only block device resume on the separate > thread, as it take almost 80% of the total device resume time ( I did If you do this in one block driver that is slow for you (sata?), then it is probably acceptable. (Maintainer decides.) I'd encourage that option.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-22 Thread Alessandro Di Marco
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +if [ ! -d "/proc/sin" ]; then > +echo "/proc/sin not found, has sinmod been loaded?" > +exit > +fi No new /proc files, please. This was merely a prototype realized in a hurry, not a production driver. Really, I did't think it

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:07:11PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > process. This year, the Kernel Summit will be held in Cambridge, > > England, at the DeVere University Arms Hotel, September 5-6 (with a > > welcome reception on the 4th). The decision to move the Kernel Summit > > to England

Re: configfs: return value for drop_item()/make_item()?

2007-01-22 Thread Michael Noisternig
Thanks for your reply again! See comments inline... Joel Becker wrote: I fully agree with the idea of configfs not being allowed to destroy user-created objects. OTOH, while configfs is described as a filesystem for user-created objects under user control, compared to sysfs as a filesystem for

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Chr
On Monday, 22. January 2007 03:39, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Chr wrote: > > Ok, you won't believe this... I opened my case and rewired my drives... > > And guess what, my second (aka the "good") HDD is now failing! > > I guess, my mainboard has a (but maybe two, or three :( ) "bad" > >

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to > it stucked at D

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-22 Thread Nick Piggin
Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: Robert P. J. Day wrote: by adding (temporarily) the definitions of TRUE and FALSE to types.h, you should then (theoretically) be able to delete over 100 instances of those same macros being *defined* throughout the source

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 22 January 2007 03:34, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: > Hi, > > I just encountered the following oops and general protection fault > trying to suspend/resume my laptop. I've got a Dell D820 laptop with a 2 > GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It usually suspends/resumes fine but not always. The >

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 7/7] ehea: Fixed possible nullpointer access

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Fixed possible nullpointer access in event queue processing Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 6/7] ehea: Added logging off associated errors

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Added logging of error events associated with a specific queue pair Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |8 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 5/7] ehea: Improved logging of permission issues

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Disabled dump of hcall regs on some permission issues and fixed appropriate misleading logmessages Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 16 +++- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_phyp.c | 10 -- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 4/7] ehea: New method to determine number of available ports

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Count OFDT nodes to determine the number of available ports instead of using the possibly outdated value from the hypervisor Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 15 ++- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Nurp -X

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 3/7] ehea: Modified initial autoneg state determination

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Logical partitions are not allowed to (try to) set the autonegotiation status. This patch removes the respective function call from the port setup function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/7] ehea: Fixed wrong dereferencation

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Not only check the pointer against 0 but also the dereferenced value Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h |2 +- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |6 -- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -Nurp -X dontdiff

[PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 2/7] ehea: Fixing firmware queue config issue

2007-01-22 Thread Thomas Klein
Fix to use exactly one queue for incoming packets in all firmware configurations Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Nurp -X dontdiff linux-2.6.20-rc5/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

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

2007-01-22 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
On 1/18/07, Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

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