On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sunil Naidu wrote:
If Kernel community comes down to India...this would have a big impact
on the community + industry too.
I think it's a good idea.
Any other reasons am missing here?
Cost of flying 70 mainly US/European developers to India.
- James
--
James Morris
Al Viro wrote:
memset() after kmalloc() on size * 8 would better be on size * 8, not
just size; fixed by switching to kcalloc() - it's more idiomatic anyway.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
applied
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On Tuesday 23 January 2007 07:27, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
Le mardi 23 janvier 2007 à 17:22 +0800, Luming Yu a écrit :
Please try to remove processor module.
Ok, that's done. Same problem.
any difference with idle=poll?
if yes, how about idle=halt?
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From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* introduce struct dma_async_tx_descriptor as a common field for all dmaengine
software descriptors
* convert the device_memcpy_* methods into separate prep, set src/dest, and
submit stages
* support capabilities beyond memcpy (xor, memset, xor zero sum,
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
async_tx is an api to describe a series of bulk memory
transfers/transforms. When possible these transactions are carried out by
asynchrounous dma engines. The api handles inter-transaction dependencies
and hides dma channel management from the client. When
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
handle_stripe sets STRIPE_OP_PREXOR, STRIPE_OP_BIODRAIN, STRIPE_OP_POSTXOR
to request a write to the stripe cache. raid5_run_ops is triggerred to run
and executes the request outside the stripe lock.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
handle_stripe sets STRIPE_OP_COMPUTE_BLK to request servicing from
raid5_run_ops. It also sets a flag for the block being computed to let
other parts of handle_stripe submit dependent operations. raid5_run_ops
guarantees that the compute operation completes
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prepare the raid5 implementation to use async_tx for running stripe
operations:
* biofill (copy data into request buffers to satisfy a read request)
* compute block (generate a missing block in the cache from the other
blocks)
* prexor (subtract existing data
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
handle_stripe now only updates the state of stripes. All execution of
operations is moved to raid5_run_ops.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/md/raid5.c | 68
1 files changed,
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The parity calculation for an expansion operation is the same as the
calculation performed at the end of a write with the caveat that all blocks
in the stripe are scheduled to be written. An expansion operation is
identified as a stripe with the POSTXOR flag
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a driver for the iop DMA/AAU/ADMA units which are capable of pq_xor,
pq_update, pq_zero_sum, xor, dual_xor, xor_zero_sum, fill, copy+crc, and copy
operations.
Changelog:
* fixed a slot allocation bug in do_iop13xx_adma_xor that caused too few
slots to
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
replaced by raid5_run_ops
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/md/raid5.c | 124
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 124 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use raid5_run_ops to carry out the memory copies for a raid5 read request.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/md/raid5.c | 40 +++-
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Each stripe has three flag variables to reflect the state of operations
(pending, ack, and complete).
-pending: set to request servicing in raid5_run_ops
-ack: set to reflect that raid5_runs_ops has seen this request
-complete: set when the operation is
From: Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
handle_stripe sets STRIPE_OP_CHECK to request a check operation in
raid5_run_ops. If raid5_run_ops is able to perform the check with a
dma engine the parity will be preserved in memory removing the need to
re-read it from disk, as is necessary in the
Hello
On Saturday 13 January 2007 01:56, Laurent Riffard wrote:
Le 06.01.2007 19:58, Vladimir V. Saveliev a écrit :
Hello
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:58, Laurent Riffard wrote:
Hello,
got this with 2.6.20-rc3-mm1:
===
SysRq : Show Blocked State
On Tue, Jan 23 2007, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
Hello
On Saturday 13 January 2007 01:56, Laurent Riffard wrote:
Le 06.01.2007 19:58, Vladimir V. Saveliev a écrit :
Hello
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:58, Laurent Riffard wrote:
Hello,
got this with 2.6.20-rc3-mm1:
Hello
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 10:38, Vince wrote:
Zan Lynx wrote:
I have been running 2.6.20-rc2-mm1 without problems, but both rc3-mm1
and rc4-mm1 have been giving me these freezes. They were happening
inside X and without external console it was impossible to get anything,
plus I
Le 23.01.2007 16:46, Jens Axboe a écrit :
On Tue, Jan 23 2007, Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote:
Hello
On Saturday 13 January 2007 01:56, Laurent Riffard wrote:
Le 06.01.2007 19:58, Vladimir V. Saveliev a écrit :
Hello
On Saturday 06 January 2007 13:58, Laurent Riffard wrote:
Hello,
got this
James Bottomley wrote:
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
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 01:21:28AM +0200, 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
Some architecture use 'enum dma_data_direction' and some 'int
Douglas Gilbert wrote:
Benny Halevy wrote:
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
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
+static inline int dma_uni_dir(enum dma_data_direction dir)
+{
+ return (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) || (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ||
+ (dir == DMA_NONE);
+}
While this doesn't look very useful. Why is DMA_NONE a
Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote:
+static inline int dma_uni_dir(enum dma_data_direction dir)
+{
+ return (dir == DMA_TO_DEVICE) || (dir == DMA_FROM_DEVICE) ||
+ (dir == DMA_NONE);
+}
While this doesn't look very useful. Why is
(resend now that LCA is done)
An update from the earlier thread,
[PATCH] [RFC] remove ext3 inode from orphan list when link and unlink race
I think this is better than the original idea of trying to handle the race;
I've seen that the orphan inode list can get corrupted, but there may well
be
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:39:27 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
pde = create_proc_entry()
if (!pde)
return -ENOMEM;
pde-write_proc = ...;
open
write
On 1/23/07, James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Sunil Naidu wrote:
If Kernel community comes down to India...this would have a big impact
on the community + industry too.
I think it's a good idea.
Any other reasons am missing here?
Cost of flying 70 mainly
At Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:16:12 -0500,
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
Should we introduce per-arch asm/elf.h files to hold the relevant flag
definitions then?
On some architectures there are no bits left. On others you'd need to go
This is a full replacement queue for the high resolution timer / dynamic
ticks implemementation in -mm.
This version includes the following improvements:
- Seperate clockevents management of devices and users
- Provide a generic tick managament infrastructure, which makes use
of the clock
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add a flag so we can prevent the irq balancing of an interrupt. Move
the bits, so we have room for more :)
Necessary for the ability to setup clocksources more flexible (e.g. use
the different HPET channels per CPU)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For CONFIG_NO_HZ we need to calculate the next timer wheel event based
on a given jiffie value. Extend the existing code to allow the extra
'now' argument. Provide a compability function for the existing
implementations to call the function with now ==
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When searching for the next pending timer in the timer wheel we
need to take the cascade into account. The current code has several
problems:
1. it looks into the previous cascade
2. it ignores a pending cascade
3. it ignores multiple cascades
Change
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is a preperatory patch for highres/dyntick:
- replace the big #ifdef ARCH_APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3 hackery by functions
- remove the double switch in the power verify function (in the worst case
we switched ipi to apic and 20usec later apic to ipi)
-
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Allow early access to the power management timer by exposing the
verified read function and providing a helper function which checks the
pmtmr_ioport variable and returns either the pm timer readout or 0 in
case the pm timer is not available.
Create a new
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add /proc/timer_stats support: debugging feature to profile timer
expiration. Both the starting site, process/PID and the expiration
function is captured. This allows the quick identification of timer
event sources in a system.
Sample output:
# echo 1
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
add /proc/timer_list, which prints all currently pending (high-res) timers,
all clock-event sources and their parameters in a human-readable form.
Sample output:
Timer List Version: v0.1
HRTIMER_MAX_CLOCK_BASES: 2
now at 4246046273872 nsecs
cpu: 0
clock 0:
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uninline irq_enter(). [dynticks adds more stuff to it]
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/hardirq.h |7
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add SysRq-Q to print pending timers and other timer info.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/char/sysrq.c| 14 +-
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix potential setitimer DoS with high-res timers by pushing itimer rearm
processing to process context.
[Fixes from: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure
and the clockevents / tick-management framework. This provides accurate
timers for all hrtimer subsystem users.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reintroduce ktimers feature optimized away by the ktimers review
process: multiple hrtimer states to enable the running of hrtimers
without holding the cpu-base-lock.
(The optimized rbtree hack carried only 2 states worth of information
and we need 4 for
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enable dynamic ticks selection.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/Kconfig |2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1-bo/arch/i386/Kconfig
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Improve kernel/hrtimers.c locking: use a per-CPU base with a lock to
control locking of all clocks belonging to a CPU. This simplifies code
that needs to lock all clocks at once. This makes life easier for
high-res timers and dyntick.
No functional
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The NMI watchdog implementation assumes that the local APIC timer
interrupt is happening. This assumption is not longer true when high
resolution timers and dynamic ticks come into play, as they may switch
off the local APIC timer completely. Take the
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The TSC needs to be verified against another clocksource. Instead of
using hardwired assumptions of available hardware, provide a generic
verification mechanism. The verification uses the best available
clocksource and handles the usability for high
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prepare i386 for dyntick: idle handler callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: john stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by:
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers.
The code which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle
periods is shared between tick based and high resolution timer based
dynticks. The dyntick
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The local apic timer calibration has two problem cases:
1. The calibration is based on readout of the PIT/HPET timer to detect the
wrap of the periodic tick. It happens that a box gets stuck in the
calibration loop due to a PIT with a broken
From: Marcelo Tosatti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From what I can tell the Geode can safely use the TSC for highres, since:
1) Does not support frequency scaling,
2) The TSC _does_ count when the CPU is halted. Furthermore, the Geode
supports a mode called suspension on halt, where Suspend mode (which
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Architectures register their clock event devices, in the clock events
core. Users of the clockevents core can get clock event devices for
their use. The clockevents core code provides notification mechanisms
for various clock related management events.
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The tick-management code is the first user of the clockevents layer.
It takes clock event devices from the clock events core and uses them
to provide the periodic tick.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Add broadcast functionality, so per cpu clock event devices can be
registered as dummy devices or switched from/to broadcast on demand.
The broadcast function distributes the events via the broadcast
function of the clock
From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c | 11 ++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- hrtimers did not use the hrtimer_restart enum and relied on the implict
int representation. Fix the prototypes and the functions using the enums.
- Use seperate name spaces for the enumerations
- Convert hrtimer_restart macro to inline function
- Add
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reintroduce ktimers feature optimized away by the ktimers review
process: remove the curr_timer pointer from the cpu-base and use the
hrtimer state.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apic.h does not get included on UP compiles. That way the
APICTIMER_STOPS_ON_C3 is not there and UP boxen have no support for
timer broadcasting. This was never noticed, because the lapic timer is
only used for profiling on UP.
Signed-off-by: Thomas
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Move the initial hrtimers.txt document to the new directory
Documentation/hrtimers
Add design notes for the high resolution timer and dynamic tick
functionality.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The clocksource code allows direct updates of the rating
of a given clocksource now. Change TSC unstable tracking to
use this interface and remove the update callback.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Provide funtions to:
- check, whether an interrupt can set the affinity
- pin the interrupt to a given cpu
Necessary for the ability to setup clocksources more flexible (e.g. use
the different HPET channels per CPU)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are loads of fat functions hidden in jiffies.h. Uninline them. No
code changes.
[ export fix from Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andrew
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix multiple conversion bugs in msecs_to_jiffies().
The main problem is that this condition:
if (m jiffies_to_msecs(MAX_JIFFY_OFFSET))
overflows if HZ is smaller than 1000!
This change is user-visible: for HZ=250 SUS-compliant poll()-timeout
value
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prevent timeout overflow if timer ticks are behind jiffies (due to high
softirq load or due to dyntick), by limiting the valid timeout range to
MAX_LONG/2.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: John Stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Persistent clock support: do proper timekeeping across suspend/resume.
[ cleanup from Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: John Stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Persistent clock support: do proper timekeeping across suspend/resume, i386
arch support.
[ cleanup from Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
Build-fixes-from: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Thomas
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The delayed work code in arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c is an unused leftover of the
GTOD conversion. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/kernel/tsc.c | 40
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enqueue clocksources in rating order to make selection of the
clocksource easier. Also check the match with an user override
at enqueue time.
Preparatory patch for the generic clocksource verification.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
make the TSC synchronization code more robust, and unify
it between x86_64 and i386.
The biggest change is the removal of the 'fix up TSCs' code
on x86_64 and i386, in some rare cases it was /causing/
time-warps on SMP systems.
The new code only checks for
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using a flag filed allows to encode more than one information into
a variable. Preparatory patch for the generic clocksource verification.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixup the is_contionous replacement by a flag field.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/arm/mach-imx/time.c |2 +-
arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx/common.c |2 +-
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixup the is_contionous replacement by a flag field.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/avr32/kernel/time.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index:
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixup the is_contionous replacement by a flag field.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/s390/kernel/time.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index:
From: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fixup the is_contionous replacement by a flag field.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/mips/kernel/time.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 20 02:36:15 2006
Distangle the NTP update from HZ. This is necessary for dynamic tick
enabled kernels.
---
include/linux/timex.h |7 +++
kernel/hrtimer.c | 11 ---
kernel/time/ntp.c | 30 +++---
kernel/timer.c
With the recent changes to cancel_dirty_pages(), XFS will
dump warnings in the syslog because it can truncate_inode_pages()
on dirty mapped pages.
I've determined that this is indeed correct behaviour for XFS
as this can happen in the case of races on mmap()d files with
direct I/O. In this case
Make XFS use the new truncate_unmap_inode_pages_range()
function.
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_fs_subr.c |6 --
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Index: 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_fs_subr.c
Em Ter, 2007-01-23 às 20:57 +0300, Oleg Nesterov escreveu:
I am pretty sure the bug is real, but the patch may be wrong, please review.
We are doing -buf_prepare(buf) before adding buf to q-stream list. This
means that videobuf_qbuf() should not try to re-add a STATE_PREPARED buffer.
On 1/24/07, Josh Boyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any other reasons am missing here?
Cost of flying 70 mainly US/European developers to India.
Thanks James. I thought about this factor. Thinking about what are the
factors which make a Kernel developer to show interest on a particular
Larry Walton wrote:
The last patch (sata_nv-force-int-dev-in-interrupt.patch)
seems to have fix the problem. Much appreciated,
thank you. I'd consider it a must have in 2.6.20.
Can any of the rest of you that have been seeing this problem also
confirm that this fixes it?
--
Robert Hancock
At Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:16:12 -0500,
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote:
Should we introduce per-arch asm/elf.h files to hold the relevant flag
definitions then?
On some architectures there are no bits left. On others you'd need to go
On 2007-01-23, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
[]
what it does is scan the entire tree for lines of the form
...if... CONFIG_whatever...
collects all of those CONFIG variables and, one at a time, checks to
see if that variable even exists in any Kconfig file in the tree so
that it could possibly
Hi.
I'm using a kernel 2.6.18.1 with a Plextor PX-769A CD/DVD drive (using
the old IDE drivers)... The drive itself is brand-new. The firmware
version is 1.06 (which is the most recent).
There are to issues I experience.
1) On some (but not all) DVD-Videos I get the following messages:
kernel:
kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
kernel: Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f,
ascq=0x03)
The disc is using digital rights management. If you are in a country that
permits it you can use a dvd reader library with decss support, if not
you'll have
Alan wrote:
kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
kernel: Read of scrambled sector without authentication -- (asc=0x6f,
ascq=0x03)
The disc is using digital rights management. If you are in a country that
permits it you can use a dvd reader library with decss support,
On 1/18/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hm, only ia64 enables that option. Matthew, do you care about those
files?
Given the ia64 nature, unless benh was truly wanting to do something
or ppc64, IBM's big NUMA boxes are pretty unlikely to care.
Tim
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Recently updated an old box to a new kernel, and the USB mouse stops working.
Well it sort of works, but stutters and is very unresponsive. This happens
now and again when the IRQ routing for my board gets broken.
Attached a dmesg from a bad 2.6.20-rc5, and a quick hack that gets everything
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:58:58 +0530
Dipankar Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted.
Why is it selectable if CONFIG_PREEMPT=n?
It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side
On 2007.01.23 17:18:43 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
Larry Walton wrote:
The last patch (sata_nv-force-int-dev-in-interrupt.patch)
seems to have fix the problem. Much appreciated,
thank you. I'd consider it a must have in 2.6.20.
Can any of the rest of you that have been seeing this
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:58:58 +0530
Dipankar Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+/*
+ * Wait for CPUs to acknowledge the flip.
+ */
+static int rcu_try_flip_waitack(int flipctr)
+{
+ int cpu;
+
+ for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+ if (per_cpu(rcu_flip_flag, cpu) !=
Le mardi 23 janvier 2007 à 16:30 -0500, Len Brown a écrit :
On Tuesday 23 January 2007 07:27, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
Le mardi 23 janvier 2007 à 17:22 +0800, Luming Yu a écrit :
Please try to remove processor module.
Ok, that's done. Same problem.
any difference with idle=poll?
if
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:59:35 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Compile-tested.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/arm/kernel/apm.c | 28 +++-
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/arm/kernel/apm.c
On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:11:46 +0100
Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 04:24:17PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use awk instead of gawk.
--
There's a symlink from awk to
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:22 -0800, Tim Pepper wrote:
On 1/18/07, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hm, only ia64 enables that option. Matthew, do you care about those
files?
Given the ia64 nature, unless benh was truly wanting to do something
or ppc64, IBM's big NUMA boxes are pretty
This is a patch using some of Aubrey's work plugging it in what is IMHO
the right way. Feel free to improve on it. I have gotten repeatedly
requests to be able to limit the pagecache. With the revised VM statistics
this is now actually possile. I'd like to know more about possible uses of
such
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 00:53:05 +0300
Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Compile-tested.
You can runtime-test this interface without ever having mounted a CODA fs.
Please. compile-tested-only patches are always a worry.
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Alan wrote:
There are three different fixes:
1. Fix for THRE errata
That should be handled anyway. The current code actually spots this and
uses a backup timer for dodgy UARTS
Thanks, I'll retest without this fix on the current l-m.o git master and see
if it still solves our errata.
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 14:37:23 -0800
Marc St-Jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This I would hope you can hide in the platform specific
serial_in/serial_out functions. If you write the UART_LCR save it in
serial_out(), if you read IER etc.
I couldn't find hooks for platform specific
Jeff Garzik wrote:
OK, I have merged the monolithic patch into jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git#atl1.
Once I'm done merging patches tonight, I will merge this new 'atl1'
branch into the 'ALL' meta-branch, which will auto-propagate this driver
into Andrew Morton's -mm for testing.
For future driver
From Dale Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mv643xx_eth: Fix race condition in mv643xx_eth_free_tx_descs
This bug was found and isolated by Thibaut VARENE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This patch is a modification of their
fixes. We acquire and release the lock for each
On 1/23/07, Dale Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From Dale Farnsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mv643xx_eth: Fix race condition in mv643xx_eth_free_tx_descs
This bug was found and isolated by Thibaut VARENE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This patch is a modification of
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:00:04 +0100
Luca Tettamanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Il Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:33:39PM -0600, Jay Cliburn ha scritto:
Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:07:37 -0600 Jay Cliburn wrote:
[snip]
+ value = ioread16(hw-hw_addr + REG_PCIE_CAP_LIST);
+
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