This is the stuff queued for 2.6.21 in netdev-2.6.git#upstream.
Nothing earthshakingly notable. A couple new drivers, a couple removed
drivers, a bunch of driver updates.
Adrian Bunk (4):
remove the broken SKMC driver
make hdlc_setup() static again
remove the broken OAKNET
Linus, please do an update from:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa.git
(linus branch)
The GNU patch is available at:
ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/kernel-patches/alsa-git-2007-01-23.patch.gz
The following files will be updated:
sound/usb/usx2y/usbusx2yaudio.c |
Hi!
I can give you an idea of the workload :-) I have the same problem on an
nearly idle Server. There runs only a few cronjobs (normal Debian System
crons).
The load was not higher than 0.01 on this system the last 3 days and
this morning it crashes with the same error.
I've not tested
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 18:03 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
What happened to all those advanced page replacement endeavors?
They are here:
http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/page-replace/2.6.19-pr1/
I should update to .20 soonish.
What is the most promising of those?
I'm still
Hi!
nor will they work if the sysadmin applies a security update and glibc
or another library changes one page in size. Or changes the stack rlimit
or .. or ..
Now, i figured out, there is a certain reasonable safety gap which works
for people, because the libraries depended on are well
Hi!
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 designed their portable dumper,
specifically to get
Hi,
I'm running a macbook with a Marvell ethernet controller, and I have a
lots of freezes when using the ethernet controller under a load of
~100K/s. Since I'm running a 2.6.19.2 kernel, I'm able to get some
report from the kernel. Here they are :
Jan 23 09:30:57 cocoduo kernel: [ 662.92]
On a small Celeron-based appliance, Usb2 disk is not recognized *if*
it is connected during kernel boot.
But if not connected during boot, and I connect it later, it is
recognized and works ok.
I tried various 2.6.16, 17 and 18 kernels, both modular, and
all-static, with the same result.
What can
It's ok, after 4 suspend/resume cycles, eth0 only appers one time.
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 21:22 +, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote:
It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times.
Hi,
The e100_resume() function
On Tue 2007-01-23 13:42:00, Kawai, Hidehiro wrote:
Hi,
(run echo 1 coremask, echo 0 coremask in a loop while dumping
core. Do you have enough locking to make it work as expected?)
Currently, any lock isn't acquired. But I think the kernel only
have to preserve the coremask setting in a
Please try to remove processor module.
On 1/23/07, Lionel Landwerlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a macbook with a Marvell ethernet controller, and I have a
lots of freezes when using the ethernet controller under a load of
~100K/s. Since I'm running a 2.6.19.2 kernel, I'm able to
Krzysztof Halasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to
disk size. A disk can have any odd number of sectors.
But the manufacturers don't count in sectors.
The exact number of sectors is
This one incorporates some of Arjan's suggestions and a fix for the
i810 problem introduced with the previous patch.
/Thomas
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Hi!
While functionality is extremely interesting does it really have
to be in kernel?
I think so. While the X server grabs off any keyboard and mouse activity
on its own, there is no such thing for the [read all] console[s].
I believe input subsystem can already do that.
Hi!
+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 could be interesting for anybody.
Hi!
Whitelist? Let me blacklist it all the way to Timbuktu instead!
I've been doing more testing, and X never managed to come back to working
state without some of my couple intel-agp changes:
- a proper suspend method, doing a proper pci_save_state()
or improved equivalent
Subject: [patch] notifiers: fix blocking_notifier_call_chain() scalability
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
while lock-profiling the -rt kernel i noticed weird contention during
mmap-intense workloads, and the tracer showed the following gem, in one
of our MM hotpaths:
threaded-2771 1
Hi,
here's a trivial patch which adds R6 reponse support to the au1xmmc
driver. Fixes SD card detection / operation.
---
Add Response type R6 support to the au1xmmc driver; fixes SD card
detection and operation.
Signed-off-by: Manuel Lauss [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- a/drivers/mmc/au1xmmc.c~
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:59:28 +, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a macbook with a Marvell ethernet controller, and I have a
lots of freezes when using the ethernet controller under a load of
~100K/s. Since I'm running a 2.6.19.2 kernel, I'm able to get some
report from the
reproduced.
it took more or less one hour to reproduce it. I could reproduce it olny
running also irqbalance 0.55 and commenting out the sleep 1. The message
in
syslog is the same and then, after a few seconds I think, KABOM! system
crash
and reboot.
I tested also a similar system that has 4
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which reflects precisely what I've been saying concerning the addition
of __initdata.
Great!
So what do you thing we should do?
Modify this:
char __initdata boot_command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
Into:
char __initdata
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:37:06PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
which reflects precisely what I've been saying concerning the addition
of __initdata.
Great!
So what do you thing we should do?
Modify this:
char __initdata
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent on
18 January in this thread. Such strings might as well be initialised to
an empty string.
So it will be fine if I initialize it to and remove the static from
the your example?
BTW: Is there a
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 12:50:15PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent on
18 January in this thread. Such strings might as well be initialised to
an empty string.
So it will be fine if I initialize it to and
On Monday 22 January 2007 21:13, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
Hi,
I was playing with user-mode Linux and found that mknod creates
devices node in hostfs with wrong major/minor numbers.
The patch below fixes it for me.
Johannes
Hmpf. Still having this bug on hostfs is quite bad. Thanks for
The patch was probably too big and did not go through the mailing list.
I have compressed and attached it, is that OK or must I put it online somewhere?
- Extract all I/O members of struct request into a request_io_part member.
- Define API to access the I/O part
- Adjust block layer
The patch was probably too big and did not go through the mailing list.
I have compressed and attached it, is that OK or must I put it online somewhere?
- Extract all I/O members of struct request into a request_io_part member.
- Define API to access the I/O part
- Adjust block layer
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
On Monday January 22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Justin Piszcz wrote:
My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is
needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks!
Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why do you want to remove the static?
Since current design declare a buffer in main.c which is used by arch
specific startup code, mainly setup.c.
Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.
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Dave Airlie wrote:
Don't know. But I bet someone on the Cc does...
Tilman,
Thanks for reporting.
Can you try the attached patch to see if that fixes the problem.
Hi Thomas,
This also fixes X starting on old i810/5 hardware, I had noticed it
broken but hadn't had time to investigate it,
On 1/23/07, Soeren Sonnenburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:59:28 +, Lionel Landwerlin wrote:
Hi,
I'm running a macbook with a Marvell ethernet controller, and I have a
lots of freezes when using the ethernet controller under a load of
~100K/s. Since I'm running a
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:45 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
Subject: [patch] notifiers: fix blocking_notifier_call_chain() scalability
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
while lock-profiling the -rt kernel i noticed weird contention during
mmap-intense workloads, and the tracer showed the
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it will be fine if I initialize it to and remove the static from
the your example?
Why do you want to remove the static?
Rossell, I am confused.
There are many places in kernel where there is static __initdata
without initialization.
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So it will be fine if I initialize it to and remove the static from
the your example?
Why do you want to remove the static?
Rossell, I am confused.
There are many places in
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rossell, I am confused.
There are many places in kernel where there is static __initdata
without initialization. Should all these be corrected too? Or your
comment applies only to none static global data?
From what I remembered from previous
Luigi Genoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
reproduced.
it took more or less one hour to reproduce it. I could reproduce it olny
running also irqbalance 0.55 and commenting out the sleep 1. The message in
syslog is the same and then, after a few seconds I think, KABOM! system crash
and
Hi,
(run echo 1 coremask, echo 0 coremask in a loop while dumping
core. Do you have enough locking to make it work as expected?)
Currently, any lock isn't acquired. But I think the kernel only
have to preserve the coremask setting in a local variable at the
begining of core dumping. I'm
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/usb/serial/funsoft.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/funsoft.c b/drivers/usb/serial/funsoft.c
index 31501c9..2bebd63 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/funsoft.c
+++
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/atm/horizon.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/atm/horizon.c b/drivers/atm/horizon.c
index 4dc1010..f96446c 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/horizon.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/horizon.c
@@ -1845,7 +1845,7 @@
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]
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/s2io.c b/drivers/net/s2io.c
--- a/drivers/net/s2io.c
+++ b/drivers/net/s2io.c
@@
Hello,
I reproducably get a kernel panic when plugging in a usb isdn modem,
Billion tiny USB ISDN TA 128).
It is said to work with the hfc_usb isdn drivers in the kernel, so I
compiled them into it.
Kernel is 2.6.20-rc5, gcc 3.4.6 on a via epia 5000 board.
Is there anything I can do? Shall I
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/asm-ia64/checksum.h |6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/checksum.h b/include/asm-ia64/checksum.h
index 2b78582..97af155 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/checksum.h
+++
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.
Just to show you I did not forget to remove processor.ko from initrd
image, I tried to load speedstep_centrino :
Jan 23 13:09:58 cocoduo kernel: [ 105.697279]
From: Thomas Hellstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This patch allows drm to populate an agpgart structure with pages of its own.
It's needed for the new drm memory manager which dynamically flips pages in and
out of AGP.
The patch modifies the generic functions as well as the intel agp driver. The
intel
On 1/23/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Update arch/avre32/ with list initialization.
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks good to me, although I suppose it wouldn't hurt to include
linux/list.h as well since there seems to be an ongoing effort to
reduce the number
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:59:14PM +0200, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
On 1/23/07, Russell King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rossell, I am confused.
There are many places in kernel where there is static __initdata
without initialization. Should all these be corrected too? Or your
comment applies only
Ivan Ukhov wrote:
.. which wouldn't help you either, supposing that you don't want to touch
the kernel sources at all, because this function is unexported and
static.
So I think that there is no straightforward way, sorry.
Is this a device that doesn't exist anywhere else than on your
Hi,
I write a driver have a big buffer (16MB,allocated by vmalloc).
I want to use the buffer to do DMA transmission so I need getting the pages
of the buffer.
Have any kernel API can do this?
My platform is x86_64 and 2GB RAM
THX
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On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:42 +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
On 1/23/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Update arch/avre32/ with list initialization.
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks good to me, although I suppose it wouldn't hurt to include
linux/list.h as
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:28:24 +0100,
Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't feel comfortable adding them to the 2.6.20 kernel at this late
period, for a variety of reasons. I really want them to be tested out
in the -mm tree and then in the full -rc series due to the fact that
Justin Piszcz wrote:
[]
Is this a bug that can or will be fixed or should I disable pre-emption on
critical and/or server machines?
Disabling pre-emption on critical and/or server machines seems to be a good
idea in the first place. IMHO anyway.. ;)
/mjt
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On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Justin Piszcz wrote:
[]
Is this a bug that can or will be fixed or should I disable pre-emption on
critical and/or server machines?
Disabling pre-emption on critical and/or server machines seems to be a good
idea in the first place. IMHO
Justin Piszcz wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote:
Disabling pre-emption on critical and/or server machines seems to be a good
idea in the first place. IMHO anyway.. ;)
So bottom line is make sure not to use preemption on servers or else you
will get weird
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
Does SATA electrical conector keying let the disk firmware unload
heads before the user manages to pull it out enough to sever power?
I don't think so.
Heh, thought as much. (Good) SCSI hotswap bays notice you pulled
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 21:04 +0800, Yu-Chen Wu wrote:
Hi,
I write a driver have a big buffer (16MB,allocated by vmalloc).
I want to use the buffer to do DMA transmission so I need getting the pages
of the buffer.
Have any kernel API can do this?
My platform is x86_64 and 2GB RAM
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The exact number of sectors is often printend on the label.
Sure, I'd even say almost always for recent disks. Still, they
count in GBs, not sectors.
OTOH it would be great if they say xxx,xxx,xxx 512-byte sectors,
and maybe approx. X GB.
--
Krzysztof
On 17/01/07, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adding a case can add substantially to the generated code, especially if
it makes a compact set of case labels non-compact.
Is this one any better? It certainly makes for a slimmer object.
Compiled, but not yet tested. Caveat patcher.
On 1/23/07, Jesper Juhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now that 2.6.19 is out, most likely not. -stable releases are made
for the latest stable 2.6.x kernel, once 2.6.x+1 is out that's the one
-stable patches are made for (2.6.16 is an exception)..
Earlier I was going through the stable paches
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:02:49 -0800
Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 13:42 +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote:
On 1/23/07, Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Update arch/avre32/ with list initialization.
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you argue that they are in fact created by the user because they are
a direct result of a user action, then I can apply the same argument to
this one example:
...
This is precisely what configfs is designed to forbid. The kernel
does not, ever, create configfs objects on its own. It does it
At Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:48:07 +,
Pavel Machek wrote:
Are you saying that the usefulness of AS randomisation is
overall exceeding that of MAP_FIXED, and the latter should be
abolished?
MAP_FIXED still works. You just have to be more careful where you map.
No amount of carefulness will
Hi Anton,
Thanks for r your answer.
I tried vmalloc_to_page() and I have some question.
I print the pages in vm_struct structure of the buffer to compare the
address get from vmalloc_to_page(), result as follows:
//===source code
L2cache=vmalloc(L2SIZE);// L2SIZE=40960
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
+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
On 1/22/07, Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the
auto-tuning routine:
. file system
. shared memory (per namespace)
. semaphore (per namespace)
. message queues (per namespace)
This
mxser_new, do not null driver_data
driver_data are initialzed to NULL from tty layer, no need to do it in the
driver. In this case it cases oops, since driver_data may be NULL for a
short while for another closing process.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mxser_new, lock count and flags
Both open count and INITIALIZED flag should be changed under lock.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
commit 76b3ee2d5737395df62553cec1b8193252476147
tree dfc50c164ddde6b73a954f694dfdcb98ed921629
parent
mxser_new, fix sparse warning
Feed NULL instead of 0 where pointer is expected.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
commit e87e9f65c3ac51d447cfe435217032a07f7a56e0
tree fbb8597542ed5919d3fae6b9ab45865e0659e922
parent 76b3ee2d5737395df62553cec1b8193252476147
On 1/23/07, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've post a patch which trys to resolve pci config restore issue, see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/297. It resolves s3 issue with my 965G machine,
that my X can come back to live after s3, but I wasn't aware of the issues
Andreas
has
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Yu-Chen Wu wrote:
I tried vmalloc_to_page() and I have some question.
I print the pages in vm_struct structure of the buffer to compare the
address get from vmalloc_to_page(), result as follows:
Both the code you are showing and your question do not make any sense
to
On 1/23/07, Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Luming Yu a écrit :
what about removing psmouse module?
Trying that now. Any particular reason you suspect that one?
I suspect it is due to broken modules. If not psmouse, please trying a
boot with minimal modules loaded, and re-test .
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 18:03 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
What happened to all those advanced page replacement endeavors?
They are here:
http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/page-replace/2.6.19-pr1/
I should update to .20 soonish.
What is the most
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 10:45 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
The fix is to enhance blocking_notifier_call_chain() to only take the
lock if there appears to be work on the call-chain.
With this patch applied i get nicely saturated system, and much higher
munmap performance,
Luming Yu a écrit :
what about removing psmouse module?
Trying that now. Any particular reason you suspect that one?
Jean-Marc
On 1/23/07, Jean-Marc Valin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems
from
the list you give below are
Despite being under linux/, linux/irq.h shouldn't be #include'd by arch
independent code.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/sound/pci/echoaudio/echo3g_dsp.c.old 2007-01-23
15:16:37.0 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/sound/pci/echoaudio/echo3g_dsp.c
This patch implements forwarding of SHUTDOWN intercepts from the guest
on to userspace on AMD SVM. A SHUTDOWN event occurs when the guest produces
a triple fault (e.g. on reboot). This also fixes the bug that a guest
reboot actually causes a host reboot under some circumstances.
Signed-off-by:
Joerg Roedel wrote:
This patch implements forwarding of SHUTDOWN intercepts from the guest
on to userspace on AMD SVM. A SHUTDOWN event occurs when the guest produces
a triple fault (e.g. on reboot). This also fixes the bug that a guest
reboot actually causes a host reboot under some
SBCL is the most actively developed open source Common Lisp implementation,
which has an optimising native compiler built in, so it is not an interpreter,
and is, most certainly, not crappy.
If it requires MAP_FIXED I would beg to disagree.
1. cannot serve as a vehicle for exploitation for
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