[patch] new toplevel target: headers_check_all

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
useful for distros (and people with too much time on their hands) that support a ton of architectures, headers_check_all is to headers_check as headers_install_all is to headers_install -mike pgpFN4HRbqfFT.pgp Description: PGP signature Add new headers_check_all target for checking all arches

Re: [PATCH] block MSI on Sony

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:31:33 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:21 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > The Sony VAIO BIOS resets to INTx on resume. This happens > > > > after device resume, so device irq's get misrouted. > > > > > > Err? My Sony VAIO

Re: [PATCH] block MSI on Sony

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 16:21 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > The Sony VAIO BIOS resets to INTx on resume. This happens > > > after device resume, so device irq's get misrouted. > > > > Err? My Sony VAIO does _NOT_ do that. It works fine without that. > > It's just the sky2 hackery which

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:25:48 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > On one and only one platform. It works fine on others. Don't blame the > > driver, stop it in PCI. > > How sure are you that it's only those Sony

Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?

2007-01-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Chris Friesen wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully, CONFIG_IP_PNP can go away. It could be done reasonably easy, you know... :-/ If CONFIG_IP_PNP is going to go

Re: [PATCH] block MSI on Sony

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 01:22 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:50 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The Sony VAIO BIOS resets to INTx on resume. This happens > > after device resume, so device irq's get misrouted. > > Err? My Sony VAIO does _NOT_ do that. It works fine

Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?

2007-01-29 Thread Chris Friesen
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully, CONFIG_IP_PNP can go away. It could be done reasonably easy, you know... :-/ If CONFIG_IP_PNP is going to go away, what is the proposed

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On one and only one platform. It works fine on others. Don't blame the > driver, stop it in PCI. How sure are you that it's only those Sony laptops? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] block MSI on Sony

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:22:54 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:50 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The Sony VAIO BIOS resets to INTx on resume. This happens > > after device resume, so device irq's get misrouted. > > Err? My Sony VAIO does _NOT_ do

[patch] use __u32 in asm-x86_64/msr.h

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
the checking_wrmsrl() macro in asm-x86_64/msr.h which is exported to userspace utilizes the u32 type instead of __u32 ... trivial attached patch fixes that -mike pgpmUxTVCW5jn.pgp Description: PGP signature Use __u32 rather than u32 in checking_wrmsrl() exported to userspace. Signed-off-by:

slow module build--what am I doing wrong?

2007-01-29 Thread Ben Pfaff
When I modify a source file or two that belong to a particular module, and then rebuild just that module with "make dir1/dir/module.ko" (e.g.), the build system spends a couple of minutes grinding away on "MODPOST" operations. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a way to avoid this? It slows

Re: [PATCH] block MSI on Sony

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:50 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The Sony VAIO BIOS resets to INTx on resume. This happens > after device resume, so device irq's get misrouted. Err? My Sony VAIO does _NOT_ do that. It works fine without that. It's just the sky2 hackery which fucked up things.

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:12:27 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > Why do you insist on maintaining the wrong initialization order > > on resume? When I raised the issue, Len brought up that the resume > > order did

Re: [PATCH RFC] sd: spin down disks on removal or power-down

2007-01-29 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 15:47 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > What we don't want to happen is for those disks to spin down during a > reboot. > It seems that this is OK with this patch. > > Also, we probably don't want them to be spun down during a kexec_load, > but > I expect that's OK too.

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Altix: Add ACPI SSDT PCI device support (hotplug)

2007-01-29 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:04:43AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > From: John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Support for dynamic loading and unloading of ACPI SSDT tables upon slot > hotplugs and unplugs. > > On SN platforms, we now represent every populated root bus slot with a single > ACPI SSDT

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Why do you insist on maintaining the wrong initialization order > on resume? When I raised the issue, Len brought up that the resume > order did not match spec, but then there has been slow progress > in fixing it (it's buried in -mm tree).

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:37:29 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With a alloc_pages_range() one would be able to specify upper and lower > boundaries. Is there a proposal anywhere regarding how this would be implemented? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-29 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 29 January 2007 18:00, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:03:08PM +0100, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > I still don't see much difference between O_SYNC and O_DIRECT write > > semantic. > > O_DIRECT is about avoiding the copy_user between cache and userland, > when working

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! >>The /proc/bus/input/devices has an extensible structure. You can just >>add an "A:" line (for Activity) instead of adding a new proc file. >> >> I know, but IMO there is too much stuff to parse in there. Activity > counters >> are frequently accessed by daemons,

Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?

2007-01-29 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jan Engelhardt wrote: or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully, CONFIG_IP_PNP can go away. It could be done reasonably easy, you know... :-/ -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Advice on APM-EMU reunion

2007-01-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:53:46PM +, Richard Purdie wrote: > I'm not sure this is a good idea. As you're creating a new interface, > why not create something new/improved without the problems that > confining yourself to APM emulation brings? Because several applications (and expecially in

Re: Advice on APM-EMU reunion

2007-01-29 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 00:07 +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > Now I try on this list in order to have some advice if this could be a > good idea and what about if I add a new class "apm_emu" on the sysfs > support with proper registrations functions. I'm not sure this is a good idea. As you're

Re: [PATCH RFC] sd: spin down disks on removal or power-down

2007-01-29 Thread Robert Hancock
Andrew Morton wrote: triviata: --- linux-2.6.20-rc6nv/drivers/scsi/sd.c2007-01-28 17:00:00.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6nvedit/drivers/scsi/sd.c2007-01-28 18:08:53.0 -0600 @@ -821,6 +821,39 @@ static int sd_sync_cache(struct scsi_dev return res; }

[PATCH] TSL2550 support (I2C device driver)

2007-01-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Hello, attached a patch to add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4=18). Ciao, Rodolfo -- GNU/Linux Solutions e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Device Driver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Embedded

Advice on APM-EMU reunion

2007-01-29 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Hello, some months ago I sent to the MIPS and ARM mail lists a patch to unify the several APM emulation codes adding a new dedicated directory so it can be used to put there the per board specific code avoiding code duplications (see files ./arch/arm/kernel/apm.c, ./arch/mips/kernel/apm.c and

[PATCH] block MSI on Sony

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
The Sony VAIO BIOS resets to INTx on resume. This happens after device resume, so device irq's get misrouted. This hack turns off MSI on this laptop, until power management initialization order is fixed. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/quirks.c | 32

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:04:06 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > > MSI works fine for almost all systems (except AMD systems where > > MSI is broken for ALL devices). > > Why do you ignore reality? > > MSI does *not*

Re: [PATCH RFC] sd: spin down disks on removal or power-down

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:47:27 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a patch for sd.c I've cooked up which issues a START STOP UNIT > command to stop the drive when the SCSI disk is removed or the machine > is powered down. The rationale behind this is that apparently on many >

Re: unfixed regression in 2.6.20-rc6 (since 2.6.19)

2007-01-29 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:31:09AM +, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > From: Rainer Weikusat > > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > > Subject: Re: unfixed regression in 2.6.20-rc6 (since 2.6.19) > > Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:34:56 +0100 > > Hallo. > > > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [] > >>

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups

2007-01-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> It's possible that the device can do MSI(X), but that using MSI(X) > requires other platform resources (e.g. interrupt source numbers) and > there are none free. I believe the platform guarantees a minimum > number of MSI(X) interrupts per function, but a pci_enable_msix() call > may not be

[PATCH] sky2: fix MSI related resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
commmit 44ade178249fe53d055fd92113eaa271e06acddd breaks sane MSI/ACPI/BIOS combinations. It's impossible to keep broken and sane MSI/ACPI/BIOSes happy at the same time. Revert the patch and disable MSI for sky2 when CONFIG_PM is enabled. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 00:26 +0100, Frédéric Riss wrote: > > Have you checked the syslog ? > Yes of course. Nothing interesting. Just got the same issue on one of my test boxen. Different network card though. The interface comes up fine, but DNS is not working. ifdown/up resolves it. /me keeps an

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Russell King wrote: > This sounds like it could help ARM where we have some weird DMA areas. Some ARM platforms have no need for a ZONE_DMA. The code in mm allows you to not compile ZONE_DMA support into these kernels. > What will help even more is if the block layer can

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Mackerras
Michael Ellerman writes: > You can read config space, but it's not clear to me if the HV is allowed > to filter it and hide things. It's also possible that the device It appears that the HV does not prevent us from reading or writing any config space registers for functions that are assigned to

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 à 23:57 +0100, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 23:50 +0100, Frédéric Riss wrote: > > > That's probably a userspace problem. Are you using DHCP ? > > > > Yep DHCP. Is that a known issue? I never had to reconfigure with older > > kernels. > > Is dhclient

Re: script that import patches from local mm-commits mbox and adds them to local -mm tree

2007-01-29 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 29/01/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/files/tools/witcher/witcher.py example series diff http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/ltg/files/tools/witcher/witcher-series (it's not perfect, but should work) Now 'quilt fold' works fine. Happy

[patch-mm] dynticks: Fix one off jiffy update

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Sigh. /me wanted to be too clever and needs to order more brown paperbags now. The rework of the jiffy update code introduced a one off error, which led to a one off accounting error for last_jiffy_update. This made jiffies lag behind. Noticed by Karsten Wiese (cpufreq_ondemand weirdness).

Re: fsync occasionally very slow

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:02:14 -0500 "Matthew Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regarding the long fsyncs, here's a trace... > > I upgraded to a more recent kernel - 2.6.18.6 - and ran it on a workstation. > This particular box has In this case the elevator is CFQ. > > This sample came from a

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-29 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 29 January 2007 22:21, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:04 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 21:14 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:34 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Am Montag, 29.

[-mm patch] rcu_trace build fix (was Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 build failure)

2007-01-29 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:31:08PM +0300, Tomasz Kvarsin wrote: > I try to compile and got: > > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CHK include/linux/compile.h > CC kernel/rcupreempt.o > kernel/rcupreempt.c: In function

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups

2007-01-29 Thread Paul Mackerras
Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > I'd hate to hit a different Hypervisor that did something close but > > not quite the same and have the code fail then. So definitely > > avoiding touching pci config space at all in the calls seems to make a > > lot of sense. This includes avoiding

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > MSI works fine for almost all systems (except AMD systems where > MSI is broken for ALL devices). Why do you ignore reality? MSI does *not* work fine, exactly because the firmware screws it up. The fact that on a "hardware level" it may work

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 23:50 +0100, Frédéric Riss wrote: > > That's probably a userspace problem. Are you using DHCP ? > > Yep DHCP. Is that a known issue? I never had to reconfigure with older > kernels. Is dhclient running after resume ? What's the output of ifconfig (before you do ifdown/up) ?

[GIT PATCH] ALSA core fix for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-29 Thread Greg KH
Takashi asked me to send you this single patch as it conflicted with his current tree and it is needed before 2.6.20 comes out to fix a userspace ABI breakage that I caused earlier. This patch fixes a bug with the sound core when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled. More details can be found in

[PATCH 1/1] [PATCH] ALSA: Fix sysfs breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Greg KH
From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The recent change for a new sysfs tree with card* object breaks the /sys/class/sound tree if CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED is enabled. The device in each entry doesn't point the correct device object: /sys/class/sound ... |-- pcmC0D0c | |-- dev |

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 à 23:45 +0100, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 23:38 +0100, Frédéric Riss wrote: > > I see the same symptoms on my Intel Mac Mini, and reverting the commit > > also allows the driver to seemingly resume correctly. > > > > However after coming out of

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-29 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:45:06PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > All 64 bit machine will only have a single zone if we have such a range > > > alloc mechanism. The 32bit ones with HIGHMEM wont be able to avoid it, > > > true. But all arches

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > All 64 bit machine will only have a single zone if we have such a range > > alloc mechanism. The 32bit ones with HIGHMEM wont be able to avoid it, > > true. But all arches that do not need gymnastics to access their memory > > will be able run with

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:37:23 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Reverting commit 44ade178249fe53d055fd92113eaa271e06acddd, which added > > this hackery in the first place, makes the device survive > > suspend/resume.

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 23:38 +0100, Frédéric Riss wrote: > I see the same symptoms on my Intel Mac Mini, and reverting the commit > also allows the driver to seemingly resume correctly. > > However after coming out of sleep I need to reconfigure the network > interface. No need to rmmod/insmod,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-29 Thread Alessandro Di Marco
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi! >The /proc/bus/input/devices has an extensible structure. You can just >add an "A:" line (for Activity) instead of adding a new proc file. > > I know, but IMO there is too much stuff to parse in there. Activity counters >

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7891] New: vdso page is no longer mapped for

2007-01-29 Thread Joerg Ahrens
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:10:29AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 27 January 2007 23:02, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:01:51 -0500 > > > > "Parag Warudkar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here is a patch that does what Andrew Morton suggested (plus some more > > > as

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 à 23:23 +0100, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:38 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Sorry it was against the last patch I sent to Jeff for netdev. > > Here is against 2.6.20-rc6 > > Still the same problem. The only difference of this patch to the >

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Reverting commit 44ade178249fe53d055fd92113eaa271e06acddd, which added > this hackery in the first place, makes the device survive > suspend/resume. I suspect some BIOSes do *not* screw up the MSI thing on resume, and others do. I would suggest

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:04:48PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > > > e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > I've often wondered that myself,

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:54:38 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > The main benefit is a significant simplification of the VM, leading to > > > robust and reliable operations and a reduction of the maintenance > > >

Re: i965 testers wanted (Re: intel-agp PM experiences)

2007-01-29 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:21:31PM +0100, Frédéric Riss wrote: > Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 à 23:10 +0100, Pavel Machek a écrit : > > > > Ok, I guess we'd like some testing here... so that in can be fixed in > > > > mainline... > > > > > > I can confirm that this patch is needed for my Intel

Re: 2.6.20rc5 k8/acpi regression ( 2.6.17.13 works fine ).

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Paweł Sikora wrote: > On Thursday 25 of January 2007 05:50:45 Len Brown wrote: > >> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:52, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:46:44PM +0100, Paweł Sikora wrote: >>> for 2.6.20rc5 i get an acpi related oops during x86-64 boot:

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:23 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Still the same problem. The only difference of this patch to the > > previous version is, that the unhandled interrupt message is gone. > > > > As I said before: > > > > Reverting commit 44ade178249fe53d055fd92113eaa271e06acddd,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! >The /proc/bus/input/devices has an extensible structure. You can just >add an "A:" line (for Activity) instead of adding a new proc file. > > I know, but IMO there is too much stuff to parse in there. Activity counters > are frequently accessed by daemons, and four or five

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:23:21 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:38 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Sorry it was against the last patch I sent to Jeff for netdev. > > Here is against 2.6.20-rc6 > > Still the same problem. The only difference of this

[patch] rename members in dummy _xt_align struct

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Frysinger
i'd like to rename the members in the _xt_align struct in netfilter/x_tables.h ... by not using 'u8', 'u16', etc..., it's possible to filter headers meant for userspace through the preprocessor and pull out people who accidentally utilize these internal types ... however, by using struct

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:38 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Sorry it was against the last patch I sent to Jeff for netdev. > Here is against 2.6.20-rc6 Still the same problem. The only difference of this patch to the previous version is, that the unhandled interrupt message is gone. As I said

Re: i965 testers wanted (Re: intel-agp PM experiences)

2007-01-29 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le lundi 29 janvier 2007 à 23:10 +0100, Pavel Machek a écrit : > > > Ok, I guess we'd like some testing here... so that in can be fixed in > > > mainline... > > > > I can confirm that this patch is needed for my Intel Mac Mini to resume > > correctly when used without BIOS emulation (EFI mode).

Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/29, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > Now we have 2 additional events, CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE/CPU_LOCK_RELEASE, > > so cpuup_callback() can use them to lock/unlock cache_chain_mutex, > > but this is not related. > > Then we wont need to do the

[PATCH] compile and link utsname_sysctl.o

2007-01-29 Thread Laurent Riffard
The utsname stuff has been moved from kernel/sysctl.c to the new file utsname_sysctl.c. Let's use it... Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6-mm/kernel/Makefile === ---

Re: i965 testers wanted (Re: intel-agp PM experiences)

2007-01-29 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Ok, I guess we'd like some testing here... so that in can be fixed in > > mainline... > > I can confirm that this patch is needed for my Intel Mac Mini to resume > correctly when used without BIOS emulation (EFI mode). Here're the > relevant lspci lines: Can you attach the patch you

Re: i965 testers wanted (Re: intel-agp PM experiences)

2007-01-29 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le mardi 23 janvier 2007 à 09:44 +, Pavel Machek a écrit : > 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

RE: fsync occasionally very slow

2007-01-29 Thread Matthew Kirk
Regarding the long fsyncs, here's a trace... I upgraded to a more recent kernel - 2.6.18.6 - and ran it on a workstation. This particular box has In this case the elevator is CFQ. This sample came from a stall that lasted about 2.5 minutes(!) - the longest one I've seen yet. The box is a bit

Re: [PATCH 0/8] Create ZONE_MOVABLE to partition memory between movable and non-movable pages

2007-01-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The main benefit is a significant simplification of the VM, leading to > > robust and reliable operations and a reduction of the maintenance > > headaches coming with the additional zones. > > > > If we would introduce the ability of allocating

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Mike Houston
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:30:00 -0500 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? > > e.g. how many downloads does it get? I've often wondered that myself, as I'm concerned for it to continue to be maintained. I'm very appreciative

Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems

2007-01-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Now we have 2 additional events, CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE/CPU_LOCK_RELEASE, > so cpuup_callback() can use them to lock/unlock cache_chain_mutex, > but this is not related. Then we wont need to do the mutex_lock/unlock in CPU_DOWN_XX anymore, right? Which

Re: [patch 00/46] High resolution timer / dynamic tick update

2007-01-29 Thread john stultz
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:31 -0800, john stultz wrote: > Should I just revive the old 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 patches against your current > tree and re-submit? Or should the HRT bits get settled first? Thomas just pointed out that I had missed that the bits are back in -mm2. Sorry for the noise. -john

Re: [PATCH] slab.c ifdef reduction breaks build

2007-01-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:41:33 -0800 (PST) > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA > > if (CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG) > > We don't need the `if (CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG)' any more, do we? Correct. - To

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - sky2 resume breakage

2007-01-29 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:10:30 +0100 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 11:31 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Does this fix it? > > Don't know. Sorry it was against the last patch I sent to Jeff for netdev. Here is against 2.6.20-rc6 --- drivers/net/sky2.c |

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm2

2007-01-29 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 29.01.2007 09:12, Andrew Morton a écrit : Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc6-mm2/ Will appear later at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/2.6.20-rc6-mm2/ - Dropped git-block due to CFQ breakage Nice, reiser4

Re: intel-agp PM experiences (was: 2.6.20-rc5: usb mouse breaks suspend to ram)

2007-01-29 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:45:19PM +0800, Wang Zhenyu 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 >

Re: [patch 00/46] High resolution timer / dynamic tick update

2007-01-29 Thread john stultz
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 18:17 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:00:55 - > Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is a full replacement queue for the high resolution timer / dynamic > > ticks implemementation in -mm. > > The Vaio broke again. Seems to hang

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-29 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:04 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 21:14 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:34 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 12:24 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > > > Hi. > > > > > > > > On Mon,

Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [git patches] ocfs2 fixes

2007-01-29 Thread Mark Fasheh
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:04:59PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Hi Linus, > I made a silly error in my last upstream push. This patch makes > ocfs2 build again. Ok, never mind - I just noticed that you directly applied my patch on Friday. Thanks! --Mark -- Mark Fasheh Senior

Re: Boot problems with pata_via driver

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Ale
On 1/29/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A lot of crap. And i am a fruitcake, nutter, headcase. *sigh* sorry for wasting your time, I found my problem. Since I thought libata worked like my old ata drivers and 2.6.19 was booting well, I reconfigured my kernel source and changed

Re: slab: start_cpu_timer/cache_reap CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU problems

2007-01-29 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 01/29, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Here is the patch against 2.6.20-rc6-mm2. CPU_DOWN_PREPARE and > CPU_DOWN_FAILED somehow vanished in mm? No, no, there are still in place, so I believe your patch is good. Now we have 2 additional events, CPU_LOCK_ACQUIRE/CPU_LOCK_RELEASE, so

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-29 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 21:14 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > Hi. > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:34 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Montag, 29. Januar 2007 12:24 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 12:06 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > >

Re: Boot problems with pata_via driver

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Ale
On 1/29/07, Patrick Ale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay so, I unplugged the keyboard the moment I selected a kernel to boot. The last thing i see on my screen, regarding SCSI is: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2000JB-00G 08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 1:0:0:0 CD-ROM

Re: [PATCH] slab.c ifdef reduction breaks build

2007-01-29 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:41:33 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +#ifdef CONFIG_ZONE_DMA > if (CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG) We don't need the `if (CONFIG_ZONE_DMA_FLAG)' any more, do we? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Boot problems with pata_via driver

2007-01-29 Thread Patrick Ale
Okay so, I unplugged the keyboard the moment I selected a kernel to boot. The last thing i see on my screen, regarding SCSI is: scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD2000JB-00G 08.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 scsi 1:0:0:0 CD-ROM AOPEN DUW1608/ARR A060 PW: 0 ANSI: 5 then

Re: Multiple ip= boot arguments?

2007-01-29 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 29 2007 12:36, Kevin Nicoll wrote: > > My question is if it is intended to be able to use more than one "ip=" > parameter in the kernel command line, Possibly not ... > or if I'm supposed to use a startup script instead. This is the preffered way nowadays. One day, hopefully,

Re: [PATCH] slab.c ifdef reduction breaks build

2007-01-29 Thread Christoph Lameter
I also hit the same issue. Here is the patch: Fix slab build failure if !CONFIG_ZONE_DMA I also needed this to get 2.6.20-rc6-mm2 to build. Fixes the fix by the complainer about the fixes. #ifdef cannot be avoided since cs_dmacachep is no longer defined. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter

Re: page_mkwrite caller is racy?

2007-01-29 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > After do_wp_page calls page_mkwrite on its target (old_page), it then drops > > the reference to the page before locking the ptl and verifying that the pte > > points to old_page. > > > > Unfortunately,

Re: [PATCH 4/4] fs/unionfs/: Don't duplicate the struct nameidata

2007-01-29 Thread Josef Sipek
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:37:43PM -0500, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > Josef 'Jeff' Sipek (3): > fs/unionfs/: Remove stale_inode.c > fs/unionfs/: Andrew Morton's comments > fs/unionfs/: Don't duplicate the struct nameidata > > fs/unionfs/branchman.c |4 +- >

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Josh Boyer wrote: > On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? >> >> e.g. how many downloads does it get? > > Are you including distros that use it as well? > Yes, if they're based on Adrian's stable series. - To

[PATCH 2/4] fs/unionfs/: possible cleanups

2007-01-29 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - unquoted This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - every function should #include the headers containing the prototypes of it's global functions - static functions in C files shouldn't be marked "inline", gcc should know best when to inline

[PATCH 1/4] fs/unionfs/: Remove stale_inode.c

2007-01-29 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
The stale inode operations were heavily based on bad inode operations. This patch removes stale_inode.c and converts all users of stale_inode_ops to bad_inode_ops as there seems to be no reason to return ESTALE instead of EIO. This is the more appropriate than porting the bad_inode.c fix (commit

[PATCH 4/4] fs/unionfs/: Don't duplicate the struct nameidata

2007-01-29 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
The only fields that we have to watch out for are the dentry and vfsmount. Additionally, this makes Unionfs gentler on the stack as nameidata is rather large. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/inode.c | 22 -- 1 files changed, 16

[PATCH 3/4] fs/unionfs/: Andrew Morton's comments

2007-01-29 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
- rename {,un}lock_dentry to unionfs_{,un}lock_dentry - few minor coding style fixes - removed prototypes from .c files - replaced dbstart macros etc with static inlines - replaced UNIONFS_D(d)->sem semaphore with a mutex - renamed sioq struct workqueue to superio_workqueue - made

[PATCH 4/4] fs/unionfs/: Don't duplicate the struct nameidata

2007-01-29 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek (3): fs/unionfs/: Remove stale_inode.c fs/unionfs/: Andrew Morton's comments fs/unionfs/: Don't duplicate the struct nameidata fs/unionfs/branchman.c |4 +- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 54 +++--- fs/unionfs/copyup.c | 67

[GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs updates/cleanups

2007-01-29 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
The following patches (also available though the git tree) address a number of code cleanliness issues with Unionfs. You can pull from 'master' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/unionfs.git to receive the following: Adrian Bunk (1): fs/unionfs/: possible

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Josh Boyer
On 1/29/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? Are you including distros that use it as well? josh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 0/6] MSI portability cleanups

2007-01-29 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> You can read config space, but it's not clear to me if the HV is allowed > to filter it and hide things. I've seen it do it for example with EADS bridges. I haven't seen doing it with devices (other than hiding entire functions) but I wouldn't exclude it... > It's also possible that the

How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-29 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Is there any way to estimate the size of the user base for 2.6.16? e.g. how many downloads does it get? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

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