From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
this adds the data structures used by the syslet / async system calls
infrastructure.
This is used only if CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/async.h |
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:53:03PM -0500, William Cohen wrote:
After last week's experiment reducing size of task_struct on I was
The is a signficant amount of space wasted for ext3_inode_cache. If
the struct used for ext3_inode_cache struct could be made smaller,
three objects rather than two
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wire up the new syslet / async system call syscalls and make it
thus available to user-space.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S |5 +
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the core syslet / async system calls infrastructure code.
Is built only if CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/Makefile |1
kernel/async.c | 811
I'm pleased to announce the first release of the Syslet kernel feature
and kernel subsystem, which provides generic asynchrous system call
support:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/syslet-patches/
Syslets are small, simple, lightweight programs (consisting of
system-calls, 'atoms') that the kernel
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
enable CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on x86.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/Kconfig |4
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
Index: linux/arch/i386/Kconfig
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
provide an optimized assembly version of sys_umem_add().
It is about 2 times faster than the C version.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/lib/getuser.S | 27
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
add include/linux/syslet.h which contains the user-space API/ABI
declarations. Add the new header to include/linux/Kbuild as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/Kbuild |1
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
add the create_async_thread() way of creating kernel threads:
these threads first execute a kernel function and when they
return from it they execute user-space.
An architecture must implement this interface before it can turn
CONFIG_ASYNC_SUPPORT on.
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
provide an optimized assembly version of the copy_uatom() method.
This is about 3 times faster than the C version.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/lib/getuser.S | 115
Hi Leopold,
Le Lundi 12 Février 2007 17:23, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit :
A Dilluns 12 Febrer 2007 10:11, Jean Delvare va escriure:
Did you report the problem to Asus? They should fix it. Maybe this new
BIOS actually fixes some other problems you have.
no. It's on the todo list.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:36:34PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
2. The following proggie renders box unusable in ~10 seconds (but not
mainline kernel where Ctrl+C will kill process).
I haven't been able to reproduce this so far on my test machine. I got
bored after about 10 minutes
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:15:18PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
Good spotting! This function needs to be passed skb_headlen(skb),
rather than skb-len. Patch is below (I renamed the parameter as well,
for clarity).
How about just dropping that parameter and using skb_headlen(skb)
directly?
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:50 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
Indeed.
Which kernel can you use?
I believe that 2200 had another problem so can you use an fc5 kernel
later than that?
I've ported your patch to 2257 (nothing special,
Olivier Galibert wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
Indeed.
Which kernel can you use?
I believe that 2200 had another problem so can you use an fc5 kernel
later than that?
I've ported your patch to 2257 (nothing special, only moved lines),
and it seems to
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:18:57AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
Which make me wonder why we need task_lock() at all ..I can understand
the need for a lock like that if we are reading/updating multiple words
in task_struct under the lock. In this case, it is used to read/write
just one
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch implements the BeanCounter resource control abstraction
over generic process containers. It contains the beancounter core
code, plus the numfiles resource counter. It doesn't currently contain
any of the memory tracking code or the code for switching
On 2/13/07, Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch implements the BeanCounter resource control abstraction
over generic process containers. It contains the beancounter core
code, plus the numfiles resource counter. It doesn't currently contain
any of the
Paul Menage wrote:
On 2/13/07, Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This patch implements the BeanCounter resource control abstraction
over generic process containers. It contains the beancounter core
code, plus the numfiles resource counter. It doesn't
On 2/13/07, Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have implementation that moves arbitrary task :)
Is that the one that calls stop_machine() in order to move a task
around? That seemed a little heavyweight ...
May be we can do context (container-on-task) handling lockless?
What did
Paul Menage wrote:
On 2/13/07, Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have implementation that moves arbitrary task :)
Is that the one that calls stop_machine() in order to move a task
around? That seemed a little heavyweight ...
Nope :) I've rewritten it completely.
May be we can do
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:40:52AM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
I did consider that approach at one point. The reason I rejected it
was that then container-count would no longer even vaguely represent
the number of processes in a container. Now that we have the
container_group object, we have to
If we are already on the topic, I would like to report two additional issues
with mmc_block:
1. If, for some reason, device driver cannot return the requested data amount,
but does not sets
any error, mmc_block would retry indefinitely. Of course, its always a device
driver's fault, but
may be
Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 03:14:05PM -0500, Raphael Assenat wrote:
This patch adds a PCI device ID (0x8152) for the IT8152F/G
Advanced RISC-to-PCI Companion Chip.
--
Raphael Assenat
8D Technologies Inc.
This patch adds a PCI device ID for the IT8152F/G
Advanced
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 01:32:34PM +0100, Martin A. Fink wrote:
Does the FreeBSD fsync sync to media ? Also what controller is being used
here, and do you have EHCI USB support running ?
Manual of FreeBSD fsync says it syncs to media.
That didn't answer the question. With SATA in
Hi All -
I have two systems running 2.6.19 from fedora-updates.
System 1: vanilla x86 SMP server box with 2x Emulex LP-101
System 2: vanilla x86 SMP server box with 2x QLogic 2310F
Both boxes are multipath to Hitachi USP TagmaStore. All LUNs including
LUN0 (/, /boot, swap, /var via
data actually did make it to the media, I wouldn't necessary assume
that it has. Given that it sounds like you really care about this,
I'd suggest that you explicitly testing this before making
assumptions.
FreeBSD 6.1 appears to get it right for some subsets of devices so it
seems a
A syslet is executed opportunistically: i.e. the syslet subsystem
assumes that the syslet will not block, and it will switch to a
cachemiss kernel thread from the scheduler. This means that even a
How is scheduler fairness maintained ? and what is done for resource
accounting here ?
that
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:56:51PM +0100, Manuel Lauss wrote:
Hi Ben,
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:07:41AM +, Ben Dooks wrote:
This is a new release of the SM501 MFD driver.
+struct sm501_platdata_fbsub {
+ struct fb_mode *def_mode;
+ unsigned longmax_mem;
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:00:19PM +, Alan wrote:
Open issues:
Let me add some more
Also: FPU state (especially important with the FPU and SSE memory copy
variants), segment register bases on x86-64, interaction with set_fs()...
There is no easy way of getting around the full thread
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:58 -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:00:19PM +, Alan wrote:
Open issues:
Let me add some more
Also: FPU state (especially important with the FPU and SSE memory copy
variants)
are these preserved over explicit system calls?
--
if
On Monday 12 February 2007 17:51, Andi Kleen wrote:
setcc() in math-emu is written as a gcc extension statement expression
macro that returns a value. However, it's not used that way and it's not
needed like that, so just make it a do-while non-extension macro so that we
don't use an
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:45:54AM -0500, Raphael Assenat wrote:
Really? I have no idea if it's possible to get a reliable PCI bus or
not with this chip. Right now, we only use it for it's built-in OHCI
USB host controller and UART. You're making me hope I never have to
use it for
Willy Tarreau wrote:
Probably that you got the wrong laptop. If you buy an ultra-thin with highly
proprietary hardware, it may be hard. But if you choose in profesionnal ranges,
there is rarely any problem. I have a compaq nc8000 on which everything works
fine, and it boots in about 20 seconds.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:16:33AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
There doesn't seem to be very many
arm systems with PCI, so it's hard to tell.
NetWinder, EBSA285 (which the NetWinder is a derivative of), the N2100,
etc are PCI based and are all well proven in the field.
However, I have come
kernel BUG at lib/iomap.c:254!
invalid opcode: [#1]
...
The screen picture is here:
http://vrfy.org/pci_iounmap.jpg
It's a Thinkpad T43p.
2.6.20 was working fine.
Commenting out:
IO_COND(addr, /* nothing */, iounmap(addr));
in:
lib/iomap.c:254
makes at least booting up possible.
Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Funny, it sounds like batch() on stereoids @) Ok with an async context it
becomes
somewhat more interesting.
sys_setuid/gid/etc need to be synchronous only and not occur
while other async syscalls are running in parallel to meet current kernel
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Further, giving again answer to the question whether they generate signed or
| unsigned comparisons: Have you ever seen a computer which addresses memory
with
| negative numbers? Since the answer is most likely no, signed comparisons would
| not make
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:13:54 +0100,
Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not especially related to this patch (which just does the same as the
other debugfs functions), but:
+ * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be
+ * returned. It is not wise to check
On 2/13/07, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A syslet is executed opportunistically: i.e. the syslet subsystem
assumes that the syslet will not block, and it will switch to a
cachemiss kernel thread from the scheduler. This means that even a
How is scheduler fairness maintained ? and what is
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:30:29PM +, Russell King wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:16:33AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
There doesn't seem to be very many
arm systems with PCI, so it's hard to tell.
NetWinder, EBSA285 (which the NetWinder is a derivative of), the N2100,
etc are
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:
I mean, all by-hand modifications must be in the $(srctree) (let's get
this term), $(objtree) is output *only*.
No. Especially for things like localversion, the object tree (if it is
different) is very much where you'd put that marker.
You might
Nigel Cunningham wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 01:27 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Plus:
- What if I'm planning to implement the power managemet, but not just right
now?
Why not right now?
LKML is much more receptive to drivers that follow
the release early, release often mantra.
Which
Hello Linus,
The UBI tree has been in -mm for a few releases now and we would like to
to see it in the mainline.
We have several groups using the code now and it has proved to be fairly
stable thus far. We've also got some feedback from people outside the
community.
In short, UBI is kind of LVM
Hi Kay,
kernel BUG at lib/iomap.c:254!
invalid opcode: [#1]
...
The screen picture is here:
http://vrfy.org/pci_iounmap.jpg
It's a Thinkpad T43p.
2.6.20 was working fine.
Commenting out:
IO_COND(addr, /* nothing */, iounmap(addr));
in:
lib/iomap.c:254
makes at least
Robert Hancock wrote:
Having a single drive on the channel configured as slave is not really a
legal configuration.
Sure it is. Not ideal, but legal in every respect,
and suprisingly common in the wild since the early 1990s.
(I believe the ATA standards say that it's
something that a host
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:55:18AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
LKML is much more receptive to drivers that follow
the release early, release often mantra.
Exactly.
Which means we really have to be more accomodating of
drivers that start out simple, and then gain all of the
non-essential
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:34:12PM +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
Hello Linus,
The UBI tree has been in -mm for a few releases now and we would like to
to see it in the mainline.
Please send out a current version for review instead. Last time I looked
at it lots of things looked quite
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:35:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:23:30 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[PATCH v4] Fix rmmod/read/write races in /proc entries
This:
static ssize_t
proc_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
Hi,
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
I know it maybe another my change it all proposition, but i can't find
nothing against `GNU $(wildcard ..)' and `unnecessarily complex find'.
It's the regexp in both cases. $(wildcard ) doesn't do regexp's (only the
normal path rules), and
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:14 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Monday 12 February 2007 17:51, Andi Kleen wrote:
setcc() in math-emu is written as a gcc extension statement expression
macro that returns a value. However, it's not used that way and it's not
needed like that, so just make it a
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:47:28AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:30:29PM +, Russell King wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:16:33AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
There doesn't seem to be very many
arm systems with PCI, so it's hard to tell.
NetWinder,
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:58:48AM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
not present is mandatory). I have looked into exactly this approach, and
it's only cheaper if the code is incomplete. Linux's native threads are
pretty damned good.
Cheaper in time or in memory? Iow, would you be able to
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
sys_exec and other security boundaries must be synchronous only
and not allow async spill over (consider setuid async binary patching)
He probably would need some generalization of Andrea's seccomp work.
Perhaps using bitmaps? For paranoia I
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:37:38 +0200 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:47:50PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
Now that most of the sizeof(array)/sizeof(array[0]) conversions have
been done (there are about 800 done and about another 130 left),
perhaps it could be useful to
* Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A syslet is executed opportunistically: i.e. the syslet subsystem
assumes that the syslet will not block, and it will switch to a
cachemiss kernel thread from the scheduler. This means that even a
How is scheduler fairness maintained ? and what is done
[Difference to previous attempt: cmdline_size is now without terminating
zero, requested by H. Peter Anvin.]
Because the command line is increased to 2048 characters after 2.6.20-rc6-mm1,
it's not possible for boot loaders and userspace tools to determine the length
of the command line the kernel
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 17:04 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
kernel BUG at lib/iomap.c:254!
invalid opcode: [#1]
...
The screen picture is here:
http://vrfy.org/pci_iounmap.jpg
It's a Thinkpad T43p.
2.6.20 was working fine.
Commenting out:
IO_COND(addr, /*
* Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
sys_exec and other security boundaries must be synchronous
only and not allow async spill over (consider setuid async binary
patching)
He probably would need some generalization of Andrea's seccomp work.
Perhaps using bitmaps? For paranoia I
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:11 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:53:37 -0800 Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
diff -puN
fs/file_table.c~14-24-tricky-elevate-write-count-files-are-open-ed
fs/file_table.c
---
* Benjamin LaHaise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Open issues:
Let me add some more
Also: FPU state (especially important with the FPU and SSE memory copy
variants), segment register bases on x86-64, interaction with
set_fs()...
agreed - i'll fix this. But i can see no big conceptual
* Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ie, we could just add to do_fork() (which is where all of the
vfork/clone/fork cases end up) a simple case like
err = wait_async_context();
if (err)
return err;
or
if (in_async_context())
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
no quite the opposite. gettimeofday() currently is NOT monotonic
unfortunately. With this patchseries it actually has a better chance of
becoming that...
It is monotonic on IA64 at least and we have found that subtle application
bugs occur if it
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
In my last posintg, mempolicy-fix-for-memory-less-node patch, there was a
discussion 'what do you consider definition of node as...?
I found there is no consensus. But I want to go ahead.
Before posing patch again, I'd like to discuss more.
-Kame
In my understanding,
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:25:27AM +, Alan wrote:
So where is the difference between SATA-I and SATA-II ?
All physical side if they are on the same controller when you do the
tests. Mostly latency,
SATA-II is a highly confusing marketing term. It is /not/ a technical
term.
In some
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 17:10, Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:11:14 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Monday 12 February 2007 17:51, Andi Kleen wrote:
setcc() in math-emu is written as a gcc extension statement expression
macro that returns a value. However, it's not used
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:17:51 + Dominic Newton wrote:
Just a small issue with the latest kernel 2.6.20. When compiling make
menuconfig our ncurses library is not being detected. I currently use
2.6.15 with no problem and comparing the 2 I found a script (
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:09, Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
no quite the opposite. gettimeofday() currently is NOT monotonic
unfortunately. With this patchseries it actually has a better chance of
becoming that...
It is monotonic on IA64 at
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
The trouble with this is that you'll need to harden large parts
of code against these. Especially a NULL pgdat is something quite
dangerous. You could make it a dummy empty pgdat, but just assigning it
nearby seems easier.
Plus there is the issue of
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
NOD_DATA(nid) is always valid pointer if a node is online.
NODE_DATA(nid)-present_pages can be 0 even if a node is online,
I call this as memory-less-node.
Yes but the pgdat will have no valid zone in it. That is new.
-
To unsubscribe from this
Hello Tejun,
A small update:
your patch also works against 2.6.20
but seems that open the door to numerous other pb:
1/ pb to burn cd:
# md5sum cd060213.iso
6a1248783a21722816b972aa9bae9d5e cd060213.iso
# ll cd060213.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3213312 Feb 13 2006 cd060213.iso
# dd
Add cursor enable/disable, very useful if you wish a full screen boot
logo.
Cursor can be disabled from kernel command line:
video=pxafb:nocursor
or from sysfs interface:
echo 1 /sys/module/pxafb/parameters/nocursor
Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:38:05PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
Add cursor enable/disable, very useful if you wish a full screen boot
logo.
Maybe this should be a generic option? Or maybe issue ESC [ 25 l
to disable the cursor if you're wanting to turn it off from userspace.
--
Russell
Your description of the node is correct, it's an arbitrary container of
one or more resources. Not only is this definition flexible, it's also
very useful, for memory hotplug, odd types of NUMA boxes, etc.
I must disagree here. Special cases are always dangerous especially
if they are hard to
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:58:16 -0800 Dave Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yipes. A new mount-wide spin_lock/unlock for each for-writing open() and
close().
Can we have a microbenchmark on this please?
Yeah, I'll schedule some dbench time on a NUMA machine.
dbench doesn't do open() a
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
Adding NULL tests all over mm for this would seem like a clear case
of this to me.
Maybe there is an alternative. We are free to number the nodes right?
How about requiring the low node number to have memory and the high ones
do not?
F.e. have a
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:48:29PM +, Russell King wrote:
Maybe this should be a generic option? Or maybe issue ESC [ 25 l
to disable the cursor if you're wanting to turn it off from userspace.
This is useful if you have a full screen boot logo. How I can issue
ESC [ 25 l at boot time?
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
Why strlen() should be allowed to be called with an incompatible pointer
type? My point is that gcc should issue *different warning*, -- the same
warning it issues here:
I agree that strlen() per se isn't
Hi,
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 18:35, Joel Soete wrote:
scsi3 : ata_piix
ata1.00: ATA-4, max UDMA/66, 29336832 sectors: LBA
ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 16
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/33
...
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA QUANTUM FIREBALL A03. PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
IDE driver
Andi Kleen wrote:
Your description of the node is correct, it's an arbitrary container of
one or more resources. Not only is this definition flexible, it's also
very useful, for memory hotplug, odd types of NUMA boxes, etc.
I must disagree here. Special cases are always dangerous especially
if
Christoph Lameter wrote:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
Adding NULL tests all over mm for this would seem like a clear case
of this to me.
Maybe there is an alternative. We are free to number the nodes right?
How about requiring the low node number to have memory and the high ones
I wasn't suggesting having NULL pointers for pgdats, if that's what you
mean.
That is what started the original thread at least. Can happen on some
ia64 platforms.
Just nodes with no memory in them, the pgdat would still be there.
pgdat = struct node, except everything's badly named.
Ok
Could you send me output of hdparm --Istdout /dev/sdc command?
Ditto - if this is one of the odd few quantums that need compile time
hacks in the old IDE its also one we need to do runtime handling for in
*both*.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in
the
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:48:29PM +, Russell King wrote:
Maybe this should be a generic option? Or maybe issue ESC [ 25 l
to disable the cursor if you're wanting to turn it off from userspace.
This is useful if you have a full screen boot logo. How I can issue
ESC [ 25 l at boot
Hello, Joel.
Joel Soete wrote:
A small update:
your patch also works against 2.6.20
Glad to hear that.
but seems that open the door to numerous other pb:
1/ pb to burn cd:
# md5sum cd060213.iso
6a1248783a21722816b972aa9bae9d5e cd060213.iso
# ll cd060213.iso
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3213312
Andi Kleen wrote:
I wasn't suggesting having NULL pointers for pgdats, if that's what you
mean.
That is what started the original thread at least. Can happen on some
ia64 platforms.
OK, that does seem kind of ugly.
Just nodes with no memory in them, the pgdat would still be there.
pgdat =
Hi!
The kernel looks at what is using cpu _only_ during the
timer
interrupt. Which means if your HZ is 1000 it looks at
what is running
at precisely the moment those 1000 timer ticks occur. It
is
theoretically possible using this measurement system to
use 99% cpu
and record 0 usage
Hi!
I think your experience is rather different than that of Joe Average
User who doesn't frequent kernel lists, and also I think you'll find
that for a lot of Linux laptop users that don't use supend, the reason
is that it doesn't work reliably, quite often due to driver issues.
I
On 2/13/07, Sergei Organov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
May I suggest another definition for a warning being entirely sucks?
The warning is entirely sucks if and only if it never has true
positives. In all other cases it's only more or less sucks, IMHO.
You're totally missing the point. False
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 15:35 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
OK, I have thought about this some more and I *think* the only
architecture that needs compat_sys_epoll_ctl or compat_sys_epoll_wait is
ia64 where the 64 bit version of struct epoll_event is different from the
32 bit version. On
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:07:27AM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Olivier Galibert wrote:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:52:39AM +0900, Ian Kent wrote:
Indeed.
Which kernel can you use?
I believe that 2200 had another problem so can you use an fc5 kernel
later than that?
I've ported your
Olivier Galibert wrote:
If you get the patches into -stable they will end up in Fedora
kernels automatically. 2288 (based on 2.6.19) is in testing now...
Don't they require autofs5 to be of any use though? That's not going
to be in fc until it's out of beta I guess.
I didn't realize you
[apologies for resend, bogus address on the original mail]
security_getprocattr() takes a buffer + length, copies data
to it and return the actual length. If buffer is NULL, it just returns
the right length, a-la snprintf(). Observations:
* at least selinux ends up actually
kernel BUG at kernel/workqueue.c:212! 100% reproducable
queue_work
__handle_sysrq
kbd_event
add_timer_randomness
kbd_event
input_event
atkbd_interrupt
serio_interrupt
i8042_interrupt
...
reverting the
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:36:34PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
We're aware of two regressions compared to mainline if ptrace is utrace:
Thanks very much for bringing these to my attention.
1) zero holes for PTRACE_PEEKUSR vanished.
I've fixed this in the current patches.
Looking at
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
What's wrong with just setting the existing counters like
node_spanned_pages / node_present_pages to zero?
Will this fix the breakage that Kame-san saw?
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Andi Kleen wrote: [Tue Feb 13 2007, 01:18:45PM EST]
I wasn't suggesting having NULL pointers for pgdats, if that's what you
mean.
That is what started the original thread at least. Can happen on some
ia64 platforms.
I don't believe there is a NULL pgdat. The code for memory less
A new release of the SM501 core mfd driver.
This driver provides the core functionality of the
SM501, which is a multi-function chip including
two framebuffers, video acceleration, USB, and
many other peripheral blocks.
The driver exports a number of entries for the
peripheral drivers to use.
Thanks for the helpful replies.
It appears that I was mistaken and that my hard drive is detected when the
new ATA config option is enabled.
Joseph
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On 02/12/07 08:37, Martin A. Fink wrote:
:~ strace -c -T -o trace.out dd if=/dev/zero of=test.txt bs=10MB count=200
200+0 Datensätze ein
200+0 Datensätze aus
20 bytes (2,0 GB) copied, 52,8632 seconds, 37,8 MB/s
You might want to check the raw write read speed to the device
without
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