Hi,
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, David Howells wrote:
Now, this is not a complete solution by any means: the core kernel is not
protected, and nor are /dev/mem or /dev/kmem, but it denies (or at least
controls) one relatively simple attack vector.
This is really the weak point - it offers no
Robert Hancock wrote:
It's curious that only the post-cache-flush command is having issues,
and normal NCQ operation seems fine. Maybe it's related to that tag 0
being reused repeatedly?
If you take cache flush out of the equation, what happens when NCQ is
enabled with a queue depth of 1 (to
A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 17:19, Jean Delvare va escriure:
Le Mardi 13 Février 2007 17:11, Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda a écrit :
A Dimarts 13 Febrer 2007 12:20, Jean Delvare va escriure:
(...)
*If* the VT8251 needs the VIA IRQ quirk, then the attached patch
may help. Leopold, can you
On 12-02-2007 21:10, Tejun Heo wrote:
Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:51:44AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
Conversion to resource-managed iomap was buggy causing init failures
on both vt6420 and 6421 - BAR5 wasn't mapped for both controllers
while on vt6420 sata_via tried to
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:10:50PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Add Xen interface header files. These are taken fairly directly from
the Xen tree and hence the style is not entirely in accordance with
Linux
Roman Zippel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, this is not a complete solution by any means: the core kernel is not
protected, and nor are /dev/mem or /dev/kmem, but it denies (or at least
controls) one relatively simple attack vector.
This is really the weak point - it offers no advantage
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:18:30 -0800 Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Document planned removal of sk98lin driver.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |7 +++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0
Second, the probe and remove functions do not communicate whether an add
or remove was successful. Combine this with the lack of port
information in the adapter sysfs directory, and the userspace tool has
no way of verifying a dynamic add/remove.
One way to communicate a return code is by
On Tue, Feb 13 2007, Tejun Heo wrote:
So, actually, I was thinking about *always* using the non-NCQ FUA
opcode. As currently implemented, FUA request is always issued by
itself, so NCQ doesn't make any difference there. So, I think it
would be better to turn on FUA on driver-by-driver
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
+The syslet atom is a small, fixed-size (44 bytes on 32-bit) piece of
+user-space memory, which is the basic unit of execution within the syslet
+framework. A syslet represents a single system-call and its
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:42:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
Userspace_API_is_the_ever_possible_last_thing_to_ever_think_about. Period
. // - wrapped one
No, I really think you're wrong.
In many ways, the
On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:15, Maynard Johnson wrote:
+void spu_set_profile_private(struct spu_context * ctx, void * profile_info,
+ struct kref * prof_info_kref,
+ void (* prof_info_release) (struct kref * kref))
+{
+
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote:
so, are we going to get a revert of 42da9cbd3eedde33a42acc2cb06f454814cf5de0 ?
Has that been requested? or are there other plans?
It should be fixed now (I had patches from Nick, but got sidetracked by
trying to fix metacity for
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it
perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary
modules, then so be it. It will help everybody if this is out in the
clear, instead of
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:59PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
provide an optimized assembly version of sys_umem_add().
--- linux.orig/arch/i386/lib/getuser.S
+++ linux/arch/i386/lib/getuser.S
+sys_umem_add:
+ movl 0x4(%esp), %ecx# uptr
+ movl 0x8(%esp), %edx
On Thursday 15 February 2007 16:37, Benny Amorsen wrote:
JDL == Jan De Luyck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
JDL I think a nice example of that might be the Linksys WRT54G
JDL routers.
They don't ship with Linux anymore, except the WRT54GL. Apparently
switching was worth it to save 2MB flash.
If invalidate_inode_pages2_range() will return EIOCBRETRY as the patch
aio: fix kernel bug when page is temporally busy
Sorry Leonid, this patch is not safe.
It returns -EIOCBRETRY without guaranteeing that kick_iocb() will be
called. This can lead to operations hanging, both AIO and calls
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:00 +0100, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
Dnia czwartek, 15 lutego 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisał:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:14:08 PST, Andrew Morton said:
git-backlight.patch contains this:
+config BACKLIGHT_PROGEAR
+ tristate Frontpath ProGear Backlight Driver
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:28PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
From: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
+static struct syslet_uatom __user *
+exec_atom(struct async_head *ah, struct task_struct *t,
+ struct syslet_uatom __user *uatom)
+{
+ struct syslet_uatom __user *last_uatom;
+
I am not on the list (corperate email sucks) so please CC any replies to
me. Thanks.
I am working on a project that has run in to what seems to be an
interrupt priority problem. We switched mainboards in our product and
went from a system where the EHCI controller IRQ was of a fairly high
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
So we just need to describe the way we want to see new interface -
that's it.
Agreed. Absolutely.
But please keep the kernel interface as part of that. Not just a strange
and complex kernel interface and then _usable_ library interfaces that
On 2/15/07, v j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it
perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary
modules, then so be it. It will help everybody if
On 2/15/07, Brian D. McGrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good morning all,
We're seeing a problem where an application is being killed from what
appears to be an out of memory issue. Can anyone offer any insight on
this for me?
See Documentation/vm/overcommit-accounting.
Lee
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:42:32AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
We know one interface: the current aio_read() one. Nobody really _likes_
[...]
Others? We don't know yet. And exposing complex interfaces that may not be
the right ones is much *worse* than exposing simple interfaces (that
FYI,
Just captured this one, I'm not sure it's NFS at fault because I saw
at least another AIO related mm/truncate.c:398 report with a totally
different stack trace.
The machine seems still running happily, as usual with a considerable
load. kernel is tainted by fglrx.
kernel: BUG: warning at
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
[...Skip things I agree with...]
But if you have
unsigned char *mystring;
len = strlen(mystring);
then please tell me how to fix that warning without making the code
*worse* from a
Le jeudi 15 février 2007 à 10:20 -0800, v j a écrit :
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it
perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary
modules, then so be it. It will help
Hi Cyrill,
please include the err1 label as well inside the #if / #endif clause.
err1 is used only when CONFIG_HP300 is defined and in the parisc-case you
currently get an unused label warning...
Helge
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Cyrill V. Gorcunov wrote:
Thist patch prevents from improper
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Mike Panetta wrote:
I am not on the list (corperate email sucks) so please CC any replies to
me. Thanks.
I am working on a project that has run in to what seems to be an
interrupt priority problem. We switched mainboards in our product and
went from a system where
On 2/15/07, v j [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
Well, so far I have heard from you is let me use my closed-source
drivers in Linux or bye bye.
All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it
It is not black and
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Sergei Organov wrote:
I agree that if the warning has no true positives, it sucks. The problem
is that somehow I doubt it has none. And the reasons for the doubt are:
Why do you harp on no true positives?
That's a pointless thing. You can make *any* warning have true
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 19:52 +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
FYI,
Just captured this one, I'm not sure it's NFS at fault because I saw
at least another AIO related mm/truncate.c:398 report with a totally
different stack trace.
The machine seems still running happily, as usual with a
Hi all,
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Feb 14 2007 16:10, sfaibish wrote:
1. DualFS has only one copy of every meta-data block. This copy is
in the meta-data device,
Where does this differ from typical filesystems like xfs?
At least ext3 and xfs have an option to store the
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:25:37AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
static void syslet_setup(struct syslet *s, int nr, void *arg1...)
{
s-flags = ...
s-arg[1] = arg1;
}
long glibc_async_stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf)
{
/* What
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
/*
+ * Move user-space context from one kernel thread to another.
+ * This includes registers and FPU state. Callers must make
+ * sure that neither task is running user context at the moment:
+ */
+void
+move_user_context(struct task_struct
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:27 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Linux Kernel Markers, non optimized architectures
This patch also includes marker code for non optimized architectures.
I think once we've done this we can nuke
It returns -EIOCBRETRY without guaranteeing that kick_iocb() will be
called. This can lead to operations hanging
If EIOCBRETRY then generic_file_aio_write() will be recalled for the
same iocb.
It overwrites -EIOCBQUEUED, leading to an aio_complete() while a
retry is happening.
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:03:24 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Linux Kernel Markers, architecture independant code.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...
+
+#ifndef MARK
+#define MARK GEN_MARK
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:46:56PM +0100, bert hubert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
1) batch, and wait for, with proper error reporting:
socket();
[ setsockopt(); ]
bind();
connect();
gettimeofday(); // doesn't *always* happen
send();
recv();
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
+ENTRY(async_thread_helper)
+ CFI_STARTPROC
+ /*
+ * Allocate space on the stack for pt-regs.
+ * sizeof(struct pt_regs) == 64, and we've got 8 bytes on the
+ * kernel stack already:
+ */
+ subl $64-8, %esp
+
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:52:32PM +0100, Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
+The syslet atom is a small, fixed-size (44 bytes on 32-bit) piece of
+user-space memory, which is the basic unit of execution within the syslet
+framework. A
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 08:44:19AM -0600, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
...
diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c b/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c
index bed48fa..d43d6fb 100644
--- a/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c
+++ b/fs/9p/vfs_addr.c
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
* Copyright (C) 2005 by Eric Van Hensbergen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
*
I was wondering if there was some way to make a Kconfig menu either
be just a menu or a choice depending on another bool being set or not.
What I'm trying to accomplish is if CONFIG_ONLY_HAVE_ONE is set I
want it so you can only select on option, however if
CONFIG_ONLY_HAVE_ONE is not set
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:54:33PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
| Hi Cyrill,
|
| please include the err1 label as well inside the #if / #endif clause.
| err1 is used only when CONFIG_HP300 is defined and in the parisc-case you
currently get an unused label warning...
|
| Helge
|
| On Thursday 15
2) On the client facing side (port 53), I'd very much hope for a
way to
do 'recvv' on datagram sockets, so I can retrieve a whole bunch of
UDP datagrams with only one kernel transition.
I want to highlight this point that Bert is making.
Whenever we talk about AIO and kernel
On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Ananiev, Leonid I wrote:
It returns -EIOCBRETRY without guaranteeing that kick_iocb() will be
called. This can lead to operations hanging
If EIOCBRETRY then generic_file_aio_write() will be recalled for the
same iocb.
Only if kick_iocb() is called. It won't
move of_irq_to_resource to prom_parse.c (powerpc)
Here is the patch that follows Benjamin Herrenschmidt's comments to move
of_irq_to_resource from prom.h to prom_parse.c. It solves the following issue :
include/asm/prom.h: In function `of_irq_to_resource':
include/asm/prom.h:339: warning:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 19:46, bert hubert wrote:
Both 1 and 2 are currently limiting factors when I enter the 100kqps domain
of name serving. This doesn't mean the rest of my code is as tight as it
could be, but I spend a significant portion of time in the kernel even at
moderate
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, v j wrote:
So far I have heard nothing but, if you don't contribute, screw you.
All this is fine. Just say so. Make it black and white. Make it
perfectly clear what is and isn't legal. If we can't load proprietary
What's legal depends on the law. What's moral depends on...
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:14:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
...
Changes since 2.6.20-rc6-mm3:
...
+linux-kernel-markers-kconfig-menus.patch
...
Linux Kenrel Markers
...
Never ever select MODULES.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL
Thist patch prevents from improper call of release_region
if the code has been compiled without CONFIG_HP300 support.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill V. Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
An improved version (v2). Helge, please check it and Ack then.
drivers/input/keyboard/hilkbd.c |2 ++
1 files
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:14:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
- The sony-laptop driver has been disabled due to disagreement between
the git-acpi and git-backlight trees
Snigh... I though Richard had something to fix sony-laptop.
Am I wrong?
--
mattia
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On Thursday 15 February 2007, Cyrill V. Gorcunov wrote:
Thist patch prevents from improper call of release_region
if the code has been compiled without CONFIG_HP300 support.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill V. Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Helge Deller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
An improved
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
See? The example you tried to use to show how simple the interface iswas
actually EXACTLY THE REVERSE. It shows how subtle bugs can creep in!
So describe what are the requirements (constraints)?
Above example has exactly one syscall in
On 2/15/07, Patrick Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2/15/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah and about the libsata/libata thingy, it is libata of course :)
libsata I will test later on, so be prepared allready for more ranting for me.
It is all libata! Whether pata or sata, it's still
Juan Piernas Canovas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[playing devil's advocate here]
If the data and meta-data devices of DualFS can be on different disks,
DualFS is able to READ and WRITE data and meta-data blocks in
PARALLEL.
XFS can do this too using its real time volumes (which don't contain
On Thu, 15 February 2007 00:40:31 -0800, v j wrote:
Oh, I am sorry. Seems like the German courts have spoken. I am not
sure about what, but they have spoken. Sorry for the confusion.
In short, there seem to be two classes of closed-source drivers:
1. ATI and nVidia. Both are well-known, in
linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Mike Panetta wrote:
I am not on the list (corperate email sucks) so please CC any replies to
me. Thanks.
[snip]
I have seen the preempt patches, but they touch a lot of files, and we
have gone through testing with the 2.6.16.19 kernel
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:29 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:14:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
[...]
- The sony-laptop driver has been disabled due to disagreement between
the git-acpi and git-backlight trees
Snigh... I though Richard had something to fix
On Feb 15 2007 21:38, Andi Kleen wrote:
Also I would expect your design to be slow for metadata read intensive
workloads. E.g. have you tried to boot a root partition with dual fs?
That's a very important IO benchmark for desktop Linux systems.
Did someone say metadata intensive? Try kernel
Hi-
Looks good. Questions: how can the user space tools verify the success
of an add or remove?
Also, will /sys/bus/ibmebus exist even if the system booted with no LHEA
nodes?
One more comment below.
@@ -161,7 +161,9 @@ static void __devinit ibmebus_dev_releas
static ssize_t
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
is there a reason this isn't local_add_return(long a, local_t *l) on
ppc32?
(same comment for other functions)
- k
no, except that we use the code is taken from atomic.h and used an
int parameter. However, due to the semantics of local_t, we
Pointers to user data should be marked with a __user hint. This one is missing.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/proc/base.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c
index 4f5745a..01f7769 100644
Olivier Galibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +0300, Sergei Organov wrote:
I agree that making strxxx() family special is not a good idea. So what
do we do for a random foo(char*) called with an 'unsigned char*'
argument? Silence? Hmmm... It's not immediately
On 2/15/07, Ioan Ionita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All clear now?
Yes sir, sorry.
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Sergei Organov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Exactly because char *by*definition* is indeterminate sign as far as
something like strlen() is concerned.
Thanks, I now understand that you either don't see the difference
between indeterminate and
Hoang-Nam Nguyen wrote:
Additionally, the uevent interface is now implemented in the driver.
Mmmh, I posted a patch that added a common uevent interface for all
of_device based
bus. And that kinda clash with this one.
I think it's a much cleaner approach to make it as common as possible.
But
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So I think that a good implementation just does everything up-front, and
doesn't _need_ a user buffer that is live over longer periods, except for
the actual results. Exactly because the whole alloc/teardown is nasty.
Btw, this doesn't
On Thu, 15 February 2007 19:38:14 +0100, Juan Piernas Canovas wrote:
The patch for 2.6.11 is not still stable enough to be released. Be patient
;-)
While I don't want to discourage you, this is about the point in
development where most log structured filesystems stopped. Doing a
little web
From: Linus Torvalds
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:02:32 -0800 (PST)
[]
Think of it this way: in science, a theory is proven to be bad by a single
undeniable fact just showing that it's wrong.
If theory is very
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:37 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:52, Carl Love wrote:
--- linux-2.6.20-rc1.orig/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig 2007-01-18
16:43:14.0 -0600
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc1/arch/powerpc/oprofile/Kconfig 2007-02-13
v j wrote:
You don't get it do you. Our source code is meaningless to the Open
Source community at large. It is only useful to our tiny set of
competitors that have nothing to do with Linux. The Embedded space is
very specific. We are only _using_ Linux. Just as we could have used
VxWorks or
On 2/15/07, Helge Deller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 15 February 2007, Cyrill V. Gorcunov wrote:
Thist patch prevents from improper call of release_region
if the code has been compiled without CONFIG_HP300 support.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill V. Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Acked-by: Helge
On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
is there a reason this isn't local_add_return(long a, local_t *l) on
ppc32?
(same comment for other functions)
- k
no, except that we use the code is taken from atomic.h and used an
int
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:29:49 -0800 (PST) Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
VBE1.2 doesn't support function 15h (DDC) resulting in a 'hang' whilst
uncompressing kernel with some video cards. Make sure we check VBE version
before fiddling around with DDC.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Only tip and v2.6.20-rc7 have tags now:
http://www2.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/tags
Apparently convert-repo blew the rest away on Jan 31:
http://www2.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/rev/f99a8b402753
It was fixed for a while, and then it broke again. Bryan said
Hi,
Here I am resending revised and hopefully last version of patches I
have prepared for DMFE driver.
As it was suggested to me I did revert commit
7628b0a8c01a02966d2228bdf741ddedb128e8f8 that adds basic link support.
So those patches will apply cleanly to 2.6.19 or 2.6.20 with this
From: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.20 001/005] [RESEND v2] dmfe : trivial/spelling fixes
Fix a typo, wrap lines on 80-th column, change KERN_ERR to KERN_INFO for
link status message
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
---
Question to the world here: Distros make, as a matter of course, a
series of modifications to the Linux Kernel so that their modules or
features work. What stops VJ making a patchset which effectively
s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g 's the kernel source then
distributing that
Or, ya know, you could take the moral/ethical advice that you're being
a worm and stop now.
Actually, the people who are being worms are the people who are trying to
use the GPL as a club to coerce people into not exercising the rights the
GPL gave them. The people trying to change the rules
I just caught this in the log whilst running some unit tests.
(the test was in the process of starting 900 Java threads)
audit(1171565587.887:96): enforcing=0 old_enforcing=1 auid=4294967295
BUG: warning at kernel/cpu.c:51/unlock_cpu_hotplug()
Call Trace:
[80269c98]
From: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.20 002/005] [RESEND v2] dmfe : Fix two bugs
Fix a oops on module removal due to deallocating memory before unregistring
driver
Fix a NULL pointer dereference when dev_alloc_skb fails
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
On Thursday 15 February 2007 21:21, Carl Love wrote:
I have done some quick measurements. The above method limits the loop
to at most 2^16 iterations. Based on running the algorithm in user
space, it takes about 3ms of computation time to do the loop 2^16 times.
At the vary least, we need
-Original Message-
From: Zach Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:23 PM
To: Ananiev, Leonid I
Cc: Ken Chen; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Andrew Morton;
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux-aio; Chris Mason
Subject: Re: [PATCH] aio: fix kernel bug when page is
From: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.20 003/005] [RESEND v2] dmfe: Fix link detection
Add link detection
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
--- linux-2.6.20-mod/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c 2007-02-15 18:00:58.0
+0200
+++
Hi Andi,
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
Juan Piernas Canovas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[playing devil's advocate here]
If the data and meta-data devices of DualFS can be on different disks,
DualFS is able to READ and WRITE data and meta-data blocks in
PARALLEL.
XFS can do this too
From Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.20 004/005] dmfe: Add support for suspend/resume
This adds support for suspend resume
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
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From Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.20 005/005] [RESEND v2] dmfe: add support for Wake on lan
This patch adds support for WOL on Magic Packet and on link change
Signed-off-by: Maxim Levitsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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--- linux-2.6.20-mod/drivers/net/tulip/dmfe.c 2007-02-15
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So I think that a good implementation just does everything up-front, and
doesn't _need_ a user buffer that is live over longer periods, except for
the actual results. Exactly because the whole
No need to use -traditional for processing asm in i386/kernel/
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff -r 2d901729b314 arch/i386/kernel/Makefile
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile Thu Feb 15 13:00:50 2007 -0800
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/Makefile Thu Feb 15 13:10:49 2007 -0800
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* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
is there a reason this isn't local_add_return(long a, local_t *l) on
ppc32?
(same comment for other functions)
- k
no, except that we use the code
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
Only tip and v2.6.20-rc7 have tags now:
http://www2.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/tags
Apparently convert-repo blew the rest away on Jan 31:
http://www2.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/rev/f99a8b402753
It was fixed for a while, and then it
From: Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are we ready to do this?
I'd love for Tony to return, but he's been missing for awhile now.
So this give us the following major areas that are marked as Orphan:
Firmware loader
Framebuffer
Serial (8250/16x50)
and PCMCIA has a Team. It doesn't seem to be
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:14:08 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Temporarily at
http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-mm1/
Will appear later at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20/2.6.20-mm1/
Oops plague for me :(.
A lot like
On Feb 15, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
is there a reason this isn't local_add_return(long a, local_t
*l) on
ppc32?
(same comment for
Please forget about my last email :
#define PPC_STLCX stringify_in_c(stdcx.)
and
#define PPC_STLCX stringify_in_c(stwcx.)
are self explaining. :)
Mathieu
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Feb 15, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
* Kumar Gala ([EMAIL
local_t : powerpc extension - shrink powerpc local.h
By using PPC_LLARX and PPC_STLCX, we can cut in half the size of powerpc
local.h.
In applies on top of the local_t : powerpc extension - use long for powerpc32
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:21:58PM -0800, Carl Love wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 15:37 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
[ . . . ]
I agree with Milton that it would be far nicer even to calculate
the value from user space, but since you say that would
violate the oprofile interface conventions,
On 2/16/07, David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, the people who are being worms are the people who are trying to
use the GPL as a club to coerce people into not exercising the rights the
GPL gave them. The people trying to change the rules in the middle of the
game are the worms,
On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:28:23 -0500 (EST)
James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hit a BUG() via lvm:
Scanning logical volumes
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group VolGroup00 using metadata type lvm2
Activating logical volumes
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