[PATCH 4/5] Remove the likely(pid) check in copy_process

2007-03-12 Thread sukadev
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH 4/5] Remove the likely(pid) check in copy_process Now that we pass in a struct pid parameter to copy_process() and even the swapper (pid_t == 0) has a valid struct pid, we no longer need this check. Changelog: Per Eric

[PATCH 5/5] Use task_pgrp() task_session() in copy_process()

2007-03-12 Thread sukadev
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH 5/5] Use task_pgrp() task_session() in copy_process(). Use task_pgrp() and task_session() in copy_process(), and avoid find_pid() call when attaching the task to its process group and session. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL

Re: Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29)

2007-03-12 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:04:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 3/12/07, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: Patrick Mau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not temporarly replace /bin/tar with a

[PATCH] Kill unused sesssion and group values in rocket driver

2007-03-12 Thread sukadev
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] Kill unused sesssion and group values in rocket driver The process_session() and process_group() values are not really used by the driver. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

[PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs

2007-03-12 Thread sukadev
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs Fix coding style errors (extra spaces, long lines) in autofs and autofs4 files being modified for container/pidspace issues. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Cedric Le

[PATCH 2/2] Replace pid_t in autofs with struct pid reference

2007-03-12 Thread sukadev
From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Replace pid_t in autofs with struct pid reference. Make autofs container-friendly by caching struct pid reference rather than pid_t and using pid_nr() to retreive a task's pid_t. ChangeLog: - Fix Eric Biederman's comments

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs

2007-03-12 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Fix some coding-style errors in autofs Fix coding style errors (extra spaces, long lines) in autofs and autofs4 files being modified for container/pidspace issues. ---

Re: [ck] Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-12 Thread Felipe Alfaro Solana
On 3/13/07, Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: From: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] RSS controller core

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 23:41:29 +0100 Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:42:59AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: How about we drill down on these a bit more. On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 02:00 +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: - shared mappings of 'shared' files (binaries

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:51 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On 13/03/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as your cpu is fully utilized, fairness looses or interactivity loses. Pick one. That's not true unless you refuse to prioritise your tasks accordingly. Let's take this

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-03-12 Thread Nick Piggin
Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi Nick, Anyway, I'll keep experimenting. If anyone from MySQL wants to help look at this, send me a mail (eg. especially with the sched_setscheduler issue, you might be able to do something better). I took a look at this today and figured Id document it:

Re: [PATCH] cleanfile: a script to clean up stealth whitespace

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:16:30 -0700 H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This script cleans up various classes of stealth whitespace. In particular, it cleans up: - Whitespace (spaces or tabs)before newline; - DOS line endings (CR before LF); - Space before tab (spaces are deleted or

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8187] New: 2.6.20 PCI: Quirks patch breaks X11 on I82801

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:30:05 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8187 Summary: 2.6.20 PCI: Quirks patch breaks X11 on I82801 Kernel Version: 2.6.20 Status: NEW Severity: normal Owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Need help on mach-ep93xx

2007-03-12 Thread Maxin John
Hi, I have one question mach-ep93xx. In EP93xx IRQ handling part in core.c, the 2.6.19.2 kernel and newer kernels are configuring the 16 interrupts of the ports A B together. The code is not using the interrupt capability of the port F which can provide 3 interrupts. Why the port F is

Re: RSDL v0.30 cpu scheduler for mainline kernels

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:32:07 +0100 On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:05:23PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 10:46, David Miller wrote: From: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:58:11 +1100

Re: [PATCH] kthread_should_stop_check_freeze (was: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/7] Freezer: Remove PF_NOFREEZE from rcutorture thread)

2007-03-12 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 06:49:08PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 3 March 2007 18:32, Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 03/02, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:33:37AM +0300, Oleg Nesterov wrote: On 03/02, Paul E. McKenney wrote: One way to embed

Re: [PATCH] Fix vmi time header bug

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:58:08 -0800 Zachary Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some gcc put this function in .init.text because the header didn't match. For 2.6.21-rc. Zach [vmi-devinit-header-fix.patch text/plain (606B)] Index: linux-2.6.21/include/asm-i386/vmi_time.h

Re: [PATCH] cleanfile: a script to clean up stealth whitespace

2007-03-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:16:30 -0700 H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This script cleans up various classes of stealth whitespace. In particular, it cleans up: - Whitespace (spaces or tabs)before newline; - DOS line endings (CR before LF); - Space before tab (spaces

Re: [PATCH] kthread_should_stop_check_freeze (was: Re: [PATCH -mm 3/7] Freezer: Remove PF_NOFREEZE from rcutorture thread)

2007-03-12 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:57:16AM +0530, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: CPU_DEAD: thaw_process(p); kthread_stop(p); p = NULL; This neednt guarantee that the thread will see the stop request before it exits the kthread_should_stop_freeze() function. There will always be races .. So the only safe way

Re: [PATCH] cleanfile: a script to clean up stealth whitespace

2007-03-12 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: Fair enough. It'd be nice to have a clean-up-a-patch version of this. So it does all these things, except it only changes lines which start with ^+. It can do everything except kill empty lines at the end of the file; a patch simply doesn't contain enough information

Re: Stracing Amanda (was: RSDL for 2.6.21-rc3- 0.29)

2007-03-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:04:42AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 3/12/07, Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: Patrick Mau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:10, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:51 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On 13/03/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as your cpu is fully utilized, fairness looses or interactivity loses. Pick one. That's not true unless you refuse

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8187] New: 2.6.20 PCI: Quirks patch breaks X11 on I82801

2007-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:19:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:30:05 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8187 Summary: 2.6.20 PCI: Quirks patch breaks X11 on I82801 Kernel Version: 2.6.20 Status:

Re: SMP performance degradation with sysbench

2007-03-12 Thread Eric Dumazet
Anton Blanchard a écrit : Hi Nick, Anyway, I'll keep experimenting. If anyone from MySQL wants to help look at this, send me a mail (eg. especially with the sched_setscheduler issue, you might be able to do something better). I took a look at this today and figured Id document it:

Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!)

2007-03-12 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!) * Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So either there are other sites that instanciate those objects and forget about the lock init, or

Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!)

2007-03-12 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you turn on CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG as well? that should catch certain types of use-after-free accesses, and lockdep will also warn if a still locked object is freed. Hmm, no, this does not look like use-after-free. I enabled

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-12 Thread Robin Holt
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:12:32AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: The reason is that every time I've monitored the allocation patterns of these things on SMP, the page table chunks always get released on a different cpu than where they were

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:09:23 -0800 (PST) 6 patches follow this message: [QUICKLIST 1/6] Extract quicklist implementation from IA64 [QUICKLIST 2/6] i386: quicklist support [QUICKLIST 3/6] i386: Use standard list manipulators for pgd_list

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Mackerras
David Miller writes: I ported this to sparc64 as per the patch below, tested on UP SunBlade1500 and 24 cpu Niagara T1000. Did you see any performance improvement? We used to have quicklists on ppc, but I remain to be convinced that they actually help. Also, I didn't understand why we have to

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-12 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Paul Mackerras wrote: Also, I didn't understand why we have to do quicklists to take advantage of the fact that the pages are in a pristine state when they are freed. I thought the whole point of the slab allocator was to be able to take advantage of that... It used to

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:37:32 +1100 David Miller writes: I ported this to sparc64 as per the patch below, tested on UP SunBlade1500 and 24 cpu Niagara T1000. Did you see any performance improvement? We used to have quicklists on ppc, but I

Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:26:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:37:32 +1100 David Miller writes: I ported this to sparc64 as per the patch below, tested on UP SunBlade1500 and 24 cpu Niagara T1000.

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

2007-03-12 Thread Sam Vilain
Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:56:43AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: What's wrong with that? I had been asking around on what is the fundamental unit of res mgmt for vservers and the answer I got (from Herbert) was all tasks that are in the same pid namespace.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcfs core patch

2007-03-12 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:09:29PM +0300, Kirill Korotaev wrote: Herbert, sorry, I'm not in the lucky position that I get payed for sending patches to LKML, so I have to think twice before I invest time in coding up extra patches ... i.e. you will have to live with my comments for

Re: [PATCH 1/2] rcfs core patch

2007-03-12 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 11:36:04AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Herbert Poetzl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:27:07PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:38:19AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: 2) you allow a task to selectively reshare

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

2007-03-12 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:00:25AM -0700, Paul Menage wrote: On 3/11/07, Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My current understanding of Paul Menage's container patch is that it is a useful improvement for some of the metered classes - those that could make good use of a file system

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

2007-03-12 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:50:45PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:56:43AM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: What's wrong with that? I had been asking around on what is the fundamental unit of res mgmt for vservers and the answer I got (from Herbert) was all tasks

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

2007-03-12 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:31:13AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: just means that the current Linux-VServer behaviour is a subset of that, no problem there as long as it really _is_ a subset :) we always like to provide more features in the future, no problem with that :) Considering the

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 0/2] resource control file system - aka containers on top of nsproxy!

2007-03-12 Thread Paul Menage
On 3/12/07, Herbert Poetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why? you simply enter that specific space and use the existing mechanisms (netlink, proc, whatever) to retrieve the information with _existing_ tools, That's assuming that you're using network namespace virtualization, with each group of

Re: rmmod uhci_hcd - BUG: atomic counter underflow

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: Jiri Slaby napsal(a): Alan Stern napsal(a): On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: After rmmoding of uhci_hcd on fresh booted 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 I got this: BUG: atomic counter underflow at: [...] [c01db754] kobject_put+0x14/0x16 [c01db8a3]

Re: rmmod uhci_hcd - BUG: atomic counter underflow

2007-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:25:09PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: Jiri Slaby napsal(a): Alan Stern napsal(a): On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: After rmmoding of uhci_hcd on fresh booted 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 I got this: BUG: atomic counter

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial regression (Oops) in 2.6.21-rc*

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Lord
Greg KH wrote: Mark Lord wrote: This patch fixes the Oops that otherwise occurs whenever a USB serial adapter is unplugged from a system, as well the Oops seen when one is in use before resume (to RAM). GregKH: This needs to go into 2.6.21-rc*. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: rmmod uhci_hcd - BUG: atomic counter underflow

2007-03-12 Thread Jiri Slaby
Greg KH napsal(a): On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:25:09PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: Jiri Slaby napsal(a): Alan Stern napsal(a): On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: After rmmoding of uhci_hcd on fresh booted 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 I got this: BUG: atomic

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial regression (Oops) in 2.6.21-rc*

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Radford
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:33:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:22:22PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Oliver Neukum wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Okay, from that part (above), the problem is obvious: in that the MCT U232 converter now disconnected appears, and then we continue

[PATCH] usb-serial regression fix

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Radford
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:33:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:22:22PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Oliver Neukum wrote: Mark Lord wrote: Okay, from that part (above), the problem is obvious: in that the

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial regression fix

2007-03-12 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:59:22PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:33:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:22:22PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote: Oliver Neukum wrote: Mark Lord wrote:

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial regression fix

2007-03-12 Thread Jim Radford
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:18:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:59:22PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:33:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:22:22PM -0400, Mark Lord

Re: [PATCH] usb-serial regression fix

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Lord
Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 05:18:19PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:59:22PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:42:35PM -0700, Jim Radford wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:33:31PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:22:22PM

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 00:53, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:10, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:51 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On 13/03/07, Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As soon as your cpu is fully utilized, fairness looses or interactivity

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 17:38 -0400, michael chang wrote: Perhaps, Mike Galbraith, do you feel that it should be possible to use the CPU at 100% for some task and still maintain excellent interactivity? Within reason, yes. Defining reason is difficult. As we speak, this is possible to a much

Re: Djprobes questions

2007-03-12 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hi Mathieu, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: Hi Masami, I recently had to add support for inline code patching on i386 to my marker infrastructure. Clearly, it looks like what is done in djprobes, with the main difference that I only patch the immediate value of a 2 bytes load immediate

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:08, Mike Galbraith wrote: Virtual or physical cores has nothing to do with the interactivity regression I noticed. Two nice 0 tasks which combined used 50% of my box can no longer share that box with two nice 5 tasks and receive the 50% they need to perform.

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 16:53 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:10, Mike Galbraith wrote: I'm not trying to be pig-headed. I'm of the opinion that fairness is great... until you strictly enforce it wrt interactive tasks. How about answering my question then since I

Re: [PATCH] Fix vmi time header bug

2007-03-12 Thread Zachary Amsden
Andrew Morton wrote: Really truly? I think we have a _lot_ of declarations which omit the section qualifier altogether. How come they don't all break too? According to the report I have. Perhaps a bogus section qualifier does more damage than an omitted one. I'll get gcc / linker

Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Lee Revell wrote: On 3/12/07, David Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the problem comes when this isn't enough. if you have several CPU hogs on a system, and they are all around the same priority level, how can the scheduler know which one needs the CPU the most for good

Re: _proxy_pda still makes linking modules fail

2007-03-12 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 08:59 +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 10:48 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Rusty's pda-per_cpu patch will deal with this once and for all; have Not on x86-64. Indeed. Perhaps it's time I join the modern world and compile a 64-bit kernel... Will

Re: [ck] Re: [PATCH][RSDL-mm 0/7] RSDL cpu scheduler for 2.6.21-rc3-mm2

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 17:16 +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tuesday 13 March 2007 17:08, Mike Galbraith wrote: Virtual or physical cores has nothing to do with the interactivity regression I noticed. Two nice 0 tasks which combined used 50% of my box can no longer share that box with two nice

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put)

2007-03-12 Thread Trent Piepho
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: Hi Trent, Patch looks good, just one comment: On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 07:07 -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: + use = already_uses(a, b); + if (!use) { + printk(KERN_ERR module %s trying to un-use a module, %s, which +

Re: CONFIG_REORDER Kconfig help strange sentence.

2007-03-12 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 00:56 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:18:03AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: OK, this confused me: Function reordering (REORDER) [N/y/?] (NEW) ? This option enables the toolchain to reorder functions for a more

[PATCH] Remove unused set_seg_base

2007-03-12 Thread Rusty Russell
The set_seg_base function isn't used anywhere (2.6.21-rc3-git1) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -r 0798f7cfc709 include/asm-x86_64/desc.h --- a/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h Mon Mar 12 16:56:18 2007 +1100 +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h Tue Mar 13 11:39:16 2007 +1100 @@ -107,16

[PATCH] Introduce load_TLS to the for loop.

2007-03-12 Thread Rusty Russell
GCC (4.1 at least) unrolls it anyway, but I can't believe this code was ever justifiable. (I've also submitted a patch which cleans up i386, which is even uglier). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -r de5618b5e562 include/asm-x86_64/desc.h --- a/include/asm-x86_64/desc.h Tue

Re: [PATCH] Fix vmi time header bug

2007-03-12 Thread Zachary Amsden
Andrew Morton wrote: Really truly? I think we have a _lot_ of declarations which omit the section qualifier altogether. How come they don't all break too? User build was smoking this: make O=build -j16 This and non-repeatable results make me suspect some kind of build dependency

RE: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Multiple queue network device support

2007-03-12 Thread Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
-Original Message- From: Jarek Poplawski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 1:58 AM To: Thomas Graf Cc: Kok, Auke-jan H; David Miller; Garzik, Jeff; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; Brandeburg, Jesse; Kok, Auke;

Removal of multipath cached (was Re: [PATCH] [REVISED] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.)

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:51:37 +0100 But until then it'll unnecessarily spoil linux opinion as regards stability and waste time of developers to check error messages. So, maybe it's less evil to check those NULLs where possible and add some WARN_ONs

Re: [PATCH] [REVISED] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:36:46 +0200 On 3/12/07, Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, maybe it's less evil to check those NULLs where possible and add some WARN_ONs here and there... No, it's much better to oops rather than paper over a bug.

Re: [PATCH] [REVISED] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Pekka J Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:15:16 +0200 (EET) On 3/9/07, David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole cahce-multipath subsystem has to have it's guts revamped for proper error handling. (Untested patch follows.) I'm not accepting untested patches,

Re: [PATCH] tcp_cubic: use 32 bit math

2007-03-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:48:26 +0100 Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:51:35PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:10:47 -0800 David Miller wrote: What about Willy Tarreau's supposedly even

Re: [git patches] net driver fixes

2007-03-12 Thread David Miller
From: Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:02:43 +0100 (CET) On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Jay Vosburgh (3): bonding: Improve IGMP join processing ip_mc_rejoin_group: Kill warning about unused variable `in_dev' when CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set.

Re: Removal of multipath cached (was Re: [PATCH] [REVISED] net/ipv4/multipath_wrandom.c: check kmalloc() return value.)

2007-03-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:53:11 -0700 (PDT) David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jarek Poplawski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:51:37 +0100 But until then it'll unnecessarily spoil linux opinion as regards stability and waste time of developers to check error messages.

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-12 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 16:40:59 + Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead merge the one that fixe the non PCI crashes and we might get further. In bugzilla #7907 you could post your patch and see if the reporters there can at least confirm that it fixes their problem. Meanwhile, to solve

Re: [PATCH] libata: don't whine if -prereset() returns -ENOENT

2007-03-12 Thread Fabio Comolli
Applied on top of latest GIT this patch make the warning[1] disappear. Thanks, Fabio [1] ata2: reset failed, giving up On 3/12/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -prereset() returns -ENOENT to tell libata that the port is empty and reset sequencing should be stopped. This is not an error

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Cox
Meanwhile, to solve the problem for these people, and without introducing a lot of new code at this stage in the release, perhaps you can suggest a more accurate way to detect PATA vs. SATA so we can fix the bug? I think the problem starts with the question. It supposes the BIOS knows the

Re: libata-acpi: allow _GTF on SATA, but disable on PATA for now

2007-03-12 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:00:15 + Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, to solve the problem for these people, and without introducing a lot of new code at this stage in the release, perhaps you can suggest a more accurate way to detect PATA vs. SATA so we can fix the bug? I

Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Phil Kaslo
Hello, I have a new machine, Asus motherboard, in which the cd drive malfunctions if the internal nic on the mb (RealTek RTL8168b/8111b) is actively in use. The cd drive, on ide2, is, as per dmesg, a Sony: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio hde: SONY DVD RW

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Mark Lord
Phil Kaslo wrote: Hello, I have a new machine, Asus motherboard, in which the cd drive malfunctions if the internal nic on the mb (RealTek RTL8168b/8111b) is actively in use. The cd drive, on ide2, is, as per dmesg, a Sony: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xa400-0xa407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Alan Cox
Is that a PATA cd-drive? If so, then you must have hooked it up to the JMicron IDE controller. That driver is just plain buggy. It ought to be rock solid, perhaps you can send me a detailed bug report. In fact it actually doesn't do very much at all as the controller is smart enough to do all

Re: Asus P5B-VM motherboard: cd drive malfunctions if internal nic in use.

2007-03-12 Thread Phil Kaslo
It is a pata cd drive, attached to the JMicron controller. I'll look into whether the usb ports power off on shutdown. Thanks, Phil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Fwd: libata extension

2007-03-12 Thread Vitaliyi
Why is the access to Control register needed? To execute soft reset for example. In the perfect case i would like to be able to execute vendor command set (reverse engineered). Sounds interesting. :-) Could you give some more details on what are you going to implement? Reading/writing

Re: [3/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

2007-03-12 Thread Tejun Heo
Mathieu Bérard wrote: Jeff Garzik a écrit : Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: NCQ problem with ahci and Hitachi drive References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/4/178 Submitter : Mathieu Bérard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Status : unknown according to the last message in that thread, it sounds like

Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!)

2007-03-12 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: lockdep question (was Re: IPoIB caused a kernel: BUG: softlockup detected on CPU#0!) * Michael S. Tsirkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you turn on CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG as well? that should catch certain types of use-after-free

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