[PATCH 08/14] readahead: remove parameter ra_max from thrashing_recovery_readahead()

2007-03-16 Thread Fengguang Wu
Remove the unused @ra_max from thrashing_recovery_readahead(). Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/readahead.c |8 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2.orig/mm/readahead.c +++ linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2/mm/readahead.c @@ -1567,9 +1567

[PATCH 02/14] readahead: state based method: decouple readahead_ratio from growth_limit

2007-03-16 Thread Fengguang Wu
Remove readahead_ratio from the growth_limit computing in state based method. It simplifies the size ramp up rules to: ahead_window_size = request_size + current_window_size * 2 + readahead_max / 16; The first two sizes are apparent

[PATCH 06/14] readahead: call scheme: cleanup

2007-03-16 Thread Fengguang Wu
Merge two similar page_cache_readahead_adaptive() calls into one. No behavior change. Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/filemap.c | 18 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2.orig/mm/filemap.c +++ linux-2.6.21-rc3-mm2/

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 16:59 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > On 3/16/07, Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:40 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > > > Right. And maybe it's a good idea to make sure that this feature is > > > actually supported by kexec-tools before adding code

Re: [patch 24/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Add the Xenbus sysfs and virtual device hotplug driver.

2007-03-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This communicates with the machine control software via a registry > residing in a controlling virtual machine. This allows dynamic > creation, destruction and modification of virtual device > configurations (network devices, block devices and

Re: [PATCH] MMC: Fix handling of low-voltage cards

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre Ossman
Philip Langdale wrote: > diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/core.c b/drivers/mmc/core/core.c > index c87ce56..74ebd97 100644 > --- a/drivers/mmc/core/core.c > +++ b/drivers/mmc/core/core.c > @@ -317,6 +317,24 @@ static u32 mmc_select_voltage(struct mmc > The idea with the new structure is to keep a

Re: [patch 00/26] Xen-paravirt_ops: Xen guest implementation for paravirt_ops interface

2007-03-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * virtual block device (blockfront) > * virtual network device (netfront) note, these drivers should be submitted through the proper block drivers and network drivers review process - not via the x86_64 tree. Ingo - To unsubscribe fr

Re: [2.6.20] BUG: workqueue leaked lock

2007-03-16 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 11:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:50:14 +0100 Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > ... > > [ 1756.728209] BUG: workqueue leaked lock or atomic: nfsd4/0x/3577 > > [ 1756.728271] last function: laundromat_main+0x0/0x69 [n

Re: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT

2007-03-16 Thread Zachary Amsden
Jan Beulich wrote: So I guess the right thing to do is relocate the dynamic stuff via PT_DYNAMIC, and relocate the symtab if its present. Symtab should also be deduced from program headers. Learning more all the time.. I'm actually surprised this got re-implemented from scratch, whe

Re: [PATCH] MMC: Consolidate voltage definitions

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre Ossman
Philip Langdale wrote: > Consolidate the list of available voltages. > > Up until now, a separate set of defines has been > used for host->vdd than that used for the OCR > voltage mask values. Having two sets of defines > allows them to get out of sync and the current > sets are already inconsisten

Re: Stolen and degraded time and schedulers

2007-03-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > touching the 'timer tick' is the wrong approach. 'stolen time' only > > matters to the /scheduler tick/. So extend the hypervisor interface to > > allow the injection of 'virtual' scheduler tick events: via the use of a

Re: i.MX/MX1 SDHC fix/workaround of SD card recognition problems

2007-03-16 Thread Pierre Ossman
Pavel Pisa wrote: > this should go to 2.6.21, I have hold this for some > months and I have discussed it in the thread > "Re: CRC Errors with SD cards in 4bits mode (on i.MXl)" > You have been CCed. This is not solution for seen data CRC > problem, but solves problems with recognition of cards > wh

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/15] KVM userspace interface updates

2007-03-16 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 03:53:12PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > This patchset updates the kvm userspace interface to what I hope will > be the long-term stable interface. Provisions are included for extending > the interface later. The patches address performance and cleanliness > concerns. Search

Re: [PATCH] i386: Simplify smp_call_function*() by using common implementation

2007-03-16 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Simplify smp_call_function*() by using common implementation > > smp_call_function and smp_call_function_single are almost complete > duplicates of the same logic. This patch combines them by > implementing them in terms of the more

Re: [BUG] Linux 2.6.20.2 - unable to handle kernel paging request - still accessing freed memory

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/16/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any way you can use 'git bisect' to try to track down the root > > cause of this? > > Chris, If 2.6.19 works for you, could you please do a git bisect for > this bug? See the following URL for

Re: [patch v2] Fixes and cleanups for earlyprintk aka boot console.

2007-03-16 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
John Stoffel wrote: > Would this explain why recent version of GDM don't find the keyboard > properly when you boot with a kernel command line of: > >kernel ... console=tty0 console=ttyS1,96008N1 > > until you stop and restart GDM? No. If you explicitly specify the console on the kernel com

Re: [RFC, PATCH] Fixup COMPAT_VDSO to work with CONFIG_PARAVIRT

2007-03-16 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 16.03.07 06:10 >>> >Zachary Amsden wrote: >> Well testing that is not so fun. I installed SUSE Pro 9.0, and >> strings on ld.so contains the magic at_sysinfo assert! But it doesn't >> install TLS libraries, so I'll have to install them by hand. >> >> In

Re: [PATCH 0/3] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes, SMP and NUMA improvements

2007-03-16 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 20:10 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hi > > I'm pleased to present these patches which improve linux futex performance > and > scalability, on both UP, SMP and NUMA configs. > > I had this idea last year but I was not understood, probably because I gave > not enough explana

Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps

2007-03-16 Thread Magnus Damm
On 3/16/07, Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:40 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote: > Right. And maybe it's a good idea to make sure that this feature is > actually supported by kexec-tools before adding code to the kernel? I sent patches to the fastboot list at the same ti

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