[RFC] Designing and Implementation of Directory Inode Reservation

2007-03-26 Thread coly
Hi, list, I am working on the directory inode reservation feature now. Here is the detailed description of my understand of the designing, and current implementations. Please give me your comments on this idea. Thanks for your help in advance. Best regards. Coly Li

SB600 and SATA disk in 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Matí­as Alejandro Torres
Ubuntu 6.10 with kernel version 2.6.21-rc5 compiled with ahci support I have a MSI K9AGM motherboard that ships with four SB600 SATA ports but when the kernel is booting it shows some errors and the SATA disk is not detected. Here is what dmesg throws: dmesg: [1.332000] ide: Assuming

Re: -rc5: e1000 resume weirdness

2007-03-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jesse Brandeburg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was there a NETDEV WATCHDOG message that follows this? If not it is a harmless debug print. Note the time_stamp and jiffies difference, very large, consistent with a resume. I think we need to disable the internal e1000 tx hang code that

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Marcus Better
Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: ThinkPad R60: suspend to disk broken Does setting CONFIG_PCI_MSI=n make any difference? Yes, it does. The hanging resume problem went away. (The display corruption and the instant resume were not affected.) Marcus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [patch] hrtimers debug patch

2007-03-26 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 26/03/07, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stardust is down, console log and config attached. thanks! I have stared at hrtimer.c a few more hours and the good news is that i found a narrow SMP race. The bad news is that i dont think it

[PATCH] ipcns: fix !CONFIG_IPC_NS behavior

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
fyi, dummy copy_ipcs() needed to move bc we need CLONE_NEWIPC definition, but #including sched.h breaks... Andrew, I'll send a separate version for mm since return type changed as with utsname. thanks, -serge From: Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] ipcns: fix !CONFIG_IPC_NS

Re: [PATCH] riscom8: fix use of deprecated functions

2007-03-26 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:36:02PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch replaces the deprecated functions in drivers/char/riscom8.c and fixes the compile warnings they produced. That's not the point of exercise. Make it SMP-safe, instead. --- a/drivers/char/riscom8.c +++

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-26 Thread David Safford
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 12:13 +, Pavel Machek wrote: + The Extended Verification Module is an integrity provider. + An extensible set of extended attributes, as defined in + /etc/evm.conf, are HMAC protected against modification + using the TPM's KERNEL ROOT KEY, if

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between attach_task and cpuset_exit

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Jackson
vatsa wrote: Well, someone may have attached to this cpuset while we were waiting on the mutex_lock(). So we need to do a atomic_read again to ensure it is still unused. I don't see how this could happen. If we hold the task lock that now (thanks to your good work) guards this pointer, and

Re: [PATCH] riscom8: fix use of deprecated functions

2007-03-26 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:52:09PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:36:02PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: This patch replaces the deprecated functions in drivers/char/riscom8.c and fixes the compile warnings they produced. That's not the point of exercise. Make it

Re: 2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82!

2007-03-26 Thread Venki Pallipadi
On Mar 26, 2007, at 2:04 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: trying to debug the forcedeth crash triggered another, new v2.6.20 - v2.6.21 regression: maxcpus=1 on a dual-core system crashes the x86_64 SMP kernel in lock_policy_rwsem_write() - see the crash log below. Config attached. i suspect it could

Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: After your patches, x86_64 is using a common quicklist allocator for puds, pmds and pgds and continues to use get_zeroed_page() for ptes. x86_64 should be using quicklists for all ptes after this patch. I did not convert pte_free() since it

Re: [Patch 4/7] integrity: IMA integrity_measure() support

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:50 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a re-release of Integrity Measurement Architecture(IMA) as a method of providing support for the integrity service framework API integrity_measure() call. When integrity_measure() is called, IMA submits the

[GIT PULL] 9p patches

2007-03-26 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Linus, please pull from the 'for-linus' branch of: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs.git/ for-linus This tree contains the following: Adrian Bunk(1): make struct v9fs_cached_file_operations static v9fs_vfs.h |1 - vfs_file.c |4 +++- 2 files changed, 3

[x86_64] Use lru instead of page-index and page-private for pgd lists management.

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
x86_64 currently simulates a list using the index and private fields of the page struct. Seems that the code was inherited from i386. But x86_64 does not use the slab to allocate pgds and pmds etc. So the lru field is not used by the slab and therefore available. This patch uses standard list

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:36 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a re-release of EVM as an integrity service provider. What a huge set of patches. Frankly, I don't know how we're going to get these reviewed and mergeable and

Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:52:17 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are the results of aim9 tests on x86_64. There are some minor

Re: [PATCH] Fix race between attach_task and cpuset_exit

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Jackson
vatsa wrote: Well, someone may have attached to this cpuset while we were waiting on the mutex_lock(). So we need to do a atomic_read again to ensure it is still unused pj replied: If we hold the task lock that now (thanks to your good work) guards this pointer, and if we decrement to zero

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Hi Cyrill, Em Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:27:33 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: | This patch adds checking of driver registration status | and if it fails release allocated resources. | | Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | --- | | Pete, please review the patch

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ CC arch/powerpc/kernel/ibmebus.o

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:42:51PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: Subject: ThinkPad R60: suspend to disk broken Does setting CONFIG_PCI_MSI=n make any difference? Yes, it does. The hanging resume problem went away. Thanks for testing. If you enable it again, does

[PATCH] ipcns [-mm]: fix !CONFIG_IPC_NS behavior

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
From: Serge E. Hallyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PATCH] ipcns [-mm]: fix !CONFIG_IPC_NS behavior When CONFIG_IPC_NS=n, clone(CLONE_NEWIPC) claims success, but did not actually clone a new IPC namespace. Fix this to return -EINVAL so the caller knows his request was denied. Signed-off-by: Serge

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Frédéric Riss
Le lundi 26 mars 2007 à 11:14 +0200, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:45 +0200, Frédéric RISS wrote: Additional data point: I just tried with -rc5 and the issue is still present. The config I used for this test defines neither NO_HZ nor HIGH_RES_TIMERS. Do you have

Re: [PATCH] clockevents: remove bad designed sysfs support for now

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:25:05AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The current sysfs support of clockevents does not obey the only one value per file rule. The real fix is not 2.6.21 material. Therefor remove the sysfs support for now.

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Frédéric Riss wrote: ... (In fact it hangs at the second suspend, but that's another ATA problem that I think has already been reported). This sounds like the MSI problem. Do you have CONFIG_PCI_MSI enabled? If yes, does disabling it fix it? If yes,

Re: 2.6.21-rc5: maxcpus=1 crash in cpufreq: kernel BUG at drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:82!

2007-03-26 Thread Venki Pallipadi
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:12:02AM -0700, Venki Pallipadi wrote: Calling initcall 0x8021e003: powernowk8_init+0x0/0x88() powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ processors (version 2.00.00) powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ # make -j8 modules CHK

[PATCH] IRQ: Check for PERCPU flag only when adding first irqaction.

2007-03-26 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hi, An irqaction structure won't be added to the IRQ line irqaction list if they don't agree wrt the IRQF_PERCPU flag. Only check and set this flag in IRQ descriptor `status' field when the first irqaction is added to the line list. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Patch

Re: [PATCH 12/15] ide: make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_host_on void

2007-03-26 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: make ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_host_on void * since ide_hwif_t.ide_dma_host_on is called either when drive-using_dma == 1 or when return value is discarded make it void, also drop ide_ prefix * make __ide_dma_host_on() void and drop __ prefix

Re: [3/6] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Chua
On 3/27/07, Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's related. I tested without CONFIG_HPET_TIMER, and now my X60 can suspend and resume from RAM (s2ram). Even better, it works with/without CONFIG_NO_HZ. Does the patch below fix the HPET_TIMER=y case ? Thomas, I tried, but it didn't

[PATCH] Add const to pointer qualifiers for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr.

2007-03-26 Thread Russ Cox
Change prototypes for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr to take const void* instead of void*, so that code can pass const void* to them. (Right now sparse does not warn about passing const void* to void* functions, but that is a separate bug that I believe Josh is working on, and once sparse does

Re: [PATCH] Add const to pointer qualifiers for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr.

2007-03-26 Thread Christopher Li
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: Change prototypes for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr to take const void* instead of void*, so that code can pass const void* to them. (Right now sparse does not warn about passing const void* to void* functions, but that is a

Re: [PATCH] Add const to pointer qualifiers for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr.

2007-03-26 Thread Russ Cox
On 3/26/07, Christopher Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:23:56AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: Change prototypes for __chk_user_ptr and __chk_io_ptr to take const void* instead of void*, so that code can pass const void* to them. (Right now sparse does not warn about passing

mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-26-12-03.tar.gz uploaded

2007-03-26 Thread akpm
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-03-26-12-03.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-03-26-12-03.tar.gz It contains the following patches against 2.6.21-rc5: knfsd-allow-nfsd-readdir-to-return-64bit-cookies.patch

Re: [patch -mm 1/2] i386: add ptep_test_and_clear_{dirty,young}

2007-03-26 Thread Zachary Amsden
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Zachary Amsden wrote: If you actually clear the bit, you need to: + pte_update_defer(vma-vm_mm, addr, ptep); The reason is, when updating PTEs, the hypervisor must be notified. Using atomic operations to do this is fine for all hypervisors

Re: [patch -mm 1/2] i386: add ptep_test_and_clear_{dirty,young}

2007-03-26 Thread Zachary Amsden
David Rientjes wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Zachary Amsden wrote: If you actually clear the bit, you need to: + pte_update_defer(vma-vm_mm, addr, ptep); The reason is, when updating PTEs, the hypervisor must be notified. Using atomic operations to do this is fine for all

Re: [patch -mm] i386: use pte_update_defer in ptep_test_and_clear_{dirty,young}

2007-03-26 Thread Zachary Amsden
David Rientjes wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:07:43 -0800 From: Zachary Amsden [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you actually clear the bit, you need to: + pte_update_defer(vma-vm_mm, addr, ptep); The reason is, when updating PTEs, the hypervisor must be

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Ayaz Abdulla
This issue might be resolved with the patch provided in the following bug report: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8058 Please try out the patch in the bug report without your patch and see if the issue reproduces. Ayaz Ingo Molnar wrote: * Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Badari, On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:05:56 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino - Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:43:57PM -0300] | | Hi Cyrill, | | Em Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:27:33 +0400 | Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: | | | This patch adds checking of driver registration status | | and if it fails release allocated resources. | | | |

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Frederic Riss
2007/3/26, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Frédéric Riss wrote: ... (In fact it hangs at the second suspend, but that's another ATA problem that I think has already been reported). This sounds like the MSI problem. Do you have CONFIG_PCI_MSI enabled?

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:39:29PM +0200, Frederic Riss wrote: 2007/3/26, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Frédéric Riss wrote: ... (In fact it hangs at the second suspend, but that's another ATA problem that I think has already been reported).

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Em Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:33:12 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: | if usb registration failed we should release all worqueues we've | created and that is the reason why I've changed the code... I see, maybe something like the following (not tested): diff --git

RE: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Luck, Tony
What I'm proposing we do is move the irq allocation code out of pci_enable_device and the irq freeing code out of pci_disable_device in the future. Sounds rational ... in a world that wasn't dominated by PCI it would seem to be the logical approach (since the irq code would have much more

[Patch -mm] integrity: integrity_dummy_verify_metadata

2007-03-26 Thread Mimi Zohar
The following patch addresses the missing initialization values bug. signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/security/integrity_dummy.c === ---

Re: revert PIE randomization?

2007-03-26 Thread Kees Cook
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:01:50PM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: It was in doing kernel builds that I hit it, nothing special: an overnight cycle of kernel building would collapse in a few hours. openSUSE 10.2. I wonder it was the combination of the base addr randomization patch and something

Re: [PATCH -mm] Revoke core code: fix nommu arch compiling error bug

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/26/07, David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [*] The FRV, for example, does have some limited protection capability - but it is really limited and not really useful in this case. how so ? the Blackfin processor lacks a MMU but it does have a MPU (memory protection unit) which allows

Re: Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register()

2007-03-26 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Alexey, It seems that some watchdog drivers are doing following mistake: rv = misc_register(); if (rv 0) return rv; rv = request_region(); if (rv 0) { misc_deregister(); return rv; } But, right after

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:27:09 +0100, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:56:23 -0800, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at

Re: [Patch 5/7] integrity: mtime patch for mmap files

2007-03-26 Thread Mimi Zohar
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 00:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:58 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mmaped files are hashed and hmac'ed properly by EVM after being modified when the file's mtime is updated correctly. Peter Staubach's 'memory mapped files not

[patch 0/6] s390 bug fixes for 2.6.21

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
s390 bug fixes for 2.6.21 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[patch 1/6] dasd: Work around gcc bug.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc incorrectly removes initialization of register 0 in dasd diag inline assembly. Use different register to work around this compiler bug. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by:

[patch 4/6] cio: Device status validity.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Only accumulate device status field in irb if it is valid. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/s390/cio/device_status.c |6 +- 1 files

[patch 3/6] kprobes: Align probe address.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: David Wilder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running a probe on s390 with a probe address that is not 4 byte aligned results in a Kernel BUG. The problem is that the stura instruction used by swap_instruction requires the destination address to be 4 byte aligned. As stura only writes 4 bytes, aligning

[patch 2/6] Fix TCP/UDP pseudo header checksum computation.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] git commit f994aae1bd8e4813d59a2ed64d17585fe42d03fc changed the function declaration of csum_tcpudp_nofold. Argument types were changed from unsigned long to __be32 (unsigned int). Therefore we lost the implicit type conversion that zeroed the upper half of

[patch 5/6] zcrypt: Fix possible dead lock in AP bus module.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Ralph Wuerthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] If a AP device is unconfigured __ap_poll_all() will call device_unregister() in software interrupt context which can cause dead locks. To fix this the device will be only marked as unconfigured and the device_unregister() call will be done later by either

[patch 6/6] zcrypt: Fix ap_poll_requests counter in lost requests error path.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Ralph Wuerthner [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the unlikely event that an AP device lost requests, don't forget to update the ap_poll_requests counter too. Same must happen in case an AP device is removed while there are still outstanding requests. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Panics my x86-64 box. 2.6.21-rc4 works fine.

Re: [Patch 3/7] integrity: EVM as an integrity service provider

2007-03-26 Thread Mimi Zohar
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:23 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:09:36 -0400 Mimi Zohar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a re-release of EVM as an integrity service provider. What a huge set of patches. Frankly, I don't

Please pull git390 'for-linus' branch

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates: arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c |2 +- drivers/s390/block/dasd_diag.c | 10 +++--- drivers/s390/cio/device_status.c |6 +++-

Re: [3/5] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions (v2)

2007-03-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 25 March 2007 22:37, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday, 25 March 2007 14:56, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, in kernel/power/disk.c:power_down() . Please comment out the

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: Boy this is complicated. Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new page flag PG_dirtiedbywrite

[PATCH]: Fix overloaded use of acpi= on bootline

2007-03-26 Thread Prarit Bhargava
The use of apic= on the boot line is overloaded. It is used once to override the type of genapic, and then later on it is used to determine a debug level. Because of this a bogus error message is sent to the console when using the debug option: Unknown genapic `apic=debug' specified.

[GIT PATCH] PCI fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
Here are some PCI fixes against 2.6.21-rc5 They fix some problem hardware, fix a warning message to display the correct information, and update the PCI documentation. Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6.git/ The full patches will be sent to the

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Matt Mackall
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: Boy this is complicated. Is there a simpler

[patch 0/8] s390 patches for 2.6.22

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
Couple of patches that haven't been posted before and which should be merged in the 2.6.22 merge window. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

[patch 1/8] Processor degredation support.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emit a warning if cpu capability changes e.g. because the cpus are overheating. The new cpu capability can be read via /proc/sysinfo. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[patch 4/8] cio: Clean up online_store.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Detangle the online_store code and make it more readable. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/s390/cio/device.c | 109

[patch 3/8] Improved kernel stack overflow checking.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Recent cvs versions of gcc have support for an improved stack overflow checking that calculates the size of the guard size for each function. If the compiler accepts -mstack-size without -mstack-guard then the new stack check is available. We always want

[patch 7/8] dasd: Add ipldev parameter.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Specifying 'ipldev' in the dasd= kernel parameter will automatically activate the boot device for use by the dasd driver. Cc: Martin Schwidefsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL

[patch 8/8] zfcpdump support.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Michael Holzheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first 32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved

[patch 2/8] Get rid of console setup functions.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] We get this: Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3270_consetup from .data between 'con3270' (at offset 0x45c8) and 'con3270_fn' Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3215_consetup from .data between

[patch 6/8] dasd: Add sysfs attribute status and generate uevents.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Horst Hummel [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch adds a sysfs-attribute 'status' to make the DASD device-status accessible from user-space. In addition, the DASD driver generates an uevent(CHANGE) for the ccw-device on each device-status change. This enables user-space applications (e.g. udev) to

Linux 2.6.16.45

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Location: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git Changes since 2.6.16.44: Adrian Bunk (2): Linux 2.6.16.45-rc1 Linux 2.6.16.45 Alexey Dobriyan (1): [NET]: Copy mac_len in skb_clone() as

[patch 5/8] cio: Channel-path configure function.

2007-03-26 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Peter Oberparleiter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a new attribute to the channel-path sysfs directory through which channel-path configure operations can be triggered. Also listen for hardware events requesting channel-path configure operations and process them accordingly. Signed-off-by: Peter

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-26 Thread Andrey Panin
On 085, 03 26, 2007 at 04:17:02PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: Hi, the Super I/O 887x-chipsets of ITE, are currently not completely supported. Only parport_pc has the ability to activate the (optional) parallel port. This patch adds support for the serial ports. Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos

Re: Wrong IDE cable detection in libata [Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1]

2007-03-26 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:01:52 +0900, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J.A. Magallón wrote: Libata seems to misdetect my cable. I have double-checked and the cable is 80 pin... Does the following patch fix your problem? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ide/17444 (You can get

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-26 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +, Alan Cox wrote: For reference this is what I am currently using with 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 and it is working for all my test cases so far: Its basically Kyle's patch with a libata switch to turn it on/off and some minor fixups from the original patch as

[git patches] IDE fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git/ to receive the following updates: drivers/ide/Kconfig|6 -- drivers/ide/ide-io.c | 32 +--- drivers/ide/ide-iops.c | 11 +--

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-26 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:17:02PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: +/* + * ITE support by Niels de Vos [EMAIL PROTECTED] + */ + +static int __devinit pci_ite887x_init(struct pci_dev *dev) +{ + /* inta_addr are the configuration addresses of the ITE */ + short inta_addr[] = { 0x2a0,

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:19:38 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to reproduce warping on console but could not for some reason. Could you please try the patch below and tell me if it fixes the problem for you? +++ work/drivers/input/mousedev.c @@ -124,32 +124,33 @@

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 3/26/07, Pete Zaitcev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:19:38 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to reproduce warping on console but could not for some reason. Could you please try the patch below and tell me if it fixes the problem for you? +++

Re: forced umount?

2007-03-26 Thread Phillip Susi
Is this revoke system supported for the filesystem as a whole? I thought it was just to force specific files closed, not the whole filesystem. What if the filesystem itself has pending IO to say, update inodes or block bitmaps? Can these be aborted? Pekka Enberg wrote: FYI, the revoke

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: Boy this is complicated. You tell me? Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new page flag PG_dirtiedbywrite and we do SetPageDirtiedByWrite() inside write() and

Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin arch: add kdebug header file

2007-03-26 Thread Arnd Bergmann
I can see nothing wrong with your patches, but you should make the patch descriptions a little clearer: On Monday 26 March 2007, Wu, Bryan wrote: Hi folks, No need for this line, if it's there, Andrew just needs to remove it from the changelog. This patch adds kdebug.h header file to blackfin

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5 1/3] parport-dev driver model support

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:19 -0700 David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement of sysfs child nodes, which can affect things like power management.

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5] arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c compiler warning

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:17:44 -0700 David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fix unused variable compiler warning on non-SMP x86_64 configs. Signed-off-by: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/early-quirks.c @@ -73,9 +73,9 @@

[PATCH] Correct bad CONFIG names in drivers/usb/input/Makefile.

2007-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Correct the incorrect CONFIG_ variables currently in drivers/usb/input/Makefile that prevent three of the touchscreen source files from being built. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- it *looks* like this is the right fix, but i'm just on my way out the door so i'll leave it

Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:27:33 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch adds checking of driver registration status and if it fails release allocated resources. + if (status_queue) { + destroy_workqueue(status_queue); + status_queue = NULL; +

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:57:57 -0800 Badari Pulavarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:56 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Temporarily at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ Will appear later at

Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc5 1/3] parport-dev driver model support

2007-03-26 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 26 March 2007 2:59 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:06:19 -0700 David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently a parport_driver can't get a handle on the device node for the underlying parport (PNPACPI, PCI, etc). That prevents correct placement of sysfs

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:10:09 -0500 Matt Mackall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:00:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:10:21 +0200 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:43:08 +0200 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch makes writing to shared memory mappings update st_ctime and st_mtime as defined by SUSv3: Boy this is complicated. You tell me? Is there a simpler way of doing all this? Say, we define a new

Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin: spi driver cleanup and coding style fixing

2007-03-26 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 26 March 2007 3:14 am, Wu, Bryan wrote: Hi folks, This patch cleanup blackfin SPI driver code and fix some coding style problems. Good, thanks. I'll forward the current state of my review, after I cross-check it against these two patches. That'll mean I need to re-start that

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 15:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: .. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0020 RIP: [804ec090] __sched_text_start+0x460/0x889 PGD 1c1898067 PUD 1c1897067 PMD 0 Oops: [1] SMP last sysfs file: block/hda/range CPU 3

Re: [PATCH 2.6.16.44] ieee1394: dv1394: fix CardBus card ejection

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:26:05PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Fix NULL pointer dereference on hot ejection of a FireWire card while dv1394 was loaded. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121 I did not test card ejection with open /dev/dv1394 files yet. ... Thanks, applied. Stefan

[PATCH] ieee1394: eth1394: don't autoload by hotplug when ohci1394 starts

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Until now, ieee1394 put an IP-over-1394 capability entry into each new host's config ROM. As soon as the controller was initialized --- i.e. right after modprobe ohci1394 --- this entry triggered a hotplug event which typically caused auto-loading of eth1394. This irritated or annoyed many users

[PATCH 2.6.21-rc5] MSI: read-flush MSI-X table

2007-03-26 Thread Mitch Williams
This patch fixes a kernel bug which is triggered when using the irqbalance daemon with MSI-X hardware. Because both MSI-X interrupt messages and MSI-X table writes are posted, it's possible for them to cross while in-flight. This results in interrupts being received long after the kernel thinks

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:35:48PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: Greg, please update your copy with this version of the patch. The only change is that sound/ppc/beep.c is removed from the patch. Done. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in

dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
the output from a short script i wrote, locating all CONFIG_ variables in makefiles that don't appear to exist in any Kconfig file anywhere in the source tree. first, from the drivers/ directory: = DRM_FFB = ./drivers/char/drm/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_DRM_FFB) += ffb.o =

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