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

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: - add a new kernel config option which brings back the old behavior for those who liked it. We don't re-use the old config option because then nobody would notice that there is a choice now. This new option is scheduled to be removed soon. ... Instead of keeping this

Re: dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread Roland Dreier
= IPATH_CORE = ./drivers/Makefile:obj-$(CONFIG_IPATH_CORE) += infiniband/ Thanks, I was just noticing that myself. I'll remove it for 2.6.22. - R. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB fixes

2007-03-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Please pull 'master' from: git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb.git master Already up-to-date. Forgot to push? Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: Please recompile with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and without CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND With CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND disabled, the iPod works. The dmesg output is attached. In fact, both logs (with and without CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND) show the iPod working. Can you post a

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 14:12:25 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: Please recompile with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and without CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND With CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND disabled, the iPod works. The dmesg output is attached. In fact, both logs (with and

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: Attached is a dmesg output with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled. There are no messages from the iPod because, well, nothing happens when I plug it in. I tried it 3 times. I don't understand. The dmesg log you attached shows the iPod

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 16:28:34 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: Attached is a dmesg output with CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND enabled. There are no messages from the iPod because, well, nothing happens when I plug it in. I tried it 3 times.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: There are no messages from the iPod because, well, nothing happens when I plug it in. I tried it 3 times. I don't understand. The dmesg log you attached shows the iPod was detected and recognized as scsi5 (sdc). Then some time later (can't

[GIT PATCH] USB fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
Here are some USB fixes against 2.6.21-rc5. These patches fix a number of reported problems and compiler warnings in the current tree. Yes, hte omap_udc. and uhci patches seem a bit big but both David and Alan ensure me that they are correct and needed for the 2.6.21 final release. All of these

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 17:15:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: [...] The lack of messages from the iPod seems to indicate that the hub isn't working right. You could try plugging the iPod into a different hub or directly into the computer. Or maybe into a different port of that hub. I already

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 17:15:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: [...] The lack of messages from the iPod seems to indicate that the hub isn't working right. You could try plugging the iPod into a different hub or directly into the computer. Or maybe into a different port of that hub. Uh, I think

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 02:59:39PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: No, you have it backward. It is valid to pass void* to a const void* function. It is *not* valid to pass const void* to a void* function. Right now __chk_user_ptr is a void* function, meaning that all the places where it gets passed

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:30:42 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the synaptics driver and scroll problem. Yesterday I scrolled twice through entire Remarque's Spark of Life off lib.ru (once with 0.14.2 and once with latest git pull) and did not see any scrollbar getting

Re: dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread David Miller
From: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:32:00 -0400 (EDT) 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:

Re: [PATCH -mm] Blackfin: rtc fix rtc_update_irq augument

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/26/07, Wu, Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Replacing class_dev to directly using rtc_dev. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -mike - 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: [patch 2/3] only allow nonlinear vmas for ram backed filesystems

2007-03-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 23:09 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: Dirty page accounting/limiting doesn't work for nonlinear mappings, so for non-ram backed filesystems emulate with linear mappings. This retains ABI compatibility with previous kernels at minimal code cost. All known users of nonlinear

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

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 04:18:22PM -0700, Mitch Williams wrote: 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.

Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

2007-03-26 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 01:01:24AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:26:18 +0200 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ditto for the case, when there are no more dirty pages destined for this queue. I understand, that this can fill up the memory with under writeback

Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Mackerras
Badari Pulavarty writes: Patch causing the problem in -mm: ibmebus-uevent-support.patch I don't see where $,1rx(Bof_device_uevent$,1ry(B is defined :( That patch depends on another one from Sylvain Munaut that I haven't yet managed to get Ben H. to express an opinion on, and which

Re: [patch 1/3] fix illogical behavior in balance_dirty_pages()

2007-03-26 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:30:27PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 02:08 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:32:47 +0200 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stopping writers which have idle queues is completely unproductive, and that is basically

Re: dead CONFIG variables in kernel Makefiles

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:32:00PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: 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: ... =

Re: [patch] add file position info to proc

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:04:09 +0100 Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch adds support for finding out the current file position, open flags and possibly other info in the future. fs/proc/base.c: In function 'proc_lookupfdinfo': fs/proc/base.c:1584: warning: passing argument 3 of

[2.6 patch] include/linux/kprobes.h: always offer show_registers()

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Allow gcc to perform show_registers() type checking also with CONFIG_KPROBES=n. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/kprobes.h |4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/include/linux/kprobes.h.old2007-03-26

[2.6 patch] make arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:remapped_pgdat_init() static

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes the needlessly global remapped_pgdat_init() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c.old 2007-03-26 15:53:44.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c 2007-03-26

[2.6 patch] arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c should #include asm/timer.h

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for it's global functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c.old 2007-03-26 15:58:48.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/i8253.c

[2.6 patch] remove the broken PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option that had already been marked as broken. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/pci.txt|4 --- drivers/base/dd.c| 41 ++- drivers/pci/Kconfig | 25

[RFC: 2.6 patch] drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c: possible cleanups

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make 2 needlessly global functions static - #if 0 the unused nettel_eraseconfig() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/mtd/maps/nettel.c | 10 -- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) ---

[RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even regressions due to: - core kernel bugs, - device driver bugs and - hardware bugs OTOH, MSI doesn't bring any real advantages for most users. Let's therefore mark PCI_MSI as EXPERIMENTAL. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL

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

2007-03-26 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: a) it has been demonstrated that this patch is superior to simply removing the quicklists and Not that clameter really needs my help, but I agree with his position on several fronts, and advocate accordingly, so here is where I'm

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

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: Not that clameter really needs my help, but I agree with his position on several fronts, and advocate accordingly, so here is where I'm at. Yes thank you. I386 is not my field, I have no interest per se in improving i386 performance and

Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

2007-03-26 Thread David Miller
From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200 We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even regressions due to: - core kernel bugs, - device driver bugs and - hardware bugs OTOH, MSI doesn't bring any real advantages for most users. Let's

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 7/7] containers (V7): Container interface to nsproxy subsystem

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Srivatsa Vaddagiri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:35:37AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: +static int ns_create(struct container_subsys *ss, struct container *cont) +{ + struct nscont *ns; + + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) + return -EPERM;

Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 7/7] containers (V7): Container interface to nsproxy subsystem

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Srivatsa Vaddagiri ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:15:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* + * Rules: you can only create a container if + * 1. you are capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) + * 2. the target container is a descendant of your own container + */

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
it would seem to make no sense that the depends on clause for this option includes m, forcing this (and all other four entries in that Kconfig file, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text for all five entries suggests you can select y. In the old days pcmcia drivers had

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:02 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: it would seem to make no sense that the depends on clause for this option includes m, forcing this (and all other four entries in that Kconfig file, by the way) to be built as modules, while the help text for all five

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:35:47PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in. I thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular because they still need setting up. nope. While I don't have a pcmcia scsi card my 16 bit

Re: some PCMCIA SCSI drivers can be built *only* as modules

2007-03-26 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:35:47PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: I agree the non-legacy (CardBus and beyond) ones can be built in. I thought the legacy 8 and 16 bit type I and II still had to be modular because they still need

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 23:26:14 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 17:15:53 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: [...] The lack of messages from the iPod seems to indicate that the hub isn't working right. You could try plugging the iPod into a different hub or directly into the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] possible USB regression with 2.6.21-rc4: iPod doesn't work

2007-03-26 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 00:21:24 +0200, Tino Keitel wrote: [...] this is the bisect result: $ git bisect good 1d619f128ba911cd3e6d6ad3475f146eb92f5c27 is first bad commit commit 1d619f128ba911cd3e6d6ad3475f146eb92f5c27 I just tested 2.6.21-rc5 with this commit reverted and the iPod was

[BUG] scheduler: strange behavor with massive interactive processes

2007-03-26 Thread Satoru Takeuchi
Hi Ingo and all, When I was executing massive interactive processes, I found that some of them occupy CPU time and the others hardly run. It seems that some of processes which occupy CPU time always has max effective prio (default+5) and the others have max - 1. What happen here is... 1. If

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

2007-03-26 Thread David Miller
From: William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:06:24 -0700 On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: b) we understand why the below simple modification crashes i386. Full eager zeroing patches not dependent on quicklist code don't crash, so

[5/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

[PATCH][ 0/5] Staircase deadline v0.36

2007-03-26 Thread Con Kolivas
What follows is a clean major iteration of the (now) Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler. Changes from RSDL v0.33: - All accounting is moved to tasks in nanosecond resolution removing requirement for Rotation component entirely - list_splice_tail is no longer required; dropped - Nicer nice with

[PATCH][ 1/5] sched: dont renice kernel threads

2007-03-26 Thread Con Kolivas
The practice of renicing kernel threads to negative nice values is of questionable benefit at best, and at worst leads to larger latencies when kernel threads are busy on behalf of other tasks. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/workqueue.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2

[PATCH][ 2/5] sched: remove sleepavg from proc

2007-03-26 Thread Con Kolivas
Remove the sleep_avg field from proc output as it will be removed from the task_struct. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/proc/array.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5-sd/fs/proc/array.c

[PATCH][ 4/5] sched: remove noninteractive flag

2007-03-26 Thread Con Kolivas
Remove the TASK_NONINTERACTIVE flag as it will no longer be used. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/pipe.c |7 +-- include/linux/sched.h |3 +-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21-rc5-sd/fs/pipe.c

[PATCH][ 5/5] sched: document sd cpu scheduler

2007-03-26 Thread Con Kolivas
Add comprehensive documentation of the Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler design. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/sched-design.txt | 240 +++-- 1 file changed, 234 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) Index:

Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

2007-03-26 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 06:24:22PM -0700, David Miller wrote: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200 We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even regressions due to: - core kernel bugs, - device driver bugs and - hardware bugs

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

2007-03-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How well does this play with the MSI core changes that Michael Ellerman has proposed on the linux-pci mailing list? The patch looks reasonable and it is independent of those changes. This just modifies the helper code for using the msi capability itself as an

[3/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Re: [PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-26 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:29:29AM -0700, Brian Braunstein wrote: From: Brian Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] No need for this line. This line is used when you _forward_ another patch from others. Signed-off-by is enough Signed-off-by: Brian Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Kernel

Re: [PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-26 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:55:11PM +0200, ahmed wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 01:29:29AM -0700, Brian Braunstein wrote: --- linux-2.6.20.4-ORIG/drivers/net/tun.c 2007-03-23 12:52:51.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.20.4/drivers/net/tun.c2007-03-25 00:44:20.0 -0700 @@

Re: [PATCH] net: tun/tap: fixed hw address handling

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Brian Braunstein wrote: From: Brian Braunstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fixed tun/tap driver's handling of hw addresses. The hw address is stored in both the net_device.dev_addr and tun.dev_addr fields. These fields were not kept synchronized, and in fact weren't even initialized to the same

[1/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-26 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 26 March 2007 17:42, Pete Zaitcev wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:30:42 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding the synaptics driver and scroll problem. Yesterday I scrolled twice through entire Remarque's Spark of Life off lib.ru (once with 0.14.2 and once

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

2007-03-26 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 26 March 2007 18:08, Robert P. J. Day wrote: 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] NAK. These modules should just go

Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

2007-03-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200 We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even regressions due to: - core kernel bugs, - device driver bugs and - hardware bugs - architecture bugs -

Re: [RFC][Patch 1/4] kprobe fast unregistration

2007-03-26 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hi Anil, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:17:49PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Hi Christoph and Anil, Thank you for your comments. Christoph Hellwig wrote: Speeding up the unregistration is a very good idea, but this interface is rather horrible. It's almost a

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

2007-03-26 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 16:21 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: 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. Sorry for late response. how so ? the

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

2007-03-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Luck, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

[PATCH] ipcns: fix stupid !CONFIG_IPC error

2007-03-26 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Sorry, I broke CONFIG_IPC=n. This is a port of the patch Andrew used to fix it in -mm Here is a question... When CONFIG_IPC_NS=n and the user asks for a new IPC namespace, we want to return -EINVAL to let them know we couldn't oblige. But if CONFIG_IPC=n is it ok to just return 0? If not,

Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

2007-03-26 Thread Sid Boyce
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 06:42:58PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 01:32:36 + Sid Boyce wrote: ... There's not a lot of docs out there. The man-page: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-bisect.html Linus's email doc:

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

2007-03-26 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 23:45 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: I can see nothing wrong with your patches, but you should make the patch descriptions a little clearer: Thanks Arnd. I posted almost ten patches yesterday. Converting ten patches to preformatted Emails is terrible manually, you know.

Re: revoke: no revoke for nommu

2007-03-26 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:25 +0100, David Howells wrote: Pekka J Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's just no sane way to revoke shared memory mappings for NOMMU so lets disable the thing completely when CONFIG_MMU=n. I think that's reasonable for now - we can always add support as far

Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

2007-03-26 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:13 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: David Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:47 +0200 We had during the last months have quite a few MSI bugs and even regressions due to: - core kernel bugs, -

Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:25:49 + (GMT) James Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This patch does several things to allow the underlying hardware to be shared amount many devices. The most important thing is the use of the created device via device_create instead of the hardware device. No

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

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:40:37AM +0800, Wu, Bryan wrote: Thanks Arnd. I posted almost ten patches yesterday. Converting ten patches to preformatted Emails is terrible manually, you know. How does a kernel guru to do this, send out dozens of patch emails a day? Is there any convenient tools

Re: [patch 3/5] i386-gdt-pda Update lguest to initialize gdt without pda

2007-03-26 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 17:21 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: plain text document attachment (lguest-use-percpu.patch) Thanks for the fixup Jeremy! Unfortunately that doesn't quite work. But it turns out we don't need to load the GDT at all: we can run off the Host-supplied one until

Re: [patch] cache pipe buf page address for non-highmem arch

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:48:29 -0700 Ken Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is really sad that we always call kmap and friends for every pipe buffer page on 64-bit arch that doesn't use HIGHMEM, or on configuration that doesn't turn on HIGHMEM. The effect of calling kmap* is visible in the

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

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the future we're planning for this, but the short term it isnt doable for us now that most of the initial troubles are resolved. i would say initial troubles are resolved

Re: [PATCH][ 3/5] sched: implement staircase deadline cpu scheduler

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:10:39 +1100 Con Kolivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + DECLARE_BITMAP(bitmap, PRIO_RANGE + 1); + /* + * This bitmap shows what priorities this task has received quota + * from for this major priority rotation on its current runqueue. + */

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

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the future we're planning for this, but the short term it isnt doable for us If you think mangling patches by

2.6.21-rc5-mm1

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm1/ - The RSDL CPU scheduler is dropped again. I'll do rc5-mm2 with it re-added. - You may see this: init/missing_syscalls.c:5:27: error: linux/compile.h: No such file or directory during compilation.

Re: [patch 0/7] Add IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag to allow irqpoll

2007-03-26 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Guennadi Liakhovetski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-24 00:21]: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Guennadi Liakhovetski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-23 23:15]: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote: irqpoll is broken on

Re: [BUG] scheduler: strange behavor with massive interactive processes

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:34 +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: Hi Ingo and all, Hi, When I was executing massive interactive processes, I found that some of them occupy CPU time and the others hardly run. It seems that some of processes which occupy CPU time always has max effective prio

Re: [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default

2007-03-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:59 +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 Commit: 76d2160147f43f982dfe881404cfde9fd0a9da21 Parent:

Re: [PATCH 3/3][RFC] Containers: Pagecache controller reclaim

2007-03-26 Thread Aubrey Li
On 3/6/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reclaim code is similar to RSS memory controller. Scan control is slightly different since we are targeting different type of pages. Additionally no mapped pages are touched when scanning for pagecache pages. RSS memory

[2/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

[4/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
This email lists some known regressions in Linus' tree compared to 2.6.20. If you find your name in the Cc header, you are either submitter of one of the bugs, maintainer of an affectected subsystem or driver, a patch of you caused a breakage or I'm considering you in any other way possibly

Re: HPA patches

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 07:13:21PM +, Alan Cox wrote: +static int ata_ignore_hpa = 0; +module_param_named(ignore_hpa, ata_ignore_hpa, int, 0644); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ignore_hpa, Ignore HPA (0=off 1=on)); I'm not sure I like the language here. Ignore HPA appears to

Re: [PATCH 0/3] wistron_btns: More keymaps, take 2

2007-03-26 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Sunday 18 March 2007 17:10, Éric Piel wrote: Hello, This is a new version of my patch to add support for more laptops to the wistron_btns driver. Modifications from the previous version: * sends lid close/open event as a switch event (not a key event) * Display on/off is KEY_SCREEN and

Re: [patch 0/7] Add IRQF_IRQPOLL_IRQ flag to allow irqpoll

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:01:44 +0200 (CEST) Guennadi Liakhovetski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Guennadi Liakhovetski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-24 00:21]: On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Bernhard Walle wrote: * Guennadi Liakhovetski [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.6.21-rc5-mm2

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm2/ - This is the same as 2.6.12-rc5-mm1, except the staircase deadline CPU scheduler has been added. Boilerplate: - See the `hot-fixes' directory for any important updates to this patchset. - To fetch an

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

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the future we're planning for this, but the short term it isnt

Re: [PATCH] genirq: do not mask interrupts by default

2007-03-26 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
I missed that one ... thanks for not telling/CC'ing me and not fixing powerpc :-( (I know, everybody is supposed to have the bandwidth to read all of lkml... I don't). We need to audit all of our PICs to make sure they can deal with disabling an already ack'ed interrupt, which isn't

Re: [RFC: 2.6.21 patch] let PCI_MSI depend on EXPERIMENTAL

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Eric W. Biederman wrote: aka. Drivers have started supporting MSI, People have started using and testing MSI, and there has been MSI maintenance. People care. Agreed, well put. The most recent regressions involving MSI have been fixes propagating their way through the kernel, and I can't

Re: [PATCH][ 3/5] sched: implement staircase deadline cpu scheduler

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:47 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Nobody puts the description of the fields _below_ those fields. There are also some instances of if (foo = bar()). Maybe someone who isn't buried in work (as you always are) can find time to review. -Mike - To unsubscribe from

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

2007-03-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the

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

2007-03-26 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 01:17 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should really consider the latter for getting updates merged in the

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

2007-03-26 Thread Wu, Bryan
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 22:27 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:17:06 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/27/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 12:34:25AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 3/26/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should

Re: [PATCH]: Fix bogus softlockup warning with sysrq-t

2007-03-26 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Prarit Bhargava wrote: There are some situations when soft lockup warnings are expected in the kernel. For example, when doing an alt-sysrq-t on a large number of processes, the dump to console can take a long time and the tasklist_lock is held over that period. This results in a bogus

Re: [PATCH] fbdev sysfs imrovements

2007-03-26 Thread Paul Mackerras
Andrew Morton writes: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/s5000489.jpg (the oops is the usual powerpc mess) Why do you have xmon enabled if you don't have any way to talk to it? Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Morton
I have a few fixes here which belong to subsystem trees, which were missed by the maintainers and which we probably want to get into 2.6.21. ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm2/broken-out/make-aout-executables-work-again.patch

Re: sata-vsc broken on SGI Prism

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:17:24 +0100 Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: commit 7cbaa86b937b0b1fab95c159989f6a3c00bbcf78 Author: Dan Wolstenholme [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue Jan 9 05:59:21 2007 -0500 [libata] sata_vsc: support PCI MSI Signed-off-by: Jeff

[patch 0/2] softlockup watchdog improvements

2007-03-26 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Here's couple of patches to improve the softlockup watchdog. The first changes the softlockup timer from using jiffies to sched_clock() as a timebase. Xen and VMI implement sched_clock() as counting unstolen time, so time stolen by the hypervisor won't cause the watchdog to bite. The second

[patch 1/2] Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog

2007-03-26 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
The softlockup watchdog is currently a nuisance in a virtual machine, since the whole system could have the CPU stolen from it for a long period of time. While it would be unlikely for a guest domain to be denied timer interrupts for over 10s, it could happen and any softlockup message would be

[patch 2/2] percpu enable flag for softlockup watchdog

2007-03-26 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
On a NO_HZ system, there may be an arbitrarily long delay between ticks on a CPU. When we're disabling ticks for a CPU, also disable the softlockup watchdog timer. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

ATA ACPI (was Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5)

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: There's various fixes here, ranging from some architecture updates (ia64, ARM, MIPS, SH, Sparc64) to KVM, networking and network drivers. And random one-liners. But probably more important, and likely much more visible to most people is the fixes for the fallout from

Re: ATA ACPI (was Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5)

2007-03-26 Thread Tejun Heo
Jeff Garzik wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: There's various fixes here, ranging from some architecture updates (ia64, ARM, MIPS, SH, Sparc64) to KVM, networking and network drivers. And random one-liners. But probably more important, and likely much more visible to most people is the fixes for

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Justin Piszcz wrote: Without NCQ, performance is MUCH better on almost every operation, with the exception of 2-3 items. Variables to take into account: * the drive (NCQ performance wildly varies) * the IO scheduler * the filesystem (if not measuring direct to blkdev) * application workload

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