Re: CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m

2007-03-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin, > > just a few modules for occasional filesystems. > > > > CONFIG_MODULES=y > > CONFIG_SCSI=y > > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > >

Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that after suspend/resume cycle all my usb devices are > unplugged/replugged by uhci driver. > While it is not that big problem to me, that can be a real problem if a > device is a flash card with mounted > file-system, because

Re: [-mm patch] fix arch/i386/kernel/marker.c compilation

2007-03-27 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Hi Adrian, Since kdebug.h seems to have moved from asm/ to linux/ in Andrew's tree, I guess the #include should be removed ? linux/kdebug.h already includes asm/kdebug.h. Mathieu * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:57:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... >

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

2007-03-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > FWIW, I'm still leaning towards disabling libata ACPI support by default for > 2.6.21. Hey, I'm not going to argue against anything that says "disable ACPI". Of *course* it should be disabled if there aren't thousands of machines that are in user

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

2007-03-27 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino - Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 01:28:39PM -0300] | Em Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:14:05 +0400 | Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | | | Pete, Luiz | | | | what about this one? | | | | Actually there is just a check for where is error coming from. | | Maybe that is not

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

2007-03-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I meant you do not allocate the entire disk per raidset, which may alter performance numbers. No, that would be silly. It does lower the average performance of the large RAID-5 area, but I don't know how ext3fs is allocating the blocks anyway,

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

2007-03-27 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 3/27/07, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that it's not possible to shift windows around in response to faults because fault reporting is asynchronous - the entire remaining instruction queue will be executed *before* the exception is actually raised to the kernel. ah that

Testing patch for ALi PATA - fixes hopefully for the problems with ATAPI DMA

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Cox
This implements two things at driver level which are implemented implicitly by the old IDE layer - Only doing sector sized ATAPI I/O via DMA - Alway writing the size values Hopefully this will make CD devices behave better for those with the problems. If you can test both the detection and

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

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tino Keitel wrote: > 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread linux
> I meant you do not allocate the entire disk per raidset, which may alter > performance numbers. No, that would be silly. It does lower the average performance of the large RAID-5 area, but I don't know how ext3fs is allocating the blocks anyway, so > 04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-27 Thread Marcus Better
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> Patch : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/24/136 > Marcus any chance I could see an oops? I didn't see anything, it froze with the yellow "Linux!" sign. Any idea how to get a oops? > Or you could try the patch I > previously posted when debugging this with

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

2007-03-27 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm1/ > > CC [M] drivers/parport/parport_pc.o In file included from drivers/parport/parport_pc.c:66: include/asm/parport.h:18: error: conflicting types

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

2007-03-27 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Prarit Bhargava wrote: I think that's a good idea -- I'll propose an add on patch to fix the sysrq-t case ... I'm working on this patch at the moment. I'm just wondering what happens if you do a global re-enable while a CPU is locally disabled. I think

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

2007-03-27 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Prarit Bhargava wrote: I'd like to see this patch implement/fix touch_cpu_softlockup_watchdog and touch_softlockup_watchdog to mimic touch_nmi_watchdog's behaviour. Why? Is that more correct? It seems to me that you're interested in whether a specific

[-mm patch] fix arch/i386/kernel/marker.c compilation

2007-03-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:57:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.21-rc4-mm1: >... > +move-die-notifier-handling-to-common-code.patch >... > Misc >... This patch fixes the following compile error: <-- snip --> ... CC arch/i386/kernel/marker.o

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Monday, March 26, 2007 11:20 pm Greg KH wrote: > Already in Linus's tree. > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.2 > >1-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm2/broken-out/fix-sysfs-rom-file-creation-for-bios > >-rom-shadows.patch > > I'd prefer to wait until 2.6.22 for this one,

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

2007-03-27 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Prarit Bhargava wrote: > I think that's a good idea -- I'll propose an add on patch to fix the > sysrq-t case ... I'm working on this patch at the moment. I'm just wondering what happens if you do a global re-enable while a CPU is locally disabled. I think it won't matter; it will end up in the

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:39:33 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm1/ > > > > > LD init/built-in.o > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 >

Re: [GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:24:37 -0500 James Bottomley wrote: > This is a fairly basic rollup of 3 basic double free or oops based bug > fixes. It's disappointing that kernel-doc fixes are not being merged. Yes, they are not code bug fixes, but they are doc bug fixes, and some of us do work to try

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

2007-03-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 27 16:25:58 2007 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:25:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

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

2007-03-27 Thread linux
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Mar 27 16:25:58 2007 Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 12:25:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject:

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

2007-03-27 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 20:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc5/2.6.21-rc5-mm1/ > LD init/built-in.o LD .tmp_vmlinux1 ld: section .vsyscall_1 [00645400 -> 0064542e] overlaps section .jiffies

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

2007-03-27 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Prarit Bhargava wrote: > I'd like to see this patch implement/fix touch_cpu_softlockup_watchdog > and touch_softlockup_watchdog to mimic touch_nmi_watchdog's behaviour. Why? Is that more correct? It seems to me that you're interested in whether a specific CPU has gone and locked up. If

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:25:07 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 08:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > >

Re: CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m

2007-03-27 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:25 +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin, > just a few modules for occasional filesystems. > > CONFIG_MODULES=y > CONFIG_SCSI=y > CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y > CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m > > 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find

2.6.20.3-rt8 - DMA suffers excessive delay periodically

2007-03-27 Thread John
Hello everyone, I'm runnning 2.6.20.3 patched with -rt8 (and glibc 2.3.6). http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/patch-2.6.20-rt8 I've written a program to highlight a phenomenon I don't understand. This system includes a PCI board that provides data at ~38 Mbit/s. I request

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

2007-03-27 Thread Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
Em Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:14:05 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: | Pete, Luiz | | what about this one? | | Actually there is just a check for where is error coming from. | Maybe that is not the best solution but it allows us to reduce | the calls to 'printk' :) | | P.S. Pete

CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m

2007-03-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
I'm not using an initrd, most of my kernel is builtin, just a few modules for occasional filesystems. CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y CONFIG_SCSI_WAIT_SCAN=m 2.6.21-rc5-mm2 VFS panics unable to find my root on /dev/sda2, but boots okay if I change drivers/scsi/Kconfig to

Re: [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB fixes

2007-03-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Linus, > > Em Seg, 2007-03-26 às 14:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu: > > > > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > > > > Please pull 'master' from: > > > > > >

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

2007-03-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's some more data. 6x ST3400832AS (Seagate 7200.8) 400 GB drives. 3x SiI3232 PCIe SATA controllers 2.2 GHz Athlon 64, 1024k cache (3700+), 2 GB RAM Linux 2.6.20.4, 64-bit kernel Tested able to sustain reads at 60 MB/sec/drive simultaneously.

USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged

2007-03-27 Thread Maxim Levitsky
Hi, I noticed that after suspend/resume cycle all my usb devices are unplugged/replugged by uhci driver. While it is not that big problem to me, that can be a real problem if a device is a flash card with mounted file-system, because disappeared device will cause file-system corruption.

[GIT PATCH] SCSI bug fixes for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread James Bottomley
This is a fairly basic rollup of 3 basic double free or oops based bug fixes. The patch is available from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6.git The Short Changelog is Joerg Dorchain (1): gdth: fix oops in gdth_copy_cmd() Judith Lebzelter (1):

Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-27 Thread Oliver Joa
Hi, since some weeks i try to get my new hardware running: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6300 @ 1.86GHz Intel DP965LT Mainboard Seagate SATA-Harddisk in AHCI-Mode After some hours of running or after some heavy file-i/o (find / | cpio -padm /test) I always get a corrupted XFS-filesystem. I

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-27 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >> And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g. >> mouse1 became mouse2 for many people? > > Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable. > So people with z-axis mice need to redo their X config

Re: [Patch 7/7] IBAC Patch

2007-03-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > This is a new Integrity Based Access Control(IBAC) LSM module which > > > bases access control decisions on the new integrity framework services. > > > IBAC is a sample LSM module to help clarify the interaction between > > > LSM and Linux Integrity Modules(LIM). > > > > > >-

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

2007-03-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > + 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 configured, or

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

2007-03-27 Thread linux
Here's some more data. 6x ST3400832AS (Seagate 7200.8) 400 GB drives. 3x SiI3232 PCIe SATA controllers 2.2 GHz Athlon 64, 1024k cache (3700+), 2 GB RAM Linux 2.6.20.4, 64-bit kernel Tested able to sustain reads at 60 MB/sec/drive simultaneously. RAID-10 is across 6 drives, first part of drive.

[GIT PULL] KVM updates for 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Linus, please pull from the 'linus' branch of git://kvm.qumranet.com/home/avi/kvm.git to receive the following updates: Avi Kivity (1): KVM: Prevent system selectors leaking into guest on real->protected mode transition on vmx Ingo Molnar (1): KVM: always reload segment

Re: [patch] usb: call bdev_read_only() only on CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-03-27 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 02:03:25AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > > bdev_read_only() is only defined on CONFIG_BLOCK so we make sure not to > > call it unless we have it. A new static inline function, > > is_inode_read_only(), is invoked to call

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-27 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >> And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g. >> mouse1 became mouse2 for many people? > > Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable. > So people with z-axis mice need to redo their X config for each kernel release when the device numbers

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

2007-03-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Williams, Mitch A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Grant Grundler wrote: > >>Why wouldn't MSI have the same problems as MSI-X? >> > > Because enabling and disabling the MSI interrupt is done through > config space, and config space writes are not posted. So we won't > see the problem that we do

Re: smart gcc inliner...

2007-03-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Paweł Sikora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > The recent gcc (3.4/4.x) optimizer inlines functions across > sections which is definitely not we want, e.g. inlining > functions from .init.text section. > > I think, the `__init' macro needs `noinline' attribute and all > the `static inline

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-27 Thread Niels de Vos
The Super I/O 887x-chipsets of ITE, are currently not completely supported. This patch adds support for the serial ports of several ITE 887x chips. Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 15:17 +0100, Russell King wrote: > > +static void __devexit

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-27 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 3/27/07, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events > from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in > whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter >

Re: [PATCH] fat/vfat: optionally ignore system timezone offset when reading/writing timestamps

2007-03-27 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Paul Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Thank you. I see. So we need "timezone" option to specify adjusted >> time? If so, I feel we can add it as "timezone=utc", then it'll can >> be improved later... > > I am happy to change the patch as

smart gcc inliner...

2007-03-27 Thread Paweł Sikora
Hi, The recent gcc (3.4/4.x) optimizer inlines functions across sections which is definitely not we want, e.g. inlining functions from .init.text section. I think, the `__init' macro needs `noinline' attribute and all the `static inline __{dev}init' functions need `inline' attribute removal to

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

2007-03-27 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:40:45 +0800 Wu, Bryan wrote: > 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Williams, Mitch A
Grant Grundler wrote: >Why wouldn't MSI have the same problems as MSI-X? > Because enabling and disabling the MSI interrupt is done through config space, and config space writes are not posted. So we won't see the problem that we do with MSI-X. -Mitch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

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

2007-03-27 Thread Grant Grundler
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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
Pete, Luiz what about this one? Actually there is just a check for where is error coming from. Maybe that is not the best solution but it allows us to reduce the calls to 'printk' :) P.S. Pete your patch is good but the message about worqueue creation fail was to print even if we've been

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

2007-03-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:23:16AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> I guess I should add that I'm not certain that the code is exactly correct >> there are weird differences between enable/disable and mask. > > My understanding was "enable" would

Re: 2.6.20.3-rt8 clock_nanosleep() sleeps 10 ms

2007-03-27 Thread John
John wrote: It seems the CPU was not switched to high-resolution mode? # dmesg | grep resolution /* NOTHING */ Do I need to enable ACPI? ACPI seems mandatory for high-resolution mode? I added... CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y CONFIG_X86_PM_TIMER=y

Re: Fix sudden warps in mousedev

2007-03-27 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events > from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in > whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter > (CCed) to implement an option to turn off grabbing so

Re: oprofile / selinux / security_port_sid

2007-03-27 Thread Sami Farin
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:40:23 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:06 +0300, Sami Farin wrote: > > is there room for improvement in security_port_sid() ? > > Yes, lots of room. Also, it won't get called per-packet if you enable > secmark (echo 0 > /selinux/compat_net or

2.6.20.3-rt8 clock_nanosleep() sleeps 10 ms

2007-03-27 Thread John
Hello everyone, I'm using 2.6.20.3 patched with -rt8 (and glibc 2.3.6). http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/older/patch-2.6.20-rt8 I've written a small program where I call clock_nanosleep() in a loop requesting a 2-ms pause, then call clock_gettime(). cf. clock_nanosleep_bug.cxx

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

2007-03-27 Thread Grant Grundler
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:23:16AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I guess I should add that I'm not certain that the code is exactly correct > there are weird differences between enable/disable and mask. My understanding was "enable" would clear (or ignore) pending interrupts and "unmask"

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

2007-03-27 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, enabled); Minor nit: let's call this softlockup_enabled. Makes it easier for the reader ;) P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

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

2007-03-27 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: --- kernel/softlockup.c | 28 +++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) === --- a/kernel/softlockup.c +++ b/kernel/softlockup.c @@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ static

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

2007-03-27 Thread Mark Lord
Jeff Garzik wrote: In some cases, NCQ firmware may be broken. There is a Maxtor firmware id, and some Hitachi ids that people are leaning towards recommending be added to the libata 'horkage' list. Western Digital "Raptor" drives (the 10K rpm things) are also somewhat borked in NCQ mode,

Re: [patch] queued spinlocks (i386)

2007-03-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Makes sense? Or stupid? Interesting idea. Probably worth testing. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[PATCH] ibmebus: newline fix

2007-03-27 Thread Joachim Fenkes
Stupid me forgot a newline in an error message. Signed-off-by: Joachim Fenkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Applies on top of "ibmebus: change probe/remove interface from using loc-code to DT path" ibmebus.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Nurp

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documention for trace records (trec).

2007-03-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Wink Saville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Trec is a light weight tracing mechanism that places > trace information into a buffer. The contents of the > buffer is dumped when errors occurs or when enabled > via SYSRQ commands. relayfs was supposed to fill this purpose. Why do you want another

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-27 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:03:03PM +0200, Niels de Vos wrote: > +static int __devinit pci_ite887x_init(struct pci_dev *dev) > +{ > ... > + if (ret > 0) { > + dev->dev.driver_data = iobase; > + } else { > + /* the device has no UARTs if we get here */ > +

Re: oprofile / selinux / security_port_sid

2007-03-27 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Sami Farin wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:40:23 -0400, Stephen Smalley wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:06 +0300, Sami Farin wrote: > > > is there room for improvement in security_port_sid() ? > > > > Yes, lots of room. Also, it won't get called per-packet if you

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

2007-03-27 Thread Andi Kleen
Benjamin LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:14:52AM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I think you're fixing the symptom here and not the cause. If calculating > > the virtual address of a page is so expensive on your setup it should > > define WANT_PAGE_VIRTUAL

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-27 Thread Niels de Vos
The Super I/O 887x-chipsets of ITE, are currently not completely supported. This patch adds support for the serial ports of several ITE 887x chips. Signed-off-by: Niels de Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Thanks Russell and Andrey for your comments. I've taken your suggestions into account and

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

2007-03-27 Thread Andi Kleen
"Ken Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 execution profile when > pipe

[PATCH] Inhibit machine from asserting an NMI when doing Alt-SysRq-M operation.

2007-03-27 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
This patch touches the NMI watchdog every MAX_ORDER_NR_PAGES to inhibit the machine from triggering an NMI while the CPUs are locked. This situation is happening on boxes with more than 64CPUs and 128GB of RAM when Alt-SysRq-m is performed. It has been succesfully tested for regression on uni,

TLS info and core files?

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Horsley
As a debugger developer, I find it quite handy when debugging a real process to use the PTRACE_GET_THREAD_AREA or PTRACE_GET_ARCH_PRCTL calls to dig up pthread IDs without having to know too much about the internals of the pthread library. (It would be even handier if the info was more consistent

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

2007-03-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Al Boldi
Con Kolivas wrote: > All tasks are initially given a quota based on RR_INTERVAL. This is equal > to RR_INTERVAL between nice values of -6 and 0, half that size above nice > 0, and progressively larger for nice values from -1 to -20. from -7 to -20. I suppose this could be policy decision? >

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

2007-03-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is what I've got so far on the first boot, I shall have to check the > manpage for git-bisect again to see if there is anything else to be added, > nothing enlightening seen so far - further reboots to be done. I'm a little confused at what I am

Re: oprofile / selinux / security_port_sid

2007-03-27 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 13:06 +0300, Sami Farin wrote: > is there room for improvement in security_port_sid() ? Yes, lots of room. Also, it won't get called per-packet if you enable secmark (echo 0 > /selinux/compat_net or boot with selinux_compat_net=0 or build with

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Subject: second suspend to disk in a row results in an oops (MSI) >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/17/43 >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/22/150 >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/26/205 >>

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

2007-03-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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, >>

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 3/27/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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.

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc5

2007-03-27 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 27 March 2007 08:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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. > > >

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

2007-03-27 Thread Vaidyanathan Srinivasan
Aubrey Li wrote: > On 3/27/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Aubrey Li wrote: >>> On 3/27/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Correct, shrink_page_list() is called from shrink_inactive_list() but the above code is patched in

Re: FF layer restrictions [Was: [PATCH 1/1] Input: add sensable phantom driver]

2007-03-27 Thread Jiri Slaby
Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 18:03, johann deneux wrote: >> On 3/21/07, Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): On 3/21/07, johann deneux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest adding a new effect type (3d effect) and extending

Re: glibc vs 2.6/2.4

2007-03-27 Thread Michael Tokarev
Yakov Lerner wrote: > Can I build recent glibc such that it will work both on > 2.6 and on 2.4 ? (multithreading-wise, I suppose). I tried > to boot recent 2.6-based distro with 2.4 kernel and it did not work. > > Do I need to set some env.vars maybe (LD_ASSUME_KERNEL ? > GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION

Re: HELP!!! SD and suspend damage i-node.

2007-03-27 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Suspend damage filesystem each times on 4G SD. > I use bluetooth. But corruption doesn't depend on it. > I also test 2.6.21-rc4-git7 kernel. The same problem. > 512Mb SD works normal. Try using smaller filesystem on 4G SD, and be sure to CC SD/MMC maintainer next time.

Re: [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB fixes

2007-03-27 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Linus, Em Seg, 2007-03-26 às 14:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds escreveu: > > 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Prarit Bhargava
I have another pair of softlockup patches in which I try to address: * ignoring time stolen by hypervisors * threads going to sleep tickless for long periods of time I'm looking at the code now. Your solution is definately better :) I could easy add a "global disable"

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

2007-03-27 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > b) we understand why the below simple modification crashes i386. This doesn't crash i386 in qemu here on a port of the quicklist patches to 2.6.21-rc5-mm2. I suppose I'll have to dump it on some real hardware to see if I can

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 4/4] sys_futex64 : allows 64bit futexes

2007-03-27 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:54:36AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This last patch is an adaptation of the sys_futex64 syscall provided in -rt > patch (originally written by Ingo Molnar). It allows the use of 64-bit futex. > > I have re-worked most of the code to avoid the duplication of the

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm1

2007-03-27 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tuesday 27 March 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > - The IDE tree has been dropped because of a general mess against the recent > IDE merge into mainline. I'll restore it when Bart fixes it up. fixed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE option

2007-03-27 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:02:51 +0200, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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

2007-03-27 Thread Aubrey Li
On 3/27/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aubrey Li wrote: > On 3/27/07, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Correct, shrink_page_list() is called from shrink_inactive_list() but >> the above code is patched in shrink_active_list(). The >>

Re: [PATCH] ahci.c: walkaround for SB600 SATA internal error issue

2007-03-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Conke Hu wrote: > There is a HW issue in ATI SB600 SATA that PxSERR.E should not be > set on some conditions, for example, when there is no media in SATA > CD/DVD drive or media is not ready, AHCI controller fails to execute > ATAPI commands and reports PORT_IRQ_TF_ERR, but ATI SB600 SATA >

Re: IPv6: Connection reset/timeout under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
Hello. (CC: netdev added.) In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:45:46 +0200), Agoston Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > I'm using kernel 2.6.16.29, libc is 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5. However, same result > was achieved using kernel version 2.6.13 on the same box. > > I'm out of

[PATCH] ahci.c: walkaround for SB600 SATA internal error issue

2007-03-27 Thread Conke Hu
There is a HW issue in ATI SB600 SATA that PxSERR.E should not be set on some conditions, for example, when there is no media in SATA CD/DVD drive or media is not ready, AHCI controller fails to execute ATAPI commands and reports PORT_IRQ_TF_ERR, but ATI SB600 SATA controller sets PxSERR.E at

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

2007-03-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Checking the benchmarks on various hardware websites, anandtech, hothardware and others, they generally all come to the same conclusion if there is only 1 thread using I/O (single user system) then NCQ off is the best. Are they

Re: IPv6: Connection reset/timeout under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:45:46 +0200 Agoston Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to add ipv6 support to the RIPE whois-server. I'm going with the > dual-stack address familiy independent solution > (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only is set to 0). > I've written a small piece

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

2007-03-27 Thread Tejun Heo
Justin Piszcz wrote: Checking the benchmarks on various hardware websites, anandtech, hothardware and others, they generally all come to the same conclusion if there is only 1 thread using I/O (single user system) then NCQ off is the best. Are they testing using Linux? I/O performance is

oprofile / selinux / security_port_sid

2007-03-27 Thread Sami Farin
is there room for improvement in security_port_sid() ? little test with dns queries (dnsfilter (the client) on local host using poll() and dnscache (the server) using epoll (at max 4000 concurrent queries): (stats for only vmlinux) CPU: P4 / Xeon, speed 2797.32 MHz (estimated) Counted

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

2007-03-27 Thread David Howells
Mike Frysinger <[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 ? There are a limited set of protection registers (At least 8 insn and 8 data) that can permit tiles

Re: [4/5] 2.6.21-rc5: known regressions

2007-03-27 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 27 March 2007 03:59, Adrian Bunk wrote: > 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

IPv6: Connection reset/timeout under heavy load

2007-03-27 Thread Agoston Horvath
Hello, I'm trying to add ipv6 support to the RIPE whois-server. I'm going with the dual-stack address familiy independent solution (/proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only is set to 0). I've written a small piece of code which tests how the server behaves under heavy load. It basically creates a

Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm2

2007-03-27 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:16:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > - This is the same as 2.6.12-rc5-mm1, except the staircase deadline CPU > scheduler has been added. This boots without incident on the Altix I've got where prior versions of RSDL all had issues. Count RSDL as fixed here. -- wli

Software RAID (non-preempt) server blocking question. (2.6.20.4)

2007-03-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
I ran a check on my SW RAID devices this morning. However, when I did so, I had a few lftp sessions open pulling files. After I executed the check, the lftp processes entered 'D' state and I could do 'nothing' in the process until the check finished. Is this normal? Should a check block

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