Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

2007-04-11 Thread Ian Kent
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:48 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > >> > > > >> - users can use bind mounts without having to pre-configure them in > > > >> /etc/fstab > > > >> > > > > > > This is by far the biggest concern I see. I think the security > > > implication of allowing anyone to do

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

2007-04-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
Corentin CHARY napsal(a): > Le Wednesday 11 April 2007 11:33:48 Jiri Slaby, vous avez écrit : >> asus_acpi, support F2JE model > Just use the new asus-laptop driver =) > (see acpi4asus-0.40) code seems good, but this is not so good: #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,20) #warning "This

Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

2007-04-11 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:48:05PM +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 04/11, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > It should be calling try_to_freeze() somewhere anyway. We may need to > > > freeze > > > all tasks in some

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

2007-04-11 Thread Corentin CHARY
Le Wednesday 11 April 2007 11:33:48 Jiri Slaby, vous avez écrit : > asus_acpi, support F2JE model Just use the new asus-laptop driver =) (see acpi4asus-0.40) -- CHARY 'Iksaif' Corentin http://xf.iksaif.net - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
> > So my point is that you cannot use the PMU to account for wall-clock time > when you > go in halted state. Yet, you could use the idle notifier to compensate for it > by > recording let's say TSC prior to entry and computing delta on exit. But then > I am > not sure what you would do with

Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

2007-04-11 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 04/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > static int kthread(void *_create) > { > struct kthread_create_info *create = _create; > int (*threadfn)(void *data); > void *data; > - sigset_t blocked; > int ret = -EINTR; > > - kthread_exit_files(); > - > - /* Copy

Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-04-11 Thread Maxim Uvarov
Eric Dumazet wrote: sysc_cnt being an 'unsigned long', its a 64 bits long integer... So you probably need ld/std instructions instead of lwz/stw Seems you are right again :( - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-11 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andi, On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:39:05PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > The next kernel patch for Perfmon will not make use of the idle notification > > anymore on any platform. > > What do you use instead? > Nothing. I was using the idle notifier as a way to stop monitoring on entry and

Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

2007-04-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
Jiri Slaby napsal(a): > asus_acpi, support F2JE model Ignore this one, newer version has been sent. regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62

[PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

2007-04-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
asus_acpi, support F2JE model also augment the driver to support switching LCD status even if no function for getting lcd status exists in DSDT. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 54f13ae12fa0a3e3fc02dda6225baa3436f1e93a tree 70c08fc62a1a2f08ac8cc8f4cf5796a1d6f34764 parent

Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 10 2007 20:51, Egmont Koblinger wrote: >On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 10:30:07AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> Really? Why is CJK so much more fundamental than, say, Arabic? > >Not more fundamental at all. It's just perhaps easier to "support" (I mean >keep track of the cursor, not to

Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-04-11 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 15:59:16 +0400 Maxim Uvarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks Eric, I's really better. I have done changes. Do you have any > others objections now? > All is in attached perf_stat.patch. Hi Maxim I know *nothing* about powerpc assembly, but I think there is a problem :

Re: [lm-sensors] [RFC][PATCH] Apple SMC driver (hardware monitoring and control)

2007-04-11 Thread Nicolas Boichat
Hi, Thanks for your comments. Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Nicolas, > > Sorry for the delay. > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:29:39 +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote: >> I developed, a while ago, a driver the Apple System Management >> Controller, which provides an accelerometer (Apple Sudden Motion >>

[PATCH][trivial] Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt

2007-04-11 Thread Jesper Juhl
Greetings, Very trivial patch to just fix a tiny thing that caught my eye while scrolling through the Documentation/magic-number.txt file. I noticed that all the magic numbers, except one, were listed with a "0x" prefix - the one that stands out is EEPROM_MAGIC_VALUE which has a "0X" prefix.

Re: [PATCH 10/30 #2] Use menuconfig objects - I2C

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>On Apr 11 2007 10:14, Jean Delvare wrote: >>On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:11:41 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>> Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at >>> >>> once instead of going through all options. >> >>The patch looks OK to me, except that it

Re: [lm-sensors] [RFC][PATCH] Apple SMC driver (hardware monitoring and control)

2007-04-11 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nicolas, Sorry for the delay. On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:29:39 +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote: > I developed, a while ago, a driver the Apple System Management > Controller, which provides an accelerometer (Apple Sudden Motion > Sensor), light sensors, temperature sensors, keyboard backlight

Re: [PATCH, take5] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:19 +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Hi Andrew > > Update on this take5 : > > - Rebased on linux-2.6.21-rc6-mm1 + get_futex_key() must check proper > alignement for 64bit futexes > - compile test on x86_64 (one minor typo) > - Added Rusty in CC since he may have to change

Re: broken device locking, sg vs. sg_io on block devices

2007-04-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Alan Cox [Wed, Apr 11 2007, 12:31:02PM]: > > > Can we do following without having side effects: > > > > > > open("/dev/sr0",O_EXCL|O_RDWR); /* no matter what it returns */ > > > fcntl(..., F_SETLK); /* no matter what it returns */ > > > ioctl(f, SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN, ); > > > ioctl(f,

Re: [PATCH] Improve heuristic detecting sequential reads

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 10-04-07 19:27:22, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:54:11 +0200 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Introduce ra.offset and store in it an offset where the previous read > > ended. This way > > we can detect whether reads are really sequential (and thus we should not >

Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

2007-04-11 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 04/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > +int kthreadd(void *unused) > +{ > + /* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */ > + kthreadd_setup(); > + > + current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE; > + > + for (;;) { > + wait_event(kthread_create_work, > +

Re: rsdl:mouse freezing while doing git-gc

2007-04-11 Thread Dmitry Adamushko
On 11/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am using the kernel 2.6.21-rc4-rsdl. Machine is a P4 2.2 ghz with 512mb ram. While doing a git-gc with nice 19 , I am still seeing that my mouse keeps freezing occasionally and other windows do not respond immediately. I have

Re: Performance Stats: Kernel patch

2007-04-11 Thread Maxim Uvarov
Eric Dumazet wrote: [snip] Please reorganize the code so that you dont duplicate GET_THREAD_INFO() stuff Thanks Eric, I's really better. I have done changes. Do you have any others objections now? All is in attached perf_stat.patch. Best regards, Maxim Uvarov. Patch adds Process

Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

2007-04-11 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 04/11, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > It should be calling try_to_freeze() somewhere anyway. We may need to > > freeze > > all tasks in some cases. > > How about > for (;;) { > try_to_freeze(); > > ? Why? >

Re: [PATCH 2/3] make kernel threads invisible to /sbin/init

2007-04-11 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 04/10, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 1. rename reparent_to_init() to reparent_kthread() and export it > > > > 2. use init_pid_ns.child_reaper instead of child_reaper(current) > > > > 3. set ->exit_signal = -1, so init can't see us and we don't use

Re: rsdl:mouse freezing while doing git-gc

2007-04-11 Thread Dmitry Adamushko
On 11/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I am using the kernel 2.6.21-rc4-rsdl. Machine is a P4 2.2 ghz with 512mb ram. While doing a git-gc with nice 19 , I am still seeing that my mouse keeps freezing occasionally and other windows do not respond immediately. Do you

Re: [PATCH 0/7] Alpha update

2007-04-11 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: Assorted fixes and cleanups, including build fixes for recent toolchains, various platform-specific fixes and graphics support for non-zero PCI domains. Thanks to Jay Estabrook for supplying most of these. ACK, I'll try these out on a couple of my alphas too.

Re: broken device locking, sg vs. sg_io on block devices

2007-04-11 Thread Alan Cox
> > Can we do following without having side effects: > > > > open("/dev/sr0",O_EXCL|O_RDWR); /* no matter what it returns */ > > fcntl(..., F_SETLK); /* no matter what it returns */ > > ioctl(f, SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN, ); > > ioctl(f, SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER, ); > > > > Can you guarantee us that

Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

2007-04-11 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 12:13:34PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > It should be calling try_to_freeze() somewhere anyway. We may need to freeze > all tasks in some cases. How about for (;;) { try_to_freeze(); ? This change allows us to make all the worker threads freezeable by

Re: [PATCH 5/5] nommu: fix bug ip_conntrack does not work on nommu

2007-04-11 Thread David Howells
Wu, Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > num_physpages is not exported out in mm/nommu.c, so the ip_conntrack > module link will fail. Fine by me. Acked-By: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 2/2] NET: Multiqueue network device support.

2007-04-11 Thread Herbert Xu
Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > True, but the assignment for "dev" above also casts this void * to > struct net_device *: > >dev = (struct net_device *) >(((long)p + NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST) & ~NETDEV_ALIGN_CONST); >dev->padded = (char *)dev -

Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

2007-04-11 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > >> > > >> - users can use bind mounts without having to pre-configure them in > > >> /etc/fstab > > >> > > > > This is by far the biggest concern I see. I think the security > > implication of allowing anyone to do bind mounts are poorly understood. > > And especially so since there is

Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

2007-04-11 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> 1. clone the master namespace. > > 2. in the new namespace > > move the tree under /share/$me to / > for each ($user, $what, $how) { > move /share/$user/$what to /$what > if ($how == slave) { > make the mount tree under /$what as slave >

Re: 2.6.21-rc5: swsusp: Not enough free memory

2007-04-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
Rafael J. Wysocki napsal(a): > On Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:36, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> Rafael J. Wysocki napsal(a): >>> On Monday, 9 April 2007 22:07, Jiri Slaby wrote: I have bad news for you :(. I thought I had unpatched kernel, but it happens in -rc6 too. >>> I guess you mean

Re: 2.6.21-rc6-mm1

2007-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
> The next kernel patch for Perfmon will not make use of the idle notification > anymore on any platform. What do you use instead? I've been actually thinking to add idle notifier support to oprofile to correct for the "perfctr doesn't tick in idle" issue which makes numbers not add up to

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:53 +0800, Zhao Forrest wrote: > I got some new information: > Before soft lockup message is out, we have: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# cat /proc/slabinfo |grep buffer_head > buffer_head 10927942 10942560120 321 : tunables 32 > 168 : slabdata 341955

Re: [PATCH resend][CRYPTO]: RSA algorithm patch

2007-04-11 Thread Tasos Parisinos
Hello to everybody - Firstly i want to thank everybody for reviewing this code and posting all your usefull comments - Secondly i would like to give a generic (as possible) example of use of this module. More and more nowadays Linux has started to be ported and running in a wide

Re: [PATCH 12/14 UPDATED] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect

2007-04-11 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:13:59 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does this patch fix the problem? > > Index: work/fs/sysfs/dir.c > === > --- work.orig/fs/sysfs/dir.c 2007-04-11 19:12:02.0 +0900 > +++

[PATCH] ahci.c: remove non-existing SB600 raid id (re-send)

2007-04-11 Thread Conke Hu
SB600 RAID and SB600 SATA is the same controller and share the same PCI ID 0x4380. There is no such PCI ID 0x4381. Signed-off-by: Conke Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - diff -Nur linux-2.6.21-rc6-git3.orig/drivers/ata/ahci.c linux-2.6.21-rc6-git3/drivers/ata/ahci.c ---

Re: [PATCH] Improve heuristic detecting sequential reads

2007-04-11 Thread Andi Kleen
> adaptive readahead? Has been in -mm for a year. Problem is, it is > _so_ complete that I just don't know how to merge it. It's huge, and > only Wu understands it. So it's really rather stuck. No benchmark numbers for/against it at all? -Andi > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:10 +0800, Zhao Forrest wrote: > On 4/11/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 02:53 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > > I'm confused - which end of ths stack is up? > > > > > > cpuset_exit doesn't call do_exit, rather it's the other > > > way

Re: [PATCH] ahci.c: remove non-existing SB600 raid id

2007-04-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Conke Hu wrote: > On 4/11/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Conke Hu wrote: >> >SB600 RAID and SB600 SATA is the same controller and share the >> > same PCI ID 0x4380. There is such PCI ID 0x4381. >> >> I assume 'no' is missing in the last sentence. :-) >> >> -- >> tejun >> > >

Re: broken device locking, sg vs. sg_io on block devices

2007-04-11 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Eduard Bloch [Sat, Apr 07 2007, 01:21:31PM]: > Can we do following without having side effects: > > open("/dev/sr0",O_EXCL|O_RDWR); /* no matter what it returns */ > fcntl(..., F_SETLK); /* no matter what it returns */ > ioctl(f, SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN, ); > ioctl(f,

Re: [PATCH 12/14 UPDATED] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect

2007-04-11 Thread Tejun Heo
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 06:26:42PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Cornelia Huck wrote: > > === > > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > > 2.6.21-rc6-ge666c753-dirty #54 > >

Re: [PATCH] ahci.c: remove non-existing SB600 raid id

2007-04-11 Thread Conke Hu
On 4/11/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Conke Hu wrote: >SB600 RAID and SB600 SATA is the same controller and share the > same PCI ID 0x4380. There is such PCI ID 0x4381. I assume 'no' is missing in the last sentence. :-) -- tejun Oh, sorry :( so, should I re-send the mail?

Re: [PATCH] kthread: Don't depend on work queues

2007-04-11 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:03, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:44:36 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) > wrote: > > > Currently there is a circular reference between work queue initialization > > and kthread initialization. This prevents the kernel thread > >

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Zhao Forrest
On 4/11/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 02:53 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > I'm confused - which end of ths stack is up? > > cpuset_exit doesn't call do_exit, rather it's the other > way around. But put_files_struct doesn't call do_exit, > rather do_exit calls

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 02:53 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > I'm confused - which end of ths stack is up? > > cpuset_exit doesn't call do_exit, rather it's the other > way around. But put_files_struct doesn't call do_exit, > rather do_exit calls __exit_files calls put_files_struct. I'm guessing its

Re: [lm-sensors] Hardware monitoring subsystem maintainer position is open

2007-04-11 Thread David Hubbard
Hi Jean, I didn't say I would leave entirely. I plan to stay around and keep helping with the lm-sensors project and hwmon drivers. Thanks! This is great news. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:23:26 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm? At any rate, that makes > it a no brainer to change. Seems to be related to lguest. Ask Rusty :) > > > > > As this external thing certainly is not doing the

Re: [PATCH] ahci.c: remove non-existing SB600 raid id

2007-04-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Conke Hu wrote: >SB600 RAID and SB600 SATA is the same controller and share the > same PCI ID 0x4380. There is such PCI ID 0x4381. I assume 'no' is missing in the last sentence. :-) -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: usb touchscreen breakage in 2.6.21-rc5-mm4 ?

2007-04-11 Thread Helge Hafting
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: *sigh* When will I learn to spell names of kernel parameters correctly? It is initcall_debug, not debug_initcall :( Could you try again, please? Here is the dmesg for rc5mm4 with initcall_debug, showing how no usbtouch function is called at all. I also attached a

[PATCH] ahci.c: remove non-existing SB600 raid id

2007-04-11 Thread Conke Hu
SB600 RAID and SB600 SATA is the same controller and share the same PCI ID 0x4380. There is such PCI ID 0x4381. Signed-off-by: Conke Hu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - diff -Nur linux-2.6.21-rc6-git3.orig/drivers/ata/ahci.c linux-2.6.21-rc6-git3/drivers/ata/ahci.c ---

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Zhao Forrest
I got some new information: Before soft lockup message is out, we have: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# cat /proc/slabinfo |grep buffer_head buffer_head 10927942 10942560120 321 : tunables 32 168 : slabdata 341955 341955 6 : globalstat 37602996 11589379 11743736

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Paul Jackson
[] put_files_struct+0x6c/0xc3 [] do_exit+0x2d2/0x8b1 [] cpuset_exit+0x0/0x6c I'm confused - which end of ths stack is up? cpuset_exit doesn't call do_exit, rather it's the other way around. But put_files_struct doesn't call do_exit, rather do_exit calls __exit_files calls put_files_struct.

Re: 2.6.21-rc5: swsusp: Not enough free memory

2007-04-11 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 11 April 2007 09:36, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki napsal(a): > > On Monday, 9 April 2007 22:07, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> Rafael J. Wysocki napsal(a): > >>> Thanks for testing. > >> [...] > >>> --- linux-2.6.21-rc5.orig/kernel/power/swsusp.c > >>> +++

Re: Hardware monitoring subsystem maintainer position is open

2007-04-11 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Hans, On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:40:54 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Jean Delvare wrote: > > I am resigning from my role as hardware monitoring subsystem > > (drivers/hwmon) maintainer. This is too much work for me, I do not have > > the necessary bandwidth to review all the incoming patches, in >

Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea

2007-04-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 11 2007 05:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> > >> A CONFIG_EMBEDDED bug. This should perhaps be changed. > >> Or at best, deactivate the ---> part

Re: [PATCH 3/7] DRM: correct PCI domain setting for ALPHA

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 07:31:10PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > I already have this queued in the DRM git tree.. Ivan, Jay can you > check an -mm kernel contains it? it'll go in the next merge window.. Indeed, it's already in -mm tree. Sorry... Ivan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [lm-sensors] Hardware monitoring subsystem maintainer position is open

2007-04-11 Thread Hans de Goede
Rudolf Marek wrote: Hello all, Maybe we could try following: 1) person post the driver 2) quick review could be done critical fixes only, driver goes to -mm 3) review that goes deeper - check for interface conformity and all the stuff which could break - fixes for non-critical stuff 4) after

[PATCH 5/5] nommu: fix bug ip_conntrack does not work on nommu

2007-04-11 Thread Wu, Bryan
num_physpages is not exported out in mm/nommu.c, so the ip_conntrack module link will fail. Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/nommu.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/nommu.c b/mm/nommu.c index 0016557..db0452e 100644 --- a/mm/nommu.c

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Pierre Peiffer wrote: Nick Piggin a écrit : But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm? This was introduced by lguest code I did not follow exaclty why. OK, that's no problem, then it can remain exported but we just have to document and audit that callers must pass in an

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Pierre Peiffer wrote: Nick Piggin a écrit : But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm? This was introduced by lguest code I did not follow exaclty why. OK, that's no problem, then it can remain exported but we just have to document and audit that

[PATCH 3/5] blackfin arch: source kernel preemption option

2007-04-11 Thread Wu, Bryan
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/blackfin/Kconfig |1 + arch/blackfin/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S |1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/blackfin/Kconfig b/arch/blackfin/Kconfig

[PATCH 4/5] blackfin arch: workaround BF561 anomaly 05000266

2007-04-11 Thread Wu, Bryan
[PATCH] blackfin arch: workaround BF561 anomaly 05000266 http://blackfin.uclinux.org/gf/project/uclinux-dist/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit_item_id=2958 Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/blackfin/kernel/setup.c |5 + 1

[PATCH 2/5] blackfin arch: fix bug data cannot be put into L1 DATA SRAM bank B

2007-04-11 Thread Wu, Bryan
[PATCH] blackfin arch: fix bug data cannot be put into L1 DATA SRAM bank B Don't allocate Bank B data sram in l1_data_A_sram_alloc (). Add l1_data_sram_alloc (), which allocates data sram from either Bank A or Bank B. Change all the code which call to l1_data_A_sram_alloc () to use

[PATCH 1/5] blackfin arch: add missing Blackfin support in lib Kconfig debug CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER

2007-04-11 Thread Wu, Bryan
Signed-off-by: Aubrey Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- lib/Kconfig.debug |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 558a22e..87afd62 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++

[PATCH 1/1] ACPI: asus_acpi, support F2JE model

2007-04-11 Thread Jiri Slaby
asus_acpi, support F2JE model also augment the driver to support switching LCD status even if no function for getting lcd status doesn't exist in DSDT. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 4e55effd524fffae1113c301d63d4cd5280264ab tree 96d1c15a7ee82558bcbf1bb4b6e66c435781758d

[PATCH, take5] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Eric Dumazet
Hi Andrew Update on this take5 : - Rebased on linux-2.6.21-rc6-mm1 + get_futex_key() must check proper alignement for 64bit futexes - compile test on x86_64 (one minor typo) - Added Rusty in CC since he may have to change drivers/lguest/io.c again, since get_futex_key() have yet another

Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 11 2007 05:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >> A CONFIG_EMBEDDED bug. This should perhaps be changed. >> Or at best, deactivate the ---> part when it's N. > > i'm not sure what you mean by "bug".

Re: [PATCH 12/14 UPDATED] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect

2007-04-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Cornelia Huck wrote: >> === >> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] >> 2.6.21-rc6-ge666c753-dirty #54 >> --- >> kslowcrw/64 is trying to acquire

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Pierre Peiffer
Nick Piggin a écrit : But... that isn't there in mainline. Why is it in -mm? This was introduced by lguest code I did not follow exaclty why. Pierre At any rate, that makes it a no brainer to change. As this external thing certainly is not doing the check itself, to be on the safe

Re: [PATCH 3/7] DRM: correct PCI domain setting for ALPHA

2007-04-11 Thread Dave Airlie
NAK I already have this queued in the DRM git tree.. Ivan, Jay can you check an -mm kernel contains it? it'll go in the next merge window.. Dave. On 4/11/07, Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Files: drivers/char/drm/drmP.h The PCI domain is the hose's index, not the hose's

Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea

2007-04-11 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > General setup > >[ ] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> > > > >note how, even if you don't choose to configure features for small > >systems, if you go under that

Re: [PATCH 12/14 UPDATED] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect

2007-04-11 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Cornelia Huck wrote: > === > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 2.6.21-rc6-ge666c753-dirty #54 > --- > kslowcrw/64 is trying to acquire lock: >

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Nick Piggin
Eric Dumazet wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:22:57 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Dumazet wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:30:14 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Eric Dumazet wrote: - Current mm code have a problem with 64bit futexes, as spoted by Nick :

Re: [-mm3 PATCH] (Retry) Check the return value of kobject_add and etc.

2007-04-11 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:18:15 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that I changed it to not send the KOBJ_REMOVE if we didn't send a > KOBJ_ADD. The whole part_uevent_suppress stuff is not really nice, causing the code to use a lot of kobject_{init,add} and kobject_{del,put}

evdev* devices change major/minors after suspend/resume (udev?)

2007-04-11 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear all, I wonder how one (from the userspace side) should deal with the case that evdev devices disappear after resume and reappear under a different name/different major/minor (i.e. evdev1 can become evdev4). The application in mind scans all evdev devices, opens the ones matching certain

Re: Why kmem_cache_free occupy CPU for more than 10 seconds?

2007-04-11 Thread Zhao Forrest
I enable CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, but don't get any extra debug messages related to slab. Is there other switch that I need to turn on? Thanks, Forrest BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#6! Call Trace: [] softlockup_tick+0xdb/0xed [] update_process_times+0x42/0x68 []

Re: [PATCH 20/30] Use menuconfig objects - ARCNET

2007-04-11 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Apr 11 2007 10:30, Esben Nielsen wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: (Wow, not a single MODULE_AUTHOR line in drivers/net/arcnet/ ...) ArcNet is old. Almost nobody is using it anymore. I used it at my former job, since we used

Re: "menu" versus "menuconfig" -- they're *both* a bad idea

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 11 2007 03:58, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > General setup >[ ] Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> > >note how, even if you don't choose to configure features for small >systems, if you go under that menu entry, you're still presented with >a couple config

[PATCH 2/7] ALPHA: build fixes - force architecture, eliminate wastage

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Files: arch/alpha/kernel/sys_titan.c Request EV67 since no TITAN-based machine is any less, or see errors. include/asm-alpha/compiler.h Request EV56 so we're sure to get what we want, or see errors. include/asm-alpha/module.h Stop all the wasted/worthless "got"

[PATCH 7/7] ALPHA: support graphics on non-zero PCI domains

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Files: arch/alpha/Kconfig arch/alpha/kernel/console.c arch/alpha/kernel/core_marvel.c arch/alpha/kernel/core_titan.c arch/alpha/kernel/core_tsunami.c arch/alpha/kernel/proto.h arch/alpha/kernel/sys_dp264.c include/asm-alpha/core_titan.h include/asm-alpha/core_tsunami.h include/asm-alpha/vga.h

Re: [PATCH 12/14 UPDATED] sysfs: implement sysfs_dirent active reference and immediate disconnect

2007-04-11 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:15:15 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cornelia, this should fix the problem you reported. It's caused by > doing up_write() on sysfs_dirent which is used for readdir cursor > which is not deactivated before being released. > release_sysfs_dirent() is udpated

[PATCH 5/7] ALPHA: fixes for specific machine types

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Files: arch/alpha/kernel/core_mcpcia.c arch/alpha/kernel/sys_rawhide.c include/asm-alpha/core_mcpcia.h Determine correct hose configuration; RAWHIDE family can have 2 or 4 hoses, so make sure non-existent hoses are ignored. arch/alpha/kernel/err_titan.c Supply a needed

[PATCH 6/7] ALPHA: more fixes for specific machine types

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
arch/alpha/kernel/sys_sx164.c Earlier firmware revisions need MVI fix as well. arch/alpha/kernel/sys_nautilus.c On UP1500 firmware reports wrong AGP IRQ (10 instead of 5). This causes interrupt storm if there is a PCI device that uses IRQ 5. Signed-off-by: Ivan

[PATCH 3/7] DRM: correct PCI domain setting for ALPHA

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Files: drivers/char/drm/drmP.h The PCI domain is the hose's index, not the hose's root bus number. Note that this code only applies to ALPHA. Signed-off-by: Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -Naurp

[PATCH 4/7] ALPHA: "prctl" macros

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Files: include/asm-alpha/thread_info.h Provide "prctl" macros for ALPHA. Signed-off-by: Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff -Naurp a/include/asm-alpha/thread_info.h b/include/asm-alpha/thread_info.h ---

[PATCH 1/7] ALPHA: fix BOOTP image creation

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Files: arch/alpha/boot/bootpz.c Create a dummy "__kmalloc()" to satisfy the loader; never called. arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c Remove an include that is now (2.6.x) unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Jay Estabrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <[EMAIL

[PATCH 0/7] Alpha update

2007-04-11 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Assorted fixes and cleanups, including build fixes for recent toolchains, various platform-specific fixes and graphics support for non-zero PCI domains. Thanks to Jay Estabrook for supplying most of these. Ivan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 3/7] Containers (V8): Add generic multi-subsystem API to containers

2007-04-11 Thread Paul Menage
On 4/10/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [ Sorry abt piece meal reviews, I am sending comments as and when I spot something ] That's no problem. On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 04:32:24PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -void container_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) > +void

Re: [PATCH 20/30] Use menuconfig objects - ARCNET

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 11 2007 10:30, Esben Nielsen wrote: > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> (Wow, not a single MODULE_AUTHOR line in drivers/net/arcnet/ ...) > > ArcNet is old. Almost nobody is using it anymore. I used it at my > former job, since we used it as control network. A lot of

Re: [PATCH 10/30] Use menuconfig objects - I2C

2007-04-11 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi Jean, On Apr 11 2007 10:14, Jean Delvare wrote: >On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:11:41 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at >> >> once instead of going through all options. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt

Re: [PATCH 20/30] Use menuconfig objects - ARCNET

2007-04-11 Thread Esben Nielsen
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: (Wow, not a single MODULE_AUTHOR line in drivers/net/arcnet/ ...) ArcNet is old. Almost nobody is using it anymore. I used it at my former job, since we used it as control network. A lot of companies still does quitely, but not in combination

Re: [PATCH, take4] FUTEX : new PRIVATE futexes

2007-04-11 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 17:22:57 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric Dumazet wrote: > > On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 19:30:14 +1000 > > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Eric Dumazet wrote: > > > > > > > >>>- Current mm code have a problem with 64bit futexes, as spoted

Re: link error : 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 for s390

2007-04-11 Thread David Miller
From: "Martin Schwidefsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:15:42 +0200 > On 4/11/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:11:01 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > I think this means that if CONFIG_32BIT=y, s390 networking gets

rsdl:mouse freezing while doing git-gc

2007-04-11 Thread surya.prabhakar
Hi, I am using the kernel 2.6.21-rc4-rsdl. Machine is a P4 2.2 ghz with 512mb ram. While doing a git-gc with nice 19 , I am still seeing that my mouse keeps freezing occasionally and other windows do not respond immediately. I have included the top output below. kindly update me if any

Re: [PATCH 10/30] Use menuconfig objects - I2C

2007-04-11 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Jan, On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:11:41 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Use menuconfigs instead of menus, so the whole menu can be disabled at > once instead of going through all options. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Well, in practice it was already

Re: link error : 2.6.21-rc6-mm1 for s390

2007-04-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On 4/11/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 22:11:01 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think this means that if CONFIG_32BIT=y, s390 networking gets the whizzy assembly version and if CONFIG_32BIT=n, it gets to use the generic version. Possibly

Re: [PATCH 24/30] Use menuconfig objects - oldcd

2007-04-11 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:55:49 +0200 (MEST) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > On Apr 10 2007 23:37, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:37:42 +0200 (MEST) > >From: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: Eberhard Mönkeberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc:

[PATCH] [KERNEL-DOC] alphabetically-sorted entries in index.html of 'htmldocs'

2007-04-11 Thread Borislav Petkov
This patch sorts the DOCBOOKS entries in Documentation/DocBook/Makefile alphabetically. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: 21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile === ---

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