Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: CFS-v4 is quite smooth in terms of the users experience but after prolonged observations approaching 24 hours, it appears to choke the cpu hog off a bit even when the system has nothing else to do. My amanda runs went from 1 to

Re: [patch 3/8] account user mounts

2007-04-22 Thread Miklos Szeredi
From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add sysctl variables for accounting and limiting the number of user mounts. The maximum number of user mounts is set to 1024 by default. This won't in itself enable user mounts, setting a mount to be owned by a user is first needed

Re: [PATCH] lazy freeing of memory through MADV_FREE

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:15:51 -0400 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make it possible for applications to have the kernel free memory lazily. This reduces a repeated free/malloc cycle from freeing pages and allocating them, to just marking them freeable. If the application wants to

Re: [patch 7/8] allow unprivileged mounts

2007-04-22 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Apr 21 2007 10:57, Eric W. Biederman wrote: tmpfs! tmpfs is a possible problem because it can consume lots of ram/swap. Which is why it has limits on the amount of space it can consume. Users can gobble up all RAM and swap already today. (Unless they are confined into an

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, v4

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
i'm pleased to announce release -v4 of the CFS patchset. The patch against v2.6.21-rc7 can be downloaded from: http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/ I can't get 2.6.21-rc7-CFS-v4 to boot. Immediately after selecting this kernel I see a very fast scrolling (loop?) sequence of addrs

Re: [PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:39:41 +0200 Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions. Signed-off-by:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 02:41:48PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: A

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On 4/22/07, William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just looking for what people want the API to be here. With that in hand we can just go out and do whatever needs to be done. On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: I think a sched_yield_to is one interface:

Re: [PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user

2007-04-22 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:50:45AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 10:39:41 +0200 Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a write-only check

Re: [PATCH 08/10] mm: count writeback pages per BDI

2007-04-22 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 00:19 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: It could be that we never call test_clear_page_writeback() against !bdi_cap_writeback_dirty() pages anwyay. I can't think why we would, but the relationships there aren't very clear. Does don't account for dirty memory imply doesn't

Re: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 09:04:06PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: It is unspecified whether all members of the statvfs structure have meaningful values on all file systems. In my opinion, the advantage of not reporting bogus pathnames in /proc/mounts by far outweighs the problems is

[PATCH] Allow reading tainted flag as user

2007-04-22 Thread Bastian Blank
The commit 34f5a39899f3f3e815da64f48ddb72942d86c366 restricted reading of the tainted value. The attached patch changes this back to a write-only check and restores the read behaviour of older versions. Signed-off-by: Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The joys of love made her human and the

[PATCH] fault injection: disable stacktrace filter for x86-64

2007-04-22 Thread Akinobu Mita
Disable stacktrace filter support for x86-64 for now. Will be enable when we can get the dwarf2 unwinder back. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- lib/Kconfig.debug |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: 2.6-git/lib/Kconfig.debug

[PATCH] fault injection: fix failslab with CONFIG_NUMA

2007-04-22 Thread Akinobu Mita
Currently failslab injects failures into cache_alloc(). But with enabling CONFIG_NUMA it's not enough to let actual slab allocator functions (kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, ...) return NULL. This patch moves fault injection hook inside of __cache_alloc() and __cache_alloc_node(). These are lower

Re: [PATCH] lazy freeing of memory through MADV_FREE

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:18:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 03:15:51 -0400 Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Make it possible for applications to have the kernel free memory lazily. This reduces a repeated free/malloc cycle from freeing pages and allocating

[PATCH] fault injection: add entry to MAINTAINERS

2007-04-22 Thread Akinobu Mita
Add maintainer for fault injection support. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- MAINTAINERS |5 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) Index: 2.6-git/MAINTAINERS === --- 2.6-git.orig/MAINTAINERS +++

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:00, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun,

Re: [PATCH] utilities: add helper functions for safe 64-bit integer operations as 32-bit halves

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 02:06:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:01:47 +0100 Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#define lower_32_bits(n) (sizeof(n) == 8 ? (u32)(n) : (n)) n0x would be simpler. Do we actually have any call for this? The only

[PATCH -stable] KVM: MMU: Fix guest writes to nonpae pde

2007-04-22 Thread Avi Kivity
KVM shadow page tables are always in pae mode, regardless of the guest setting. This means that a guest pde (mapping 4MB of memory) is mapped to two shadow pdes (mapping 2MB each). When the guest writes to a pte or pde, we intercept the write and emulate it. We also remove any shadowed mappings

[PATCH -stable] KVM: MMU: Fix host memory corruption on i386 with = 4GB ram

2007-04-22 Thread Avi Kivity
PAGE_MASK is an unsigned long, so using it to mask physical addresses on i386 (which are 64-bit wide) leads to truncation. This can result in page-private of unrelated memory pages being modified, with disasterous results. Fix by not using PAGE_MASK for physical addresses; instead calculate the

Re: [PATCH 7/8] Kconfig: silicon backplane dependency.

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Buesch
On Sunday 22 April 2007 09:53, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 01:19 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: diff -urpN linux-2.6/drivers/ssb/Kconfig linux-2.6-patched/drivers/ssb/Kconfig --- linux-2.6/drivers/ssb/Kconfig 2007-04-19 15:24:40.0 +0200 +++

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On

Re: [PATCH 00/10] per device dirty throttling -v5

2007-04-22 Thread Andrew Morton
So after a cheerful five hours making all the new crap with which they have inflicted me actually compile, first up is powerpc: initcall 0xc06dc650: .scsi_complete_async_scans+0x0/0x1dc() returned 0. initcall 0xc06dc650 ran for 0 msecs: .scsi_complete_async_scans+0x0/0x1dc()

Linux 2.4.35-pre3

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi all, Back to 2.4... I've just released Linux 2.4.35-pre3. We're getting closer to 2.4.35. It is in good shape, and the major change I was most afraid of (e1000 driver update) works like a charm. Kudos to intel people on this one ! I will still have to see whether the skge/sky2 drivers are

Linux 2.4.34.3

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
I've just released Linux 2.4.34.3. Nothing critical, just a bunch of bugfixes and small security fix. The patch and changelog will appear soon at the following locations: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/patch-2.4.34.3.bz2

Re: [BUG? -rc7] SMP: Just one CPU activated: P4 3GHz HT

2007-04-22 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On 4/22/07, oliver pinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I have ASUS P4C800, P4 3GHz HT (Nortwood), 512RAM and I have nothing errors in my cpu. in bios have you HT option enabled Sure, and the hardware is fine as other kernels and other systems (as WinXP) work fine. or im =2.6.21-rc7

Re: [PATCH] reiserfs: fix xattr root locking/refcount bug

2007-04-22 Thread Andrea Righi
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:26:31 -0400 Jeff Mahoney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The listxattr() and getxattr() operations are only protected by a read lock. As a result, if either of these operations run in parallel, a race condition exists where the xattr_root will end up

[PATCH] do not truncate irq number for icom adapter

2007-04-22 Thread Olaf Hering
irq values are u32, not u8. Large irq numbers will be truncated, free_irq may free a different irq. Remove incorrectly sized struct member and use the one from pci_dev. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/serial/icom.c |5 ++--- drivers/serial/icom.h |1 - 2 files

Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:02, Michael Gerdau wrote: Hi Con, I now have 2.6.21-rc7-sd-0.45 running on my Intel Core2 T7600 2.33 machine and there is something I don't understand. For testing I have a Perl script that does some numbercrunching and runs a couple of hours. I have two

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 22 April 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 02:17:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: CFS-v4 is quite smooth in terms of the users experience but after prolonged observations approaching 24 hours, it appears to choke the cpu hog off a bit even when the system has

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread DervishD
Hi Ogawa :) * OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A mount option to force walking the FAT and getting the real info could be interesting. That way, it will be only done for certain devices (small disks, for example). Yes. It seems that Windows

Re: [ck] Re: Ten percent test

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 20:48, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag 09 April 2007 schrieb Mike Galbraith: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 07:26 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 01:38, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 09:08 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, I

Re: [ck] Re: Ten percent test

2007-04-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag 09 April 2007 schrieb Mike Galbraith: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 07:26 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 01:38, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-08 at 09:08 -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: Hi, I am one of those who have been happily testing Con's patches.

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread DervishD
Hi Ogawa (and Andrew) :) * OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there some way in which we can work out what's happened and fix it up? It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's undocumented. Windows doesn't update

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread Juergen Beisert
Hi, On Sunday 22 April 2007 00:42, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote: Yes. It seems that Windows does not update the -free_clusters correctly. Probably, I think the option is good for now. What do you think about an attached patch? Please don't ask me, because I'm not a filesystem expert. Sorry. My

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:14, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 06:53:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 18:06, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 05:31:58PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:27, Con Kolivas wrote: On

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
DervishD [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The problem is that if a program writes a file onto the filesystem without using statfs first to check for free space, the free_clusters entry won't have the real value and the driver may report disk full (I haven't read the code for the vfat driver,

Re: [PATCH] cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:55:29AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted kthread_run replaces the kernel_thread and daemonize calls during thread startup. Calls to signal_pending were also removed as it is currently impossible for the

Re: [PATCH] ibmphp: Convert to use the kthreads API

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:55:30AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted kthread_run replaces kernel_thread and dameonize. allow_signal is unnecessary and has been removed. tid_poll was unused and has been removed. Thread handling in this

Re: [PATCH] cpqphp: Convert to use the kthread API

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:55:31AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted This patch changes cpqphp to use kthread_run and not kernel_thread and daemonize to startup and setup the cpqphp thread. Thread handling in this driver (and actually

Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation

2007-04-22 Thread Andi Kleen
The created a warning storm: Hmm, yes good idea to fix that. Probably for x86-64 too. I worry rather a lot about how well runtime tested this very late change was, I tested it with oprofile and checked the nmi watchdog. and whether it works correctly even with this fix applied.

Re: [mmc] alternative TI FM MMC/SD driver for 2.6.21-rc7

2007-04-22 Thread Sergey Yanovich
Hi, Finally, tifm_sd module needs to be manually inserted. By the way, the driver emits custom uevent when the new card is detected. I was going to look at this some day in the future, but if you want to mess a little with hotplug scripts the issue can be easily solved. It would be nice

Re: Remaining straight forward kthread API conversions...

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Looks like you were missing at least the pcie hotplug driver. Another one of the horrible thread abuses in drivers/pci/hotpug. - full conversion to kthread infrastructure - use wake_up_process to wake the thread up Like most pci hotplug drivers it still uses very race non-atomic variable

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and desynchronising and choosing to sleep and/or run at the same time? I can remove

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.04.2007 00:10 schrieb David Miller: From: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:58:44 +0100 On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:07:51 +0200 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The obsolete label on the ISDN_I4L Kconfig option is not, and

Re: [PATCH] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread API

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:55:28AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - unquoted thread_run is used intead of kernel_thread, daemonize, and mucking around blocking signals directly. This is the full conversion I sent to Dave in April 2006, but never got

Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries eeh: Convert to kthread API

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:45AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch modifies the startup of eehd to use kthread_run not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable. This one has the

Re: [PATCH] powerpc pseries rtasd: Convert to kthread API.

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:46AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: From: Eric W. Biederman [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch modifies the startup of rtasd to use kthread_run instaed of a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Making the code a little simpler and more maintainble. Looks

Re: [PATCH] utilities: add helper functions for safe 64-bit integer operations as 32-bit halves

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:38:23PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: over-engineering. Call it sector_upper32() do it the simple way and stop trying to solve a problem we don't have James said we have the same problem with dma_addr_t. Yes. It's in fact the far more common case and we

Re: [PATCH] utilities: add helper functions for safe 64-bit integer operations as 32-bit halves

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
over-engineering. Call it sector_upper32() do it the simple way and stop trying to solve a problem we don't have James said we have the same problem with dma_addr_t. Yes. It's in fact the far more common case and we have a bread of macros dealing with the issue in various drivers.

BUG/CRASH help - 2.6.20 (fc5) - spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, kswapd

2007-04-22 Thread Ian Kirk
Hi, I just wondered if the below type of crash was a known thing, and if there are any obvious things I can do to prevent/fix it ? BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, kswapd0/242 (Not tainted) lock: c06c9380, .magic: c06c9380, .owner: [c06eba2a] _raw_spin_lock+0x1a/0xd9 [c061e72f]

Re: [BUG? -rc7] SMP: Just one CPU activated: P4 3GHz HT

2007-04-22 Thread Miguel Ojeda
On 4/22/07, oliver pinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have CC the kernel Did you? and the result is: your'e config : failed smp your'e config + power managment : ok Interesting, can anyone tell me why does not SMP work without Power Managment? Should it be that way? -- Miguel Ojeda

Re: Renice X for cpu schedulers

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Lord
Just to throw another possibly-overlooked variable into the mess: My system here is using the on-demand cpufreq policy governor. I wonder how that interacts with the various schedulers here? I suppose for the make kernel case, after a couple of seconds the cpufreq would hit max and stay there

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
If it isn't obsolete then fix the code to use the newer APIs Why should that be a precondition for removing the incorrect obsolete label? Because if we remove the obsolete label the users are going to be suprised when it goes away entirely with BROKEN or !HOTPLUG or similar. to end up

Re: [RFC 1/2] Input: ff, add FF_RAW effect

2007-04-22 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 4/19/07, Dmitry Torokhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/07, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): If we are interested in using FF API we need to come up with a way to express this effect without exposing implementation details of one particular device.

Re: Renice X for cpu schedulers

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 22:54, Mark Lord wrote: Just to throw another possibly-overlooked variable into the mess: My system here is using the on-demand cpufreq policy governor. I wonder how that interacts with the various schedulers here? I suppose for the make kernel case, after a couple of

Re: [PATCH] mtd_blkdevs: Convert to use the kthread API

2007-04-22 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 13:24 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: This is the full conversion I sent to Dave in April 2006, but never got any feedback to: Sorry about that; I need prodding sometimes. I'll provide some now... Can you show me why the thread won't now miss a wakeup if it goes to sleep

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Lord
Con Kolivas wrote: Oh I definitely was not advocating against renicing X, I just suspect that virtually all the users who gave glowing reports to CFS comparing it to SD had no idea it had reniced X to -19 behind their back and that they were comparing it to SD running X at nice 0. I really

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Bodo Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Windows _does_ care*, it will pretend the disk to be full. Did you test on 2000 or XP? (e.g. write 0 to free_clusters, then create new file.) - usefree is a bad name (I'd suggest recalc_free instead), Is it about nofree option? and your description is

Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Opcode 0xb0 is WIN_SMART. Error 0x04 is command aborted/rejected/unsupported. Something on your system is issuing S.M.A.R.T. commands from userspace to the drive, and the drive either (1) doesn't support S.M.A.R.T., or (2) currently does not have

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.04.2007 14:58 schrieb Alan Cox: If it isn't obsolete then fix the code to use the newer APIs Why should that be a precondition for removing the incorrect obsolete label? Because if we remove the obsolete label the users are going to be suprised when it goes away entirely with BROKEN

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - You forgot to update Documentation/ Sure. If you can post the patch, it'll be great. Updated patch is here. Thanks. -- OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's undocumented. Windows

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Michael Gerdau
Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too please? Have it up running for 40 minutes now and my perljobs show a constant cpu utilization of 100/50/50 in top most of the time. When the 100%

[PATCH] sched: implement staircase deadline scheduler load weight fix

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
The task load_weight needs to be set every time the quota is set and wasn't being set in activate_task which assumed it would not have changed. Due to changes in where the default rr_interval is set on SMP this assumption failed. Also if one were to change rr_interval on the fly it would break

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc7 - ACPI issues? (Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND)

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an AML run-time error from a PCI Interrupt Link trying to find its Present Resource Settings -- ie. the current IRQ for a programmable IRQ. Please open up a bug report here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI Yep,

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Andreas Schwab [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: diff -puN Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt~fat_dont-use_free_clusters-for-fat32 Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt --- linux-2.6/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt~fat_dont-use_free_clusters-for-fat32

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc7 - ACPI issues?

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (added linux-acpi) Are any other problems observeable due to this? This issue I did observe with 2.6.20.7 2.6.21-rc7. Should I try anymore tests? Anyway, here is the dmesg of 2.6.21-rc7:- Linux version 2.6.21-rc7-Akula2 ([EMAIL

Re: Wrong free clusters count on FAT32

2007-04-22 Thread Bodo Eggert
OGAWA Hirofumi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Juergen Beisert [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: So the last free sector count is also stored. When mounting this filesystem you don't need to walk through the whole FAT to calculate the available space, you can use this cached value instead. And this

Re: InitIO SCSI: Volunteers required

2007-04-22 Thread Srdjan Todorovic
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Alan Cox wrote: I'm looking for some testers for a revamp of the initio driver. No real code changes other than to hopefully stop it exploding on load on 64bit, but a major reorganisation, commenting and de-windowsification so the code is actually readable and I can do

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Lord
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've attached it below in a standalone form, feel free to put it into SD! :) Assume X went crazy (lacking any statistics, I make the unproven statement that this happens more often than kthreads going berserk), then having it niced

Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Lord
Sunil Naidu wrote: Hello, I am facing a strange problems with an old 1.2 GHz P-III machine with a 10 GB disk (used as a dedicated web server, later retired out of service!). Out of interest to implement some wireless solution (experiment), I did compile 2.6.20.7 for my requirement. Strangely,

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. OK. Is it possible the multiple ocbench processes are naturally synchronising and

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've not experienced a 'runaway X' personally, at most it would crash or lock up ;) The value is boot-time and sysctl configurable as well back to 0. Mmmm.. I've had to kill off the odd X that was locking in 100% CPU usage. In the past, this has

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread Mark Lord
Ingo Molnar wrote: well, i just simulated a runaway X at nice -19 on CFS (on a UP box), and while the box was a tad laggy, i was able to killall it without problems, within 2 seconds that also included a 'su'. So it's not an issue in CFS, it can be turned off, and because every distro has

[PATCHv4] [KERNEL-DOC] kill warnings when building mandocs (final)

2007-04-22 Thread Borislav Petkov
We were simply reinventing the wheel until now. Here's the final version of the patch which is also the simplest solution (if you hold your eyes open at all time, you'll see that KERNELVERSION is already exported by the main Makefile and there's no need for changing the build string in

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
simple and fundamental (which you haven't answered as yet). Why, or rather how, were the writers of newer APIs _allowed_ to push *their* stuff into the kernel _without_ even bothering to convert the *existing* users of the older APIs in the kernel? This goes against Because to convert the

Linux 2.4.34.4

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
I've just released Linux 2.4.34.4, previous one did not build. Thanks to Urs Thuermann for reporting the problem (and fix). The patch and changelog will appear soon at the following locations: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
obsolete and correctly re-labelled as such. As for the !HOTPLUG menace you keep touting, that might perhaps be applied to some of the individual hardware device drivers but certainly not to the In my tree its just the drivers that still use pci_find_device. Want to be on that. There is

Re: [PATCH v3] Bitbanging i2c bus driver using the GPIO API

2007-04-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:49:33PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: The scx200_acb driver was heavily modified in 2.6.17 and 2.6.18, not much since then. I am not familiar with the hardware so I can't comment on which chips are supposed to work and which aren't. Well 2.6.18's scx200_acb works on the

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-04-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable -{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize -ultra_mask in aec62xx, cmd64x, pdc202xx_{new,old} and piix drivers * fix UDMA

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:27, Michael Gerdau wrote: Anyway the more important part is... Can you test this patch please? Dump all the other patches I sent you post 045. Michael, if you could test too please? Have it up running for 40 minutes now and my perljobs show a constant cpu

Re: [patch 1/8] add user mounts to the kernel

2007-04-22 Thread Miklos Szeredi
+ +uid_t mnt_uid; /* owner of the mount */ Can we please make this a user struct. That requires a bit of reference counting but it has uid namespace benefits as well as making it easy to implement per user mount rlimits. OK, can you ellaborate, what

Re: InitIO SCSI: Volunteers required

2007-04-22 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:38:49AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: I'm looking for some testers for a revamp of the initio driver. No real code changes other than to hopefully stop it exploding on load on 64bit, but a major reorganisation, commenting and de-windowsification so the code is actually

Re: Linux 2.4.34.3

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 03:33:58PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: Willy Tarreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've just released Linux 2.4.34.3. Nothing critical, just a bunch of bugfixes and small security fix. I get the following compile error: [snip] Grrr... I'm very sorry. Thanks for

[ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.46

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
Yet another significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on any SMP machine. Thanks to Willy Tarreau for noticing more bugs. As requested was a version in the Makefile so this version of the patch adds

Linux 2.4.35-pre4

2007-04-22 Thread Willy Tarreau
I've just released Linux 2.4.35-pre4, previous one did not build. Thanks to Urs Thermann for reporting the problem (and fix). The patch and changelog will appear soon at the following locations: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/

Re: [BUG? -rc7] SMP: Just one CPU activated: P4 3GHz HT

2007-04-22 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Miguel Ojeda [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On 4/22/07, oliver pinter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have CC the kernel Did you? and the result is: your'e config : failed smp your'e config + power managment : ok Interesting, can anyone tell me why does not SMP work without Power

Re: InitIO SCSI: Volunteers required

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
Once again a pci_get_device conversation isn't all that helpfull at all. fortunately in this case I've done a patch to convert this driver to proper pci probing in 2004, and I've attached the forward-ported version below now that we've actually found some testers that weren't locatable back

Re: [REPORT] cfs-v4 vs sd-0.44

2007-04-22 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 4/22/07, William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: For futex(), the extension is needed for the FUTEX_WAIT operation. We need a new operation FUTEX_WAIT_FOR or so which takes another (the fourth) parameter which is the

Re: [d_path 0/7] Fixes to d_path: Respin

2007-04-22 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Sunday 22 April 2007 11:10, Christoph Hellwig wrote: So what about stopping the flaming here and implementing real statvfs/ fstatvfs syscalls instead of these horrible hacks glibc has to do currently? I could imagine two approaches to that: either add statvfs and fstatvfs syscalls, or use

Re: [PATCH] Remove obsolete label from ISDN4Linux (v3)

2007-04-22 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Alan, On 4/22/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No risk of deadlock. It'll progress to BROKEN which will either cause sufficient pain for someone to get off their arse and fix it, for enough of a vendors users to get the vendor to do the work or for someone who cares to pay a

Re: gtod/clocksource/clockevents documentation

2007-04-22 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello David, Thanks for this patch you sent me. This patch will also increase the clock resolution which is good in RT context. But, unfortunately, I have some problems with compiling the kernel, as this patch does not enable CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME, while the patch you published earlier did. Is

Re: [PATCH] dma_declare_coherent_memory wrong allocation

2007-04-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:08 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: Either I've finally gone blind on this Friday 13th or... Looks like this almost 3 year old function has a bug. Patch below compile-tested... in a way. No, it's a longstanding bug in the x86 implementation, thanks for finding it.

Re: [lm-sensors] Could the k8temp driver be interfering with ACPI?

2007-04-22 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Il Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 01:50:29AM +0200, Luca Tettamanti ha scritto: I'm sure you've seen these: http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/lm-sensors/2005-October/014050.html http://www.lm-sensors.org/wiki/AsusFormulaHacking Actually I haven't, I've happily ignored ACPI until now ;-) My

Re: [PATCH] lazy freeing of memory through MADV_FREE

2007-04-22 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 4/22/07, Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why isn't MADV_FREE defined to 5 for linux? It's our first free madv value? Also the behaviour should better match the one in solaris or BSD, the last thing we need is slightly different behaviour from operating systems supporting this for

Re: ACPI issues? (2.6.20.7 dmesg, interrupts, lspci output)

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Len Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an AML run-time error from a PCI Interrupt Link trying to find its Present Resource Settings -- ie. the current IRQ for a programmable IRQ. Please open up a bug report here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI For

Re: InitIO SCSI: Volunteers required

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Cox
This doesn't change much outside the initialization and irq code, so any additional de-crappyfication will hopefully apply ontop. This will actually clash horribly with the rest of the rework, so it does need to be applied after the other changes. The driver in my tree no longer looks much like

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Monday 23 April 2007 00:22, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. Is it possible the multiple ocbench

Re: [ck] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.45

2007-04-22 Thread Con Kolivas
On Sunday 22 April 2007 23:07, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:18:32PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: On Sunday 22 April 2007 21:42, Con Kolivas wrote: Willy I'm still investigating the idle time and fluctuating load as a separate issue. OK. Is it possible the multiple

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