Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 36/36] Use menuconfig objects II - V4L

2007-05-02 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Jan, Em Seg, 2007-04-30 às 14:30 +0200, Jan Engelhardt escreveu: Change Kconfig objects from menu, config into menuconfig so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems OK to me. I'll commit on

Re: [PATCH 6/6] firewire: add it all to kbuild

2007-05-02 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote: Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS, just to avoid misunderstandings: The From: and Signed-off-by: in the messages 1/6...6/6 don't signify authorship. Authorship information can be found in linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== -=-= ---=-

Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex

2007-05-02 Thread Davi Arnaut
Ulrich Drepper wrote: On 5/2/07, Davi Arnaut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NO! Every single waiter of the _file descriptor_ is waked, not of the futex. And how is this better? In this world of yours a program must have one file descriptor for each single futex which is used like this *per

Re: Kernel Scalability

2007-05-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Daniel J Blueman wrote: There are 128-processor IA64 systems which run recent 2.6 kernels out there; the per-processor counters, RCU and page-fault scalability work has been instrumental to the necessary scaling for decent resource usage on these. IIRC, there were some

Re: console font limits

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 11:49, Albert Cahalan wrote: Well, I think the consensus is that anything beyond that should be done in userspace; the main such console daemon was Kon2 last I checked. Font size is not a sane place to draw the line. Features are. The levels of support go something like this:

Re: Why ask Sun for ZFS while we have ReiserFS4 !?

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 19:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 02:18:19 +0800 (CST), Andrew Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: ZFS has some nice features, but ReiserFS4 also is a good file system. Yes, a very GOOD question, considering: REISER4 - THE BEST FILESYSTEM EVER. shut it plz. Jan --

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy Allison
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:16:38PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:23:25PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007 13:43:18 -0700 Cabot, Mason B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against NTFS/WinXP and

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: But these are arch specific problems. We could use ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT to disable SLUB on these platforms. As a quick hack, sure. But every ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT diminishes the testing SLUB will get. If the idea is that we're going

Re: Fw: [BUG 2.6.21-rc7] acpi_pm clocksource loses time on x86-64

2007-05-02 Thread john stultz
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 17:24 +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 15:42:44 -0700, john stultz wrote: Another shot in the dark: I wonder if the ACPI PM counter is halting in idle. Does booting w/ idle=poll change the behavior? (Please do this while your laptop is plugged in, as

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] [PATCH 35/36] Use menuconfig objects II - DVB

2007-05-02 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Hi Jan, Em Seg, 2007-04-30 às 14:30 +0200, Jan Engelhardt escreveu: Change Kconfig objects from menu, config into menuconfig so that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first. Also remove one indirection (CONFIG_DVB) that does not seem to be really used

RE: vmstat: use our own timer events

2007-05-02 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christoph Lameter Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 10:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Arjan van de Ven Subject: vmstat: use our own timer events We could implement an

Re: 24 lost ticks with 2.6.20.10 kernel

2007-05-02 Thread Kok, Auke
Michel Lespinasse wrote: I've had good results with 2.6.21.1 (even running tickless :)) on these NICs. Have you tried that yet? Not yet. Coming up... I'd prefer not to rely on new kernels at this point though - but I can certainly try it just to report on current status. I just checked and

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is also p-wait_runtime which is taken into account when calculating p-fair_key. So if p3 had waiting in runqueue for long before, it can get to run quicker than 10ms later. Virtual time is time from the task's point of view, which

Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex

2007-05-02 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: On 5/2/07, Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it? Please do tell me more... Come on, we went through all this. Having to do syscalls for event retrieval plus the limited channel available for feedback (the POLL* bits) is to limiting.

Re: [patch 00/22] pollfs: filesystem abstraction for pollable objects

2007-05-02 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: David, could you provide some feedback please? The patches are stunningly free of comments, but you used to do that to me pretty often so my sympathy is limited ;)

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 15:41, Vlad wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: I'm rewriting the i386 setup code in C, instead of assembly, and before I spend a very large amount of time translating all the various card-specific probes, I want to ask the following question... Does *anyone* care about these

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: But these are arch specific problems. We could use ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT to disable SLUB on these platforms. As a quick hack, sure. But every ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT diminishes the testing

RE: vmstat: use our own timer events

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: Can this use 'deferrable timer' along with round_jiffies. That will eliminate the issue of too frequent interrupt when CPU is idle. Yes I asked Arjan about this. +struct delayed_work *vmstat_work = per_cpu(vmstat_work, cpu); + +

[PATCH -mm] Add taskstats.h to kbuild

2007-05-02 Thread Balbir Singh
From: David Woodhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add taskstats.h to include/linux/Kbuild, make headers_install would then pickup taskstats.h. This needs to be done as taskstats.h is a user interface header. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/Kbuild |1 + 1 file

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 14:41, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Rene Herman wrote: The answer will probably be no, but would this be a good point to ask if this would be a good time to not bother with the mode switching code at all anymore? The standard extended modes are actually really

Re: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary irq disabling

2007-05-02 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:58:17AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: What does that break, or was it already broken and this fixes it? I think neither. This function is only called at early bootup, (start_secondary() ), and most of its callees have interrupts off anyway. But maybe we do lose

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: I presume the answer is just to extend your quicklist work to powerpc's lowest level of pagetables. The only other architecture which is using kmem_cache for them is arm26, which has #error SMP is not

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: I'm astonished and impressed, both with Kconfig and your use of it: Thanks! I'd much rather be testing a quicklist patch: I'd better give that a try. Great. But I certainly do not mind people use SLAB. I do not think that one approach should be there

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Li, Tong N
Based on my understanding, adopting something like EEVDF in CFS should not be very difficult given their similarities, although I do not have any idea on how this impacts the load balancing for SMP. Does this worth a try? Sorry for such a long email :-) Thanks for the excellent

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: But these are arch specific problems. We could use ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT to disable SLUB on these platforms.

Re: Race between RCU and rmmod

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 17:30:51 +0530 Dipankar Sarma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:24PM +0100, David Howells wrote: Hi Dipankar, Rusty, I seem to have found a race between RCU and rmmod. What I see appears to be an RCU destructor function that has a call pending

Re: [patch 00/22] pollfs: filesystem abstraction for pollable objects

2007-05-02 Thread Davi Arnaut
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: David, could you provide some feedback please? The patches are stunningly free of comments, but you used to do that to me pretty often so my

Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-02 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: Olaf Hering wrote: NACK. Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code, and keep all existing module names. I'm impartial to that. Using same names might ease the transition from the userspace side, as far as

Re: /sys/devices/system/cpu/*: Present cpus or Possible cpus

2007-05-02 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:37:57AM -0500, Nathan Lynch wrote: Hi Gautham- I believe that the powerpc behavior was established before cpu_present_map was introduced. Ok. I guess the same is the reason with a few other architectures like s390. I am not entirely surely if it's due cpu

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: This is a sensitive piece of the kernel as you say and we better allow the running of two allocator for some time to make sure that it behaves in all load situations. The design is fundamentally different so its performance characteristics may

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 05:54:53AM -0700, Hugh Dickins wrote: On Tue, 1 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: So on balance, given that we _do_ expect slub to have a future, I'm inclined to crash ahead with it. The worst that can happen will be a later rm mm/slub.c which would be pretty simple to

[PATCH] platform: reorder platform_device_del

2007-05-02 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Greg, I seem to remember that you had acked this patch, however it still isn't in Linus' tree. Some of the hwmon patches I want to send to Linus for 2.6.22 depend on it. Can you please push it now? Thanks. * * * * * In platform_device_del(), we currently delete the device resources first,

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
* William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Virtual time is time from the task's point of view, which it has spent executing. -wait_runtime is a device to subtract out time spent on the runqueue but not running from what would otherwise be virtual time to express lag, whether

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: I'm astonished and impressed, both with Kconfig and your use of it: Thanks! I'd much rather be testing a quicklist patch: I'd better give that a try. Great.

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: I have been looking into slub recently to avoid some of the NUMA alien cache issues that we were encountering on the regular slab. Yes that is also our main concern. I am having some stability issues with slub on an ia64 NUMA platform and didn't

Re: [PATCH] Add support for Xilinx SystemACE CompactFlash interface.

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 2 2007 00:45, Andrew Morton wrote: +static void ace_identin_8(struct ace_device *ace) +{ +void* r = ace-baseaddr + 0x40; +int i = ACE_FIFO_SIZE/2; +while (i--) +#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN) +*ace-data_ptr++ = (in_8(r)) | (in_8(r+1)8); +#else +

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: n, we don't want competing slab allocators, please. We should get slub working well on all architectures then remove slab completely. Having to maintain both slab.c and slub.c would be awful. Owww... You throw my roadmap out of the window and may

Re: arch/i386/boot rewrite, and all the hard-coded video cards

2007-05-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:46:07AM +0200, Martin Mares wrote: I mean the SVGA chip-specific code. Feel free to kill it, anybody using these cards is very unlikely to run a 2.6.x kernel. However, the BIOS mode switching is still useful. I have a 486 with a Mach64 in it running 2.6.18, so

Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 2 2007 16:28, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: - Check for all of (u)int{8,16,32,64}_t I strongly disagree. These should be allowed, for they are (I think) C99. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH] Serial 8250: Handle saving the clear-on-read bits from the LSR and MSR

2007-05-02 Thread Russell King
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:29:00AM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: I didn't hear back, so I went ahead and did a patch. You haven't heard back because I've not had a chance (and still haven't) to look at the various data sheets I've accumulated. I'll be catching up with anything not requiring a

Re: [PATCH 1/3] ia64: convert to use clocksource code

2007-05-02 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 10:58 -0700, john stultz wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:11 -0400, Peter Keilty wrote: Daniel Walker wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 11:42 -0400, Peter Keilty wrote: There is a read(), and a vread() did you modify the slow syscall path to use the vread()? John

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
At some point in the past, Ting Yang wrote: Based on my understanding, adopting something like EEVDF in CFS should not be very difficult given their similarities, although I do not have any idea on how this impacts the load balancing for SMP. Does this worth a try? Sorry for such a

Re: Correct location for ADC/DAC drivers

2007-05-02 Thread Russell King
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 03:35:12PM +0200, Robert Schwebel wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:25:53PM +0200, Stefan Roese wrote: Is there a maintainer for this drivers/mfd directory? rmk I wouldn't go that far. There's no real infrastructure there to maintain, so I'd actually say that the

Re: More JMicron troubles with 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Cox
I have an Asus Commando Mobo with one of those dreadful JMicron controllers (JMicron 20360/20363 AHCI Controller (rev 02). I have a The Jmicron controllers get a lot of testing so should run smoothly. I can't get my CD-RW to work. have tried the pata_jmicron driver and the JMicron ide

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: But if Linus' tree is to be better than a warehouse to avoid awkward merges, I still think we want it to default to on for all the architectures, and for most if not

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The coincidental aspect would be that at the time it was written, the formal notion of lag was not being used particularly with respect to priorities and load weights. [...] (nice levels for SCHED_OTHER are 'just' an add-on concept to the

Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

2007-05-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 2 2007 16:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: - Check for GNU extension __FUNCTION__ __FUNCTION__ is prefered over __func__ `info gcc` tells: `__FUNCTION__' is another name for `__func__'. Older versions of GCC

Re: [RFC BUG?] dereference PAGE_OFFSET address (rc7-mm2)

2007-05-02 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Bill Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 09:28:46AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: I think this should be fixed now. Eric made all those writes unconditional (to fix a problem with PSE superpages not being created). The patch is in Andi's queue. Bill Irwin [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 1/6] firewire: handling of cards, buses, nodes

2007-05-02 Thread Stefan Richter
Pekka Enberg wrote: On 5/2/07, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/* The lib/crc16.c implementation uses the standard (0x8005) + * polynomial, but we need the ITU-T (or CCITT) polynomial (0x1021). + * The implementation below works on an array of host-endian u32 + * words, assuming

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Owww... You throw my roadmap out of the window and may create too high expectations of SLUB. Me too! On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am the one who has to maintain SLAB and SLUB it seems and I have been dealing

FEATURE REQUEST: merge MD software raid and LVM in one unique layer.

2007-05-02 Thread Miguel Sousa Filipe
Hello kernel hackers, Some weeks ago, in a ZFS related thread, some kernel hackers asked the user what did they liked in ZFS that linux didn't have, so that they could (possibly) work on it. So, here is my feature request: - merge MD software raid framework and LVM in one unique API/framework,

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [28/34] i386: pte xchg optimization

2007-05-02 Thread Zachary Amsden
Andi Kleen wrote: I always wondered why the xchg is necessary here at all. If the process of tearing down a page table entry has started, other users of the mapped linear address are broken anyway - why is it necessary to still monitor the effect they may have on the A/D bits, unless this is a

Re: [PATCH 1/6] firewire: handling of cards, buses, nodes

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:15:42PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: +/* -*- c-basic-offset: 8 -*- Please don't pollute the code with annotation for some editors. + * fw-card.c - card level functions Please don't put the filename into a comment inside the

dead CONFIG variables: first in a series

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
and now, courtesy of my handy-dandy dead CONFIG variable spotter, we have the first in a series of posts identifying CONFIG_ variables that don't appear to be set anywhere in the configuration process, along with a recursive grep showing where they're referenced. as a first example,

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:40:35PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:21:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Conceivably we could address this in the filesystem without mucking other

Re: [PATCH 2/6] firewire: isochronous and asynchronous I/O

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+ for (i = 0; i buffer-page_count; i++) { + buffer-pages[i] = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA32 | __GFP_ZERO); + if (buffer-pages[i] == NULL) + goto out_pages; + + address = dma_map_page(card-device, buffer-pages[i], +

Re: More JMicron troubles with 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread Ioan Ionita
On 5/2/07, Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is almost certainly a problem outside of the IDE handling in that case. The jmicron controllers are smart, there is basically no code to the IDE driver to go wrong (especially in the case of using the old IDE for the PATA port where you basically

dead CONFIG variables: the kernel/ directory

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ ../dead_config.sh kernel == PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING == kernel/spinlock.c:#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario,

Re: [PATCH 3/6] firewire: char device interface

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:17:26PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: +#include asm/ioctl.h +#include asm/types.h Always use the linux/ versions. +struct fw_cdev_get_info { + /* The version field is just a running serial number. We + * never break backwards compatibility. Userspace

Re: Execute in place

2007-05-02 Thread Phillip Susi
Hugh Dickins wrote: tmpfs doesn't store its stuff in the page cache twice: that's true, and I didn't mean to imply otherwise. But tmpfs doesn't contain any support for rom memory: you'd have to copy from rom to tmpfs to use it. Hugh The question is, when you execute a binary on tmpfs, does

[PATCH 1/1] LinuxPPS: Pulse per Second support for Linux

2007-05-02 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Pulse per Second (PPS) support for Linux. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Here my last release of PPS support for Linux. The difference against my last patch is about all userland specific code (timepps.h) which has been removed, I hope now you can consider adding it into

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: On 5/2/07, Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am the one who has to maintain SLAB and SLUB it seems and I have been dealing with the trio SLAB, SLOB and SLUB for awhile now. Its okay and it will be much easier once the cleanups are in.

Re: partical kthread conversion

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 02 May 2007 08:45:54 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: Dean Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 01:51:41AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: There's probably a few more patches falling into this category, these were just the first one the stick

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 11:08:10AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: The right place is clearly Samba. I can't think of any other program or filesystem protocol where writing a 1 byte write at 128k strides would be used to signal a desire to do preallocation. In fact, it's hard to think of a

dead CONFIG variables: net/atm/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ ../dead_config.sh net/atm == BR2684_FAST_TRANS == net/atm/br2684.c:#ifdef CONFIG_BR2684_FAST_TRANS net/atm/br2684.c:#endif /* CONFIG_BR2684_FAST_TRANS */ rday -- Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting,

Regression with SLUB on Netperf and Volanomark

2007-05-02 Thread Tim Chen
Christoph, We tested SLUB on a 2 socket Clovertown (Core 2 cpu with 2 cores/socket) and a 2 socket Woodcrest (Core2 cpu with 4 cores/socket). We found that for Netperf's TCP streaming tests in a loop back mode, the TCP streaming performance is about 7% worse when SLUB is enabled on

Re: [PATCH] scripts/basic/fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death

2007-05-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:49:06PM +0100, Andy Green wrote: build scripts: fixdep blows segfault on string CONFIG_MODULE seen The string CONFIG_MODULE appearing anywhere in a source file causes fixdep to segfault. This string appeared in the wild in the current mISDN sources (I think they

Re: [NFS] [PATCH] RPC: add wrapper for svc_reserve to account for checksum

2007-05-02 Thread Jeff Layton
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:14:11PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday April 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When the kernel calls svc_reserve to downsize the expected size of an RPC reply, it fails to account for the possibility of a checksum at the end of the packet. If a client mounts a

dead CONFIG variables: net/irda/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
$ ../dead_config.sh net/irda == IRDA_DYNAMIC_WINDOW == net/irda/irlap_frame.c:#ifdef CONFIG_IRDA_DYNAMIC_WINDOW net/irda/irlap_frame.c:#endif /* CONFIG_IRDA_DYNAMIC_WINDOW */ net/irda/irlap_frame.c:#ifdef CONFIG_IRDA_DYNAMIC_WINDOW net/irda/irlap_frame.c:#endif /*

Re: [RELEASE] Lguest for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread WANG Cong
Hi Rusty! I found you forgot to check the return value of copy_from_user, and here is the fix for drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2/drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c.orig 2007-05-03 03:10:44.0 +0800

Re: [patch 00/22] pollfs: filesystem abstraction for pollable objects

2007-05-02 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: So in this case I may borrow some signalfd code :-) I really like the signalfd approach, but IMHO the code is quite ugly and duplicates a lot of hairy code. Ugly, really? Please ... + while (!mutex_trylock(evs-mutex)) + cpu_relax();

dead CONFIG variables: net/wanrouter/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
../dead_config.sh net/wanrouter == WANPIPE_MULTPPP == net/wanrouter/wanmain.c:#ifdef CONFIG_WANPIPE_MULTPPP net/wanrouter/wanmain.c:#ifdef CONFIG_WANPIPE_MULTPPP net/wanrouter/wanmain.c:#ifdef CONFIG_WANPIPE_MULTPPP rday --

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: At some point I dream that SLUB could become the default but I thought this would take at least 6 month or so. If want to force this now then I will certainly have some busy weeks ahead. s/dream/promise/ ;) Six months sounds reasonable - I

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v8

2007-05-02 Thread William Lee Irwin III
* William Lee Irwin III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things are moving in good directions on all this as far as I'm concerned. Moving according to Ting Yang's analysis should wrap up the soundness concerns about intra-queue policy I've had. OTOH load balancing I know much less about (not that I

Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 17:32:49 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: - Check for GNU extension __FUNCTION__ __FUNCTION__ is prefered over __func__ Is

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Pekka Enberg wrote: And then there's patches such as kmemleak which would need to target all three. Plus it doesn't really make sense for users to select between three competiting implementations. Please don't take away our high hopes of getting rid of mm/slab.c Christoph

Re: [PATCH 5/6] firewire: SBP-2 highlevel driver

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+ sg = (struct scatterlist *)orb-cmd-request_buffer; + count = dma_map_sg(device-card-device, sg, orb-cmd-use_sg, +orb-cmd-sc_data_direction); you need to handle the error case (count == 0) + /* Convert the scatterlist to an sbp2 page table. If any +

Re: [PATCH 6/6] firewire: add it all to kbuild

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
+fw-core-objs := fw-card.o fw-topology.o fw-transaction.o fw-iso.o \ + fw-device.o fw-cdev.o fw-core-y += .. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [patch 19/33] NuBus header update

2007-05-02 Thread James Simmons
Will we see nubus ported over to the driver model soon :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Regression with SLUB on Netperf and Volanomark

2007-05-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Tim Chen wrote: We tested SLUB on a 2 socket Clovertown (Core 2 cpu with 2 cores/socket) and a 2 socket Woodcrest (Core2 cpu with 4 cores/socket). Try to boot with slub_max_order=4 slub_min_objects=8 If that does not help increase slub_min_objects to 16. We found that

Re: [PATCH 1/21] Char: cyclades, use IS_CYC_Z macro

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 2 May 2007 17:57:56 +0200 Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/29/07, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cyclades, use IS_CYC_Z macro Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- commit 167ae9073fef562913c9d68d32da883da5444fbc tree

Re: netfront for review

2007-05-02 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
(Gerd, Herbert: there's some questions directed to you down there.) Rusty Russell wrote: /* * {tx,rx}_skbs store outstanding skbuffs. The first entry in tx_skbs * is an index into a chain of free entries. */ struct sk_buff *tx_skbs[NET_TX_RING_SIZE+1];

dead CONFIG variables: net/bluetooth/

2007-05-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
this example is somewhat misleading as some of the bluetooth source (unfortunately) uses variables that start with the CONFIG_ prefix that have nothing to do with the Kconfig files. for clarity, this is the sort of thing that should be avoided. obviously, what's happening here is nothing

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans: slub

2007-05-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:42:54PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: At some point I dream that SLUB could become the default but I thought this would take at least 6 month or so. If want to force this now then I will certainly have some busy

Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-02 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Olaf Hering wrote: On Tue, May 01, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 60 ++ NACK. Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code, and keep all existing module names. What's your reasoning here? Having different module names allows people to compile

Re: [RELEASE] Lguest for 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread WANG Cong
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:33:03AM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: Hi Rusty! I found you forgot to check the return value of copy_from_user, and here is the fix for drivers/lguest/interrupts_and_traps.c. Also this one, in drivers/lguest/hypercalls.c. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

2007-05-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007 17:32:49 +0200 (CEST) Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 04:28:27PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: - Check for GNU extension __FUNCTION__

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [BUG] usb/core/hub.c loops forever on resume from ram due to bluetooth

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Mark Lord wrote: I have just replaced my primary single-core notebook with a nearly identical dual-core notebook, and moved the usb-bluetooth peripheral from the old machine to the new one. On the single-core machine, suspend/resume (RAM) worked fine even with the

Re: Linux 2.6.21

2007-05-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:40:07PM +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: So far, it seems that most of people's opinion WRT to bug reporting and trackingcan be divided into 2 groups: - People who argues (and they're right) that bugzilla and web interfaces in general suck and that email + an

Re: [patch 05/33] m68k: Atari fb revival

2007-05-02 Thread James Simmons
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 22:32 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: plain text document attachment (636-atafb.diff) From: Michael Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update the atari fb to 2.6 by Michael Schmitz, Finally :-). That leaves only pm3fb that needs porting. It still contains remnants of

[PATCH 2.6.21 0/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
-- Following sets of patches add EFI support to x86_64 architecture. The patches have been tested against 2.6.21 kernel on Intel platforms with EFI1.10 and UEFI2.0 firmware. The patch files document implementation and note issues from testing. Although the tools below are _not_ needed for

[PATCH 2.6.21 2/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
EFI x86_64 support Patch 2 of 3 --- The patch depends on EFI x86_64 patch 1/3. EFI initialization and memory map set up are done. It should be noted that support for user-defined memory is not yet implemented. Time and reboot services go through the EFI service call

Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-02 Thread Olaf Hering
On Wed, May 02, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Olaf Hering wrote: On Tue, May 01, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 60 ++ NACK. Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code, and keep all existing module names. What's your reasoning here? Whats

[PATCH 2.6.21 3/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
EFI x86_64 support Patch 3 of 3 --- This patch depends on the EFI x86_64 patches 1/3 and 2/3. This patch adds Graphics Output Protocol support to the kernel. x86_64 systems with UEFI2.0 firmware conform to UEFI 2.0 specification. UEFI2.0 spec deprecates Universal

[PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64: EFI64 support

2007-05-02 Thread Chandramouli Narayanan
General note on EFI x86_64 support -- The following set of patches implements EFI x86_64 Linux kernel support. References to EFI and UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) are used interchangeably in the text below. UEFI specification can be found here:

Re: [PATCH] VIDEO: Remove archaic if[] construct from Kconfig file.

2007-05-02 Thread James Simmons
Remove the obsolete if [ ] construct from the video console Kconfig file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- not sure who should have been CCed on this one. diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig index aa3935d..63b85bf

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-02 Thread Rafał Bilski
I'm not sure what the right answer is. The code was designed to do the right thing, and yet in your case it's broken. Does it need to be a build option to work around broken hardware? Yuck. Without a system that really needs the original problem that was being worked around it's going

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 crash: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)

2007-05-02 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 02 May 2007 19:36:03 +0200 Tilman Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 02.05.2007 09:52 schrieb Greg KH: Tilman, here's a patch, can you try this on top of your tree that dies? 2.6.21-git3 plus that patch comes up fine. (Except for a UDP problem I seem to remember I already saw

[PATCH] slub: remove duplicate VM_BUG_ON

2007-05-02 Thread Pekka J Enberg
From: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch removes a duplicate VM_BUG_ON from add_full(). Cc: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- mm/slub.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: 26-mm/mm/slub.c

Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-02 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:48:11PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: Olaf Hering wrote: On Tue, May 01, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: drivers/firewire/Kconfig | 60 ++ NACK. Upgrade the current drivers/ieee1394/ with the new code, Last time I believe I was the only one

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