Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 05 May 2007 01:49:55 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ MODPOST vmlinux WARNING: mm/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'kmem_cache_create' (at offset 0x20dff) and 'cache_reap

CFS v9 vs SD 0.48

2007-05-05 Thread Ron
Here's my experiences with CFS v9 and -ck1. Base for the two kernels is 2.6.21-git4-nohz (x86_64 nohz patches I snagged off LKML a month or so back). The extra features in CK shouldn't matter, most of the tests are running on an otherwise unloaded system, with the apps already warmed up. Let's sta

[PATCH] relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work

2007-05-05 Thread Tom Zanussi
Hi, This patch makes relay use timers instead of workqueues for reader waking. Tom --- relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers when a simple timer will do. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/relay.h |2 +- kernel/relay.c|

Re: cpufreq longhaul locks up

2007-05-05 Thread Rafał Bilski
>> :-/ Weird. Nothing new in datasheet. Longhaul MSR seems to be OK too. >> Would be good to check if PLL really can go downto x4,0. Can You >> limit minimal CPU multiplier to 5,0 and check if is stable? If it >> is check 4,5. > > I directly wrote to /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq, which

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-05 Thread Xu CanHao
2007/5/6, Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But as has already been discussed on this thread, in situations where > the fileserver is under high memory pressure, any filesystem (XFS or > ext4) would still end up allocating blocks out of order, resulting i

Re: "modularized" 2.4.34.4 -> ide-core "unresolved symbols"

2007-05-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: > Hallo, > > I was trying to make "modularized kernel" (s.c. "Debian way") recently, yes, > I made even kernel.deb package - but at the installation, I'm still getting > an error: "ide-core: unresolved symbols". > > Making a quic

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-05 Thread Dan Kruchinin
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ I have the following message after kernel compilation: --- ... WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0x11e) and 'try_name' ... ... WARNING

Re: Broken process startup times after suspend (regression)

2007-05-05 Thread Albert Cahalan
john stultz writes: Indeed. The monotonic clock's behavior around suspend and resume is poorly defined. When we increased it, folks didn't like the fact that uptime would increase while a system was suspended. The uptime really does need to increase during suspend. Otherwise, things get really

Re: "modularized" 2.4.34.4 -> ide-core "unresolved symbols"

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
Zbigniew Baniewski wrote: Hallo, I was trying to make "modularized kernel" (s.c. "Debian way") recently, yes, I made even kernel.deb package - but at the installation, I'm still getting an error: "ide-core: unresolved symbols". Making a quick search with Google I could see, it did occur to many

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-05 Thread David Gibson
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 03:04:14AM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > + [EMAIL PROTECTED] { > > > + #interrupt-cells = <1>; > > > + interrupt-parent = ; > > + interrupts = ; > > + }; > > Since this node's children's inte

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-05 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] { + #interrupt-cells = <1>; + interrupt-parent = ; + interrupts = ; + }; Since this node's children's interrupt representation is different from the node's parent's, you need a

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-05 Thread Albert Cahalan
Andrew Morton writes: "Cabot, Mason B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been testing the NAS performance of ext3/Openfiler 2.2 against NTFS/WinXP and have found that NTFS significantly outperforms ext3 for video workloads. The Windows CIFS client will attempt a poor-man's pre-allocation of the

Re: 2.6.21-ck1

2007-05-05 Thread Ryan M.
Hello Con, Con Kolivas wrote: This patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default -ck patch is aimed at the desktop and -cks is available with more emphasis on serverspace. I have used SD for the first time with this

[PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] 8xx: fix whitespace and indentation

2007-05-05 Thread Vitaly Bordug
Rolling forward PCMCIA driver, it was discovered that the indentation in existing one is very odd. This patch is just result of Lindent run ontop of culprit files. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c | 548 +

[PATCH 0/2] of_device 8xx PCMCIA support && cleanup

2007-05-05 Thread Vitaly Bordug
Current series features the reworked 8xx of_device PCMCIA patch based on feedback from Andrew + indentation & whitespace fixes in drivers/pcmcia/m8xx_pcmcia.c Andrew, Please disregard previous patch since it contains a typo. Indentation patch is not strictly necessary but is useful too, imho. -

[PATCH 1/2] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-05 Thread Vitaly Bordug
Adds support for PowerQuicc on-chip PCMCIA. The driver is implemented as of_device, so only arch/powerpc stuff is capable to use it, which now implies only mpc885ads reference board. To cope with the code that should be hooked inside driver, but is really board specific (like set_voltage), global

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.21-git oops

2007-05-05 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Srihari, Hello Michal, [...] > > It turns out the system is no go with 4 GB of RAM (4 * 1 GB modules): > system > > instability & SATA controller doesn't detect the drives (as I reported to > > linux-ide: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAI

Re: [PATCH 4/10] ARM: OMAP: gpio init section cleanups

2007-05-05 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070505 03:29]: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:04:26AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:01:06PM -0400, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > Minor GPIO cleanups: remove needless #include, and omap_

[PATCH 1/1] sunrpc: Use path_component_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
use path_component_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 16 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c index

[PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-05 Thread Vitaly Bordug
Adds support for PowerQuicc on-chip PCMCIA. The driver is implemented as of_device, so only arch/powerpc stuff is capable to use it, which now implies only mpc885ads reference board. To cope with the code that should be hooked inside driver, but is really board specific (like set_voltage), global

Re: [PATCH] synclink_gt add compat_ioctl

2007-05-05 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 05 May 2007, Paul Fulghum wrote: > That declaration will need to be duplicated in each driver that > uses it (4 drivers in my case). In that sense (a structure declaration > used by multiple code modules) it does seem like an interface definition. > > If that is what is needed, I will

Re: [PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use path_component_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 19:09 -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > use path_component_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary > functionality. > > Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 16 +++- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 del

Re: 2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state

2007-05-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:30:51 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> I.e. no freezing of ports... > > > > Your patch to delete the 'return 1;' on error is correct, > > and makes the code match exactly the behaviour of previous > > versions of sata_promise, except for the additional

Re: [PATCH] Fix nfsroot build

2007-05-05 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 22:05 +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > CC fs/nfs/nfsroot.o > fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:131: error: tokens causes a section type conflict > make[2]: *** [fs/nfs/nfsroot.o] Error 1 > > This is due to mixing const and non-const content in the same section > which halfway recent gccs abs

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.21-git oops

2007-05-05 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Srihari, On 06/05/07, Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Sorry to reply to my own email, but I had some good development on this problem] --- Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the first one (there a couple following this; > the complete dmesg is at th

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-05 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Fri, 4 May 2007 12:35:43 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2007 03:57:51 +0400 > Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Adds support for PowerQuicc on-chip PCMCIA. The driver is > > implemented as of_device, so only arch/powerpc stuff is capable to > > use it, which now

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.21-git oops

2007-05-05 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
[Sorry to reply to my own email, but I had some good development on this problem] --- Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the first one (there a couple following this; > the complete dmesg is at the bottom of this email): It turns out the system is no go with 4 GB of RAM (4

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-05 Thread Simon Arlott
On 05/05/07 09:49, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ WARNING: init/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text between 'rest_init' (at offset 0x9) and 'run_init_process' WARNING: arch/i386/kernel/built-i

[PATCH 1/4] fs: Introduce path_component_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c| 26 ++ include/linux/namei.h |2 ++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 3449e0a..b547af0 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.

[PATCH 3/4] nfsctl: Use path_component_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
use path_component_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/nfsctl.c | 15 +-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsctl.c index c043136..2035dc7 100644 --- a

[PATCH 4/4] fs: Remove path_walk export

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index b547af0..0262594 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2826,7 +2826,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(page_symlink_inode_operations);

[PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use path_component_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
use path_component_lookup instead of open-coding the necessary functionality. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 16 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c b/net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c index

[PATCH 0/4] [RFC] New path lookup function

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Stackable file systems, among others, frequently need to lookup paths or path components starting from an arbitrary point in the namespace (identified by a dentry and a vfsmount). Currently, such file systems use lookup_one_len, which is frowned upon [1] as it does not pass the lookup intent along

Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

2007-05-05 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:57:35PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:36:37AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > > distribution: modified debian sarge, in which aspect is the distribution > > important for this problem? mkfs2.ext2 is supposed to write to /dev/sdaX > > and not /dev/

[PATCH 2/2] fs: Use path_walk in do_path_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Since, path_walk sets the total_link_count to 0, and calls link_path_walk, we can just call path_walk directly. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 600a4e7..8

[PATCH 0/2] [TRIVIAL] Small cleanups for do_path_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
The following 2 patches are trivial cleanups to do_path_lookup in namei.c. Since these changes are trivial, they can go into 2.6.22-rc1 without any problems. Josef 'Jeff' Sipek (2): fs: Fix indentation in do_path_lookup fs: Use path_walk in do_path_lookup diffstat for good measure:

[PATCH 1/2] fs: Fix indentation in do_path_lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 0262594..600a4e7 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@ out: if (likely(retval == 0)) {

Re: [PATCH] Blacklist Dell Optiplex 320 from using the HPET

2007-05-05 Thread Guilherme M. Schroeder
The lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Xpress 200 Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge 00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA 00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0) 00:13.1

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-05 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:48:49PM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:48:11 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:48:28 +0200 Maciej Rutecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Andrew Morton pisze: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/

[ext3] journal commit interval

2007-05-05 Thread Leon Woestenberg
Hello all, this is something I have long wondered about but have been afraid to ask. When my system is chewing away on builds, the disk I/O write access pattern of my ext3 root filesystem (using CFQ, Intel SATA controller, hard disk) when visualized by GNOME System Monitor clearly shows a repeti

Re: Ext3 vs NTFS performance

2007-05-05 Thread Bodo Eggert
Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But as has already been discussed on this thread, in situations where > the fileserver is under high memory pressure, any filesystem (XFS or > ext4) would still end up allocating blocks out of order, resulting in > fragmentation. Explicit preallocation, a

Re: [PATCH] led-class.c permission change

2007-05-05 Thread Colin Leroy
On 05 May 2007 at 22h05, Alan Cox wrote: Hi, > > This patch changes the led brightness file's permissions to 0666, > > so that a user's MUA can light up the mail LED without needing root > > permissions. > > NAK. > > The management of user specific temporary permissions belongs in user > spa

[PATCH -mm] libata-core: convert to use cancel_rearming_delayed_work()

2007-05-05 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Compile tested, depends on make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable.patch We should not use cancel_work_sync(delayed_work->work). This works, but not good. We can use cancel_rearming_delayed_work(), this also simplifies the code. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drive

Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

2007-05-05 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:12:02PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 5 2007 14:57, Theodore Tso wrote: > >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:36:37AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > >> distribution: modified debian sarge, in which aspect is the distribution > >> important for this problem? mkfs2.ext2

Re: [PATCH] Blacklist Dell Optiplex 320 from using the HPET

2007-05-05 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 05 May 2007 21:15:01 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 19:24 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > if (!is_hpet_capable()) > > > @@ -278,6 +279,14 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) > > > /* Start the counter */ > > > hpet_start_counter(); > > > > > > + /* Verify whether hpet

Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
> afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm Its basically not possible to do with most hardware because you get deadlocks when there are shared interrupts. However see drivers/uio in the current GIT

Re: lxr problem - newbie needs help

2007-05-05 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 05/05/07, Shahbaz Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using Fedora core 6. I have configured lxr 0.3 with the latest I'm no expert on 'lxr', but as far as I can see version 0.3 is quite old - according to http://sourceforge.net/projects/lxr - the latest version is 0.9.4 - try upgrading to t

Re: [-mm patch] do_revoke error handling (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

2007-05-05 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 12:23:15AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > > > > > fs/revoke.c: In function 'do_revoke': > > fs/revoke.c:563: warnin

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-05 Thread Michael Buesch
On Saturday 05 May 2007 20:48:11 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:48:28 +0200 Maciej Rutecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton pisze: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > > > > > > > > > > CC [M] lib/zlib_deflate/def

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 5 May 2007 20:07:15 +0200 Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Mai 2007 18:36 schrieb Alan Cox: > > > In the serial driver this usually just results in dropping > > > RTS to signal the remote end to stop sending. The serial > > > driver always immediately gives receive

Re: [SOLVED] Serial buffer corruption [was Re: FTDI usb-serial possible bug]

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
> > This is a bug in cdc-acm really. It should not double buffer, but to be > > fair to the authors prior to the new tty buffering it *had* to do this. > > I assume this applies to all serial drivers in the wider sense? When possible at least. Obviously there will always be some buffering in the

Re: [PATCH] led-class.c permission change

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Sat, 5 May 2007 12:49:54 +0200 Colin Leroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This patch changes the led brightness file's permissions to 0666, so that a > user's MUA can light up the mail LED without needing root permissions. NAK. The management of user specific temporary permissions bel

Re: [PATCH] rfc: threaded epoll_wait thundering herd

2007-05-05 Thread Davi Arnaut
Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> If multiple threads are parked on epoll_wait (on a single epoll fd) and >> events become available, epoll performs a wake up of all threads of the >> poll wait list, causing a thundering herd of processes trying to grab

[PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA freeze/thaw/irq_clear issues

2007-05-05 Thread Robert Hancock
This patch fixes some problems with ADMA-capable controllers with regard to freeze, thaw and irq_clear libata callbacks. Freeze and thaw didn't switch the ADMA-specific interrupts on or off, and more critically the irq_clear function didn't respect the restriction that the notifier clear registe

[PATCH] make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable-fix

2007-05-05 Thread Oleg Nesterov
on top of make-cancel_rearming_delayed_work-reliable-spelling.patch Add cpu-relax() into spinloops, and a comments update. Small note. The new implementation has another downside. Suppose that rearming work->func() gets a preemtion after setting WORK_STRUCT_PENDING but before add_timer/__

Re: cpufreq longhaul locks up

2007-05-05 Thread Rafał Bilski
Is patch attached below making things better? You should see in log that You are using VT8235 support now. --- arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c |6 -- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c b/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpuf

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at net/core/sock.c:1523

2007-05-05 Thread Ray Lee
Upon resume (from suspend to RAM) of my laptop, I'm getting the following. (Not a regression, it's been there a while.) This is under 2.6.21. Everything *seems* fine afterward, but... -- it's not like I use bluetooth all that often. My laptop has the bluetooth adapter hooked via USB insternally,

Re: [-mm patch] do_revoke error handling (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

2007-05-05 Thread Pekka J Enberg
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > > > fs/revoke.c: In function 'do_revoke': > fs/revoke.c:563: warning: 'details.fset' may be used uninitialized in this > function > fs/revoke.

Re: [git pull] New firewire stack

2007-05-05 Thread Olaf Hering
On Thu, May 03, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, May 03, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > ieee1394-old > > Noone will seriously ship two firewire stacks, so that cant be the > issue (for distributors). > > Once there is a way to easily switch between kernel releases, I'm ok > with whatever module n

Re: [patch] suspend/resume debugging: device filter

2007-05-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Here's a (compile tested only) patch that does this on a per-device > > basis, which is smaller, and should work just as well as your patch. > > > > It creates a new file in the power/ directory for every device called > > "can_suspend". Write a '0' to it to prevent that device from be

[-mm patch] do_revoke error handling (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

2007-05-05 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > fs/revoke.c: In function 'do_revoke': fs/revoke.c:563: warning: 'details.fset' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/revoke.c:563: warning

Re: [PATCH pata-2.6 fix queue] hpt366: don't check enablebits for HPT36x

2007-05-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 05 May 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > >>HPT36x chip don't seem to have the channel enable bits, so prevent the IDE > >>core > >>from checking them... > > >>Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > applied > > I'm

[PATCH] Fix nfsroot build

2007-05-05 Thread Ralf Baechle
CC fs/nfs/nfsroot.o fs/nfs/nfsroot.c:131: error: tokens causes a section type conflict make[2]: *** [fs/nfs/nfsroot.o] Error 1 This is due to mixing const and non-const content in the same section which halfway recent gccs absolutely hate. Fixed by dropping the const. Signed-off-by: Ralf

Re: [PATCH -mm] PM: Separate hibernation code from suspend code

2007-05-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Power off the system instead of halting it if the 'platform' mode of > > > hibernation > > > has been requested, but hibernation_ops is not set. > > > > Ehm, unless you made a mistake in the patch then that shouldn't be > > possible. > > Hmm, right, but the patch is correct neverthele

Re: cpufreq longhaul locks up

2007-05-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 5 2007 21:58, Rafał Bilski wrote: >:-/ Weird. Nothing new in datasheet. Longhaul MSR seems to be OK too. >Would be good to check if PLL really can go downto x4,0. Can You >limit minimal CPU multiplier to 5,0 and check if is stable? If it >is check 4,5. I directly wrote to /sys/devices/

Re: [RFT][PATCH] swsusp: Change code ordering related to ACPI

2007-05-05 Thread Ray Lee
On 5/5/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday, 5 May 2007 01:11, Ray Lee wrote: > On 5/4/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The change of the hibernation/suspend code ordering made before 2.6.21 has > > caused some systems to have problems related to ACPI.

Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH] CIFS: make sec=none force an anonymous mount

2007-05-05 Thread Steve French (smfltc)
Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote: When a session setup request is sent as an anonymous user (NUL user), should/could there be password associated with that? Right now, sec=none option, will prompt you for a password. And when we add code to retry session setup as anonymous user if the first sessi

lxr problem - newbie needs help

2007-05-05 Thread Shahbaz Khan
I am using Fedora core 6. I have configured lxr 0.3 with the latest glimpse but I get the following in the browser: -> Parent Directory - fileidx - xref when i click the files it gives me some wierd source code with lots of funny faces like ones in the ascii command line screens (if that mak

cpufreq_set_policy [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.ko] undefined!

2007-05-05 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, May 05, Andrew Morton wrote: > git-cpufreq.patch ERROR: ".cpufreq_set_policy" [arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq.ko] undefined! This is also broken in mainline. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Josef Sipek
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:00:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.21-rc7-mm2: > >... > > git-unionfs.patch > >... > > git trees > >... > > <-- snip --> > > ... > CC fs/unionfs/super.o > /home/bunk/

Re: git-tree compilation error "pci_module_init" [drivers/scsi/tmscsim.ko] undefined!

2007-05-05 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 5 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > WARNING: "pci_module_init" [drivers/scsi/tmscsim.ko] undefined! Ok, that driver needs to be converted to use "pci_register_driver()" instead of "pci_module_init()". It's probably the following one-liner, do you actually have that hardware to tes

Re: cpufreq longhaul locks up

2007-05-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 5 2007 21:58, Rafał Bilski wrote: > >>> I found one line which wasn't were it should be. Probably this will not >>> fix Your problem with powersave governor, but it is a bit related. >>> Looks like Longhaul isn't skipping frequency transtition when it is asked >>> to set f which is alrea

acpi_handle is intel only.

2007-05-05 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, May 05, Andrew Morton wrote: > +gregkh-pci-pci-reduce-aer-init-error-information.patch include/linux/pci-acpi.h:57: error: expected ')' before 'handle' make[4]: *** [drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.o] Error 1 acpi_handle is intel only. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: DC390: replace pci_module_init in dc390_module_init

2007-05-05 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Niklas Steinkamp wrote: > while compiling the DC930 SCSI driver, i got this message: > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `dc390_module_init': > tmscsim.c:(.init.text+0x124c4): undefined reference to `pci_module_init' > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Fehler 1 > > so i replaced "pci

Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:55:33PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 21:17 +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote: > > afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm > > woking on atm and are so

[PATCH 3/3] [PATCH] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.21-rc7-mm2: >... > git-unionfs.patch >... > git trees >... <-- snip --> ... CC fs/unionfs/super.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-mm1/fs/unionfs/super

[PATCH 1/3] Unionfs: Accept MS_SILENT during remount

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
From: Adrian Brunyate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [jsipek: whitespace cleanup] Signed-off-by: Adrian Brunyate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/super.c | 12 +++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/sup

[GIT PULL -mm] Unionfs updates

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
The following patches (also available though the git tree) fix few small bugs in Unionfs. You can pull from 'master' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jsipek/unionfs.git to receive the following: Adrian Brunyate (2): Unionfs: Accept MS_SILENT during remount Unio

[PATCH 2/3] Unionfs: Check remount options for being NULL

2007-05-05 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
From: Adrian Brunyate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Adrian Brunyate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/super.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/super.c b/fs/unionfs/super.c index ee12d03

Re: [PATCH pata-2.6 fix queue] hpt366: don't check enablebits for HPT36x

2007-05-05 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: HPT36x chip don't seem to have the channel enable bits, so prevent the IDE core from checking them... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied I'm getting "403 Forbidden" trying to browse this patch (and ide-cs-recognize-2gb-

Re: [PATCH pata-2.6 fix queue] hpt366: don't check enablebits for HPT36x

2007-05-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday 04 May 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > HPT36x chip don't seem to have the channel enable bits, so prevent the IDE > core > from checking them... > > Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

[git patches] IDE updates

2007-05-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Updates/fixes for host drivers. Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6.git/ to receive the following updates: drivers/ide/cris/ide-cris.c|9 +- drivers/ide/legacy/ide-cs.c|1 + drivers/ide/pci/aec62xx.c | 22 +-- drivers/ide/pci/alim

Re: [PATCH] use mutex instead of semaphore in IDE driver

2007-05-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Thursday 26 April 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > the IDE driver uses a semaphore as mutex. use the mutex API instead of > the (binary) semaphore > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: cpufreq longhaul locks up

2007-05-05 Thread Rafał Bilski
>> I found one line which wasn't were it should be. Probably this will not >> fix Your problem with powersave governor, but it is a bit related. >> Looks like Longhaul isn't skipping frequency transtition when it is asked >> to set f which is already set. Now after first transition it will not

"modularized" 2.4.34.4 -> ide-core "unresolved symbols"

2007-05-05 Thread Zbigniew Baniewski
Hallo, I was trying to make "modularized kernel" (s.c. "Debian way") recently, yes, I made even kernel.deb package - but at the installation, I'm still getting an error: "ide-core: unresolved symbols". Making a quick search with Google I could see, it did occur to many other people even long ago.

Re: Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 21:17 +0200, Clifford Wolf wrote: > afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle > interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm > woking on atm and are so far not sure if I'm going to implement such a > generic interface or just

Interrupt-Handling in User Space

2007-05-05 Thread Clifford Wolf
Hi, afaics there is no mechanism in the official kernel tree to handle interrupts in user space yet. I'd need that for an embedded project I'm woking on atm and are so far not sure if I'm going to implement such a generic interface or just write a simple driver that does the job for my application

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Josef Sipek
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:19:42PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 5/5/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Bah, that was hidden from my allmodconfig because CONFIG_UNIONFS is > >inexplicably > >dependent upon CONFIG_SLAB. > > > >How come? > > I think Adrian added it before we introduc

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 5 May 2007 15:13:13 -0400 Josef Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As it was discussed a while back on the mailing lists, Unionfs is trying to > be smart and tries to do reallocation on its own. The way it does it makes > it depend on some internals of the SLAB allocator. There have been s

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 5/5/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bah, that was hidden from my allmodconfig because CONFIG_UNIONFS is inexplicably dependent upon CONFIG_SLAB. How come? I think Adrian added it before we introduced krealloc() to fix uniofs from poking slab internals. - To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Josef Sipek
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:00:12 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.21-rc7-mm2: > > >... > > > git-unionfs.patch > > >... > >

Re: [PATCH] Blacklist Dell Optiplex 320 from using the HPET

2007-05-05 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 19:24 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > if (!is_hpet_capable()) > > @@ -278,6 +279,14 @@ int __init hpet_enable(void) > > /* Start the counter */ > > hpet_start_counter(); > > > > + /* Verify whether hpet counter works */ > > + t1 = hpet_read(); > > + udelay(50)

Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

2007-05-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 5 2007 14:57, Theodore Tso wrote: >On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:36:37AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: >> distribution: modified debian sarge, in which aspect is the distribution >> important for this problem? mkfs2.ext2 is supposed to write to /dev/sdaX >> and not /dev/rd/0. Stracing it and gr

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 11:57:18AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:00:12 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.21-rc7-mm2: > > >... > > > git-unionfs.patch > > >... > >

Re: [PATCH] rfc: threaded epoll_wait thundering herd

2007-05-05 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: > Hi, > > If multiple threads are parked on epoll_wait (on a single epoll fd) and > events become available, epoll performs a wake up of all threads of the > poll wait list, causing a thundering herd of processes trying to grab > the eventpoll lock. > > Thi

Re: mkfs.ext2 triggerd RAM corruption

2007-05-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:36:37AM +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: > distribution: modified debian sarge, in which aspect is the distribution > important for this problem? mkfs2.ext2 is supposed to write to /dev/sdaX > and not /dev/rd/0. Stracing it and grepping for open calls shows that > only /dev/s

Re: [-mm patch] fix unionfs compilation

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 5 May 2007 19:00:12 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.21-rc7-mm2: > >... > > git-unionfs.patch > >... > > git trees > >... > > <-- snip --> > > ... > CC fs/unionfs/super.o

Re: [Kernel-discuss] Re: [PATCH 3/8] Universal power supply class (was: battery class)

2007-05-05 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 5 2007 15:39, pHilipp Zabel wrote: >> > > > +enum power_supply_type { >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_BATTERY = 0, >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_UPS, >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_AC, >> > > > + POWER_SUPPLY_TYPE_USB, >> > > > +}; >> > > >> > > How about dumb (non-USB) D

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

2007-05-05 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 5/4/07, Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a pretty specific case, that is not very typical to find in the > > usual common event loop dispatch application design. > > This is where you are very wrong. Yes, it's rare in the Unix w

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:48:28 +0200 Maciej Rutecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton pisze: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > > > > > > CC [M] lib/zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.o > LD [M] lib/zlib_deflate/zlib_deflate.o > Building m

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