building i386 requires s390: "driver/crypto/Kconfig" sourcing s390 arch

2007-05-18 Thread Linda Walsh
Seems there is an include of s390 based config in file drivers/crypto/Kconfig: source "arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig" The line doesn't seem to be need for an i386 build (haven't tried x86_64 though). I take it that this was a braino? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:07:09PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:45:59AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > IIRC, the HT flag is also reported for multicore CPUs. > > Yes. Thats correct. And for some Single-Core Non-HT CPUs. Gruss Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL

Re: [patch] Add the device IDs for AMD/ATI SB700

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:36:54AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Henry Su wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Adding the device ID for AMD/ATI SB700. > > Signed-off-by:henry su <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Time to train new people... > > You need to split up your patches: > * send I2C and

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support 2.6.22-rc1-v5

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Frank Sorenson wrote: > > Please boot with slub_debug. > > No debugging output at all. Still hangs with only: > Kernel alive > Kernel direct mapping tables up to 1 @ 8000-d000 H. No other output? Could it be that early console output is not

Re: ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread eugene
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Chris Snook wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- I have Pentium D CPU, which many Windows utilities like cpuz, wcpuid, everest identify as D 930 (Dual Core, 3GHz). From Intel site I find out that

Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm modesetting core

2007-05-18 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Il Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:04:54PM -0700, Jesse Barnes ha scritto: > On Thursday, May 17, 2007, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > > Il Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:37:45PM -0700, Jesse Barnes ha scritto: > > > This patch adds the core of the new DRM based modesetting system. > > > > A couple of comments on

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:02:16PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > I will look closer but I do believe that from the ioapic to the cpu the 2.6.21 > code should be fairly robust with respect to inflight messages from the ioapic > to the local apics and the cpus. What I failed to consider were

Re: ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread Chris Snook
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- I have Pentium D CPU, which many Windows utilities like cpuz, wcpuid, everest identify as D 930 (Dual Core, 3GHz). From Intel site I find out that it has no HT feature, nor Windows XP identify

Re: 2.6.21-mm1 and now 2.6.21-git: SLUB Crashes on boot - crypto?

2007-05-18 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Il Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:14:55PM +1000, Herbert Xu ha scritto: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 02:09:54PM +0200, Luca wrote: > > > > Well, pretty sure. The OOPS says 2.6.22-rc1-libata-g705962cc-dirty, > > git agrees and I've done a full rebuild. The .config is generated > > using 'make oldconfig'

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.21-git15 - Kconfig Cleanup

2007-05-18 Thread Matt LaPlante
On Fri, 18 May 2007 20:01:54 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:04:41PM -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: > > > ping? > > Noone disagreed, and trivial patches will be forwarded again during the > 2.6.23 merge window. Ok, I didn't know it would be acceptable

Re: ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:45:59AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > IIRC, the HT flag is also reported for multicore CPUs. Yes. Thats correct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

glitch1 v1.6 script update and results on cfs-v13

2007-05-18 Thread Bill Davidsen
The glitch1 script has been vastly updated, and now runs by itself after being started. It produces files with the fps from glxgears and a "fairloops" file which indicates the number of loops for each of the scrolling xterms. This gives a good indication of fairness, all processes should have

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Siddha, Suresh B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> On 5/18/07, Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > If the vector number stays same during irq migration and if we reset remote >> > IRR bit using the above method(edge

[patch 2/2] timerfd use waitqueue lock ...

2007-05-18 Thread Davide Libenzi
The timerfd was using the unlocked waitqueue operations, but it was using a different lock, so poll_wait() would race with it. This patch makes timerfd directly use the waitqueue lock. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Davide Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/timerfd.c

[patch 1/2] eventfd use waitqueue lock ...

2007-05-18 Thread Davide Libenzi
The eventfd was using the unlocked waitqueue operations, but it was using a different lock, so poll_wait() would race with it. This patch makes eventfd directly use the waitqueue lock. Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Davide Index: linux-2.6.mod/fs/eventfd.c

Re: [patch 00/10] Slab defragmentation V2

2007-05-18 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 18/05/07, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For Dave: You can find the patchset also at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/slub-defrag s/slub-defrag/slab-defrag http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/slab-defrag/ Regards, Michal -- Michal

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Char: cyclades, add firmware loading

2007-05-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 5/18/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 19:49:11 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cyclades, add firmware loading [...] The second patch fixes a bug in 2.6.22-rc1 and in 2.6.21 (yes?) but I think, the bug is there since the driver merge

Re: ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> I have Pentium D CPU, which many Windows utilities like cpuz, wcpuid, >> everest identify as D 930 (Dual Core, 3GHz). From Intel site I find out >> that it has no HT feature, nor Windows XP identify it as HT. > > the ht flag

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:28:25AM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > On 5/18/07, Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the vector number stays same during irq migration and if we reset remote > > IRR bit using the above method(edge and then back to level) during > > irq migration, then

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/fw.c: fix use-before-check

2007-05-18 Thread John W. Linville
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:06:49AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: > NULL checks should be performed before the dereference. > > Spotted by the Coverity checker. > > Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This does not apply against 2.6.22-rc1. Please rediff and repost. Thanks, John -- John

Re: [patch] fix unused setup_nr_node_ids

2007-05-18 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> That doesn't do much to inprove overall readability. > > I suspect the warning was only there because the stubbed version of > setup_nr_node_ids() forgot to be declared static inline, yes? > > How about this? Yes, looks good. Thanks, Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 5/18/07, Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the vector number stays same during irq migration and if we reset remote IRR bit using the above method(edge and then back to level) during irq migration, then we have a problem. A new interrupt arriving on a new cpu will set the remote

Re: [patch 00/10] Slab defragmentation V2

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
For Dave: You can find the patchset also at http://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/slub-defrag - 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 06/10] xfs: inode defragmentation support

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
Rats. Missing a piece due to the need to change the parameters of kmem_zone_init_flags (Isnt it possible to use kmem_cache_create directly?). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: slub/fs/xfs/xfs_vfsops.c ===

Re: Weird hard disk noise on shutdown (bug #7674)

2007-05-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:16:45AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > Because the controller's far more likely to go than the moving parts... Having redundant everything would be preferable. But cables do sometimes fail. Not sure about the controllers, but if the controller went you might loose the

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Yinghai Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/18/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We can solve the problem without doing that, and keeping the same >> vector number during migration keeps x86 from scaling. > > I mean ioapic level irq couls be limited. new device could use MSI

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

2007-05-18 Thread Anant Nitya
On Friday 18 May 2007 15:56:07 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Anant Nitya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > > > Been testing this version of CFS from last an hour or so and still > > facing same lag problems while browsing sites with heavy JS and or > > flash usage. Mouse movement is pathetic and

Re: [PATCH] MM : alloc_large_system_hash() can free some memory for non power-of-two bucketsize

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote: > table = (void*) __get_free_pages(GFP_ATOMIC, order); ATOMIC? Is there some reason why we need atomic here? > + /* > + * If bucketsize is not a power-of-two, we may free > +

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > However we don't have to let those 8 bytes go to waste: we can use them > to store the virtual address of the page, which kind of makes sense for > 64-bit, because they can likely to use complicated memory models. That is not a valid consideration

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > The page->virtual thing is just a bonus (although have you seen what > sort of hoops SPARSEMEM has to go through to find page_address?! It > will definitely be a win on those architectures). That is on the way out. See the discussion on virtual memmap

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Char: cyclades, add firmware loading

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 18 May 2007 19:49:11 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cyclades, add firmware loading > eww, it adds a variable called "tmp". This change isn't appropriate to 2.6.22. The second patch fixes a bug in 2.6.22-rc1 and in 2.6.21 (yes?) but includes irrelevant changes

[patch 09/10] sockets: inode defragmentation support

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/socket.c | 13 - 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: slub/net/socket.c === --- slub.orig/net/socket.c 2007-05-18 00:54:30.0

[patch 02/10] SLUB: slab defragmentation and kmem_cache_vacate

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Slab defragmentation occurs when the slabs are shrunk (after inode, dentry shrinkers have been run from the reclaim code) or when a manual shrinking is requested via slabinfo. During the shrink operation SLUB will generate a list of partially populated slabs sorted by the number of objects in use.

[patch 10/10] ext2 ext3 ext4: support inode slab defragmentation

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext2/super.c | 16 ++-- fs/ext3/super.c | 14 +- fs/ext4/super.c | 15 ++- 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index: slub/fs/ext2/super.c

[patch 08/10] shmem: inode defragmentation support

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/shmem.c | 13 - 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: slub/mm/shmem.c === --- slub.orig/mm/shmem.c2007-05-18 00:54:30.0

[patch 03/10] Dentry defragmentation

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
This patch allows the removal of unused or negative dentry entries in a partially populated slab page. get() uses the dcache lock and then works with dget_locked to obtain a reference to the dentry. An additional complication is that the dentry may be in process of being freed or it may just have

[patch 05/10] reiserfs: inode defragmentation support

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Add inode defrag support Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/reiserfs/super.c | 14 +- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: slub/fs/reiserfs/super.c === ---

[patch 00/10] Slab defragmentation V2

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Hugh: Could you have a look at this? There is lots of critical locking here Support for Slab defragmentation and targeted reclaim. The current state of affairs is that a large portion of inode and dcache slab caches can be effectively reclaimed. The remaining problems are: 1. We cannot

[patch 07/10] procfs: inode defragmentation support

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Hmmm... Do we really need this? Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/proc/inode.c | 15 +-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: slub/fs/proc/inode.c === ---

[patch 04/10] Generic inode defragmentation

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
This implements the ability to remove a list of inodes from the inode cache. In order to remove an inode we may have to write out the pages of an inode, the inode itself and remove the dentries referring to the node. Provide generic functionality that can be used by filesystems that have their

[patch 06/10] xfs: inode defragmentation support

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
Add slab defrag support. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/kmem.h |5 +++-- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c |2 +- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c | 13 - 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) Index:

[patch 01/10] SLUB: add support for kmem_cache_ops

2007-05-18 Thread clameter
We use the parameter formerly used by the destructor to pass an optional pointer to a kmem_cache_ops structure to kmem_cache_create. kmem_cache_ops is created as empty. Later patches populate kmem_cache_ops. Create a KMEM_CACHE_OPS macro that allows the specification of a the kmem_cache_ops.

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
Eric, On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 07:40:53AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Still in any of those I don't see a problem with switching to edge > triggered mode and then back again. Either Remote IRR will keep > it's current state or it will be cleared. Remote IRR should not > get set (when it

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 5/18/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We can solve the problem without doing that, and keeping the same vector number during migration keeps x86 from scaling. I mean ioapic level irq couls be limited. new device could use MSI or HT irq directly and less irq routing problem.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] atmel_lcdfb: AT91/AT32 LCD Controller framebuffer driver

2007-05-18 Thread Jan Altenberg
Hi Nicolas, > + info->fix.line_length = info->var.xres_virtual * > (info->var.bits_per_pixel / 8); line_length will always be 0 for bits_per_pixel < 8. Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Yinghai Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric, > > ioapic_level irq is limited, So if we keep vector number not changed > when imgration to other cpus. It that could help. We can solve the problem without doing that, and keeping the same vector number during migration keeps x86 from scaling.

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: fix use-after-free

2007-05-18 Thread John W. Linville
First, please send all wireless patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and be sure to CC me as well...thanks! On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:50:31AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: > libertas_upload_rx_packet() calls netif_rx() before returning, and it always > return 0. > Also within libertas_upload_rx_packet(),

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/fw.c: fix use-before-check

2007-05-18 Thread John W. Linville
This should be sent to linux-wireless (and CC'ed to me) as well... On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 01:06:49AM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: > NULL checks should be performed before the dereference. > > Spotted by the Coverity checker. > > Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.21-git15 - Kconfig Cleanup

2007-05-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:04:41PM -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: > ping? Noone disagreed, and trivial patches will be forwarded again during the 2.6.23 merge window. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of

Re: [patch] fix unused setup_nr_node_ids

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:39:14 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is now the only (!) compiler warning I get in my UML build :) > > > From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > mm/page_alloc.c:931: warning: 'setup_nr_node_ids' defined but not used > > Signed-off-by:

Re: ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I have Pentium D CPU, which many Windows utilities like cpuz, wcpuid, > everest identify as D 930 (Dual Core, 3GHz). From Intel site I find out > that it has no HT feature, nor Windows XP identify it as HT. the ht flag reported by the CPU and cpuinfo

Re: [PATCH] Chaining sg lists for big IO commands v5

2007-05-18 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:35 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Wed, May 16 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 19:50 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > On Tue, May 15

Re: [PATCH] Chaining sg lists for big IO commands v5

2007-05-18 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 19:03 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, May 18 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:33 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > .. > > > > > > > >

[PATCH 2/2] Char: cyclades, fix sparse warning

2007-05-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
cyclades, fix sparse warning + one possible deadlock (omitted unlock) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit a9dbc0b98956d548b1aee3f55b3799a12946ace4 tree 1e62235a9bf1edb7c206932c9a10d1e9e77cb0a0 parent 7a9aa4781fc5aa6493bb3a7ac59b3c9e5f20fa76 author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL

Re: Fork Bombing Attack

2007-05-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:52:15 +0530, Anand Jahagirdar said: > output is 8050. when root or any other user changes ulimit by typing > "ulimit -u value",.ulimit value is changed for that session and not > permantely. Right. That value is only applied to that process, and its children. Or more

[PATCH 1/2] Char: cyclades, add firmware loading

2007-05-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
cyclades, add firmware loading Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 7a9aa4781fc5aa6493bb3a7ac59b3c9e5f20fa76 tree 18d85e52a13cd780cf808a43d68b569a8546e2ab parent 4ea1257b890befc706f6d43562ba68671db39195 author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 18 May 2007 18:45:35 +0200

Re: [PATCH 12/15] Make NFS client use seq_list_xxx helpers

2007-05-18 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 14:04 +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote: > This includes /proc/fs/nfsfs/servers and /proc/fs/nfsfs/volumes > entries. > > Both need to show the header and use the list_head. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

2007-05-18 Thread Edward Shishkin
Richard Purdie wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 18:00:43 +0100 Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 09:50 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 20:19:14 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

Re: [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 17 May 2007 22:24:11 +0200 (CEST) Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch is using mmap()'s randomization functionality in such a way > that it maps the main executable of (specially compiled/linked -pie/-fpie) > ET_DYN binaries onto a random address (in cases in which

Re: [patch] x86_64, irq: check remote IRR bit before migrating level triggered irq

2007-05-18 Thread Yinghai Lu
Eric, ioapic_level irq is limited, So if we keep vector number not changed when imgration to other cpus. It that could help. it will need modify a little with assign_irq_vector and irq_complete_move/smp_irq_move_cleanup_interrupt. because it assume vector must be changed. YH - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 18 May 2007 12:01:41 EDT, "Robert P. J. Day" said: > On Fri, 18 May 2007, debian developer wrote: > > -your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing > > bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because > > not many people like wasting

Re: Fork Bombing Attack

2007-05-18 Thread Anand Jahagirdar
Hello All I found one more interesting thing related with fork bombing attack. i have set following in /etc/security/limits.conf file [EMAIL PROTECTED]hard nproc 3000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] hard nproc 500 I have tried to execute fork bombing program on the same machine. it

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Peter wrote: > cpusets are ignored when in dire straights for an kernel alloc. No - most kernel allocations never ignore cpusets. The ones marked NOFAIL or ATOMIC can ignore cpusets in dire straights and the ones off interrupts lack an applicable cpuset context. -- I won't

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:27 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Isn't the zone mask the same for all allocations from a specific slab? > If so, then the slab wide ->reserve_slab will still dtrt (barring > cpusets). All allocations from a single slab

[PATCH] Protect include/linux/console_struct.h against multiple inclusion.

2007-05-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Protect the header file include/linux/console_struct.h against multiple inclusion, since not doing this causes one of the example module programs in the Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide to fail to build due to a bogus "redeclaration" of some structures. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make prepare_namespace() wait for devices

2007-05-18 Thread Pierre Ossman
Hi there brave visitor from the future ;) Andi Kleen wrote: > Actually that's not correct. With panic=30 and lilo -R and a working > backup kernel a system can recover from this. With your endless loop it can't. > > Always add some kind of timeout. > > Did you check the second version? Is

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/fw.c: fix use-before-check

2007-05-18 Thread Eugene Teo
NULL checks should be performed before the dereference. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/fw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/fw.c index 441123c..5c63c9b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/fw.c +++

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.21-git15 - Kconfig Cleanup

2007-05-18 Thread Matt LaPlante
ping? On Fri, 11 May 2007 22:05:01 -0400 Matt LaPlante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fix misc small issues/typos/grammar in Kconfigs for 2.6.21-git15. > > Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > > diff -ru a/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/Kconfig b/arch/arm/plat-s3c24xx/Kconfig > ---

ht CPU flag

2007-05-18 Thread eugene
Hello dear developers! Here is my system configuration. Linux ns 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 #5 SMP Thu May 3 00:45:12 AMST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Gnu C 4.1.1 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.16.1 util-linux

Re: [PATCH] Chaining sg lists for big IO commands v5

2007-05-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, May 18 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:33 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > .. > > > > > > > > > > > > Ah ok, you need the updated patch series for ppc64

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

2007-05-18 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, 18 May 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: young dave wrote: Hi, After installation the new mm1 kernel, My system can not boot, the rc1 kernel works ok. The cursor just blinks after appearing "Bios data check successful" message. what do you think about this? "Bios data check successful"

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make prepare_namespace() wait for devices

2007-05-18 Thread Andi Kleen
Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. > Previously we panic:ed instead, so this behaviour should be no > worse. Actually that's not correct. With panic=30 and lilo -R and a working backup kernel a

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support 2.6.22-rc1-v5

2007-05-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Frank Sorenson wrote: > >> I've tracked down this hang to a kzalloc in the hpet code that never > >> returns. But only when using SLUB. Using SLAB, the highres/dyntick > >> patch boots without problem. > >> > >> ...adding Christoph to the CC list... > > > > Please boot

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

2007-05-18 Thread H. Peter Anvin
young dave wrote: > Hi, > > After installation the new mm1 kernel, My system can not boot, the rc1 > kernel works ok. > > The cursor just blinks after appearing "Bios data check successful" > message. > > what do you think about this? "Bios data check successful" is not a message that comes

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Sealey
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:31 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: >> I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight. >> Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source? >> I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side

[2.6 patch] drivers/net/wireless/libertas/rx.c: fix use-after-free

2007-05-18 Thread Eugene Teo
libertas_upload_rx_packet() calls netif_rx() before returning, and it always return 0. Also within libertas_upload_rx_packet(), it will initialize skb->protocol anyways. Spotted by the Coverity checker. Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Sealey
Kumar Gala wrote: > > On May 18, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:28 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: >>> >>> I think both the MPC52xx GPT0-7 and the SLT0-1 fulfil this fairly >>> easily. >> >> There is some basic work for MPC5200 available: >> >>

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:31 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote: > I asked this earlier, but figured you might have a better insight. > Is their value in having 'drivers' for more than one clock source? > I'd say most (of not all) the PPC SoCs have timers on the system side > that we could provide

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because >> not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. > ^^^ > > you might want to find a less demeaning term for debugging than >

Re: [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > + printk(KERN_INFO > + "out of virtual memory for process %d (%s): total_vm=%lu, > uid=%d\n", > + current->pid, current->comm, total_vm, current->uid); And align this one with the print_fatal layout:

Re: [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >printk("%s/%d: potentially unexpected fatal signal %d.\n", >current->comm, current->pid, signr); can we have both KERN_WARNING please? Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Kumar Gala
On May 18, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:28 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: I guess the real question is, how high resolution does a high resolution timer need to be, In the order of microseconds. I think both the MPC52xx GPT0-7 and the SLT0-1 fulfil

RE: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 - s390 vs. md

2007-05-18 Thread Williams, Dan J
> From: Cornelia Huck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Finer granularity is certainly better here, but I'm not quite sure if > this solves our s390 problem (we don't have dma support). All those > backends should also have a non-dma version... In fact that is already there. Here is the form of

Re: [PATCH/REDIFF] Cleanup libata HPA support

2007-05-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 11:06 -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > (Rediffed against latest git) Added error check for ata_dev_read_id (Thanks tj) Also, since hpa is disabled by default, print the native size, even when HPA isn't asked for (so users and developers can know that it may need to be used).

Re: [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-18 Thread Andrea Righi
Andrea Righi wrote: > Robin Holt wrote: >> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote: >>> Rik van Riel wrote: Andrea Righi wrote: > I'm looking for a way to keep track of the processes that fail to > allocate new > virtual memory. What do you think about the

Re: [PATCH -mm] LZO: Further cleanup of the kernel LZO library headers

2007-05-18 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 03:51:26PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > A further cleanup of the kernel LZO library headers which untangles and > removes ~400 lines of defines. This doesn't change the core minilzo code > so diffability is maintained. You should just throw away that. Guptas

Re: [PATCH - 1/1] Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 18 May 2007, debian developer wrote: ... > -Managing bug reports > - > - > -One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing > -bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel > -more stable, you'll learn to fix real

Re: [PATCH] Chaining sg lists for big IO commands v5

2007-05-18 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:33 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, May 17 2007, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 08:27 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > .. > > > > > > > > > > Ah ok, you need the updated patch series for ppc64 support. Builds > > > > > fine > > > > > here on ppc64. See

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig powernow-k8 driver should depend on ACPI P-States driver

2007-05-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:09:38AM -0400, Ed Sweetman wrote: > the previous post i keep referring you to has a patch that was mangled > ...here is the non-mangled version > > --- ./linux-backup/arch/x86_64/kernel/cpufreq/Kconfig 2007-02-04 > 13:44:54.0 -0500 > +++

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

2007-05-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michael Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just thought I'd let you know that CFS is working on the PS3 heh, an important milestone i think =B-) Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-18 Thread Andrea Righi
Robin Holt wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:50:03AM +0200, Andrea Righi wrote: >> Rik van Riel wrote: >>> Andrea Righi wrote: I'm looking for a way to keep track of the processes that fail to allocate new virtual memory. What do you think about the following approach

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Daniel Walker wrote: Well, the decrementer frequency may change, at least in theory (if the bus clock changes). Does that happen very often? Never, I hope. :-) Daniel WBR, Sergei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-18 Thread Björn Steinbrink
Hi, while playing around with powertop, I noticed that my power usage wasn't what it used to be. In total idle mode, everything was fine, but as soon as I loaded the ipw2200 module and bring up the device, power usage rises to about 16.8W, while kernel up to 2.6.20 used only about 15.3W. A day

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-18 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > If we add 8 bytes to struct page on 64-bit machines, it becomes 64 bytes, > which is quite a nice number for cache purposes. > > However we don't have to let those 8 bytes go to waste: we can use them > to store the virtual address of the page, which

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Daniel Walker
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 19:06 +0400, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Daniel Walker wrote: > > >>I haven't looked at all the new clock/timer code, is there any > >>utility in having support for more than one clock source? > > > There is if the main clocksource has some issues where it can't be used. >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-18 Thread Matt Sealey
I already have that stuff, but it only implements the decrementer (in fact it's the patch submitted at the beginning of this thread). I got it because I was far more interested in the GPIO handling.. -- Matt Sealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Genesi, Manager, Developer Relations Thomas Gleixner wrote:

Re: Kernel NFS lockd freezes notebook on shutdown (Linux 2.6.22-rc1 + CFS v12)

2007-05-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:17:36 +0300 Zilvinas Valinskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have found this in dmesg (well earlier because of initcall_debug) I've > never noticed that during boot (scrolls away too fast). Anyway - > > [7.841871] NetLabel: Initializing > [7.841983] NetLabel:

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: mcelog tolerant level cleanup

2007-05-18 Thread Tim Hockin
On 5/18/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * If RIPV is set it is not safe to restart, so set the 'no way out' >flag rather than the 'kill it' flag. Why? It is not PCC. We cannot return of course, but killing isn't returning. My understanding is that the absence of RIPV

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

2007-05-18 Thread Michael Lothian
Just thought I'd let you know that CFS is working on the PS3 neutrino boot # dmesg Using PS3 machine description Page orders: linear mapping = 24, virtual = 12, io = 12 Starting Linux PPC64 #1 SMP Fri May 18 09:26:38 UTC 2007 - ppc64_pft_size

Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61

2007-05-18 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 18 May 2007 10:34:35 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >> That shouldn't be a problem, libata default DMA mask is 32 bits (which > >> isn't overridden with this controller) and so the block layer will > >> bounce any data being read/written above that

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