Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-23 Thread Andi Kleen
> The current idea is that we will have multiple governors changeable at run > time only for > DEBUG and DEVELOPMENT. On a standard end user system there will be one > governor > (current optimal governor) that will be loaded. This gives > flexibality to experiments with governors and also

PCIE

2007-05-23 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi, Do the PCI Express chipsets also use the same PCI API ? The device specifications are thus for the device that i am looking at: PCI Express interface * Compliant to PCI Express Base Specification 1.0a * The PCI Express circuit supports isochronous data traffic intended for

[patch] CFS scheduler, -v14

2007-05-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
i'm pleased to announce release -v14 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The CFS patch against v2.6.22-rc2, v2.6.21.1 or v2.6.20.10 can be downloaded from the usual place: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/ In -v14 the biggest user-visible change is increased sleeper fairness

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 22 2007 20:48, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >Why do we want this? > > >That depends on who you ask. My answer is this: > > 'foo.tar.gz/foo/bar' or > 'foo.tar.gz/contents/foo/bar' > >or something similar. Stole reiser4 an idea. These semantics are quite fragile. Until now,

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Gabriel C
Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ I get this on boot : [ 0.333581] BUG: at include/linux/slub_def.h:83 kmalloc_index() [ 0.333587] [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [ 0.333601] [] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [ 0.333606] []

Re: Kernel panic during hibernation

2007-05-23 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I have kernel panic message when trying to put Dell > Inspiron 6400 into hibernation. > > The following is the message: > > Process pm-hibernate (pid: 3168, threadinfo > 810013dba000, task 810018d0e > 860) > Stack: > 01bc7e40f260

Re: [RFC][PATCH] muptiple bugs in PI futexes

2007-05-23 Thread Alexey Kuznetsov
Hello! > #2 crash be explained via any of the bugs you fixed? (i.e. memory > corruption?) Yes, I found the reason, it is really fixed by taking tasklist_lock. This happens after task struct with not cleared pi_state_list is freed and the list of futex_pi_state's is corrupted. Meanwhile... two

Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3

2007-05-23 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hi Michael, On 5/23/07, Michael-Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23 May 2007, at 09:27, Nitin Gupta wrote: > This contains LZO1X-1 compressor and LZO1X decompressor (safe and > standard version). I understand that the 'safe' decompression code is 'somewhat slower' and that

Re: bad networking related lag in v2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [NET_SCHED]: Fix qdisc_restart return value when dequeue is empty > > My previous patch that changed the return value of qdisc_restart > incorrectly made the case where dequeue returns empty continue > processing packets. > > This patch is based on

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
> When the real superblock is created. It could even be the _same_ > super block as the real one. There'd be just the problem of anchoring > the dir-on-file dentries somewhere... > > Or with fuse the dir-on-file mount can just come from any mounted > filesystem, again possibly the same one as

Re: bad networking related lag in v2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick McHardy
Herbert Xu wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > >>Looking at the recent changes to __qdisc_run, this indeed seems >>to be the case, when the qdisc is throttled and has packets queued >>we return a value != 0, causing __qdisc_run to loop until all >>packets

Re: bad networking related lag in v2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > > Looking at the recent changes to __qdisc_run, this indeed seems > to be the case, when the qdisc is throttled and has packets queued > we return a value != 0, causing __qdisc_run to loop until all > packets have been sent, which

Re: [GIT PULL] ieee1394 fixes post 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote on 2007-05-19: > Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git > for-linus > > to receive the following IEEE 1394 subsystem updates: > > - fix regression in 2.6.22-rc1: > raw1394 asynchronous

Re: bad networking related lag in v2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is this trace to be understood? Is it simply a call trace in > execution-order? [...] yeah. There's a help section at the top of the trace which explains the other fields too: _--=> CPU# / _-=>

Re: [PATCH] add "notime" boot option

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Tokarev
Randy Dunlap wrote: > > Add "notime" boot option to prevent timing data from being printed on > each printk message line. That's a good source of confusion. To me, "notime" means something like "don't bother calculating time", instead of the proposed behavior. Can't it be something like

RE: [stable] [patch 00/69] -stable review

2007-05-23 Thread Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
> -Message d'origine- > De : Greg KH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : 22 mai 2007 23:37 > À : Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] > > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:28:34PM -0400, Fortier,Vincent > [Montreal] wrote: > > > -Message d'origine- > > > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >

Re: bad networking related lag in v2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick McHardy
Ingo Molnar wrote: > if you feel inclined to try the git-bisection then by all means please > do it (it will certainly be helpful and educative), but it's optional: i > dont think you should 'need' to go through extra debugging chores, my > analysis based on the excellent trace you provided

Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3

2007-05-23 Thread Michael-Luke Jones
On 23 May 2007, at 09:27, Nitin Gupta wrote: This contains LZO1X-1 compressor and LZO1X decompressor (safe and standard version). I understand that the 'safe' decompression code is 'somewhat slower' and that decompressor performance is a key feature of this algorithm. However, I am

Re: [RFC][PATCH 10/14] In-kernel file copy between union mounted filesystems

2007-05-23 Thread Bharata B Rao
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:35:17AM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote: > Bharata B Rao wrote: > > > >In case of regular files, when we copyup a file, we are actually preventing > >any writes to the lower layers (which we have designated as read only). > > > >Applying the same logic to devices, what do we

Re: [PATCH 0/7] lock contention tracking -v2

2007-05-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Use the lockdep infrastructure to track lock contention and other lock > statistics. > > It tracks lock contention events, and the first four unique call-sites > that encountered contention. > > It also measures lock wait-time and hold-time in

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > + * This is tricky, because for namespace modification we must take the > > > + * namespace semaphore. But mntput() is called from various places, > > > + * sometimes with namespace_sem held. Fortunately in those places the > > > + * mount cannot yet have MNT_DIRONFILE, or at least that's

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:09:19PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Right. After locking vfsmount_lock, mount_dironfile() should recheck > if there was a race and bail out. Owww... Not pretty, that... > I don't think the filesystem ought to try _creating_ a vfsmount. I > imagine, that the fs

[PATCH] remove unused TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag

2007-05-23 Thread Stephane Eranian
Hello, As per the recent discussion, the folowing patch removes the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag from all processor architectures. The flag was not used except on IA-64 for the perfmon subsystem. For IA-64, the patch replaces the flag with a new dedicated TIF flag. This provides an extra low-order bit

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-23 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: [...] > Yup. compile with > > CONFIG_NUMA > > CONFIG_LOCKDEP > > CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOCS (All the tests in this email was conducted on top of your patch) Yup done that. The resulting kernel

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:03:08AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > I still don't get it where the superblock comes in. The locking is > > "interesting" in there, yes. And I haven't completely convinced > > myself it's right, let alone something that won't easily be screwed up > > in the

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > + * This is called if the object has no ->lookup() defined, yet the > > + * path contains a slash after the object name. > > + * > > + * If the filesystem defines an ->enter() method, this will be called, > > + * and the filesystem shall fill the supplied struct path or return an > > + *

Re: [PATCH] joydev.c automatic re-calibration

2007-05-23 Thread Renato Golin
This small patch adds the automatic recalibration feature without spoiling previously calibrated devices. It's a fix for those joysticks that report faulty range, specially Saitek Cyborg Evo Force. File: drivers/input/joydev.c Fix: - extracted code from joydev_connect to method

[PATCH 1/7] fix raw_spinlock_t vs lockdep

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
raw_spinlock_t should not use lockdep (and doesn't) since lockdep itself relies on it. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/spinlock_types.h|4 ++-- include/linux/spinlock_types_up.h |9 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

[PATCH 0/7] lock contention tracking -v2

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Use the lockdep infrastructure to track lock contention and other lock statistics. It tracks lock contention events, and the first four unique call-sites that encountered contention. It also measures lock wait-time and hold-time in nanoseconds. The minimum and maximum times are tracked, as well

[PATCH 3/7] lockdep: lock contention tracking

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Count lock contention events per lock class. Additionally track the first four callsites that resulted in the contention. /proc/lock_contentions - gives a single line per lock class: <(write) contentions> Followed by another three columns per contention point: writing a '0' to the

[PATCH 2/7] lockdep: isolate lock graph walking

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Put the lock dependancy tracking bits under CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING This way we can reuse the hold_lock part of lockdep for other purposes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/lockdep.c | 15 ++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index:

[PATCH 4/7] lockdep: add waittime to the lock statistics

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Track lock waittime - that is the time spend waiting on lock acquisition. /proc/lock_waittime - starts with the same three colums as lock_contentions: <(write) contentions> After that come two times four more columns: for both (write) contentions and read contentions. Times are in

[PATCH 6/7] lockdep: runtime configure prove_locking and lock_stat

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Allow for runtime configuration of lockdep and lockstat. /proc/sys/kernel/prove_locking /proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/lockdep.c | 27 +++ kernel/sysctl.c | 27 +++ 2 files changed,

[PATCH 7/7] lockdep: scalable statistics

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Rework the lock stat counters to be scalable. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/lockdep.h | 34 +- kernel/lockdep.c| 162 kernel/lockdep_proc.c | 136 ++--

[PATCH 5/7] lockdep: add holdtime to the lock statistics

2007-05-23 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Track lock hold times - that is the time we held the lock. /proc/lock_holdtime - starts with the same three colums as lock_contentions: <(write) contentions> After that come two times four more columns: for both (write) locks and read locks. Times are in 1e-9 seconds. Writing a 0 to

Re: [PATCH] joydev.c automatic re-calibration

2007-05-23 Thread Renato Golin
On 23/05/07, Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Adding Dmitry to CC so that he doesn't miss it. Also, if you'd like to get your patch merged, you should add proper Signed-off-by line. Hi Jiri, Sorry, it's my first kernel patch, how do I add Signed-off-by line? I did with: $ diff -u

[PATCH] libata: -ENODEV during prereset isn't an error

2007-05-23 Thread Tejun Heo
During prereset, -ENODEV return from ata_wait_ready() is not an error. This causes unnecessary bug message on controllers which uses 0xff to indicate empty port. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This one is for 2.6.22 too. Thanks.

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:03:08AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > I still don't get it where the superblock comes in. The locking is > "interesting" in there, yes. And I haven't completely convinced > myself it's right, let alone something that won't easily be screwed up > in the future. So

Re: 2.6.21.1 fails to suspend/resume to disk (sort of)

2007-05-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 11:05 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:25, Romano Giannetti wrote: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/23/38 > > Please see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8456 > That seems to resemble the symptoms you describe. > No, I don't

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:48:49PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > */ > -static int __follow_mount(struct path *path) > +static int __follow_mount(struct path *path, bool enter) > { > int res = 0; > while (d_mountpoint(path->dentry)) { > - struct vfsmount *mounted =

Re: [PATCH] ata: pata_platform: Disable prereset logic.

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Mundt
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:29:37AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:07:08AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Paul Mundt wrote: > >>> On a number of boards the current prereset logic seems to misbehave: > >>> > >>> scsi0 : pata_platform > >>> ata1: PATA max

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Andrew Morton napisał(a): > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ > Christoph, this looks like a bug in SLUB. [ 16.232377] PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcs1 [ 16.237588] PM: Adding info for No Bus:vcsa1 [ 18.683210] PM: Adding info for

Re: [PATCH] joydev.c automatic re-calibration

2007-05-23 Thread Jiri Kosina
(Adding Dmitry to CC so that he doesn't miss it. Also, if you'd like to get your patch merged, you should add proper Signed-off-by line. Thanks) On Wed, 23 May 2007, Renato Golin wrote: > This small patch adds the automatic recalibration feature without > spoiling previously calibrated

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > As for unlink... How do you deal with having that thing > > > mounted, mounting something _under_ it (so that vfsmount would be kept > > > busy) and then unlinking that sucker? > > > > Yeah, that's a good point. Current patch doesn't deal with that. > > Simplest solution could be to

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > So your question is, which mount takes priority on the lookup? It > > probably should be the propagated real mount, rather than the > > dir-on-file one, shouldn't it? > > > > Maybe this might belong into __link_path_walk() similar to the > handling of symbolic links. If the real mount has

Re: [PATCH] ata: pata_platform: Disable prereset logic.

2007-05-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Paul Mundt wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:07:08AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Paul Mundt wrote: >>> On a number of boards the current prereset logic seems to misbehave: >>> >>> scsi0 : pata_platform >>> ata1: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0xb06001f0 ctl 0xb06003f6 bmdma 0x irq 0 >>> ata1: device

[PATCH] Blackfin ethernet driver: on chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-05-23 Thread Bryan Wu
From: "Wu, Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog Devices Blackfin processor's on-chip ethernet MAC controller. Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: PCI device problem - MMCONFIG, cannot allocate resource region, resource collisions

2007-05-23 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:31:22PM -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > On Tuesday, May 22, 2007, Wayne Sherman wrote: > > If so, the D-Link is not being mapped into the > > right region, and the bridge it is behind does not have enough memory > > assigned to it (ff50-ff5f : PCI Bus #02). > >

Re: [PATCH -rt] ARM TLB flush fix: don't forget to re-enable preemption

2007-05-23 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 04:41:36PM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:25 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 16:01 -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote: > > > Add a preempt_enable() to flush_tlb_kernel_page() since -rt4 patch > > > adds a preempt_disable but no

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Jan Blunck
On 5/23/07, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for unlink... How do you deal with having that thing > mounted, mounting something _under_ it (so that vfsmount would be kept > busy) and then unlinking that sucker? Yeah, that's a good point. Current patch doesn't deal with that.

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:48, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:42:33 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ > > This is intermittently getting resume-from-RAM failures. It is

Re: [patch 089/181] Blackfin: on-chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-05-23 Thread Bryan Wu
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 05:13 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Bryan Wu wrote: > > Hi Jeff: > > > > Could you please review this patch? Sorry for miss sending the patch to > > you for review at beginning. > > can you resend as a patch rather than a quoted patch? > > Jeff > > Oh, sorry, I

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Jan Blunck
On 5/23/07, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So your question is, which mount takes priority on the lookup? It probably should be the propagated real mount, rather than the dir-on-file one, shouldn't it? Maybe this might belong into __link_path_walk() similar to the handling of

Re: [patch 089/181] Blackfin: on-chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-05-23 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bryan Wu wrote: Hi Jeff: Could you please review this patch? Sorry for miss sending the patch to you for review at beginning. can you resend as a patch rather than a quoted patch? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:05:21AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > Er... These mounts might not be propagated, but what about a bind > > > over another instance of such file in master tree? > > > > So your question is, which mount takes priority on the lookup? It > > probably should be the

Re: 2.6.21.1 fails to suspend/resume to disk (sort of)

2007-05-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Wednesday, 23 May 2007 09:25, Romano Giannetti wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to upgrade from my ubuntu kernel 2.6.17.3 to 2.6.21.1 and I > have quite a bunch of problems with suspend/resume, both to disk and to > ram. I have reported the s2ram problem in a separate message (search for > a

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-05-23 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 23:09:39 Richard Griffiths wrote: > Venerable cramfs fs Linear XIP patch originally from MontaVista, used in > the embedded Linux community for years, updated for 2.6.21. Tested on > several systems with NOR Flash. PXA270, TI OMAP2430, ARM Versatile and > Freescale iMX31ADS.

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

2007-05-23 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 10:46 +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > Taking a quick look at the async_*.c stuff, the functions in question > basically seem to be of the form > > check_if_we_can_do_it_async(); > if (async_ok) { > /* do async stuff */ > /* that's where the dma mapping creeps

Re: 2.6.21-mm2: ACPI exception on resume

2007-05-23 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 23 May 2007 03:48, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:19:43PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Matt Mackall wrote: > > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:03:49PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > > > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 21 May 2007,

Re: [RFC] hwbkpt: Hardware breakpoints (was Kwatch)

2007-05-23 Thread Roland McGrath
> > This does not happen in reality. Breakpoints can only be set by the > > debugger, not by the program itself. The debugger should always eat the > > trap. > > Hmmm. I put in a little extra code to account for the possibility that > a program might want to set hardware breakpoints in

Re: [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization

2007-05-23 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Andrew Morton 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 > > mmap() is allowed to perform a

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

2007-05-23 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:05:39 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are trying to get rid of dma-mapping.h, see the last change to the > file with commit 411f0f3edc141a582190d3605cadd1d993abb6df. I don't think > we should reintroduce dma related definition but split the

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

2007-05-23 Thread young dave
Hi, Sorry for the wrong patch in my last post. How about save the tsk then call kthread_stop like this: diff -udr linux/fs/cifs/connect.c linux.new/fs/cifs/connect.c --- linux/fs/cifs/connect.c 2007-05-23 10:59:13.0 + +++ linux.new/fs/cifs/connect.c 2007-05-23 16:33:54.0

Re: any value to "NORET_TYPE" macro?

2007-05-23 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/23/07, Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > that may be but, as i suggested earlier, that would get into guessing > what those developers were thinking, and i just didn't want to go > there. No guessing, I just checked it (though a

Re: [PATCH] ata: pata_platform: Disable prereset logic.

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Mundt
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:07:08AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > > On a number of boards the current prereset logic seems to misbehave: > > > > scsi0 : pata_platform > > ata1: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0xb06001f0 ctl 0xb06003f6 bmdma 0x irq 0 > > ata1: device not ready

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:05:21AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Er... These mounts might not be propagated, but what about a bind > > over another instance of such file in master tree? > > So your question is, which mount takes priority on the lookup? It > probably should be the propagated

Re: [patch 089/181] Blackfin: on-chip ethernet MAC controller driver

2007-05-23 Thread Bryan Wu
Hi Jeff: Could you please review this patch? Sorry for miss sending the patch to you for review at beginning. Thanks a lot -Bryan Wu On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: "Wu, Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This patch implements the driver necessary use the Analog

[RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 3

2007-05-23 Thread Nitin Gupta
Hi, This contains LZO1X-1 compressor and LZO1X decompressor (safe and standard version). This includes changes suggested by various people - Thanks to all who reviewed previous patches for this LZO port. Changelog vs original LZO 2.02 code: - Chopped down huge parts of original code that were

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread hui
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:58:35AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: > > For me the huge difference you have for sd to the others increases the > > likelyhood the glxgears benchmark does not measure scheduling of graphic > > but something else.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: fix race condition around sd->s_dentry, take#2

2007-05-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:31:01AM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: >> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 08:16:10PM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Allowing attribute and symlink dentries to be reclaimed means >>> sd->s_dentry can change dynamically. However, updates to the field >>> are

Re: [PATCH] ata: pata_platform: Disable prereset logic.

2007-05-23 Thread Tejun Heo
Paul Mundt wrote: > On a number of boards the current prereset logic seems to misbehave: > > scsi0 : pata_platform > ata1: PATA max PIO0 cmd 0xb06001f0 ctl 0xb06003f6 bmdma 0x irq 0 > ata1: device not ready (errno=-19), forcing hardreset > ata1: BUG: prereset() requested invalid reset

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > Eh... Arbitrary limitations are fun, aren't they? > > > > But these mounts _are_ special. There is really no point in moving or > > pivoting them. > > pivoting - probably true, moving... why not? I don't see any use for that. But indeed, it should not be too hard to do. > > > What

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

2007-05-23 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 17:25 -0700, Williams, Dan J wrote: > The approach I have taken is to add the missing definitions to > include/asm-s390/dma-mapping.h [ a non-outlook-mangled version of the > patch is pushed out in my rebased git tree ]. I was not able to fully > compile-test this change as

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 07:23 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: > For me the huge difference you have for sd to the others increases the > likelyhood the glxgears benchmark does not measure scheduling of graphic > but something else. I think some people forget that X11 has its own scheduler for graphics

Re: [PATCH] mm: swap prefetch improvements

2007-05-23 Thread Ash Milsted
On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:50:01 +1000 Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 06:42, Ash Milsted wrote: > > Hi. I just did some video encoding on my desktop and I was noticing > > (for the first time in a while) that running apps had to hit swap quite > > a lot when I

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21] cramfs: add cramfs Linear XIP

2007-05-23 Thread Carsten Otte
Andrew Morton wrote: But we'd expected and hoped that flash-based XIP would be able to use the existing xip infrastructure, in mm/filemap_xip.c. Not possible? Thanks for the heads up Andrew. Reading the cramfs patch, I've found a lot of similarities between the current mainline xip stack and

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 23 May 2007 00:42:33 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ This is intermittently getting resume-from-RAM failures. It is not sufficiently repeatable to be able to bisect. [ 1381.119362]

2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc2/2.6.22-rc2-mm1/ - A new readahead patch series. This needs serious review and performance testing please. - Added Ingo's CFS CPU scheduler - Xen dom-U support is now in the x86 tree. Boilerplate: - See the

Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

2007-05-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:19 +0200, Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:09:00 +0200 > Romano Giannetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Will try to reboot with clocksource=acpi_pm, althoughI think that this > > is the one I'm using. > > you can see that with: > > cat

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:19:17AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Eh... Arbitrary limitations are fun, aren't they? > > But these mounts _are_ special. There is really no point in moving or > pivoting them. pivoting - probably true, moving... why not? > > What about MNT_SLAVE stuff being

Re: [PATCH 0/6] UDF cleanup and fixes

2007-05-23 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 22-05-07 15:39:31, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Eric Sandeen wrote: > > > Jan - > > > > I ran 2.6.21 + your udf patches from -mm through some udf tests which, > > oddly enough, can be found in the xfstests test suite in xfsprogs cvs > > from sgi. > > > > It looks much better than before, but I

Re: Enabling power states for Core 2 Duo

2007-05-23 Thread Matthieu CASTET
Hi, Paa Paa hotmail.com> writes: > > But are you saying that with most desktop mobos one doesn't usually have the > different power states available at all? So basically the only means to > conserve power is to scale the frequency? > Even frequency is very limited on core 2 duo. Because of

Re: [RFC][PATCH] muptiple bugs in PI futexes

2007-05-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > 1. New entries can be added to tsk->pi_state_list after task completed >exit_pi_state_list(). The result is memory leakage and deadlocks. > > 2. handle_mm_fault() is called under spinlock. The result is obvious. > > 3. State

Re: [PATCH] Re: Cleaning up the Documentation directory.

2007-05-23 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 23 May 2007, Rob Landley wrote: > On Tuesday 22 May 2007 10:38 pm, Roland Dreier wrote: > > > I could send a patch to do this, but moving files via patch is icky. > Would it > > > be better to start a git tree and ask people to pull from it, or to send > in > > > script snippets

2.6.21.1 fails to suspend/resume to disk (sort of)

2007-05-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hi, I am trying to upgrade from my ubuntu kernel 2.6.17.3 to 2.6.21.1 and I have quite a bunch of problems with suspend/resume, both to disk and to ram. I have reported the s2ram problem in a separate message (search for a follow-up to the thread with subject "[patch 00/69] -stable review".

Re: [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Al, On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:04:50 +0100 Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:01:55PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Make some offending drivers depend on it and set > > CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers. > > Seeing how few

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

2007-05-23 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to mail earlier, but I had always something get in my way. > > I used cfs v13 since you announced it. Since patching the kernel > (2.6.21.1) with cfs v13 I did the following things; [...] > So far I am pretty satisfied. I

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > > Interesting... How do you deal with mount propagation and things like > > > mount --move? > > > > Moving (or doing other mount operations on) an ancestor shouldn't be a > > problem. Moving this mount itself is not allowed, and neither is > > doing bind or pivot_root. Maybe bind could be

Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

2007-05-23 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Wed, 23 May 2007 09:09:00 +0200 Romano Giannetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Will try to reboot with clocksource=acpi_pm, althoughI think that this > is the one I'm using. you can see that with: cat /sys/devices/system/clocksource/clocksource0/current_clocksource -- Paolo Ornati

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 cifs_mount oops

2007-05-23 Thread young dave
Hi, Yeah, that's racy: once we've sent the signal, the kernel thread can write NULL to srvTcp->tsk at any time. Yes, here is another patch : diff -ur linux/fs/cifs/connect.c linux.new/fs/cifs/connect.c --- linux/fs/cifs/connect.c 2007-05-23 10:59:13.0 + +++

Re: [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

2007-05-23 Thread David Miller
From: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 17:01:55 +1000 > Make some offending drivers depend on it and set > CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: David S. Miller

Re: [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

2007-05-23 Thread David Miller
From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 08:04:50 +0100 > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:01:55PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Make some offending drivers depend on it and set > > CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers. > > Seeing how few

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v13

2007-05-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
Hi, I wanted to mail earlier, but I had always something get in my way. I used cfs v13 since you announced it. Since patching the kernel (2.6.21.1) with cfs v13 I did the following things; - big backup of home onto tape and restoring it after changing to reiser4 (yes, I know the threads

Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

2007-05-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
(resent, using gmail) On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:25 -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > * Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 21 May 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > > > > What happened to: > > > > > > "Fix ACPI suspend / device suspend ordering problem" > > >

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-23 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 22 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > > (If you want me to test it with other slub or kernel debug options please > > let > > me know. It just takes a lot of time to eliminate the variables, if there > > are > > problems.) > >

Re: [patch 00/69] -stable review

2007-05-23 Thread Romano Giannetti
(changing email. My employer server adds a stupid and malformed disclaimer, so that vger refuses the post. Oh well. I will no trim the quot to my original message so that it's here for anyone). On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 15:07 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2007, Romano Giannetti

Re: [PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 05:01:55PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Make some offending drivers depend on it and set > CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers. Seeing how few targets _do_ have that, I'd invert the that. I.e. have HAS_VIRT_TO_BUS in

Re: [RFC PATCH] file as directory

2007-05-23 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:36:04AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Interesting... How do you deal with mount propagation and things like > > mount --move? > > Moving (or doing other mount operations on) an ancestor shouldn't be a > problem. Moving this mount itself is not allowed, and neither

[PATCH] Introduce CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS

2007-05-23 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Make some offending drivers depend on it and set CONFIG_ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS for ppc64 so that we don't build those drivers. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/Kconfig|3 +++ drivers/atm/Kconfig |8 drivers/block/Kconfig |

Re: [PATCH] Re: Cleaning up the Documentation directory.

2007-05-23 Thread Rob Landley
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 12:56 am, Paul Mundt wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:25:44AM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > >mv arm cris blackfin parisc powerpc s390 x86_64 uml arch > > You missed sh, mips, fujitsu/frv, m68k, ia64, i386, and sparc. Yup. I'll add 'em to the next pass. Thanks.

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