Re: [PATCH] create_new_namespaces: fix improper return of NULL

2007-06-19 Thread Cedric Le Goater
Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Untested. > > dup_mnt_ns() and clone_uts_ns() return NULL on failure. This is wrong, > create_new_namespaces() uses ERR_PTR() to catch an error. This means > that the subsequent create_new_namespaces() will hit BUG_ON() in > copy_mnt_ns() or copy_utsname(). I sent one just

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
Chris Mason wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level de-duplication. I mean: 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the same block on disk 2. Su

Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Bodo Eggert
Egmont Koblinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. My patch introduced "question mark with inverted color attributes" as a >last resort fallback glyph. Though it perfectly works on VGA console, on >framebuffer you may end up with question marks that are highlighed but >shouldn't be, and

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Verych
[Dropping noise for Debbugs, because interested people may join via Gmane] On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:06:47AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > > [Dear Debbug developers, i wish your ideas will be useful.] > > > > * From: Linus Torvalds > >

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-19 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:03:13 -0700, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc4/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/ > > - Basically a bugfixed version of 2.6.22-rc4-mm1. None of the subsystem > trees were repulled, several bad patches were

[PATCH] create_new_namespaces: fix improper return of NULL

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Untested. dup_mnt_ns() and clone_uts_ns() return NULL on failure. This is wrong, create_new_namespaces() uses ERR_PTR() to catch an error. This means that the subsequent create_new_namespaces() will hit BUG_ON() in copy_mnt_ns() or copy_utsname(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [i2c] [PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:39:40PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Rodolfo, > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:10:20 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. > > (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4&proid=18). > > > > Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Gio

ata1: soft resetting port

2007-06-19 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Dear List, since the switch to CONFIG_ATA=y CONFIG_ATA_ACPI=y CONFIG_ATA_PIIX=y, the ATA_PIIX driver manages both, internal sata disk aswell as cd/dvd rom. However I am being flooded with the error messages below (well they appear from time to time, dominating dmesg). This happens on kernel 2

Re: [patch 2/2] kprobes x86_64 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 09:30 -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:38 +0530, S. P. Prasanna wrote: > > > This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if > > > DEBUG_RODATA is > > > not configured. Since DEBUG_RODA

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > * From: Linus Torvalds > * Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > * Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT) > > > I do agree. It _sounds_ like a great idea to try to control the > > flow of patches better, > > There were some ideas, i will try to summarize:

Re: PATCH: change keycode for scancode e0 32 from 150 to 172

2007-06-19 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:59:50AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >On 6/13/07, Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Hans de Goede wrote: > >> > >>> Good to hear, so as everyone smees to agree, shall I write a (massive, > >>> complex, intrusive) pat

Re: [i2c] [PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Rodolfo, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:10:20 +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. > (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4&proid=18). > > Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Did you ever read my review of your driver? http:

Re: [patch 2/2] kprobes x86_64 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Arjan van de Ven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:38 +0530, S. P. Prasanna wrote: > > This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if DEBUG_RODATA > > is > > not configured. Since DEBUG_RODATA markes the kernel text pages as > > read-only. > > > it does?? >

Re: [patch 4/8] 2.6.22-rc3 perfmon2 : IBS implementation for AMD64

2007-06-19 Thread Stephane Eranian
Robert, This patch is not specific to perfmon. It modifies the general infrastructure. As such it could be submitted indepdently. I will include it in my "infrastructure" patch file for now. On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:59:28PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > This patch rearranges AMD64 MSR definit

Re: [PATCH] - Add IOAPIC NMI support on x86_64

2007-06-19 Thread John Keller
> > John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Add support for IOAPIC NMI interrupts on x86_64. > > > > Changes include the following: > > > > - Obtain the NMI IOAPIC info via an ACPI NMI SRC structure that is > > part of the MADT, and program the IOAPIC redirection register. > > The N

[patch 3/3] Fix XFS_IOC_FSBULKSTAT{,_SINGLE} and XFS_IOC_FSINUMBERS in compat mode

2007-06-19 Thread mmarek
* 32bit struct xfs_fsop_bulkreq has different size and layout of members, no matter the alignment. Move the code out of the #else branch (why was it there in the first place?). Define _32 variants of the ioctl constants. * 32bit struct xfs_bstat is different because of time_t and on i386 be

[patch 2/3] Fix XFS_IOC_*_TO_HANDLE and XFS_IOC_{OPEN,READLINK}_BY_HANDLE in compat mode

2007-06-19 Thread mmarek
32bit struct xfs_fsop_handlereq has different size and offsets (due to pointers). TODO: case XFS_IOC_{FSSETDM,ATTRLIST,ATTRMULTI}_BY_HANDLE still not handled. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c | 57 + 1 fil

[patch 1/3] Fix XFS_IOC_FSGEOMETRY_V1 in compat mode

2007-06-19 Thread mmarek
i386 struct xfs_fsop_geom_v1 has no padding after the last member, so the size is different. Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_ioctl32.c | 42 - 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/

Re: [PATCH] trivial: the memset operation on a automatic array variable should be optimized out by data initialization

2007-06-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:07:21AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Denis Cheng wrote: > > From: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > the explicit memset call could be optimized out by data initialization, > > thus all the fill working can be done by the compiler implicitly. > > How does the

[patch 0/3] Fix for XFS compat ioctls (try2)

2007-06-19 Thread mmarek
Hi, here is my second attempt at fixing (some of) the XFS ioctls in compat mode. The main difference from the first version is the bulkstat patch, which I modified to do less copies (no unnecessary copy_in_user() anymore). -- have a nice day, Michal Marek - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: [patch 2/2] kprobes x86_64 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 15:38 +0530, S. P. Prasanna wrote: > This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if DEBUG_RODATA is > not configured. Since DEBUG_RODATA markes the kernel text pages as read-only. it does?? I don't seem to be able to find this in the source code. - To

Re: [rtc-linux] Re: rtc-dev.c & RTC_AIE_ON

2007-06-19 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:47:35 +0200 Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:20:06PM +0200, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > > > > 'cos they are two different things :) I don't know how > > the "Lightweight At Daemon" works and if it requires AIE support. > > Yes, it re

Re: Dumping the checksums in a module

2007-06-19 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:59 +0200, John Sigler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As far as I understand (which is not very far), if I define > CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, just don't enable modversions.. it doesn't provide you any real safety at all. and it makes your build a LOT slower. - To unsubscrib

[PATCH -rt] irq nobody cared workaround for i386

2007-06-19 Thread Michal Schmidt
Steven Rostedt wrote: > This is the final "design" for the nobody cared bug. For all IO-APICS > other than the first one (the chained IO-APICS) we use the PCIX version > of the mask and unmask interrupt routines. This changes the interrupt > from level to edge for mask and edge to level for unm

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007, Manu Abraham wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > > > I argue that if you keep the free loaders out, you miss > > the chance to communicate with and educate them. > > Communication across borders doesn't work well, and you create > > a border between the morally "good" and t

Re: [PATCH 5/7] Introduce a means of compacting memory within a zone

2007-06-19 Thread Yasunori Goto
Hi Mel-san. This is very interesting feature. Now, I'm testing your patches. > +static int isolate_migratepages(struct zone *zone, > + struct compact_control *cc) > +{ > + unsigned long high_pfn, low_pfn, end_pfn, start_pfn; (snip) > + /* Time to isol

Re: [PATCH 3/3] ACPI autoloading - Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers.

2007-06-19 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 19:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > Create __mod_acpi_device_table symbol for all acpi drivers. > > thinkpad-acpi will autoload by DMI ids in 2.6.23, which is a much better > solution for model-specific drivers li

Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver

2007-06-19 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:39:23PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3: > > - Implemented as a block device driver with a dynamic major > > - Disk names (

Re: This is [Re:] How to improve the quality of the kernel[?].

2007-06-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:06:47AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > [Dear Debbug developers, i wish your ideas will be useful.] > > * From: Linus Torvalds > * Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel > * Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:37 -0700 (PDT) > > > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Martin Bligh wrote: > >> > >> Sorry

Re: [patch 3/8] 2.6.22-rc3 perfmon2 : IBS implementation for AMD64

2007-06-19 Thread Stephane Eranian
Robert, Patch applied. Thanks. On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:58:49PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > Minor changes (whitespace, comments, ...) > > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc3/arch/x86_64/perfmon/perfmon_k8.c > ===

Re: [patch 2/8] 2.6.22-rc3 perfmon2 : IBS implementation for AMD64

2007-06-19 Thread Stephane Eranian
Robert, I applied this patch to my tree. thanks. On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:58:11PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > Debug messages added for better debugging. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc3/perfmon/perfmon_file.c > ==

Re: [patch 1/8] 2.6.22-rc3 perfmon2 : IBS implementation for AMD64

2007-06-19 Thread Stephane Eranian
Robert, I applied this patch to my tree. Thanks. On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:57:30PM +0200, Robert Richter wrote: > This patch implements Barcelona CPU detection. > > Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc3/arch/i386/perfmon/perfmon.c > =

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux Kernel Tester’s Guide v0. 3-rc1

2007-06-19 Thread Clemens Koller
Hello, Michal, Rafael! Good work! Some (minor) comments below. Michal Piotrowski schrieb: Hi, We are pleased to announce the availability of "Linux Kernel Tester's Guide" v0.3-rc1. This short guide describes the basics of kernel testing. The handbook is divided into six chapters: 1 The k

mount-2.12r-ggk.tar.gz

2007-06-19 Thread Andries.Brouwer
The present situation of util-linux and mount is not quite clear to me. On kernel.org under utils/util-linux nothing has happened for over a year, and there is also an empty utils/util-linux-ng. Anyway, Dirk Gerrits, René Gabriël and Peter Kooijmans sent me a patch to add support for shared subt

Re: How do you allocate huge pages.

2007-06-19 Thread Matthias Kaehlcke
El Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 05:07:30AM -0700 Shaun Savage ha dit: > I am trying to allocate very large memory within the kernel. I want to > start by allocating one huge (4M) page and using that as buffer space. possibly vmalloc() is what you're looking for, if it isn't really a *page* of 4M, what a

Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Egmont Koblinger
Hi folks, Recently my console UTF-8 patch went mainline. Here I send a very small additinal patch that fixes two nasty issues and improves a third one, namely: 1. My patch changed the behavior if a glyph is not found in the Unicode mapping table. Previously for Unicode values less than 256 or

Re: [rtc-linux] Re: rtc_cmos: error after first write to wakealarm

2007-06-19 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:03:19 +0200 Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have the following strange behaviour with rtc_cmos: > > > > > > $ echo 1181934240 > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm > > > bash: echo: write error: Device or resource busy > > > $ rmmod rtc_cmos > > > $ modprobe rtc_cm

How do you allocate huge pages.

2007-06-19 Thread Shaun Savage
Hi I am trying to allocate very large memory within the kernel. I want to start by allocating one huge (4M) page and using that as buffer space. How do you do this? shaun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [rtc-linux] RTC_CLASS is still considered as EXPERIMENTAL?

2007-06-19 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:19:59 +0200 Alessandro Zummo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:10:37 +0900 (JST) > Atsushi Nemoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The generic RTC subsystem was added to kernel 2.6.17 which was > > released a years ago. Since then, many drivers were

Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

2007-06-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:14 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > The commited "Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals" > (commit caec4e8dc85e0644ec24aeb36285e1ba02da58cc) doesn't implement > this. Indeed, if you want what Davide described, you need to also change signalfd side. The patch I

[PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4&proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile |1 + drivers/i2c/chips/tsl2550.c | 449 +++

Final Notification.......Ref: L/200-26937

2007-06-19 Thread ONLINE NOTIFICATION
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Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:11:13AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > > > I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level > > de-duplication. I mean: > > > > 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the > > same block on disk > >

Dumping the checksums in a module

2007-06-19 Thread John Sigler
Hello everyone, As far as I understand (which is not very far), if I define CONFIG_MODVERSIONS, then checksums for various functions (all exported functions?) and various structures (which ones?) will be included inside the kernel image, and written to Module.symvers. When an out-of-tree module i

Re: mea culpa on the meaning of Tivoization

2007-06-19 Thread Michael Poole
Hans-Jürgen Koch writes: > No. Credible licenses should be simple like physical laws. Newton's law > is expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. That's why it's > still valid, and you still learn it at school although meanwhile people > know that there are limitations to it. > > If yo

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-19 Thread holzheu
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:36 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > well surely the messages are caught by some userspace program, > right? (like syslog).. that can do the lookup and make it all > conveniently lookup-able and cross-referencable etc etc Ok, I agree. Maybe that's really a good i

Re: [PATCH] clarify the GPL version of contributions by Jesper Juhl in CREDITS

2007-06-19 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/06/07, Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 02:33:02AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Just to make things clear in the light of recent discussions. > Stuff I contribute to the Linux kernel are licensed under the terms of the > GPL version 2. > > +D: All contributions a

Re: [PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Trilok Soni
Hi Rodolfo, On 6/19/07, Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4&proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips

Re: [patch-mm 00/25] High resolution timer updates and x86_64 support - V2

2007-06-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:49:44 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > A quick check shows that the keep_proc_acpi_power_around_001.patch from > rc5-hrt will apply to rc4-mm2-hrt - I'll give that a try tonight and report > back... Confirming - I backported that patch from rc5-hrt to rc4-mm2-hrt, and now pow

[PATCH] Optional Beeping During Resume From Suspend To Ram.

2007-06-19 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi all Here's what I have after today's work. I haven't yet been able to test on x86, but can confirm that it works okay on x86_64. I'm currently working towards testing it on my old Omnibook. My P4 desktop won't resume from suspend to ram at all, and hasn't produced any beeps. I needed to mov

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:24, David Greaves wrote: > David Greaves wrote: > > I'm going to have to do some more testing... > done > > > > David Chinner wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Greaves wrote: > >>> David Greaves wrote: > >>> So doing: > >>> xfs_freeze -f /scra

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:34 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > > Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more > > > suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function > > > invisible to user space. > > > > Hmm, this does not really describe the changes. > > Yes.. you

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > I argue that if you keep the free loaders out, you miss > the chance to communicate with and educate them. > Communication across borders doesn't work well, and you create > a border between the morally "good" and the "bad". > > Of course you can't expect that every f

Re: How to improve the quality of the kernel?

2007-06-19 Thread Stefan Richter
Natalie Protasevich wrote: > On 6/18/07, Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >> In the end plenty of statistics and hardware compatibility list >> could be made. For example, that would make my life easier knowing >> what level of compatibility Linux can offer for old HP900

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:52 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > Error > > code means that something very bad and sever is going on and you have to > > just refuse working with this device. > > In this case, it will just move on to the next EB. There is code to > handle no available EBs at which poin

[PATCH] I2C: TSL2550 support.

2007-06-19 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
Add support for Taos TSL2550 ambient light sensors. (http://www.taosinc.com/product_detail.asp?cateid=4&proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile |1 + drivers/i2c/chips/tsl2550.c | 427 +++

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:29 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > Well, mtd->block_isbad() may return error, unlikely, bu still. You also > > > ignore the error at other places. > > > > Ignoring that is deliberate since it doesn't really ma

Re: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) at line 2087 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c. Caller 0xc01b00bd

2007-06-19 Thread Marco Berizzi
Marco Berizzi wrote: > David Chinner wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:59:39PM +0200, Marco Berizzi wrote: > > > David Chinner wrote: > > > > Where we saw signs of on disk directory corruption. Have you run > > > > xfs_repair successfully on the filesystem since you reported > > > > this? >

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-19 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:04:30AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > I'm wondering, why did this trigger under CFS and not on mainline? I thought Paul had seen the same problem with 2.6.21.5. I will try a more recent mainline (2.6.22-rc5 maybe) after I get hold of the problem machine and report later t

Re: [PATCH] atmel_serial: Fix break handling

2007-06-19 Thread Ivan Kuten
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:33:54 +0100 Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 01:21:21PM +0300, Ivan Kuten wrote: > > Hi Haavard, > > > > I tried /dev/ttyAT3, break appeared but not the way I expected, after: > > stty -F /dev/ttyAT3 brkint I get: > > > > cat /proc/tty/driver/atmel_serial > >

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 11:00 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:55 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > + if (mtd->erasesize < OOPS_PAGE_SIZE) > > > + erase.len = OOPS_PAGE_SIZE; > > > > It seems to me that yo

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Jun 18, 2007, Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hm, you only talk about people who already use free software, > > but I tried to make you aware of the importance of > > _promoting_ free software, i.e. winning new people and > > c

Re: [RFC: 2.6 patch] sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c: remove dead code

2007-06-19 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:45:31 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This appears to be a copy-and-paste error from other auto-configuration code. I fixed it on ALSA tree now so that it'll be

Re: [patch 2/2] kprobes x86_64 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread S. P. Prasanna
This patch is a quick fix for x86_64 to enable kprobes only if DEBUG_RODATA is not configured. Since DEBUG_RODATA markes the kernel text pages as read-only. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/x86_64/Kconfig |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff

Re: [patch 1/2] kprobes i386 quick fix mark-ro-data

2007-06-19 Thread S. P. Prasanna
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2007 20:56:32 Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:44:57 -0400 > > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I fancy it's done by the kprobe_page_fault handler, but I do not see > > > > clearly how

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, and this is why we have to use the dual-list mechanism to react to the net device rename. This isn't so obvious, a comment at the point where you declare modify_target_list would be nice? (BTW temporary_list would be a better name for that, IMO) All right, my patches are short of

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 6/7] add ioctls for adding/removing target

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, *ugh*. I was wondering what a show-stopper this particular patch was -- introduces a couple of ioctl()'s, exports a new structure to userspace, adds a hitherto-unneeded header file, brings in tty_struct/tty_operations and ends up adding so much complexity/ bloat to netconsole.c. No

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 4/7] using symlink for the net_device

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, Sorry, but we're not covering from the error condition fully here. Note that later you merge the temporary modify_target_list entirely back into the target_list ... which would still contain these erroneous nodes. A full cleanup (kobject_unregister the entry, and then list_del from

Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take5 3/7] add interface for netconsole using sysfs

2007-06-19 Thread Keiichi KII
Hello Satyam, First, I'm sorry I couldn't reply to your comments. I'm so appreciate for your comments. I will fix my patches following your advices. But, I have some questions on the another patches. So, I want to ask you some questions and answer your questions. +static int miscdev_configured

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
Pádraig Brady wrote: Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level de-duplication. I mean: 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the same block on disk 2. Support for new syscall or IOCTL to de-duplicate as a single tran

Re: [PATCH/RFC] oops and panic message logging to MTD

2007-06-19 Thread Richard Purdie
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:55 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:31 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > + if (mtd->erasesize < OOPS_PAGE_SIZE) > > + erase.len = OOPS_PAGE_SIZE; > > It seems to me that your code won't work if mtd->erasesize < > OOPS_PAGE_SIZE anyway, s

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, David Greaves wrote: >> Good :) > Now, not so good :) Oh, crap. :-) > So I hibernated last night and resumed this morning. > Before hibernating I froze and sync'ed. After resume I thawed it. (Sorry > Dave) > > Here are some photos of the screen during resume. This is not 100% > reproduc

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Bastian Blank
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more > suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function > invisible to user space. Hmm, this does not really describe the changes. Bastian -- Violence

Re: [fuse-devel] FS block count, size and seek offset?

2007-06-19 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Why don't you use the existing fuse-unionfs? > > I thought about doing this but it would need to be modified somehow > and even then my users would look to me to fix issues and I don't like > trying to find hard bugs in other peoples code. > > Also, the

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:12:00AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more > > suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function > > invisible to user space. >

Re: Type error in drivers/input/tsdev.c?

2007-06-19 Thread Jiri Slaby
Fengwei Yin napsal(a): > Hi, > In function tsdev_event() of drivers/input/tsdev.c, > conversion from usec to milisec is like: >client->event[client->head].millisecs = > time.tv_usec / 100; > ~~ should be 1000? Seems so. James CCed. regards, -- http://www.fi.muni.

Re: [linux-lvm] 2.6.22-rc5 XFS fails after hibernate/resume

2007-06-19 Thread David Greaves
David Greaves wrote: I'm going to have to do some more testing... done David Chinner wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:49:34AM +0100, David Greaves wrote: David Greaves wrote: So doing: xfs_freeze -f /scratch sync echo platform > /sys/power/disk echo disk > /sys/power/state # resume xfs_fre

[GIT PULL] sh64 fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh64-2.6.git Which contains: Paul Mundt (1): sh64: Handle -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK for restartable syscalls. arch/sh64/kernel/signal.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) - To unsubscribe fr

[GIT PULL] sh fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git Which contains: Kaz Kojima (1): sh: Fix restartable syscall arg5 clobbering. Paul Mundt (2): sh: oops_enter()/oops_exit() in die(). sh: Handle -ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK for restartable syscall

Re: [patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 10:45:21AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more > suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function > invisible to user space. > > arch/s390/kernel/tra

Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 06/18, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 17:20 -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > > > Andrew or Linus, did you get Ben's patch? > > > > It might have been missed... I can resend later today. > > I did indeed just miss it. I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs: a copy on write, snapshotting FS

2007-06-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > I would also suggest one more feature: support for block level > de-duplication. I mean: > > 1. Ability for Btrfs to have blocks in several files to point to the > same block on disk > > 2. Support for new syscall or IOCTL to de-duplicate as a single > transactio

Type error in drivers/input/tsdev.c?

2007-06-19 Thread Fengwei Yin
Hi, In function tsdev_event() of drivers/input/tsdev.c, conversion from usec to milisec is like: client->event[client->head].millisecs = time.tv_usec / 100; ~~ should be 1000? Regards Yin, Fengwei - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

2007-06-19 Thread Anders Larsen
On 2007-06-18 21:50:12, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > Given the ROM exception in GPLv3, I guess you could seal and > anti-tamper it as much as you want, and leave the ROM at such a place > in which it's easily replaceable but with signature checking and all > such that the user doesn't install ROM that

Re: Versioning file system

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Langhoff
On 6/19/07, Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I think would be particularly interesting in this domain is something similar in concept to GIT, except in a file-system: perhaps stating the blindingly obvious, but there was an early implementation of a FUSE-based gitfs -- http://www.sf

Re: [Linux-usb-users] Stable identification of identical USB hardware

2007-06-19 Thread Kay Sievers
On 6/18/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:35:35AM -0700, Joerg Pommnitz wrote: > I want to be able to distinguish between two (or more) mostly > identical USB serial devices. The devices in question are UMTS modems. > AFAIK they are identical except for the SIM car

[PATCH] slob: poor man's NUMA support.

2007-06-19 Thread Paul Mundt
This adds preliminary NUMA support to SLOB, primarily aimed at systems with small nodes (tested all the way down to a 128kB SRAM block), whether asymmetric or otherwise. We follow the same conventions as SLAB/SLUB, preferring current node placement for new pages, or with explicit placement, if a n

Re: v2.6.21.4-rt11

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe the patch below is correct. With the patch applied, I could > not recreate the imbalance with rcutorture. Let me know whether you > still see the problem with this patch applied on any other machine. thanks for tracking this down! I'v

Selective system profiling

2007-06-19 Thread John Sigler
Hello everyone, Here's my situation: I'm pushing data in chunks of 1316 bytes to a PCI device at 38 Mbit/s. In other words, I write 1316 bytes to the device every 277 microseconds. I've noticed that the latency of this operation varies immensely. Most of the time it completes in 50-80 microsec

Re: [PATCH -cfs] Fix cpu_load calculation error

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo/Dmitry, > I am resending the patch to fix cpu_load calculation error in > cfs v17, this time CCing lkml. > v17 cpu_load calculation didn't take into account that a class's > delta_exec/fair may be stale because it could not get an op

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation of kernel messages

2007-06-19 Thread holzheu
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:36 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 15:53 +0200, holzheu wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 06:12 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, holzheu wrote: > > > > Hi Gerrit, > > > > > > > > The common thing of your and our

Please pull git390 'for-linus' branch

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates: arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c |5 ++--- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S |8 +++- arch/s390/kernel/entry64.S |8 +++-

[patch 6/6] Add oops_enter()/oops_exit() calls to die().

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is mainly to switch off all potentially debugging stuff that won't report anything useful after an oops happened. Besided that setting pause_on_oops will work too, but doesn't make too much sense on s390. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [2/2] 2.6.22-rc4: known regressions with patches v3

2007-06-19 Thread Paulo Pereira
A Wednesday 13 June 2007 22:01:54, Alan Stern escreveu: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 09:58:05PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > USB > > > > > > Subject: list_add corruption. prev->next should be next > > > (f7d28794), but was f0df8ed4 (prev=f0df8ed4)

[patch 5/6] Move psw_set_key.

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Move psw_set_key() from ptrace.h to processor.h which is a more suitable place for it. In addition the moves makes the function invisible to user space. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[patch 4/6] Print list of modules on die().

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Print list of modules on die() like a lot of other architectures do. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/s390/kernel/traps.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: qui

[patch 2/6] Fix zfcpdump header

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Michael Holzheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Added members for volume number and real memory size to header information. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/s390/char/zcore.c |3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+

[patch 3/6] Fix yet another two section mismatches.

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WARNING: arch/s390/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0xb92a): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:start_secondary (between 'restart_addr' and 'stack_overflow') WARNING: arch/s390/appldata/built-in.o(.data+0xdc): Section mismatch: refe

[patch 0/6] s390 patches for 2.6.22

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Last s390 bug fix patches for 2.6.22. -- blue skies, Martin. "Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht

[patch 1/6] Missing blank when appending cio_ignore kernel parameter

2007-06-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
From: Michael Holzheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When appending the 'cio_ignore' kernel parameter to the command line, a blank has to be inserted in order to separate 'cio_ignore' from the preceding kernel parameters. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <

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