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. Hmm,

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, there's a lot

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 in

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% reproducable -

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, so this

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

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

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

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

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.

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 writing the

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: [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: 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 companies

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 your code won'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 serinfo:1.0

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

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? yes. If

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 matter if the

[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=4proid=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 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 point it

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 HP9000

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 free

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 need to

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 /scratch sync echo

[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

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=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 +

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

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 are

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: snip 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

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 you

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

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 2. Support

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

2007-06-19 Thread ONLINE NOTIFICATION
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[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=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig | 10 + drivers/i2c/chips/Makefile |1 + drivers/i2c/chips/tsl2550.c | 449

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 added to the

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 did

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] 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_cmos $ echo

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: 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

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

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

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 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: 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 to be a wet

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 (and

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 like

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 isolate

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 the bad.

[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 unmask.

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 unsubscribe

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 requires such

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: [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 generated

[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

[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 file

[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(-) ---

[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

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 NMI SRC struct will

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?? I don't

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

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=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you ever read my review of your driver?

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: * New

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) patch to fix this, or

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_RODATA markes

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

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=4proid=18). Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti

[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: 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

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 normal

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.

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 like

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think reading the IDE status register clears the interrupt in the IDE device, which might be causing the drive to think it's OK to generate another interrupt. This is not how IDE drives are supposed to act -- they won't proceed any further until interrupt

Re: coding style

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Lord
Linus Torvalds wrote: For example, if I get a patch for something that is a whole driver, I generally think that while I *prefer* to see it follow the kernel coding style, I also expect that the person who sends me the driver is the one who is going to maintain it in the future, and thus his

Re: Fix signalfd interaction with thread-private signals

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 06/19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: 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

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Alan Cox wrote: I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ... If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a FIFO drain which

strange queue_if_no_path behavior

2007-06-19 Thread Maxim Kozover
Hi! Reposting a shorter version. I have a question regarding queue_if_no_path behavior. I tried Red Hat 5.0 2.6.18-8.el5 kernel and more or less recent multipath-tools. Set no_path_retry queue in multipath.conf and tried losing all paths to a SAN device, while I'm dd-ing from /dev/zero to

[PATCH] Chinese translation of Documentation/HOWTO

2007-06-19 Thread Li Yang
This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO. Currently Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially comparing to its largest population base. Language could be the main obstacle. Hope this document will help more Chinese to contribute to Linux kernel.

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

2007-06-19 Thread David Greaves
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, again... David Greaves wrote: Good :) Now, not so good :) Oh, crap. :-) grin 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.

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:10:04 +0400 Sergei Shtylyov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Alan Cox wrote: I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ... If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata

Re: mount-2.12r-ggk.tar.gz

2007-06-19 Thread Karel Zak
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:38:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. We use GIT for development, the

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

2007-06-19 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Alexandre, On 6/19/07, Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dispute this: non-tivoized hardware = users can scratch their itches = more contributions from these users tivoized hardware = users can't scratch their itches = fewer contributions from these users Maybe, but in what

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

2007-06-19 Thread Manu Abraham
Johannes Stezenbach wrote: 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

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

2007-06-19 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Keiichi, On 6/19/07, Keiichi KII [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [BUG] ide dma_timer_expiry, then hard lockup

2007-06-19 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Alan Cox wrote: I can prepare a patch, but only with a lot of guidance. I can test debug, I'm highly motivated just right now ... If you've got a nice repeatable problem please try using the libata driver. That handles the error paths differently and doesn't try a FIFO drain which might

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? Mainline seems to have a similar problem in idle_balance() too, or am i misreading it? The problem is there in mainline very much. I could recreate the problem with

Re: [-RT] multiple streams have degraded performance

2007-06-19 Thread Vernon Mauery
On Monday 18 June 2007 11:51:38 pm Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 22:12 -0700, Vernon Mauery wrote: In looking at the performance characteristics of my network I found that 2.6.21.5-rt15 suffers from degraded thoughput with multiple threads. The test that I did this with is

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

2007-06-19 Thread Stefan Richter
On 6/19/2007 4:05 PM, Oleg Verych wrote: On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: The Debian BTS requires you to either write emails with control messages or generating control messages with external tools. ... In Bugzilla the same works through a web interface. ... Basic

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

2007-06-19 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 06/19, Cedric Le Goater wrote: 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()

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

2007-06-19 Thread S. P. Prasanna
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:44:30AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Char: istallion, init+locking fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Korb
Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: unsigned char __iomem *bits; unsigned long flags; Remove the flags and you will see the bug, you introduced ;). Oops. I guess I shouldn't try to work on kernel stuff while tired. Fixed patch follows. -ik - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm2

2007-06-19 Thread J.A. Magallón
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:53:57 +0200, J.A. Magallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-06-19 Thread Andi Kleen
In our specific case, a loadable driver will register to process the NMI generated by a timer device on the IOAPIC pin. The driver will need to unmask/mask the NMI interrupt at init/exit time. The timer NMI interrupt will be used to synchronize cluster nodes. We normally don't add hooks

[PATCH 1/1] Char: istallion, init+locking fixes (try 2)

2007-06-19 Thread Ingo Korb
Move brdp-iosize assignment in stli_initecp up a few lines to stop the driver from requesting an I/O region of length 0. Remove spin_lock_irqsave/spin_unlock_irqrestore from __stli_sendcmd as all users of that function take the lock already. Signed-off-by: Ingo Korb [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff

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

2007-06-19 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On 6/19/07, Keiichi KII [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Dumping the checksums in a module

2007-06-19 Thread John Sigler
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 13:59 +0200, John Sigler wrote: 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. I'm

Re: [PATCH] console UTF-8 fixes

2007-06-19 Thread Egmont Koblinger
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 03:54:52PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: Does the FLUSH DTRT by design, or does it just shrink and hide the original race? I haven't deeply studied this aspect of the source, don't know what _exactly_ this FLUSH does, but of course I have an inner feeling about this. Kind

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