Re: [PATCH] Re: [NETPOLL] netconsole: fix soft lockup when removing module

2007-07-03 Thread David Miller
From: Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 08:41:59 +0200 > On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:52:26AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > > > From my recent patch: > > > > > >#1 > > > >Until kernel ver. 2.6.21 (including) cancel_rearming_delayed_work() > > > >required a w

Re: [EXT4 set 3][PATCH 1/1] ext4 nanosecond timestamp

2007-07-03 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Mingming Cao wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:58 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 03:36 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: + +#define EXT4_INODE_GET_XTIME(xtime, inode, raw_inode) \ +do { \

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-07-03 Thread Darren
Tomasz Kłoczko wrote: Few dayas ago OSS source code was oppened uder CDDL for Solaris and GLPv2 for Linux: http://www.opensound.com/press/2007/oss-gpl-cddl.txt So this source without problems code can be integragrated in Linus tree and after this Linux can provide much better soud supoport

Re: [PATCH] Re: [NETPOLL] netconsole: fix soft lockup when removing module

2007-07-03 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 09:52:26AM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > From my recent patch: > > > >#1 > > >Until kernel ver. 2.6.21 (including) cancel_rearming_delayed_work() > > >required a work function should always (unconditionally) rearm with > > >delay > 0 - otherwise it woul

Re: [EXT4 set 3][PATCH 1/1] ext4 nanosecond timestamp

2007-07-03 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:58 +0530, Kalpak Shah wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 03:36 -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: > > + > > +#define EXT4_INODE_GET_XTIME(xtime, inode, raw_inode) > >\ > > +do { > >

[PATCH] x86: make SMP locks handling interact properly with CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA (2nd try)

2007-07-03 Thread Jan Beulich
Instead of suppressing the change of .text to become readonly, make the SMP locks patching code properly adjust/restore the page access rights. On x86-64 additionally remove all mappings past the kernel image, and remove leftovers from the removal of the more general (but abandoned) SMP alternativ

Re: [BUGFIX][PATCH] DO flush icache before set_pte() on ia64.

2007-07-03 Thread Nick Piggin
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: This is a experimental patch for fixing icache flush race of ia64(Montecito). Problem Description: Montecito, new ia64 processor, has separated L2 i-cache and d-cache, and i-cache and d-cache is not consistent in automatic way. L1 cache is also separated but L1 D-cache

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- BUG - EIP: [] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x1c2/0x226 SS:ESP 0068:c5ff9db8

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Andrew Morton wrote: >> EIP is at sysfs_addrm_finish+0x1c2/0x226 >> eax: 0001 ebx: c5ff9dc0 ecx: c058aa40 edx: 0001 >> esi: c5ff9de8 edi: c37c3240 ebp: c5ff9e1c esp: c5ff9db8 >> ds: 007b es: 007b fs: gs: 0033 ss: 0068 >> Process modprobe (pid: 3519, ti=c5ff900

Re: [PATCH 4/4] net: add usb_alloc_urb_node to use use kmalloc_node

2007-07-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 7/2/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:17:56PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: > [PATCH 4/4] usb: add usb_alloc_urb_node to use use kmalloc_node On the linux-usb-devel list we are discussing how usb_alloc_urb is being reworked to look totally different, so this change

Re: [PATCH 3/4] usb: allocated usb releated dma buffer with kmalloc_node

2007-07-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 7/2/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:33:12PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote: Ok, so two drivers might need this, but not the whole usb core, right? And even if you do have another usb mapping, is that a real problem? USB keyboards and mice are very slow. Some other

[BUGFIX][PATCH] DO flush icache before set_pte() on ia64.

2007-07-03 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
This is a experimental patch for fixing icache flush race of ia64(Montecito). Problem Description: Montecito, new ia64 processor, has separated L2 i-cache and d-cache, and i-cache and d-cache is not consistent in automatic way. L1 cache is also separated but L1 D-cache is write-through. Then, bef

Re: Does the kernel HPET support has problems or the hwclock from util-linux?

2007-07-03 Thread David Brownell
Not that I think it matters, but I understand that util-linux-ng now has a 2.13-rc1 release out, so you're not using the latest version of "hwclock". That shouldn't affect HPET though. That said, this situation is likely going to be a mess until some new HPET support gets merged. Issues include:

Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate

2007-07-03 Thread Timothy Shimmin
Amit K. Arora wrote: FA_FL_NO_MTIME 0x10 /* keep same mtime (default change on size, data change) */ FA_FL_NO_CTIME 0x20 /* keep same ctime (default change on size, data change) */ NACK to these aswell. If i_size changes c/mtime need updates, if the size doesn't chamge they don't. No need to

Re: Fusion MPT regression, fixed or not?

2007-07-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Matt Sealey wrote: Hello World, I re-stumbled on this installing Gentoo on VMware today; http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/23/312 It doesn't seem to be fixed in 2.6.22-rc7, but I might be mistaken somehow. Has anyone done any work on this or looked at the problem in more detail? The trail seems to d

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Alan Stern writes: > USB already implements runtime PM. If a device is suspended at runtime > and a task tries to access it, the device is automatically resumed. > No problem there. > > The problem comes when the system is doing a STR. Right now the code > doesn't keep track of the difference

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Alan Stern writes: > I disagree. The problem isn't the kernel calling userspace; it's > userspace trying to do I/O at a time when everything is supposed to be > quiescing. Detecting that and blocking it in drivers is hard and > error-prone; preventing it by freezing userspace is easy and cheap.

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Alan Stern writes: > > Most drivers suspended their hardware in the second call. If they are > > in the middle of a conversation with their device that *has* to be > > completed, they can do that by polling. > > Ugh. That will cause problems when you try to integrate runtime > suspend. In fac

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Rafael J. Wysocki writes: > Now, please tell me how many driver writers even thought that something > might try to access their devices after .suspend() had been executed (or > even whilie it was being executed)? Well, I believe that the USB framework copes with this, except possibly for some cor

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Rafael J. Wysocki writes: > Still, do you really think that we're ready to drop it _right_ _now_ (I'm > referring to suspend only) and if so than on what basis (except that you > don't like it, which falls short of being a techical argument)? The basis is that it (the freezer) causes more deadloc

Re: pci hidden behind transparent bridge

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:00:14PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 02/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! I noticed such message: > > > > "PCI: Bus #07 (-#0a) is hidden behind transparent bridge #06 (-#06) > > (try 'pci=assign-busses

Re: pci hidden behind transparent bridge

2007-07-03 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 01:25:06PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:00:14PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On 02/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi! I noticed such message: > > > > > > "PCI: Bus #07 (-#0a) is hidden behind trans

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- Problems with suspend/resume.

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:45:41 -0700 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should I not report stuff like this when it is > generated after an OOPS? All bets are off if the kernel has oopsed. Reboot, see if the bug still happens without the earlier oops, perhaps. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: sata_sil, writing bug with multiple cards?

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apologies for the chain-replying to myself, just replying as I think of > things to try. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> Here's an odd data point. >> I just broke that array, formatted all three of those partitions >> seperately, mounted and did my ISO copy test. >> All

Re: [PATCH] libata_acpi: A different strategy for using ACPI information

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: > Lots of BIOSen simply return the BIOS set modes via the ACPI methods and > pass back the values you give it across suspend/resume. Thus instead of > trying to do clever stuff with this data we instead use it as a way to > take a sneak peak at cable type information when viable. Th

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] Generic Trace Setup and Control (GTSC) code

2007-07-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Tom Zanussi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The Generic Tracing and Control Interface (GTSC) code. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: David Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > include/linux/gtsc.h | 104 + > lib/Kconfig | 10 > lib/Makefile

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- Problems with suspend/resume.

2007-07-03 Thread Miles Lane
On 7/3/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:09:29 -0700 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. I don't know who else to include in the To: list. Should I > send this again with .config information? Would ps -Af help? Gosh, what a lot of output we gener

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/3] Generic Trace Setup and Control (GTSC) code

2007-07-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Please see comments below, * Tom Zanussi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The Generic Tracing and Control Interface (GTSC) code. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: David Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > include/linux/gtsc.h | 104 + > lib/Kconfig

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Generic Trace Setup and Control (GTSC) Documentation

2007-07-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Tom Zanussi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This is the documentation for the Generic Trace Setup and Control > patchset, first submitted a couple of weeks ago. See > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118214274912586&w=2 > > for a more detailed description. > > I've updated this patch to inco

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 04:27 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > I tried the previous patch and it looks like it fixes the issue however > one of the test builds I did caused depmod to use up all available memory > (40M - kernel memory) before taking out the kernel with the oom killer. > At present, I

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, I tried the previous patch and it looks like it fixes the issue however one of the test builds I did caused depmod to use up all available memory (40M - kernel memory) before taking out the kernel with the oom killer. At present, I do not know if it is a depmod issue or a kernel issu

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Oliver Neukum writes: > That's why we have the problem of freezing the kernel threads or not. That problem is a symptom of the deeper conceptual problem, as is the problem with FUSE. > You want to have all that pain for fuse? I'd certainly rather get the drivers right, and maybe have an occasio

Re: [RFC PATCH 2/6] Driver Tracing Interface (DTI) code

2007-07-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Please see comments below, * Tom Zanussi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The Driver Tracing Interface (DTI) code. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: David Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/base/Kconfig | 11 > drivers/base/Makefile |

Re: [RFC PATCH 4/6] relay: add relay_reserve_cpu()

2007-07-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Tom Zanussi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This patch adds the ability to explicitly specify the per-cpu buffer > to reserve space in. Needed for early DTI tracing. > This should come with the ability to tell relay where the already allocated static buffers are. Can you tell me a little more on

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/6] Driver Tracing Interface (DTI) Documentation

2007-07-03 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Hi Tom, I'm glad to see that other people are tackling the tracing task. I must say that there is a lot here that was already out there in LTTng. I will be happy to review the code you present. Please see comments below. * Tom Zanussi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > This patchset contains t

Re: Libata PATA status

2007-07-03 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 03, 2007, at 13:51:16, Alan Cox wrote: Libata General with respect to PATA [...snip...] Chipsets [...snip...] I'd love to try to poke holes in the libata PATA support, but sadly it doesn't look like any of my systems built-in ATA chipset

LZMA error on 2.6.16

2007-07-03 Thread yong Jung
Hi, . While compiling kernel on FC7, kernel-2.6.16 with LZMA compression utilily, we got the following compile error message. I already applied two pathes,lzma-init-2.6.16.patch5 , lzma-vmlinuz-2.6.16.patch5. And during compressing vmlinuz, I meet an error like the following messages. I also tried

Re: [tifm] Infinite loop

2007-07-03 Thread Alex Dubov
--- "Renato S. Yamane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I insert a SDCard in my laptop M45-S355 my system crash because > tifm start a infinite loop. See below more detail about SD/MMC Card and > infinite loop. If you are using the built-in version found in 2.6.21 then it is a known problem.

Re: [PATCH][Documentation][resend] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-07-03 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:21:02 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:08:32 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > That's Rob's problem, I guess. > > > > Let's leave final judgement of the patch to Rob then. That's fine by me. > > I plan to obsolete it within the next month, but for 2.6.22 you migh

Re: PKTCDVD related bugzilla bugs

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Peter. Peter Osterlund wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Hello, it's me again. >> >> We have another bug which reportedly is related to pktcdvd. Please >> respond. >> >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7547 >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7805 >

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- Problems with suspend/resume.

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:09:29 -0700 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry. I don't know who else to include in the To: list. Should I > send this again with .config information? Would ps -Af help? Gosh, what a lot of output we generated. It's pretty digestible though. It looks like t

Re: [PATCH][Documentation][resend] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-07-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 21:08:32 Jesper Juhl wrote: > > That's Rob's problem, I guess. > > Let's leave final judgement of the patch to Rob then. That's fine by me. I plan to obsolete it within the next month, but for 2.6.22 you might as well update it. I'll integrate that data that's there into

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with > the answer) - changing linux elevator changes almost > nothing in the results - modulo some rando

Re: Don't miss the ARM-scsi fix.

2007-07-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:31:04 Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=4454/1 > > > > > > It fixes a regression that occurred between 2.6.20 and 2.6.20-rc1. > > > Without it, qemu-system-arm can't use emulated SCSI drives. It wasn't >

Re: 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions with patches

2007-07-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Linus, also what about the revert of the HPET reservation? That would > fix a clear regression too. Thanks for reminding me. It probably isn't much of a regression any more (since we added the code to not use the HPET when it doesn't seem to be workin

2.6.22-rc6-mm1: BUG_ON() mm/memory.c, vm_insert_pfn(), filemap_xip.c, and spufs

2007-07-03 Thread Jared Hulbert
Recently there has been some discussion of the possiblity of reworking some of filemap_xip.c to be pfn oriented. This would allow an XIP fork of cramfs to use the filemap_xip framework. Today this is not possible. I've been trying out vm_insert_pfn() to start down that road. I used spufs as a

Re: [PATCH][Documentation][resend] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-07-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 03/07/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:05:59 +0200 Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds descriptions for a number of missing files and directories > to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. > People really should learn to keep this file up-to-d

RE: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

2007-07-03 Thread Fortier,Vincent [Montreal]
> -Message d'origine- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Chuck Ebbert > Envoyé : 3 juillet 2007 17:03 > > On 07/03/2007 03:28 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: > > Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: > > > >> An interesting exercise might be to > >> code up a small program

[2.6 patch] remove mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()

2007-07-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:35:36PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:20:51 +0200 > > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used. > > > > We might as well just de

Re: [PATCH][isapnp] Fix a potential NULL pointer dereference in isapnp_read_tag()

2007-07-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 03/07/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:38:31 +0200 Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Coverity checker spotted (as bug #809) that we dereference 'type' > long before we actually test it against NULL in > drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c::isapnp_read_tag()

Re: [PATCH][Documentation][resend] Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/

2007-07-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 15:58:52 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:05:59 +0200 > > Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This patch adds descriptions for a number of missing files and > > directories to the Documentation/00-INDEX file. > > People really should learn to keep this fil

[PATCH 4/4] usb: allocated usb releated dma buffer with kmalloc_node

2007-07-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH 4/4] usb: allocated usb releated dma buffer with kmalloc_node For amd64 based two way system. USB always on node0. but dma buffer for urb allocated via kmalloc always get ram on node1. So change to kmalloc_node to get dma_buffer on corresponding node. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:17:04PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > >Leave the process blocked and defer any i/o until after resume. Why does > >it need to be any more complicated than that? > > It gets complicated when this has to be added and TESTED in EVERY > driver. Th

[PATCH 1/4] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH 1/4] try parent numa_node at first before using default Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index dd40d78..c344d82 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -547,6 +547,8 @@ static void klist_children_put(

[PATCH 3/4] net: make forcedeth to use kmalloc_node and __netdev_alloc_skb for skb allocation

2007-07-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH 3/4] net: make forcedeth to use kmalloc_node and __netdev_alloc_skb for skb allocation Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c index 42ba1c0..aa188f4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/forcedeth.c +++ b/drivers/net/forcedeth.c @@

[PATCH 2/4] net: use numa_node in net_devcice->dev instead of parent

2007-07-03 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH 2/4] net: use numa_node in net_devcice->dev instead of parent Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/net/core/skbuff.c b/net/core/skbuff.c index 27cfe5f..005cc1c 100644 --- a/net/core/skbuff.c +++ b/net/core/skbuff.c @@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ nodata: struct sk_buff *__netdev_

Re: vm/fs meetup in september?

2007-07-03 Thread Dongjun Shin
I'd like to reference a paper titled "FASS : A Flash-Aware Swap System". (http://kernel.kaist.ac.kr/~jinsoo/publication/iwssps05.pdf) The paper describes a technique that uses NAND flash as a swap device without FTL (Flash Translation Layer) or filesystem. It is not related with XIP, however. O

[PATCH] Remove unneeded lock_kernel() in drivers/block/loop.c

2007-07-03 Thread Diego Woitasen
This patch remove the unneeded lock_kernel() in drivers/block/loop.c. I read the code as this lock_kernel() doesn't protect anything. Loopback code use lo_ctl_mutex for syncronization. diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index 0ed5470..1cc004e 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.

Re: [PATCH] Two trivial whitespace fixes in lockdep/spinlock code

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:14:42 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Two trivial whitespace fixes in lockdep/spinlock code > > Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git a/kernel/lock

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:21:42PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're using goes away - NFS has done it forever. You persist in evading my point. I'm not worried abo

Re: New systems: eu.kernel.org

2007-07-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > Can you fix diff view feature? > > "diffview is looping on the cached resource: > /home/httpd/cache/diffview/_I/_IeThHWuB2t0pJl1sQoV2px2OXY/index" > Fixed, thanks for the note. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

[PATCH] [RESEND] X86_64: fix wrong comment regarding set_fixmap()

2007-07-03 Thread Jiri Kosina
[ still no comment to it, another resend together with the rest of my queue ] From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X86_64: fix wrong comment regarding set_fixmap() The function name is set_fixmap(), not fixmap_set() as stated in the comment. Also fix a typo, punctuation and lower/upp

[PATCH] kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler

2007-07-03 Thread Jiri Kosina
From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kernel/printk.c: document possible deadlock against scheduler The printk's comment states that it can be called from every context, which might lead to false illusion that it could be called from everywhere without any restrictions. This is however not true

[PATCH] Two trivial whitespace fixes in lockdep/spinlock code

2007-07-03 Thread Jiri Kosina
From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Two trivial whitespace fixes in lockdep/spinlock code Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c index 1a5ff22..12ca5fd 100644 --- a/kernel/lockdep.c +++ b/kernel/lockde

Re: New systems: eu.kernel.org

2007-07-03 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Peter, On 04/07/07, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Thanks to HP, ISC and Umeå Universitet, kernel.org now has official servers in Europe. Specifically, we have www1.eu.kernel.org hosted at ISC Amsterdam, and www2.eu.kernel.org at UMU (Umeå, Sweden.) They are collectively

Re: [PATCH] libata_acpi: A different strategy for using ACPI information

2007-07-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Alan Cox wrote: Lots of BIOSen simply return the BIOS set modes via the ACPI methods and pass back the values you give it across suspend/resume. Thus instead of trying to do clever stuff with this data we instead use it as a way to take a sneak peak at cable type information when viable. This sho

Re: 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions with patches

2007-07-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 00:12:10 Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.07.03 14:42:25 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > > > Andi said that one of the regression fixes wasn't critical for .22 and > > > that he wants to do a stopgap for the other r

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:47 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: > Hi David, > > I will try out your patch shortly. Thanks. > I may be wrong about the size calculations but if you take a look at lines > 2174 to 2188 and 2207 to 2203, reading the comments suggest to me that > these need to be changed t

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- BUG - EIP: [] drm_vma_info+0x2a5/0x310 [drm] SS:ESP 0068:c80cde9c

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:59:08 -0700 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran the command: > find /proc | xargs grep a > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual > address > printing eip: > f8ac1350 > *pde = > Oops: [#1] > SMP > Modu

Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version

2007-07-03 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Jul 03, 2007 18:15 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > How will nfsd tell whether it can really on a given filesystem's > i_version, or whether it should fall back on ctime? Good question. > > As to performance concerns that raise before the inode version counter > > (at least for ext4) is done i

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 3/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:17 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EFI x86_64 support Patch 3 of 3 (try #2) > > - Fixed redundant check in efifb_init(). > > This patch depends on the EFI x86_64 patches 1/3 and 2/3. > > This patch adds

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 2/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:16 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > EFI x86_64 support Patch 2 of 3 (try #2) > > - E820 conversion integration implemented > - A way to override machine_emergency_restart is implemented so that > EFI supp

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21 1/3] x86_64 EFI64 support Try #2

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:06:15 -0700 Chandramouli Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You just sent three patches, all with the same name. Please take care to choose different and good Subject:s for each patch. http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt covers this a bit. > EFI x8

[RFC PATCH 0/2] raid5: 65% sequential-write performance improvement, stripe-queue take2

2007-07-03 Thread Dan Williams
The first take of the stripe-queue implementation[1] had a performance limiting bug in __wait_for_inactive_queue. Fixing that issue drastically changed the performance characteristics. The following data from tiobench shows the relative performance difference of the stripe-queue patchset. Unit i

New systems: eu.kernel.org

2007-07-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Hi all, Thanks to HP, ISC and Umeå Universitet, kernel.org now has official servers in Europe. Specifically, we have www1.eu.kernel.org hosted at ISC Amsterdam, and www2.eu.kernel.org at UMU (Umeå, Sweden.) They are collectively accessible as www.eu.kernel.org. This is a full service of kernel.

Re: [tifm] Infinite loop

2007-07-03 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Renato S. Yamane escreveu: When I insert a SDCard in my laptop M45-S355 my system crash because tifm start a infinite loop. See below more detail about SD/MMC Card and infinite loop. ... I forgot: $uname -vr 2.6.21.1 #1 PREEMPT Sun May 20 22:28:53 BRT 2007 Best regards, Renato - To unsubscri

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Paul Mackerras
Oliver Neukum writes: > USB devices certainly have suspend methods. Indeed, and the USB framework has code to know when the host controller is suspended and avoid trying to send out urbs in that case. Or at least it did last time I looked at it in any detail; it's been "just working" - including

Re: [patch 06/10] Immediate Value - i386 Optimization

2007-07-03 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 07/03/2007 04:18 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: One could, though, use an indirect jump to achieve, if not as good, at least most of the effect: movl$, jmp * Yeah, but there's this GCC bug: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc7: known regressions

2007-07-03 Thread David Chinner
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Hi, > > On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > IDE > > > > Subject: 2.6.22-rcX: hda: lost interrupt > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/29/121 > > Submitter : David Chinner <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 00:04 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:48 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 3. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 21:32 +0200, Oliver Neukum wr

Re: [PATCH] Improve behaviour of Dreamcast aica ALSA driver in poor resource conditions

2007-07-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 03/07/07, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This patch stops the driver from crashing in certain situations (eg if the network fails when NFS mounted), please apply. Actually, looked at this again and while the previous patch stopped the driver from crashing it still locked the so

Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] uvesafb: a general description

2007-07-03 Thread Gabriel C
Gabriel C wrote: Michal Januszewski wrote: uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1]. [ .. ] I've just tested uvesafb on my workstation ( which has a really old GeForce2 MX 400 Nvidia card )

2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- BUG - EIP: [] drm_vma_info+0x2a5/0x310 [drm] SS:ESP 0068:c80cde9c

2007-07-03 Thread Miles Lane
I ran the command: find /proc | xargs grep a BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address printing eip: f8ac1350 *pde = Oops: [#1] SMP Modules linked in: arc4 ecb blkcipher cryptomgr crypto_algapi ieee80211_crypt_wep bluetooth i915 drm a

[tifm] Infinite loop

2007-07-03 Thread Renato S. Yamane
When I insert a SDCard in my laptop M45-S355 my system crash because tifm start a infinite loop. See below more detail about SD/MMC Card and infinite loop. 05:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Unknown device f

Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)

2007-07-03 Thread Mark Fortescue
Hi David, I will try out your patch shortly. On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, David Woodhouse wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 22:25 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote: The problem is that sun4c Sparc32 can't handle un-aligned variables so having a 64bit readzone word that is not aligned on a 64bit boundary is a pro

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 06:21:42PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're > > using goes away - NFS has done it forever. > > You persist in evading my point. I'm not worried about applicat

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:36, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:20, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > We're used to the idea of applications blocking when a resource they're > > > using goes away - NFS has done it

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:35, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 23:32 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Still, do you really think that we're ready to drop it _right_ _now_ > > (I'm > > referring to suspend only) and if so than on what basis (except that > > you > > don'

Re: [-mm patch] #if 0 mm/backing-dev.c:congestion_wait_interruptible()

2007-07-03 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 14:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:20:51 +0200 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > congestion_wait_interruptible() is no longer used. > > We might as well just delete it? I agree. We're better off deleting it, but either would be fine by me

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

2007-07-03 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Hi, Zoltan Boszormenyi írta: Hi, I am testing your current code with akpm's beautifying patches for about an hour now. I have seen no problems with it so far. Still using the patch on 2.6.22-rc6 and no problems so far. It's really stable. I am looking forward to the next version and the inclu

Re: [AppArmor 01/44] Pass struct vfsmount to the inode_create LSM hook

2007-07-03 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Saturday 30 June 2007 11:29, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 04:07:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This is needed for computing pathnames in the AppArmor LSM. > > Please see the various per-mountpoint r/o thread that NACKed all the > vfsmount additions and have the ra

[PATCH] dio: remove bogus refcounting BUG_ON

2007-07-03 Thread Zach Brown
Linus, Andrew, please apply the bug fix patch at the end of this reply for .22. > >>One of our perf. team ran into this while doing some runs. > >>I didn't see anything obvious - it looks like we converted > >>async IO to synchronous one. I didn't spend much time digging > >>around. OK, I think t

Re: [PATCH] pata_hpt3x3: Major reworking and testing

2007-07-03 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Tuesday 03 July 2007, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/10/drivers/block/hpt343.c > > > Does anybody have DOS driver for HPT343? Google doesn't have it... > > I have the drivers for HPT34[35] -- tried dissassemb

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 23:35, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > I don't think that would matter. > > > > Still, I can remove the sync from the suspend code path only, leaving it in > > the hibernation code path. The patch will be bigger, but well. > > > > Any objection to that? > > Makes se

Re: [PATCH] fix error handling in ext3_create_journal

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 00:11:11 +0200 Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- > From: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fix error handling in ext3_create_journal according to kernel conventions. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- > > Index: linux-2.6.22-rc

Re: [PATCH] genericserial: Remove bogus optimisation check and dead code paths

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:36:22 +0200 Morten Helgesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /* > > Problems to take into account are: > > -1- Interrupts that empty part of the buffer. > -> -2- page faults on the access to userspace. > +> -2- Page faults on access to userspace. #2 no l

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:37PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > But that's fine - "Are we undergoing a systemwide suspend" is an easy > > > question to ask. Freezing processes instead means that most of

Re: [PATCH 1/4] scsi: megaraid_sas -- add hibernation support

2007-07-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:31:23 -0400 bo yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The megaraid_sas driver doesn't support the hibernation, the > suspend/resume routine implemented to support the hibernation. > > Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.c |

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-07-03 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > Not really, what happens when the user presses alt-F1? Well, if the console is switched to medium raw or raw mode, nothing happens. > A way to tell the kernel that events from a given input device should > not go to the console

Re: [EXT4 set 4][PATCH 1/5] i_version:64 bit inode version

2007-07-03 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:58:33AM -0400, Mingming Cao wrote: > Trond or Bruce, can you please review these patch series and ack if you > agrees? Thanks, looks like what we need! How will nfsd tell whether it can really on a given filesystem's i_version, or whether it should fall back on ctime?

[ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

2007-07-03 Thread Karel Zak
The first util-linux-ng 2.13 release candidate is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/ Thanks to all who help with util-linux resuscitation: H. Peter Anvin Ian Kent and contribute to this project: Arkadiusz Miskiewicz Matthias Koeni

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