Re: [linux-usb-devel] [2.6.22-rc7] khubd NULL deref oops...

2007-07-12 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:41:13 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > > > Try disabling CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. It makes lots of USB bugs go away > > > > I'll give it a shot. For the record, I wasn't trying to perform a > > suspend at

Re: Forward port of latest RT patch (2.6.21.5-rt20) to 2.6.22 available

2007-07-12 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Hi All, Sorry for my poor english. On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:58 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: [...] > I just wanted to let you guys know that our team has a port of the > 21.5-rt20 patch for the 2.6.22 kernel available. Great! Thanks a lot for effort! I'm doing the same thing and i don't

Re: about cs5536 interrupt ack

2007-07-12 Thread Songmao Tian
8259 problem seems to be done with the attached patch, IDE hung seems to be the dma setting problem. Thanks all for your advise, comments. I have learned a lot. now I continue to trace down the IDE problem. Mao Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Songmao Tian wrote: Huh?

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

2007-07-12 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:50PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: > > Well, if you see the modes proposed using above flags : > > > > #define FA_ALLOCATE 0 > > #define FA_DEALLOCATE FA_FL_DEALLOC > > #define FA_RESV_SPACE

Re: [RFT][PATCH] mm: drop behind

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Tim, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:37 -0700, Tim Pepper wrote: > On 7/9/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use the read-ahead code to provide hints to page reclaim. > > > > This patch has the potential to solve the streaming-IO trashes my > > desktop problem. > > > > It tries to

[PATCH] lguest: disable SYSENTER for guests

2007-07-12 Thread Rusty Russell
The SYSENTER instruction jumps to a pre-programmed address at privilege level 0. We must not allow execution of guest code at that privilege level, so disable sysenter when we enter the guest (and re-enable it on return). This fixes current case where guest userspace can crash host. This

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-12 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:47:52 +0200, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch does nothing for all subsystems which do > > device_initialize(); > dev->parent = pd; > device_add(); > > Let's avoid to add infrastructure which does nothing, or only does > something by

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread david
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Huang, Ying wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: This sounds awesome. Am I correct in expecting that ultimately the existing hibernation implementation just goes away and we reuse (and hence strengthen) the existing kexec (and kdump?)

[M68KNOMMU]: generic irq handling

2007-07-12 Thread Greg Ungerer
Change the m68knommu irq handling to use the generic irq framework. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/m68knommu/Kconfig |4 arch/m68knommu/kernel/Makefile |4 arch/m68knommu/kernel/asm-offsets.c|5 arch/m68knommu/kernel/irq.c

AHCI linkage error in 2.6.22+git

2007-07-12 Thread Meelis Roos
Trying to compile modular AHCI on ppc (prep): MODPOST 648 modules ERROR: "ahci_port_resume" [drivers/ata/ahci.ko] undefined! -- Meelis Roos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [PATCH RFC] extent mapped page cache

2007-07-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:03, Chris Mason wrote: > This patch aims to demonstrate one way to replace buffer heads with a > few extent trees... Hi Chris, Quite terse commentary on algorithms and data structures, but I suppose that is not a problem because Jon has a whole week to reverse engineer

Re: [Patch RT] Fix CFS load balancing for RT tasks

2007-07-12 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:41:55 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:47 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: > > > > > > P.S. Thanks to Steven Rostedt for logdev which is proving invaluable in > > >cases like this. > > > > > Great to hear!!! > >

Re: Lost JBD fix

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:50:11 +0200 Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL) { > > > + if (commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_list == NULL && > > > + commit_transaction->t_checkpoint_io_list == NULL) { > > >

Re: Lost JBD fix

2007-07-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 11 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 07/09/2007 02:14 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > it seems we've accidentally lost one JBD fix (probably it was my mistake > > when rediffing some checkpointing changes) as Kirill has noted. A > > transaction > > can currently be

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread david
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:30:31 + "Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Boot a kernel A > 2. Work under kernel A > 3. Kexec another kernel B in kernel A > 4. Work under kernel B > 5. Jump from kernel B to

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread Huang, Ying
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > This sounds awesome. Am I correct in expecting that ultimately the > existing hibernation implementation just goes away and we reuse (and hence > strengthen) the existing kexec (and kdump?) infrastructure? > And that we get hibernation

Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-07-12 Thread William Tambe
Stas Sergeev wrote: Hi. William Tambe wrote: I understand your concern. But since I am working on a dynamic memory management code that I wish to use with other projects that I have, I didn't find appropriate to use shm_open. Could you please provide a detailed list of the problems you

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-12 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:08:36PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Jesper Juhl wrote: > >One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage > >fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a > >while now, so people really should have gotten around to

Re: [Patch RT] Fix CFS load balancing for RT tasks

2007-07-12 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:06:20 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:47 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: > > The following patch fixes this by re-enabling the RT overload detection > > for the CFS. It may not be the right solution, maybe it should be > >

RE: [PATCH 3/4] Extend the DMA-engine API.

2007-07-12 Thread Zhang Wei-r63237
Hi, Dan, Thanks! I get it. It's so lucky we have the same target. When your patch could be accepted? Cheers, Wei. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:57 AM > To: Zhang Wei-r63237 > Cc:

Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use --build-id ld option

2007-07-12 Thread Roland McGrath
> Does this mean that performing the same link twice *will* produce an > identical result? Yes. - 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.html Please read

Re: [PATCH 05/11] security: revalidate rw permissions for sys_splice and sys_vmsplice

2007-07-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 11 2007, James Morris wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, James Morris wrote: > > > Revalidate read/write permissions for splice(2) and vmslice(2), in case > > security policy has changed since the files were opened. > > This patch clashes with changes which came in via Jens (who I'll

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-12 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jesper Juhl wrote: One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a while now, so people really should have gotten around to fixing any code that can't handle it. Are there still any big problem areas

Re: [PATCH] relay: fix bogus cast in subbuf_splice_actor()

2007-07-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 11 2007, Tom Zanussi wrote: > The current code that sets the read position in subbuf_splice_actor may > give erroneous results if the buffer size isn't a power of 2. This > patch fixes the problem. Thanks Tom, I just added this for my upstream branch, if you submit it directly first,

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-07-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:50:40AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 05:38:48 -0700, > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Sorry for taking so long to respond, I've been offline for a month] > > > Can you resend me the new patch, I seem to have lost it in this thread > > :( >

Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

2007-07-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 10:50:40AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 05:38:48 -0700, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Sorry for taking so long to respond, I've been offline for a month] Can you resend me the new patch, I seem to have lost it in this thread :( Andrew has

Re: [PATCH] relay: fix bogus cast in subbuf_splice_actor()

2007-07-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 11 2007, Tom Zanussi wrote: The current code that sets the read position in subbuf_splice_actor may give erroneous results if the buffer size isn't a power of 2. This patch fixes the problem. Thanks Tom, I just added this for my upstream branch, if you submit it directly first,

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-12 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jesper Juhl wrote: One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a while now, so people really should have gotten around to fixing any code that can't handle it. Are there still any big problem areas

Re: [PATCH 05/11] security: revalidate rw permissions for sys_splice and sys_vmsplice

2007-07-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 11 2007, James Morris wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, James Morris wrote: Revalidate read/write permissions for splice(2) and vmslice(2), in case security policy has changed since the files were opened. This patch clashes with changes which came in via Jens (who I'll submit the

Re: [PATCH 7/7] Use --build-id ld option

2007-07-12 Thread Roland McGrath
Does this mean that performing the same link twice *will* produce an identical result? Yes. - 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.html Please read the

Re: [Patch RT] Fix CFS load balancing for RT tasks

2007-07-12 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:06:20 +0200 Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:47 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: The following patch fixes this by re-enabling the RT overload detection for the CFS. It may not be the right solution, maybe it should be incorporated

RE: [PATCH 3/4] Extend the DMA-engine API.

2007-07-12 Thread Zhang Wei-r63237
Hi, Dan, Thanks! I get it. It's so lucky we have the same target. When your patch could be accepted? Cheers, Wei. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:57 AM To: Zhang Wei-r63237 Cc: [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH][RFC] 4K stacks default, not a debug thing any more...?

2007-07-12 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:08:36PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Jesper Juhl wrote: One of the big problem spots was XFS, but that got some stack usage fixes recently, and the 4K stack option has been around for quite a while now, so people really should have gotten around to fixing any

Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-07-12 Thread William Tambe
Stas Sergeev wrote: Hi. William Tambe wrote: I understand your concern. But since I am working on a dynamic memory management code that I wish to use with other projects that I have, I didn't find appropriate to use shm_open. Could you please provide a detailed list of the problems you

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread Huang, Ying
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: This sounds awesome. Am I correct in expecting that ultimately the existing hibernation implementation just goes away and we reuse (and hence strengthen) the existing kexec (and kdump?) infrastructure? And that we get hibernation support

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread david
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:30:31 + Huang, Ying [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Boot a kernel A 2. Work under kernel A 3. Kexec another kernel B in kernel A 4. Work under kernel B 5. Jump from kernel B to kernel A

Re: Lost JBD fix

2007-07-12 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 11 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: On 07/09/2007 02:14 PM, Jan Kara wrote: Hi Andrew, it seems we've accidentally lost one JBD fix (probably it was my mistake when rediffing some checkpointing changes) as Kirill has noted. A transaction can currently be released when there

Re: Lost JBD fix

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 08:50:11 +0200 Jens Axboe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if (commit_transaction-t_checkpoint_list == NULL) { + if (commit_transaction-t_checkpoint_list == NULL + commit_transaction-t_checkpoint_io_list == NULL) { __journal_drop_transaction(journal,

Re: [Patch RT] Fix CFS load balancing for RT tasks

2007-07-12 Thread Sébastien Dugué
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:41:55 -0400 (EDT) Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:47 +0200, Sébastien Dugué wrote: P.S. Thanks to Steven Rostedt for logdev which is proving invaluable in cases like this. Great to hear!!! I'll be uploading a

Re: [PATCH RFC] extent mapped page cache

2007-07-12 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 10 July 2007 14:03, Chris Mason wrote: This patch aims to demonstrate one way to replace buffer heads with a few extent trees... Hi Chris, Quite terse commentary on algorithms and data structures, but I suppose that is not a problem because Jon has a whole week to reverse engineer

AHCI linkage error in 2.6.22+git

2007-07-12 Thread Meelis Roos
Trying to compile modular AHCI on ppc (prep): MODPOST 648 modules ERROR: ahci_port_resume [drivers/ata/ahci.ko] undefined! -- Meelis Roos ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

[M68KNOMMU]: generic irq handling

2007-07-12 Thread Greg Ungerer
Change the m68knommu irq handling to use the generic irq framework. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/m68knommu/Kconfig |4 arch/m68knommu/kernel/Makefile |4 arch/m68knommu/kernel/asm-offsets.c|5 arch/m68knommu/kernel/irq.c

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread david
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Huang, Ying wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: This sounds awesome. Am I correct in expecting that ultimately the existing hibernation implementation just goes away and we reuse (and hence strengthen) the existing kexec (and kdump?)

Re: [PATCH 1/5] try parent numa_node at first before using default

2007-07-12 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:47:52 +0200, Stefan Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The patch does nothing for all subsystems which do device_initialize(dev); dev-parent = pd; device_add(dev); Let's avoid to add infrastructure which does nothing, or only does something by

[PATCH] lguest: disable SYSENTER for guests

2007-07-12 Thread Rusty Russell
The SYSENTER instruction jumps to a pre-programmed address at privilege level 0. We must not allow execution of guest code at that privilege level, so disable sysenter when we enter the guest (and re-enable it on return). This fixes current case where guest userspace can crash host. This

Re: [RFT][PATCH] mm: drop behind

2007-07-12 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Tim, On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:37 -0700, Tim Pepper wrote: On 7/9/07, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use the read-ahead code to provide hints to page reclaim. This patch has the potential to solve the streaming-IO trashes my desktop problem. It tries to aggressively

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

2007-07-12 Thread Suparna Bhattacharya
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:50PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: Well, if you see the modes proposed using above flags : #define FA_ALLOCATE 0 #define FA_DEALLOCATE FA_FL_DEALLOC #define FA_RESV_SPACE

Re: about cs5536 interrupt ack

2007-07-12 Thread Songmao Tian
8259 problem seems to be done with the attached patch, IDE hung seems to be the dma setting problem. Thanks all for your advise, comments. I have learned a lot. now I continue to trace down the IDE problem. Mao Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Songmao Tian wrote: Huh?

Re: Forward port of latest RT patch (2.6.21.5-rt20) to 2.6.22 available

2007-07-12 Thread Alessio Igor Bogani
Hi All, Sorry for my poor english. On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:58 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: [...] I just wanted to let you guys know that our team has a port of the 21.5-rt20 patch for the 2.6.22 kernel available. Great! Thanks a lot for effort! I'm doing the same thing and i don't

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [2.6.22-rc7] khubd NULL deref oops...

2007-07-12 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:41:13 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Daniel J Blueman wrote: Try disabling CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND. It makes lots of USB bugs go away I'll give it a shot. For the record, I wasn't trying to perform a suspend at this time (or

Hard drive - dead or dying?

2007-07-12 Thread David Sumbler
My computer (Ubuntu Feisty) would not boot correctly a few days ago: it seemed to get into a loop with the following printed about every 7 seconds (all laboriously copied in longhand, since it wasn't logged!): ata1.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata1.01: (BMDMA stat 0x65)

Re: acpi regression on some laptops

2007-07-12 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:58:20 + Alex Maclean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hw is a Dell Inspiron 1501, AMD Turion TL52 based. drop me a note if you need dmesg or other info. eax ineax ebx ecx edx 0001 68747541 444d4163 69746e65 0001 00040f82

Re: AHCI linkage error in 2.6.22+git

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Meelis Roos wrote: Trying to compile modular AHCI on ppc (prep): MODPOST 648 modules ERROR: ahci_port_resume [drivers/ata/ahci.ko] undefined! Do you have CONFIG_PM disabled? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] lguest: disable SYSENTER for guests

2007-07-12 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: The SYSENTER instruction jumps to a pre-programmed address at privilege level 0. We must not allow execution of guest code at that privilege level, so disable sysenter when we enter the guest (and re-enable it on return). This fixes current case where guest userspace

[PATCH] BLOCK: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable.

2007-07-12 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/block/umem.c b/drivers/block/umem.c index 6f5d620..62c9d08 100644 --- a/drivers/block/umem.c +++ b/drivers/block/umem.c @@ -105,12 +105,6 @@ struct cardinfo { unsigned long csr_base; unsigned char

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/4] fbdev: uvesafb

2007-07-12 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 12:49 +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: My apologies for the delayed response. I had problems with my ISP. uvesafb is a generic driver for VBE2+ compliant video cards; an enhanced version of vesafb and a direct successor of vesafb-tng [1]. uvesafb uses a userspace

Re: [PATCH] Pass -g to assembler under CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO

2007-07-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 11 2007 16:53, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: OK, thanks. So I ended up with the below as a probably-2.6.23 thing: ... +AFLAGS+= $(call as-option,

Re: 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 -- BUG - EIP: [c01a77a1] sysfs_addrm_finish+0x1c2/0x226 SS:ESP 0068:c5ff9db8

2007-07-12 Thread Miles Lane
Tejun, I tried 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 + your latest patch, and it failed to boot. Unfortunately, the machine limped along and am unable to capture the initial BUG or OOPS. I'll try to get a serial connection set up for debugging tomorrow, but I am very busy with other stuff. It would be great if you

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

2007-07-12 Thread Amit K. Arora
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:58:13PM +0530, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:03:12AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 05:16:50PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote: Well, if you see the modes proposed using above flags : #define FA_ALLOCATE 0

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread Huang, Ying
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 13:13 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Looks interesting... but I was feeling strange dejavu reading this... and that's because you pasted the changelog twice :-). Sorry, I should have re-checked the mail before sending out. How fast can kexec boot secondary kernel?

pnp_assign_resources() issue

2007-07-12 Thread Jan Beulich
Adam, I'm having some difficulty understanding why failure to probe for a resource (in the given case, a DMA channel, but the issue is perhaps more generic) must always result in failure of the probing of the requesting device. In any case, the driver is required to call request_dma(), and in

Re: [PATCH] lguest: disable SYSENTER for guests

2007-07-12 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:47 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Rusty Russell wrote: But what kind of daredevil coder would propose such a thing?) Ah, so this is why you want -next in preempt hooks. Well, my plan for this sort of thing (for kvm has the same issues with the *STAR family of msrs) is

Re: [PATCH 2/2] vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 2: base 10 conversion speedup, v2

2007-07-12 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 12 2007 01:26, Denis Vlasenko wrote: Neither of your patches had signed-off-by:s. Would prefer that they were included please, given that we're adding stuff from someone's website. Sorry. Consider this added to both patches: Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes. Denys

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: make fb_find_mode look for a mode with the highest refresh rate

2007-07-12 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 12:50 +0200, Michal Januszewski wrote: If the refresh rate hasn't been explicitly specified, fd_find_mode currently returns the first mode with the requested resolution. Change it so that it returns a mode with the requested resolution and the highest refresh rate.

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: make fb_find_mode look for a mode with the highest refresh rate

2007-07-12 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 11:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:50:46 +0200 Michal Januszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the refresh rate hasn't been explicitly specified, fd_find_mode currently returns the first mode with the requested resolution. Change it so that it

Re: [PATCH] Optimize struct task_delay_info

2007-07-12 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 14:27 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: Zhang, Yanmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: replace them; 2) Delete lock. The change to the protected data has no nested cases. In addition, the result is for performance data collection, so it’s unnecessary to add such lock. Not sure

[PATCH] h8300 remove unused file

2007-07-12 Thread Yoshinori Sato
arch/h8300/kernel/ints.c is unused. Signed-off-by: Yoshinori Sato [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/h8300/kernel/ints.c b/arch/h8300/kernel/ints.c deleted file mode 100644 index 3e4f479..000 --- a/arch/h8300/kernel/ints.c +++ /dev/null @@ -1,256 +0,0 @@ -/* - *

PROBLEM: kernel hang in ohci init

2007-07-12 Thread Timo Lindemann
Hi all, a problem report to something giving me a real headache: [1.] Kernel hangs when initializing ohci-controller [2.] The version 2.6.22 of the linux kernel hangs when initializing the integrated ohci controller of the nvidia MCP51 chipset (pci device ids vendor:product == 10de:26d). I have

[PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-12 Thread Henne
Removes the proc_fs interface from the ACPI button driver. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |8 - drivers/acpi/button.c | 195 - 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 201

Re: [PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:58 +0200, Henne wrote: Removes the proc_fs interface from the ACPI button driver. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- you forgot to say why. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread Huang, Ying
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 22:48 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: The kexec jump is implemented in the framework of software suspend. In fact, the kexec based hibernation can be seen as just implementing the image writing and reading method of software suspend with a kexeced Linux kernel.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86-64: introduce struct pci_sysdata to facilitate sharing of -sysdata

2007-07-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:17:31AM +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:45 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Andi, please consider applying for 2.6.23. Applies on top of the Calgary update I just sent out (Calgary: more updates for 2.6.23). This patch introduces struct

Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86-64: introduce struct pci_sysdata to facilitate sharing of -sysdata

2007-07-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 12:10 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 09:17:31AM +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:45 +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Andi, please consider applying for 2.6.23. Applies on top of the Calgary update I just sent out (Calgary:

Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86-64: introduce struct pci_sysdata to facilitate sharing of -sysdata

2007-07-12 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 05:13:05PM +0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I very much start to dislike the untyped sysdata... I much rather have separate fields for the different uses (like a IOMMU field) that aren't going to share ever. Possibly even typed, but for IOMMU that may be

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread Huang, Ying
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 00:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kexec jump is the first step, maybe the simplest step. There are many other issues to be resolved, at least the following ones. 1. Separate device suspend from device hibernate. Maybe my usage of terminology has some

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Hughes
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:32 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: [*] Does someone have an alternative for /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/{state,info}? I'm working on it. Should have proto by the end of week. If you are using the power_supply class (i hope you are ;-) then a HAL from freedesktop git

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor applied. In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit, particularly for EDMA. The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away, because that routine went away.

Re: [PATCH 2/2] workqueue: debug work related deadlocks with lockdep

2007-07-12 Thread Johannes Berg
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 16:53 +0400, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Yes, got it, but forgot to reply to myself. But thanks for your confirmation of my understanding. :) I believe both patches are nice. Is there anything I should be doing now to get these patches in? johannes signature.asc

Re: [PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-12 Thread Henne
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:58 +0200, Henne wrote: Removes the proc_fs interface from the ACPI button driver. Signed-off-by: Henrik Kretzschmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- you forgot to say why. First, because refering to

Re: 2.6.22-rc6 bad page error

2007-07-12 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: + gfp = ~GFP_DMA; The canonical form for this masking, even on arches without HIGHMEM, appears to be: gfp = ~(__GFP_DMA | __GFP_HIGHMEM); But I guess that won't make any actual difference. As far as I can see, none of

RE: [PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-12 Thread Zhang, Rui
Well, the ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet and some user space tools still use the ACPI procfs. The schedule of removing ACPI procfs I/F will be changed to Jan 08. I'm about to send a patch to update it. I'm not sure if the button sysfs I/F is already finished. We'd better make a double

Re: [PATCH resend] rewrite AF_UNIX garbage collector, fixes race

2007-07-12 Thread Miklos Szeredi
This looks good, patch applied and I'll get this into the 2.6.23 merge window. Once this sits around for a while and we feel super-confident with it we can consider a backport into -stable. OK. Thanks for the review. Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [RFC 1/3] lro: Generic LRO for TCP traffic

2007-07-12 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
Hi, Jan-Bernd. I have couple of comments over implementation besides one you saw previous time. On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:21:34PM +0200, Jan-Bernd Themann ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: +static int lro_tcp_ip_check(struct sk_buff *skb, struct iphdr *iph, + struct tcphdr

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

2007-07-12 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- linux.orig/include/linux/netlink.h2007-07-11 21:37:31.0 +0100 +++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:50.0 +0100 @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ #define NETLINK_DNRTMSG

Re: [PATCH v2 -mm 9/9] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfs

2007-07-12 Thread Keiichi KII
Hi Satyam, struct netconsole_target { struct list_headlist; +#ifdef CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC + struct config_item item; + int enabled; +#endif struct netpoll np; }; If CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC is unset, we can't

Re: [2.6 patch] the scheduled ACPI_PROCFS removal

2007-07-12 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Richard Hughes wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 09:32 +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: [*] Does someone have an alternative for /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/{state,info}? I'm working on it. Should have proto by the end of week. If you are using the power_supply class (i hope you are ;-) then a HAL

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation

2007-07-12 Thread david
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Huang, Ying wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 00:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The kexec jump is the first step, maybe the simplest step. There are many other issues to be resolved, at least the following ones. 1. Separate device suspend from device hibernate. Maybe

Re: Forward port of latest RT patch (2.6.21.5-rt20) to 2.6.22 available

2007-07-12 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 07:14 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 20:58 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: Note also that we find that the resulting kernel does not boot on some T60p thinkpads without acpi=off. We are still investigating the root cause here. Try nohpet for

[PATCH] ACPI: update ACPI_PROCFS removal schedule

2007-07-12 Thread rzhang1
From: Zhang Rui [EMAIL PROTECTED] ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet and some user space tools still depend on the ACPI procfs I/F. The ACPI_PROCFS removal schedule is changed to Jan 08. Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |2 +-

Re: [2.6.23 PATCH 13/18] dm: netlink

2007-07-12 Thread David Miller
From: Evgeniy Polyakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:10:29 +0400 On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:37:36PM -0700, Mike Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: --- linux.orig/include/linux/netlink.h 2007-07-11 21:37:31.0 +0100 +++ linux/include/linux/netlink.h

Re: [RFT][PATCH v7] sata_mv: convert to new EH

2007-07-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
dean gaudet wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: As before, this patch is against 2.6.22 with no other patches needed nor applied. In this revision, interrupt handling was improved quite a bit, particularly for EDMA. The WARNING in mv_get_crpb_status() goes away, because that

Re: [PATCH] fix sparse problems with ARRAY_SIZE

2007-07-12 Thread Adel Gadllah
Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 09:58:18PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:40:33PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:09:48PM +0200, Adel Gadllah wrote: --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/kernel.h +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/kernel.h

RE: [PATCH][ACPI][BUTTON] remove procfs-interface

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Hughes
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 17:46 +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote: I'm not sure if the button sysfs I/F is already finished. We'd better make a double check. :) We need a button sysfs interface? What's wrong with just using input? Richard. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 01/61] Rules on how to use sysfs in userspace programs

2007-07-12 Thread Rene Herman
On 07/12/2007 01:43 AM, Greg KH wrote: Patches for grammer are always accepted :) --- a 2007-07-12 12:36:42.0 +0200 +++ b 2007-07-12 12:36:48.0 +0200 @@ -1 +1 @@ -Patches for grammer are always accepted :) +Patches for grammar are always accepted :) Rene. - To

Re: clocksource change of behavior in 2.6.22 compared to 2.6.20 causes massive system clock slowdown

2007-07-12 Thread Tilman Schmidt
John, I see the same change in behaviour on my newish Pentium D 940. Here's what I posted this Monday to the clocksource tsc unstable thread, mistakenly thinking it belonged there: quote Now that you mention it - I am seeing something similar with kernel 2.6.22 on an Intel Pentium D 940 dual

Re: lguest, Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-12 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: Remove export of __put_task_struct, and usage in lguest lguest takes a reference count of tasks for two reasons. The first is bogus: the /dev/lguest close callback will be called before the task is destroyed anyway, so no need to take a reference on open. What about

Re: Forward port of latest RT patch (2.6.21.5-rt20) to 2.6.22 available

2007-07-12 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 00:58 +, Gregory Haskins wrote: Hi Ingo, Thomas, and the greater linux-rt community, I just wanted to let you guys know that our team has a port of the 21.5-rt20 patch for the 2.6.22 kernel available. Ok, we have incorporated some of the feedback from you

Re: RFC: CONFIG_PAGE_SHIFT (aka software PAGE_SIZE)

2007-07-12 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 10:12:56AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: I need really large filesystems that contain both small and large files to work more efficiently on small boxes where we can't throw endless amounts of RAM and CPUs at the problem. Hence things like 64k page size are just not an

Re: [EXT4 set 5][PATCH 1/1] expand inode i_extra_isize to support features in larger inode

2007-07-12 Thread Andy Whitcroft
The next version of checkpatch.pl (0.08) should have support for a number of the missed sylistics you mention. Will let them soak for a bit to ensure we're not majorly regressing anything else. -apw ERROR: braces {} are not necessary for single statements #4: FILE: Z11.c:1: +if

Re: [Pcihpd-discuss] [PATCH 26/34] PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi

2007-07-12 Thread James Smart
I'm agnostic on the change... As long as we get a message somewhere when the failure is meaningful, I'm fine with this change. I didn't like setting mwi by the driver anyway - it should have already been done by the platform. -- james s Randy Dunlap wrote: --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c

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