On Fri, 6 Jul 2007 11:29:01 +0900
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a patch for fixing icache flush race in ia64(Montecito) by
> implementing
> flush_icache_page() at el.
>
> Changelog:
> - updated against 2.6.22-rc7 (previous one was against 2.6.21)
> - removed hugetlbe's
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:28:26 +0300,
Plamen Petrov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, all!
>
> Just for the record - linux kernel version 2.6.22-git10 fails to build
> with the following error:
>
> In file included from net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c:27:
> include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:99: err
On Thursday 19 July 2007 03:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:06:27 +0200
>
> Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions.
> > With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing):
> > setCx86(CX86_CCR
On Thu, Jul 19 2007, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >> Thanks for finding and fixing this.
> >>
> >> The latest patch (with additional cleanups) also looks good and should be
> >> safe enough (unchanged behavior for
Hello.
> I didn't hear anything from the misc device maintainer (for the FLASH ROM
> Storage Driver).
Actually, I am not acting as a maintainer. I'm not active enough nor
up to date with all the structure of kernel maintainance. So please
don't wait for me.
Actually, I tried a pair of times to
> (gdb) thread 6
> [Switching to thread 6 (process 6233)]#0 __do_softirq ()
> at kernel/softirq.c:231
> 231 if (pending & 1) {
> (gdb) bt
> #0 __do_softirq () at kernel/softirq.c:231
> #1 0xc012998b in do_softirq () at kernel/softirq.c:269
> #2 0xc0129a09 in irq_exit ()
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
>> Thanks for finding and fixing this.
>>
>> The latest patch (with additional cleanups) also looks good and should be
>> safe enough (unchanged behavior for all non-pc requests) to merge it now.
>>
>> Acked-by: Bartlo
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:04 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I like the idea but I think I'll let people chat about it a bit more
> before looking at merging the patches, OK?
I think maybe we should wait for Rafael to separate the device hibernate
(quiesce and state save) from device suspend. Without
Hi, all!
Just for the record - linux kernel version 2.6.22-git10 fails to build
with the following error:
In file included from net/netfilter/xt_connlimit.c:27:
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h:99: error: field `ct_general' has
incomplete type
include/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack.h: In funct
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:16:37PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:11:42PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:07:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:26:48 +0530 Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
>
On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > Since I had my hands dirty already...
>
> Great, thanks. (There's also such a test in fs/nfs/direct.c,
> but let's not trouble Trond until we've settled what to do here.)
>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > [PATCH] Re
On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
(for both acks) Thanks for reviewing and acking!
--
Jens Axbo
On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for finding and fixing this.
> >
> > The latest patch (with additional cleanups) also looks good and should be
> > safe enough (unchanged behavior for all non-pc requests) to me
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:22:33PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This patch removes the following unused exports:
> > - EXPORT_SYMBOL(cond_resched_softirq);
> > - EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_sync);
>
> these are there for API completeness - their co
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:41:21 -0700 Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:26:50 -0700
> > Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Kernel warns of softlockups if the softlocku
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 16:43 -0700, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> >
> >>> Also can you please enable CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, which might catch any
> >>> locking problem, which might be related to this.
> >>
> >> Anoth
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:48:20PM +0200, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> I'd be very glad if it could be verified and/or tested.
Jarek,
This patch is verified crap!
Regards,
Jarek P.
PS: Olaf,
You've written earlier that one of the main reasons for poll_napi is
to work when the kernel "doesn't e
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:18:20PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:51:33PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >
> > > > Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:23:09
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:42:09PM -0400, James Morris wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > aww man, you passed over an opportunity to fix vast amounts of coding style
> > cruftiness.
>
> GregKH-esque :-)
Yeah, sorry, that was when I was young and foolish and liked to bang on
th
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:08:58PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:26:50 -0700
> Ravikiran G Thirumalai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Kernel warns of softlockups if the softlockup thread is not able to run
> > on a CPU for 10s. It is useful to lower the softlockup warning
>
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:10:52PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> % git-log 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544 |head -10
> commit 84e1e99f112dead8f9ba036c02d24a9f5ce7f544
> Author: David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon Jun 18 16:50:27 2007 +1000
>
> [XFS] Prevent ENOSPC from abo
On Wed, Jul 18 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:15:40 +0200
> Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Add a Disk Storage Driver for the PS3:
>
> Your patchset significantly hits powerpc, scsi and block. So who g
> -Original Message-
> From: Greg KH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:01 PM
> To: WANG Cong
> Cc: Jesper Juhl; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Li
> Yang-r58472; TripleX Chung; Maggie Chen
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] HOWTO: add Chinese translation
> ofDocumentation
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:20:33 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Powerpc - Include pagemap.h in asm/powerpc/tlb.h
>
> Fixes this powerpc build error in 2.6.22-rc6-mm1 for powerpc 64 :
>
> In file included from include2/asm/tlb.h:60,
> from
> /home/compudj/git/l
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:10:36PM +0900, IKEDA Munehiro wrote:
> Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On 19/07/07, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> From: Tsugikazu Shibata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>
> >> Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file.
> >>
> > A few comments below
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:12:54PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
>
> Since these docs are not in the mainline tree yet, I don't have a copy.
They are there now.
thanks,
greg k-h
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:23:33 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Here is the patch to support read() for hugetlbfs, needed to get
> oprofile working on executables backed by largepages.
>
> If you plan to consider Christoph Lameter's pagecache cleanup patches,
> I
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:41:55PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:16:25AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > After a successful call, subsequent writes are guaranteed not to fail
> > because
> > of lack of disk space.
>
> If a write to an unwritten region requires a node sp
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:46:08AM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
>On 19/07/07, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>From: Li Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>>This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/HOWTO. Currently
>>Chinese involvement in Linux kernel is very low, especially com
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 12:58:22PM +0800, Li Yang-r58472 wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Willy Tarreau
> > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:46 PM
> > To: Li Yang
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PAT
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:39:46 -0400
Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed 18 Jul 2007 18:16, Andrew Morton pondered:
I'd suggest that any interface into here should be via function calls,
not via direct access to printk internals: think up some nice
copy_me_some_of_t
Hi.
On Thursday 19 July 2007 14:09:56 Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> Can you point me to code where kernel captures process in signal
> handling and code which runs after suspend to ram is finished?
Sure.
It's in kernel/signal.c (get_signal_to_deliver) for x86 and x86_64, and
arch//kernel/signal.c fo
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Willy Tarreau
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:46 PM
> To: Li Yang
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update 2.4 maintainer in document
>
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:05:07AM
Hi Chuck,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:08:18AM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 07/18/2007 05:41 AM, Dhaval Giani wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:07:00AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:26:48 +0530 Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> Softlockup is broken in 2.
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:05:07AM +0800, Li Yang wrote:
> Update the maintainer of 2.4 kernel in Documentations/SubmittingPatches.
Thanks, but you should have CCed me, because I missed you mail ;-)
I'll merge it.
Regards,
Willy
> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> Documentation
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:03:09PM -0800, Tony Borras wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:50:10 +0200
> Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tony,
> >
> > [ first, please always keep people in CC on LKML since it's
> > very easy to
> > miss a thread ]
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 1
Can you point me to code where kernel captures process in signal
handling and code which runs after suspend to ram is finished?
-Original Message-
From: Nigel Cunningham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:19 PM
To: Agarwal, Lomesh
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
S
On Wed 18 Jul 2007 20:26, Andrew Morton pondered:
> Robin Getz wrote:
> > [need to access _log_buf from external for early debugging code]
> >
> > Something simple like - early_copy_log_buff(void *dest, size_t n)
> >
> > copies n bytes from log_buf to memory area dest. Returns number of
> > byte
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:37:34 -0400 Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed 18 Jul 2007 19:53, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> > On 7/18/07, Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed 18 Jul 2007 18:16, Andrew Morton pondered:
> > > > I'd suggest that any interface into here should be via
On 7/19/07, Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/17/07, Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thinking out loud again, can we add can_destroy() callbacks?
>
What would the exact semantics of such a callback be?
Since for proper interaction with release agents we need the subsystem
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, James Morris wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.
I'd like to understand who is (or claims to be) adversely affected by this
change, and what their complaints (if any) will be.
Because I prefer my
On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 12:16:25AM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> After a successful call, subsequent writes are guaranteed not to fail because
> of lack of disk space.
If a write to an unwritten region requires a node split, that could result
in the allocation of new meta data which obviously co
I received:
PCI: Bus #0b (-#0e) is hidden behind transparent bridge #0a (-#0a) (try
'pci=assign-busses')
Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently
in my dmesg in 2.6.22, and am reporting it. Context of message follows.
Full dmesg output available on request. This is a Cl
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
Hi.
On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:04:20 Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:13:13 +0800
"Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The changelog between v1 and v2
1. The kexec jump implementation is put into the kexec/kdump
framework inst
On Wed 18 Jul 2007 19:53, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> On 7/18/07, Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed 18 Jul 2007 18:16, Andrew Morton pondered:
> > > I'd suggest that any interface into here should be via function calls,
> > > not via direct access to printk internals: think up some ni
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:36:54 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More statfs() improvements for ext2. ext2 already maintains
> percpu counters for free blocks and inodes. Derive free
> block count and inode count by summing up percpu counters,
> instead of counting up all the group
Jesper Juhl wrote:
On 19/07/07, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Tsugikazu Shibata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file.
A few comments below.
(snip)
Thank Jesper for the comments.
Below is a patch for Japanese stable_api_non
Summary: on_each_cpu() should return void, since callers can't do
anything useful with an error. It should not have the "retry" arg
since it's of questionable utility and simply adds to Kernel Trivial
Persuit.
Only Alpha and PA-RISC use the "retry" arg to smp_call_function (it
makes them return -
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:37 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> It seems jbd_debug() might need modification:
>
Looking at the current linus-git tree jbd_debug() define in
include/linux/jbd2.h
extern u8 journal_enable_debug;
#define jbd_debug(n, f, a...) \
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:41:39 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The current SMI detection logic in read_hpet_tsc() makes sure,
> that when a SMI happens between the read of the HPET counter and
> the read of the TSC, this wrong value is used for TSC calibration.
>
> This is not th
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > The SECURITY_FRAMEWORK_VERSION macro has also been removed.
>
> I'd like to understand who is (or claims to be) adversely affected by this
> change, and what their complaints (if any) will be.
>
> Because I prefer my flamewars pre- rather than post-m
Linus Torvalds wrote:
So let's make a new rule:
We absolutely NEVER add things like "must_check" unless not checking
causes a real and obvious SECURITY ISSUE.
And we absolutely *never* add crap like "deprecated", where the only
point of the warning is to effectively hide *real* probl
Hi.
On Thursday 19 July 2007 09:42:02 Agarwal, Lomesh wrote:
> My understanding is that Linux kernel sends a signal to freeze processes
> during suspend2ram operation. Which signal is used to achieve this?
> The problem I am facing is that some of the system calls are failing
> with EINTR errno du
Hi.
On Thursday 19 July 2007 11:04:20 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:13:13 +0800
> "Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > The changelog between v1 and v2
> >
> > 1. The kexec jump implementation is put into the kexec/kdump
> >framework instead of software suspend
Rafael,
Please delete the instances of the string ACPI_STATE_S2 -- it doesn't exist in
practice
and we don't want to imply it exists by inventing it here.
otherwise:
Acked-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
thanks,
-Len
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 20:02, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Now, we can talk about making those sysfs core functions generate warnings
> > themselves, and we can talk about generating new wrappers around them which
> > generate warnings and which return void, then migrating code over to use
> > th
On 07/19/2007 03:37 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
Here's a way to make forward progress on this whole thing:
Turn on irqstacks when using 8k stacks
WLI: are you submitting? Makes great sense regardless of anything and
they've been tested silly with 4KSTACKS already...
Detect when usage with 8k
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> The only reason why the sysfs creation would fail is a kernel bug,
> so the consequence of your proposal is in fact unfixed kernel bugs.
Well, the thing is, I suspect we have created way more bugs by having that
stupid "you must check the return va
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:19:05 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In general, I share paulus point of view here that forcing us to test
> all those result code from sysfs file creation functions is just a major
> PITA and adds bloat all over the kernel. There are many many cas
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Please pull from 'warnings' branch of
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git warnings
>
> to receive the following updates:
Quite frankly, I think a *lot* better fix for warnings would be to remove
those damn broken "must
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 03:33:58AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:39:55AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > About 4k stacks I was generally against them, much better to fail in
> > > fork than to risk corruption. The per-irq stack part is great feature
> > > instead (too bad
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:37:01 -0400 (EDT)
James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Convert LSM into a static interface, as the ability to unload a security
> module is not required by in-tree users and potentially complicates the
> overall security architecture.
>
> Needlessly exported LSM symbol
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 01:39:55AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > About 4k stacks I was generally against them, much better to fail in
> > fork than to risk corruption. The per-irq stack part is great feature
> > instead (too bad it wasn't enabled for the safer 8k stacks).
>
> 8K stacks without IRQ st
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:48:37AM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 07/19/2007 02:41 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> >On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:15:39AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
>
> >>Using kmalloc(8k) instead of alloc_page() doesn't sound a too big deal
> >>and that will solve the problem.
> >
>
Andi Kleen wrote:
>>
>> No processors that support KVM exist that also do not support CMPXCHG64,
>> so no additional check is necessary. This setup allows for a single kernel
>> that will boot on i486 and also support KVM if available.
>
> The CONFIG should only control the early CPUID checks, wh
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 20:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:55:04 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> Please pull from 'warnings' branch of
> >> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git warnings
> >>
> >> to receive the following updates:
>
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:02:39 -0300
Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As reported by Gustavo de Nardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, while trying to
> compile xosview (http://xosview.sourceforge.net/) with upstream kernel
> headers being used you get the following errors:
> serialmete
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:13:13 +0800
"Huang, Ying" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The changelog between v1 and v2
>
> 1. The kexec jump implementation is put into the kexec/kdump
>framework instead of software suspend framework. The device
>and CPU state save/restore code of software suspe
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:06:27 +0200
Juergen Beisert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Replace NSC/Cyrix specific chipset access macros by inlined functions.
> With the macros a line like this fails (and does nothing):
> setCx86(CX86_CCR2, getCx86(CX86_CCR2) | 0x88);
> With inlined functions this l
On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:37 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> It seems jbd_debug() might need modification:
>
> fs/ext4/inode.c: In function ‘ext4_write_inode’:
> fs/ext4/inode.c:2906: warning: comparison is always true due to limited
> range of data type
>
> fs/jbd2/recovery.c: In function ‘jbd2_jour
FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
> From: Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Someone ( bsg merge ? ) broke {sd,hd}parm on current git
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:40:58 +0200
>
>
>> FUJITA Tomonori wrote:
>>
>>> From: Gabriel C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> Subject: Re: Someone ( bsg merge ? ) brok
The problem you're having is essentially the same as the user-level
interrupt handler problem I've been dealing with for ages.
The basic rule is: don't share interrupts between devices on the host
and devices in the guest. But you *can* share interrupts between
devices in a single guest.
If you
On 07/19/2007 01:50 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
It says that highmem is not an issue due to no such thing as highmem even
existing on the machines with support for larger hard pagesizes, but this
wouldn't hold for soft pages. Sort
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:48:03 +0200
Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c::acpi_ev_pci_config_region_setup()
> there is a memory leak.
> We may return at "if (!pci_device_node)" without freeing storage
> previously allocated and assigned to 'pci_id
On 07/19/2007 02:41 AM, Matt Mackall wrote:
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:15:39AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
Using kmalloc(8k) instead of alloc_page() doesn't sound a too big deal
and that will solve the problem.
How do you figure?
If you're saying that soft pages helps our 8k stack alloc
On Wednesday 18 July 2007 18:48, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> drivers/acpi/events/evrgnini.c
applied (after changing to ACPI_FREE())
thanks,
-Len
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On 7/18/07, Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:38:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 11:05:30PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > This breaks libsensors. libsensors uses libsysfs, and libsysfs is not
> > very smart in that it will initialize successfully e
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 02:15:39AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 06:27:55PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > So it's absolutely no help in fixing our order-1 allocation problem
> > because we don't want to force large pages on people.
>
> Using kmalloc(8k) instead of alloc
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:10:58 +0200
"Jesper Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > file: patch-2.4.34.3.bz2 has the corruption at line 213:
> > goto errout
> >
> > That is where that came from, when I patched my 2.4.34 to
> > arrive at 2.4.34.5, before applying the 2.4.35.rc5 patch!
> >
> That soun
> About 4k stacks I was generally against them, much better to fail in
> fork than to risk corruption. The per-irq stack part is great feature
> instead (too bad it wasn't enabled for the safer 8k stacks).
8K stacks without IRQ stacks are not "safer" so I don't understand your
comment ?
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:39:46 -0400
Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed 18 Jul 2007 18:16, Andrew Morton pondered:
> >
> > I'd suggest that any interface into here should be via function calls,
> > not via direct access to printk internals: think up some nice
> > copy_me_some_of_the_log
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:05:55 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:29:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:27:37 +1000 NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > +static void exp_flags(struct seq_file *m, int flag, int fsid,
> >
Ben Greear wrote:
> Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
>> Its actually more a problem on the RX path. VLAN acceleration
>> works (at least with some drivers) by enabling HW header striping
>> and using the VLAN ID for an immediate lookup in the VLAN devices
>> configured on that device. So if the VLAN is no
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 06:27:55PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> So it's absolutely no help in fixing our order-1 allocation problem
> because we don't want to force large pages on people.
Using kmalloc(8k) instead of alloc_page() doesn't sound a too big deal
and that will solve the problem. The wh
On Wednesday July 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:29:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:27:37 +1000 NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > +static void exp_flags(struct seq_file *m, int flag, int fsid,
> > > + uid_t anonu, uid_t an
On 19/07/07, Tony Borras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:50:10 +0200
Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> [ first, please always keep people in CC on LKML since it's
> very easy to
> miss a thread ]
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:23:57PM -0800, Tony Borras
Please pull from 'isdn-fix' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git isdn-fix
to receive the following updates:
drivers/isdn/hisax/config.c |4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Florin Malita (1):
ISDN HiSax: uninitialized return
Please pull from 'warnings' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git warnings
to receive the following updates:
drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c | 23 ++-
include/asm-x86_64/tlbflush.h |6 +-
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 d
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:55:04 Jeff Garzik wrote:
Please pull from 'warnings' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git warnings
to receive the following updates:
drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c | 23 ++-
include/asm-
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:52:32 +0200
Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Synchronous Serial Controller (SSC) on Atmel microprocessors are capable
> of
> tranceiving many frame based protocols, like I2S. Tested on the
> AT32AP7000/ATSTK1000.
>
> This driver is used in the ALSA s
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:50:10 +0200
Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Tony,
>
> [ first, please always keep people in CC on LKML since it's
> very easy to
> miss a thread ]
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:23:57PM -0800, Tony Borras wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:20:06 +0200
> > Wi
Patrick McHardy wrote:
Ben Greear wrote:
Patrick McHardy wrote:
Put another way, once you enable VLAN header stripping, you
won't see the headers for *any* VLAN, not only for those you're
actually running locally. This is also a problem for devices
like macvlan, where it would be desir
Nothing highly notable. Wireless pull, and new blackfin eth driver
(didn't get merged with rest of blackfin, since additional review was
requested).
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git
upstream-linus
to receive the foll
On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:55:04 Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Please pull from 'warnings' branch of
> master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git warnings
>
> to receive the following updates:
>
> drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c | 23 ++-
> include/asm-x86_
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:27:41AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:19 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> > > +#define GET_CONTENTS(desc) (((desc)->raw32.b >> 10) & 3)
> > > +#define GET_WRITABLE(desc) (((desc)->raw32.b >> 9) & 1)
> >
> > You got rid of the duplicate
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:15:42 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Add a FLASH ROM Storage Driver for the PS3:
> - Implemented as a misc character device driver
> - Uses a fixed 256 KiB buffer allocated from boot memory as the h
On 7/18/07, Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed 18 Jul 2007 18:16, Andrew Morton pondered:
> I'd suggest that any interface into here should be via function calls,
> not via direct access to printk internals: think up some nice
> copy_me_some_of_the_log_buffer() interface.
If so - I wou
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:34:20PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote:
> It says that highmem is not an issue due to no such thing as highmem even
> existing on the machines with support for larger hard pagesizes, but this
> wouldn't hold for soft pages. Sort of went "damn" in an x86 context upon
> readin
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
Also can you please enable CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, which might catch any
locking problem, which might be related to this.
Another test: Can you please disable CONFIG_SCHED_SMT to narrow it down
further ?
I'll
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:15:41 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Add a BD/DVD/CD-ROM Storage Driver for the PS3:
> - Implemented as a SCSI device driver
> - Uses software scatter-gather with a 64 KiB bounce buffer as the hyper
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