On 07/26/2007 08:39 AM, Bongani Hlope wrote:
On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote:
So what's happening? If you sit down with a copy op "top" in one terminal
and updatedb in another, what does it show?
Just tested that, there's a steady increase in the useage of buff
Great.
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
>
> Feel free to share what you know about the benefits vs. the costs
> of maintaining CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP as a build option.
Why don't you just make CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP dependent on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
and STR?
> If you feel that your system has been degraded
>
Cleanup semaphore.h
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/sysfs/bin.c |2 +-
fs/sysfs/dir.c |2 +-
fs/sysfs/group.c |1 -
fs/sysfs/inode.c |1 -
fs/sysfs/mount.c |1 -
fs/sysfs/symlink.c |2 +-
6 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:33:24 -0700 "Ray Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So. We can
> >
> > a) provide a way for userspace to reload pagecache and
> >
> > b) merge maps2 (once it's finished) (pokes mpm)
> >
> > and we're done?
>
> Eh, dunno. Maybe?
>
> We're assuming we come up with an API f
Thanks.So if I don't care any probes, and I actually don't need to
take use of kprobes, then I can use the functions defined through
KPROBE_ENTRY() the same way as those defined via ENTRY(), right?
Regards
Jason Xiao
On 7/26/07, Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:4
On Thursday 26 July 2007 05:59:53 Rene Herman wrote:
>
> Problem spot no. 1.
>
> RAM intensive? If I run updatedb here, it never grows itself beyond 2M.
> Yes, two. I'm certainly willing to accept that me and my systems are
> possibly not the reference but assuming I'm _very_ special hasn't done mu
>On 7/26/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:03:54AM +, Dave Young wrote:
> > Use mutex instead of semaphore in sysfs/file.c : sys_buffer.
>
> Thanks, it's in my queue, but I'm at a conference this week, so I'll get
> to it on monday, sorry for the delay.
>
Hi, t
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Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| >Pavel Emelianov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| >| Make alloc_pid() initialize pid_numbers and hash them
| >| into the hashtable, not the struct pid itself.
| >|
| >| Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL
On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:09:01 -0700
"Ray Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, there's a third case which I find the most annoying. I have
> multiple working sets, the sum of which won't fit into RAM. When I
> finish one, the kernel had time to
On 7/26/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 07/25/2007 07:15 PM, Robert Deaton wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And there we go again -- off into blabber-land. Why does swap-prefetch
>> help updatedb? Or doesn't it? And if it doesn't, why should anyone
>>
Fix the following two section mismatch warnings:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1ce84): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:free_bootmem (between 'free_tce_table' and 'build_tce_table')
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1d04d): Section mismatch: reference to
.init.text:__alloc_bootmem_low (between 'a
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:53:37 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Not that I want to say anything about swap prefetch getting merged: my
inbox is already full of enough "helpful suggestions" about that,
give them the kernel interfaces, they can do it themselves
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> buffered_rmqueue() and prep_new_page() are static functions with only
>> one caller each, and for the normal non-debug case it's a really nice
>> optimization to have them inlined automatically.
>
> I'm not at all sure I agree.
>
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:43:10PM +0800, jidong xiao wrote:
> Anyone can help this?
>
> On 6/21/07, jidong xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I searched in linux kernel 2.6.10, didn't find it, then I tried
> > 2.6.20, it is there. But I am not familiar with assembly language, so
> > can anybody
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:03:54AM +, Dave Young wrote:
> Use mutex instead of semaphore in sysfs/file.c : sys_buffer.
Thanks, it's in my queue, but I'm at a conference this week, so I'll get
to it on monday, sorry for the delay.
greg k-h
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On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:53:37 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Not that I want to say anything about swap prefetch getting merged: my
> inbox is already full of enough "helpful suggestions" about that,
give them the kernel interfaces, they can do it themselves ;)
> so I'll
> just be
Hi Joe, please reply to all of this email, because some developers need
to consider your review.
Hi Michael, how do you think of Joe's idea as below.
Thanks,
Best Regards,
- Bryan Wu
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 09:46 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 23:26 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> > d
Carlo Florendo wrote:
Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:24:17 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought limericks were supposed to be dirty... :)
If I post limericks that are dirty
Someone is bound to get shirty
They'll rant and they'll rage
for page after page
Instead of c
Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:24:17 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I thought limericks were supposed to be dirty... :)
If I post limericks that are dirty
Someone is bound to get shirty
They'll rant and they'll rage
for page after page
Instead of coding new drivers to he
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:41:46 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 05:36:56PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>
> > Will investigate the NUMA-Q explosion and report on that separatly.
>
> Ok, I've been looking at the NUMA-Q boot panic below:
>
> BUG: unable to h
Andrew Morton wrote:
All this would end up needing runtime configurability and tweakability and
customisability. All standard fare for userspace stuff - much easier than
patching the kernel.
So. We can
a) provide a way for userspace to reload pagecache and
b) merge maps2 (once it's finishe
Nathan Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported:
2.6.23-rc1 breaks the build for 64-bit powerpc for me (using
maple_defconfig):
LD vmlinux.o
powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: dynreloc miscount for
kernel/built-in.o, section .opd
powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: can not edit opd Bad value
make: *** [
Anyone can help this?
On 6/21/07, jidong xiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I searched in linux kernel 2.6.10, didn't find it, then I tried
> 2.6.20, it is there. But I am not familiar with assembly language, so
> can anybody kindly explain it, I don't know the difference between
> KPROBE_ENTRY and
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:42:07PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>
> ...
>
> drivers/char/nozomi.c: In function 'interrupt_handler':
> drivers/char/nozomi.c:1298: warning: overflow in implicit constant conversion
> drivers/char/nozomi.c: In function 'nozomi_card_init':
> drivers/char/nozomi.c:1568: war
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>...
> Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1:
>...
> +dma-arch-fix.patch
>
> Fix git-dma.patch
>...
This results in an ARM-only driver in an X86-only menu...
What about the patch below instead that also improves a few other things?
<-- sn
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:55:01 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1/include/asm-mips/edac.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +#ifndef ASM_EDAC_H
> +#define ASM_EDAC_H
> +
> +/* ECC atomic, DMA, SMP and interrupt safe scrub function */
> +
> +static __inline__ void atomic_scrub(v
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:54:21 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> +void edac_mc_reset_delay_period(int value)
> {
> - /* cancel the current workq request */
> - edac_mc_workq_teardown(mci);
> + struct mem_ctl_info *mci;
> + struct list_head *item;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&mem_ctls_mute
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:43:29 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> moxa, fix and optimise empty timer
>
> don't wait and delete empty timer in empty timer function. Also fire next
> empty timer at rounded jiffies to save power.
>
What is actually being "fixed" here?
>
> ---
> c
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:40, Al Boldi wrote:
> >> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git
> release
>
> Fixe
Meelis Roos writes:
> This patch fixes arch/ppc kernels, at least for prep subarch, after
> build-id addition. Without the patch, kernels were 3 times the size and
> bootloader refused to load them. Now they are back to normal again.
I just built an ARCH=ppc kernel for the prep subarch and the
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP. Not trivial for a user to select it
when it doesn't even appear on the menu. It doesn't appear
because CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP isn't enabled, but that doesn't
appear either -- because CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU isn't selected.
so have something lik
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:09:01 -0700
"Ray Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, there's a third case which I find the most annoying. I have
> multiple working sets, the sum of which won't fit into RAM. When I
> finish one, the kernel had time to preemptively swap back in the
> other, and yet it didn
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 14:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >> ... ACPI now seems to select CPU hotplug. Why?
> >
> > ACPI=y SMP=y systems require SUSPEND_SMP=y for system sleep support,
> > an
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:20:10 + "Dave Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:19:05 + Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > in preemptible kernel will report BUG: using smp_processor_id() in
>
>On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:19:05 + Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > in preemptible kernel will report BUG: using smp_processor_id() in
> > preemptible, so use boot_cpu_data instead of current_cpu_data.
> >
> > Signed-off-by
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:40:06 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Masoud Asgharifard
Sharbiani) wrote:
> This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a
> segfault happens. A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools
> that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly be
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:40, Al Boldi wrote:
Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git
release
Fixes regressions -- a build failure, an oops, some dmesg spam.
Als
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
you dont _have to_ cooperative with the maintainer, but it's certainly
useful to work with good maintainers, if your goal is to improve Linux.
Or if for some reason communication is not working out fine then grow
in
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 16:40, Al Boldi wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git
> > > release
> > >
> > > Fixes regressions -- a build failure, an oops, some dmesg spam.
> > > Also fixes s
On 07/25/2007 07:15 PM, Robert Deaton wrote:
On 7/25/07, Rene Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
And there we go again -- off into blabber-land. Why does swap-prefetch
help updatedb? Or doesn't it? And if it doesn't, why should anyone
trust anything else someone who said it does says?
I don
On Jul 25, 2007, at 22:03:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
On 7/25/07, Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:41:53AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
[...]
But where does the "send" come into the picture over here -- a
send won'
hi,
When we press ctrl-alt-del,kernel_restart_prepare will revoke
cfi_intelext_reboot which
will set flash to read array mode,but later when device_shutdown is
invoked which may
put current work queue to sleep and other process may be sheduled to
running and programming flash in not FL_READY mod
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:03:14 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:03:04 PDT, Andrew Morton said:
>
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm1/
>
> It built and booted on the first try for my Dell Latitude D820 laptop, Core2
> T7
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:22 -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 23 July 2007 9:01:48 pm Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > IOW, I'd be interested in hearing Rob and Randy's opinions on it all,
> > > please.
> >
> > So they can see what we're talking about, here's an example of the
> > output:
> >
> >
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 08:21:06 pm Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:37 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > On 7/25/07, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yinghai, you mentioned the same issue on boxes with multiple root
> > > bridges. Any chance you could try this out there as
I've just been reviewing these patches and have spotted a couple of
errors that look like they were caused by fuzz during the patch process.
A patch that corrects the errors is attached.
Cheers
Peter
--
Peter Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Learning, n. The kind of
On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:40:06 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani) wrote:
> > Look: if there's a way in which an unprivileged user can trigger a printk
> > we fix it, end of story. I don't know why this even slightly
> > cont
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:10:16 -0700
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:50:20 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > I refreshed config_zone_movable patch set against 2.6.23-rc1.
> > Reflected comments on previous version.
> > Tested on ia64/NUMA
On 7/26/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, I know about inotify, but it doesn't scale.
Yeah, the nonrecursive behaviour is a bugger. Also I found it helped
to queue operations in userspace and execute periodically rather than
trying to execute on every single notification. Worked wel
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:50:20 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I refreshed config_zone_movable patch set against 2.6.23-rc1.
> Reflected comments on previous version.
> Tested on ia64/NUMA system and my small i386 desktop.
>
> Andrew, I like this patch but know that there are m
Use mutex instead of semaphore in sysfs/file.c : sys_buffer.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/sysfs/file.c | 14 +++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff -upr linux/fs/sysfs/file.c linux.new/fs/sysfs/file.c
--- linux/fs/sysfs/file.c 2007-07-
Makes ZONE_MOVABLE as configurable
Based on "zone_ifdef_cleanup_by_renumbering.patch"
Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/gfp.h|3 ++-
include/linux/mmzone.h | 15 +++
include/linux/vmstat.h | 13 +++--
mm/Kconfig
I refreshed config_zone_movable patch set against 2.6.23-rc1.
Reflected comments on previous version.
Tested on ia64/NUMA system and my small i386 desktop.
Andrew, I like this patch but know that there are many types of memory layout.
Could you test this set in -mm ?
I'll refresh this against rc1
Ravinandan Arakali (rarakali) wrote:
Hi,
When a process dumps core, the do_coredump() initiates the core
file generation. Is this operation synchronous(does the kernel
wait for core to be completely written to disk) ?
The operations whereby
(1) a process is in the process of exiting while;
(2)
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 10:10:07PM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:37:28 +0200
> Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > > One advantage to the state tree is that it separates the state from
> > > the memory being described, allowing a simple kmap style interface
> >
Hi,
Some general thoughts about submitter/maintainer responsibilities,
not necessarily connected with the recents events (I hasn't been
following them closely - some people don't have that much free time
to burn at their hands ;)...
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Satyam Sha
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On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:37 -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On 7/25/07, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 07:32:53 am Sébastien Dugué wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:16:44 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > The _DDN is a "DOS devi
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:55:03 + "Dave Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xc649): In function `acpi_pci_choose_state':
> : undefined reference to `acpi_pm_device_sleep_state'
> drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3fe08): In function `pnpacpi_suspend':
> : undefined refere
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Len Brown wrote:
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 14:48, Linus Torvalds wrote:
... ACPI now seems to select CPU hotplug. Why?
ACPI=y SMP=y systems require SUSPEND_SMP=y for system sleep support,
and that requires HOTPLUG_CPU=y.
Note that ACPI=y SMP=n systems do not need it,
an
Hello.
I have fax modems that will, in their proper behavior with certain
features, send up to 64 kilobytes of data to the host DTE all at once.
(So, the fax modem handles an incoming fax and periodically will send
between 256 bytes and 64 kilobytes of data in bursts.)
When the DCE-DTE (mod
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:37:28 +0200
Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > One advantage to the state tree is that it separates the state from
> > the memory being described, allowing a simple kmap style interface
> > that covers subpages, highmem and superpages.
>
> I suppose so, although
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:44:22AM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> >
> >Yeah I had a bit of a look around, and it seems OK (but would
> >appreciate an ack from someone who knows the code).
> >
> >These pages will never get seen by page reclaim, so we're OK
> >there. There is a get_page before the SetPa
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote:
On 7/25/07, Lars Ellenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:41:53AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> [...]
>
> But where does the "send" come into the picture over here -- a send
> won't block forever, so I don't foresee any issu
Hi,
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0xc649): In function `acpi_pci_choose_state':
: undefined reference to `acpi_pm_device_sleep_state'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x3fe08): In function `pnpacpi_suspend':
: undefined reference to `acpi_pm_device_sleep_state'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
The pci-acpi.c
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:17:41PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >...
> > Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1:
> >...
> > git-kgdb.patch
> >
> > git trees
> >...
>
> This causes the following compile error on sh:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> .
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:26:53AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:19 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does this patch solve the X problem? Does anyone see anything wrong
> > with it or know why agp was locking the pages?
>
> We need to do a little bit of
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:18:53AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:32:17 +0200
> Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Having another tree to store block state I think is a good idea as I
> > said in the fsblock thread with Dave, but I haven't clicked as to why
> > it is
On 7/25/07, Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/25/07, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007 07:32:53 am Sébastien Dugué wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:16:44 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The _DDN is a "DOS device name", and the
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 08:27 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote:
> Fernando Luis Vázquez Cao wrote:
> > I made an interesting finding while testing the two patches below.
> >
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/685
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/19/687
> >
> > These patches modify the traditional CONFIG_DEBUG
On 7/25/07, Matthew Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/26/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way
> to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and
> accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just u
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Hmm. I really think you should take this up with the gcc people. That
> looks like a gcc bug - because there really is nothing that guarantees
> that the asm doesn't change the array that "x" points to, and the asm
> clearly talks about clobberin
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Trent Piepho wrote:
>
> Specifically, check test6_memasm.s. The C code looks like this:
>
> extern int a; /* keep asm from being elided for having no used output */
> static inline void bar(void) { asm("call bar" : "=m"(a) : : "memory"); }
> /* float x can't alias asm's ou
On 7/26/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd just like updatedb to amortize its work better. If we had some way
to track all filesystem events, updatedb could keep a live and
accurate index on the filesystem. And this isn't just updatedb that
wants that, beagle and tracker et al also want t
David Miller writes:
> Contrarily, there may be ipv6_addr_type() call sites that really
> do want to reject rfc4193 addresses.
A quick look through the callers and only these functions should be
effected, they check either RESERVED or UNICAST from ipv6_addr_type():
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Trent Piepho wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of that, why are all the asm functions in arch/i386/lib/string.c
> > defined as having a memory clobber, even those which don't modify memory
> > like strcmp, strchr, strlen and so on?
>
> That's
[one more try]
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:41:14AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> [forgot to cc Dave Jones...]
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:26:53AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:19 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does this patch solve the X pr
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 11:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Bryan Wu wrote:
> >
> > Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of
>
> This really is too big for post-rc1.
>
> I realize that this is all blackfin-only, and that it doesn't matter from
> a practical standpoint, but
[forgot to cc Dave Jones...]
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 07:26:53AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:19 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does this patch solve the X problem? Does anyone see anything wrong
> > with it or know why agp was locking the pages?
>
>
On 7/25/07, Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wednesday 25 July 2007 07:32:53 am Sébastien Dugué wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:16:44 -0600 Bjorn Helgaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The _DDN is a "DOS device name", and the _UID is a "logical device ID
> > that does not change acro
Gabriel Barazer wrote:
Hi,
After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version
5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...")
is hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before finally
succeeding (displaying "done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"). During t
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:07:05 -0700
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Guessing is this patch ?
> >
> > gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch:
> > __tracedata_end = .;
> > gregkh-driver-warn-when-statically-allocated-kobjects-are-used.patch:+
> > _sd
From: Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:17:54 -0400
> I've ported myri10ge to use the new LRO interface. I have attached a
> preliminary patch to myri10ge. I'm very pleased to note that the
> performance is on-par with my own LRO used by our out-of-tree driver.
> (exc
An accept() call on a SCTPv6 socket that returns due to connection of
a IPv4 mapped peer will fill out the 'struct sockaddr' with a zero
IPv6 address instead of the IPv4 mapped address of the peer.
This is due to the v4mapped flag not getting copied into the new
socket on accept() as well as a mi
ipv6_addr_type() doesn't check for 'Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
Addresses' (RFC4193) and returns IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED for that range.
SCTP uses this function and will fail bind() and connect() calls that
use RFC4193 addresses, SCTP will also ignore inbound connections from
RFC4193 addresses if listen
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 18:30 -0500, Dave McCracken wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Depends... if you have CONFIG_HIGHMEM and not CONFIG_HIGHPTE, you are
> > wasting time going through kmap_atomic unnecessarily no ? it will probably
> > not do anything because th
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 17:11 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:58:08AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:19:18 +0200,
> > "Kay Sievers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > > >> Removing the dev->parent->bus check fixes it:
> > >
> > > Yes, let's remove the c
Hi,
After upgrading kernel to 2.6.22 on a Vmware workstation guest version
5.5 and 6 , the kernel decompression stage ("Decompressing Linux...") is
hanging for a very long time (~5 minutes) before finally succeeding
(displaying "done.\nBooting the kernel.\n"). During this time, the VM
proces
From: Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:49:09 -0400
>
> ipv6_addr_type() doesn't check for 'Unique Local IPv6 Unicast
> Addresses' (RFC4193) and returns IPV6_ADDR_RESERVED for that range.
>
> SCTP uses this function and will fail bind() and connect() calls that
> use RFC
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:58:08AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:19:18 +0200,
> "Kay Sievers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > >> Removing the dev->parent->bus check fixes it:
> >
> > Yes, let's remove the check, I will check now if we possibly need to
> > fix more than t
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:05:22PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> Gabriel C wrote:
> > H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:48:50PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 25/07/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/lin
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:40:06 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani) wrote:
> > Look: if there's a way in which an unprivileged user can trigger a printk
> > we fix it, end of story. I don't know why this even slightly
> > controversial.
> >
>
> Fair enough. Here it is:
My favou
Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:48:48AM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
>> Al Viro wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 09:18:38PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
make allmodconfig on i386:
WARNING: vmlinux(.text+0xc0101183): Section mismatch: reference to
>>> Ignore. vmlinux.o on
Satyam Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Make CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA select CONFIG_DCA because it uses code
>exported from said dependency:
>
># CONFIG_DCA is not set
>CONFIG_INTEL_IOATDMA=m
>
>ERROR: "alloc_dca_provider" [drivers/dma/ioatdma.ko] undefined!
>ERROR: "register_dca_provider" [drivers
Stacked GIT 0.13 release is available from http://www.procode.org/stgit/.
StGIT is a Python application providing similar functionality to Quilt
(i.e. pushing/popping patches to/from a stack) on top of GIT. These
operations are performed using GIT commands and the patches are stored
as GIT commit
Question:
Could those who have found this prefetch helps them alot say how
many disks they have? In particular, is their swap on the same
disk spindle as their root and user files?
Answer - for me:
On my system where updatedb is a big problem, I have one, slow, disk.
On both desktop an
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:25:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:07:56 -0700
> "Masoud Sharbiani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 7/25/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:57:43 +0200
> > > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Here are some more USB patches and fixes against your 2.6.22 git tree.
>
> They add a new usb gadget driver, more urb->status cleanups, a new sysfs
> attribute to get the raw config of the usb device, and some bugfixes and
> documentation updates.
I have
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 22:45 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On 23/07/07, Antonino A. Daplas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-07-22 at 19:41 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > > I ma having problems with the pvr2 fb on the Dreamcast in 2.6.22-git17
> > > - when the code is executed it ap
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Depends... if you have CONFIG_HIGHMEM and not CONFIG_HIGHPTE, you are
> wasting time going through kmap_atomic unnecessarily no ? it will probably
> not do anything because the PTE page is in lowmem but still...
Probably not much time. Yo
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