Re: [patch 2/4] Expose Power Management Policy option to users

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: @@ -42,6 +42,16 @@ enum scsi_eh_timer_return { EH_RESET_TIMER, }; +/* + * shost pm policy: If you alter this, you also need to alter scsi_sysfs.c + * (for the ascii descriptions) + */ +enum scsi_host_link_pm { + SHOST_NOT_AVAILABLE, +

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, spamassassin vs rpc stuffs, rpc 1, spamassassin 0

2007-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 30 July 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >/etc/bindresvport.blacklist [EMAIL PROTECTED] rc3.d]# less /etc/bindresvport.blacklist /etc/bindresvport.blacklist: No such file or directory on an FC6 system. Thanks. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: [PATCH 2/4][RFC] lro: Kconfig and Makefile

2007-07-30 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:24:45 +0200 Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kconfig and Makefile for LRO > > Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > net/ipv4/Kconfig |8 > net/ipv4/Makefile |1 + > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH -rt 7/9] introduce PICK_FUNCTION

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:39 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 19:45 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > +#undef TYPE_EQUAL > > +#define TYPE_EQUAL(var, type) \ > > + __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(var), type *) > > + > > If you're going to touch this code, could

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the SCSI Tape driver

2007-07-30 Thread Kai Makisara
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > The SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API > instead of the (binary) semaphore. > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks. -- Kai - To unsubscribe

Re: [patch][rfc] 2.6.23-rc1 mm: NUMA replicated pagecache

2007-07-30 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 05:16 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 10:30:47AM -0400, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:42 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just got a bit of time to take another look at the replicated pagecache > > > patch. The nopage

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 7/31/07, Jacob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/30/07, kriko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would try the new cfs how it performs, but it seems that nvidia drivers > > doesn't compile successfully under 2.6.23-rc1. > > http://files.myopera.com/kriko/files/nvidia-installer.log > > > >

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?(was Re: 2.6.23-rc1)

2007-07-30 Thread david
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: * John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/29/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ingo- Why not perform the same test using the native linux Q3 client to compare numbers to wine? [...] I regularly test native

Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Seems pretty good to me, save for one minor detail: patches #1/#2 should be combined together for greater git-bisect happiness. Ditto for patches #3/#4. Largely harmless in this case, but keeps the git history pollution to a minimum. Caveat reviewer: I'm not an expert of net/ipv4/* code,

Re: Hangs and reboots under high loads, oops with DEBUG_SHIRQ

2007-07-30 Thread Kok, Auke
king at the time it seems an issue on itself and unrelated to the e1000 debug_shirq fix. I've got exactly the same errors (only the TSC and the CPU value changing) on all four machines, could this really be a hardware error? yes full dmesg: http://people.fsn.hu/~bra/linux/x7dbe-20070730/with_debug_s

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-07-30 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 17:04 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > hi Kasper, > > * Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Im still not so keen about this, Ingo never did get CFS to match SD in > > smoothness for 3d applications, where my test subjects are quake(s), > > world of warcraft via

[RFC 00/26] VFS based Union Mount (V2)

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Here is another post of the VFS based union mount implementation. Unlike the traditional mount which hides the contents of the mount point, union mounts present the merged view of the mount point and the mounted filesytem. Recent changes: - brand new union structure no longer tied to the dentryn,

[RFC 08/26] VFS: Export lives_below_in_same_fs()

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Export lives_below_in_same_fs() for use in union mount code. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namespace.c|3 ++- include/linux/mount.h |1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ static

[RFC 22/26] union-mount: white-out changes for copy-on-open

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
When files on an upper layer of the union stack are removed we need to white-out the removed filename. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c | 46 -- 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++

[RFC 26/26] union-mount: Debug code

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Some debugging code itself. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c| 26 ++ fs/union.c| 27 +++ include/linux/namei.h |4 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c

[RFC 07/26] VFS: Introduce dput() variante that maintains a kill-list

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch introduces a new variant of dput(). This becomes necessary to prevent a recursive call to dput() from the union mount code. void __dput(struct dentry *dentry, struct list_head *list); __dput() works mostly like the original dput() did. The main difference is that it doesn't do a

[RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Introduce white-out support to ext2. Known Bugs: - Needs a reserved inode number for white-outs - S_OPAQUE isn't persistently stored Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext2/dir.c |2 ++ fs/ext2/namei.c | 18 ++ fs/ext2/super.c |

[RFC 03/26] VFS: Make lookup_hash() return a struct path

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch changes lookup_hash() into returning a struct path. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c | 113 ++--- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1297,27

[RFC 13/26] ext3 whiteout support

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Introduce whiteout support for ext3. - Needs a reserved inode number for white-outs - S_OPAQUE isn't persistently stored Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext3/dir.c |3 ++- fs/ext3/namei.c | 33 + fs/ext3/super.c

[RFC 23/26] union-mount: copyup on rename

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Add copyup renaming of regular files on union mounts. Directories are still lazyly copied with the help of user-space. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c | 133 - fs/union.c |8 ++- 2 files changed, 129

[RFC 04/26] VFS: Make lookup_create() return a struct path

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch changes lookup_create() into returning a struct path. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 15 ++ fs/namei.c| 75 +- include/linux/dcache.h|

[RFC 11/26] tmpfs white-out support

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Introduce white-out support to tmpfs. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/shmem_fs.h |1 mm/shmem.c | 54 +++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h +++

[RFC 06/26] VFS: Make real_lookup() return a struct path

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch changes real_lookup() into returning a struct path. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c | 77 ++--- 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -462,10

[RFC 24/26] union-mount: dont report EROFS for union mounts

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
SuS v2 requires we report a read only fs too. For union-mounts this is a very expensive check. So I'm lazy and just disable the check if we are on a lower layer of an union. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/open.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) ---

[RFC 25/26] union-mount: Debug Infrastructure

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This adds debugfs/relay based debugging infrastructure helpful when doing development of the union-mount code itself. The debgging output can be enabled during runtime by: echo 1 > /proc/sys/fs/union-debug This registers the relayfs files where the debug code is writing its output to. There are

[RFC 14/26] union-mount: Documentation

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Add simple documentation about union mounting in general and this implementation in specific. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/union-mounts.txt | 172 + 1 file changed, 172 insertions(+) --- /dev/null +++

[RFC 21/26] union-mount: in-kernel file copy between union mounted filesystems

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch introduces in-kernel file copy between union mounted filesystems. When a file is opened for writing but resides on a lower (thus read-only) layer of the union stack it is copied to the topmost union layer first. This patch uses the do_splice() for doing the in-kernel file copy.

[RFC 19/26] union-mount: Make lookup work for union-mounted file systems

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
On union-mounted file systems the lookup function must also visit lower layers of the union-stack when doing a lookup. This patches add support for union-mounts to cached lookups and real lookups. We have 3 different styles of lookup functions now: - multiple pathname components, follow mounts,

[RFC 15/26] union-mount: Add union-mount mount flag

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Introduce MNT_UNION and MS_UNION flags. You need additional patches for util-linux for that to work. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namespace.c|6 +- include/linux/fs.h|1 + include/linux/mount.h |1 + 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1

[RFC 18/26] union-mount: Changes to the namespace handling

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Creates the proper struct union_mount when mounting something into a union. If the topmost filesystem isn't capable of handling the white-out filetype it could only be mount read-only. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namespace.c| 46

[RFC 16/26] union-mount: Introduce union_mount structure

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch adds the basic structures of VFS based union mounts. It is a new implementation based on some of my old idea's that influenced Bharata B Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who came up with the proposal to let the union_mount struct only point to the next layer in the union stack. I rewrote nearly

[RFC 20/26] union-mount: Simple union-mount readdir implementation

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This is a very simple union mount readdir implementation. It modifies the readdir routine to merge the entries of union mounted directories and eliminate duplicates while walking the union stack. FIXME: This patch needs to be reworked! At the moment this only works for ext2 and tmpfs. All

[RFC 17/26] union-mount: Drive the union cache via dcache

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
If a dentry is removed from dentry cache because its usage count drops to zero, the references to the underlying layer of the unions the dentry is in are droped too. Therefore the union cache is driven by the dentry cache. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/dcache.c

[RFC 09/26] linux/stat.h: Add the filetype white-out

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
A white-out stops the VFS from further lookups of the white-out's name and returns -ENOENT. This is the same behaviour as if the filename isn't found. This can be used in combination with union mounts to virtually delete (white-out) files by creating a file of this file type. Signed-off-by: Jan

[RFC 10/26] VFS white-out handling

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
Introduce white-out handling in the VFS. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/inode.c | 22 ++ fs/namei.c | 417 +++-- fs/readdir.c |6 include/linux/fs.h |7 4 files changed, 441 insertions(+), 11

[RFC 01/26] [PATCH 14/18] shmem: convert to using splice instead of sendfile()

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
From: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove shmem_file_sendfile and resurrect shmem_readpage, as used by tmpfs to support loop and sendfile in 2.4 and 2.5. Now tmpfs can support splice, loop and sendfile in the simplest way, using generic_file_splice_read and generic_file_splice_write (with

[RFC 05/26] VFS: cache_lookup() cleanup

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
cache_lookup() can directly use d_lookup() instead of calling __d_lookup() first since rename_lock is a seq_lock. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c | 13 - 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -403,15

[RFC 02/26] VFS: Export dput_path() and path_to_nameidata()

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Blunck
This patch makes dput_path() and path_to_nameidata() general available. Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/namei.c| 16 include/linux/namei.h | 15 +++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++

Re: Hangs and reboots under high loads, oops with DEBUG_SHIRQ

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Cox
O> MCE: > [153103.918654] HARDWARE ERROR > [153103.918655] CPU 1: Machine Check Exception:5 Bank 0: > b2401400 > [153104.066037] RIP !INEXACT! 10: {mwait_idle+0x46/0x60} > [153104.145699] TSC 1167e915e93ce > [153104.183554] This is not a software problem! > [153104.234724]

Repeated XFS corruption -Corruption of in-memory data detected

2007-07-30 Thread Ryan Bair
Kernel: 2.6.18-4-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) Debian Etch System: Dell PowerEdge 1850 Processor: 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon w/ microcode v1.14a, Hyperthreading disabled. RAM: 2x1GB ECC DDR-400 RAID Controller: Dell PERC5/E using megaraid driver I got another unexpected error on my XFS partition

Re: v2.6.23-rc1-rt6-dw1

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 22:20 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > +/* > > + * trigger a reschedule on all other CPUs: > > + */ > > +extern void smp_send_reschedule_allbutself(void); > > + > > +/* > > + * trigger a reschedule on all other CPUs: > > + */ > > +extern void

Re: [PATCH -rt 1/9] preempt rcu: check for underflow

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:22 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > + /* > > +* If our rcu_read_lock_nesting went negative, likely > > +* something is wrong.. > > +*/ > > + WARN_ON(current->rcu_read_lock_nesting < 0); > > have you actually

Re: [PATCH -rt 4/9] ifdef raise_softirq_irqoff wakeup

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 11:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > @@ -508,7 +508,9 @@ inline fastcall void raise_softirq_irqof > > { > > __do_raise_softirq_irqoff(nr); > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_SOFTIRQS > > wakeup_softirqd(nr); > > +#endif >

[PATCH 2/4][RFC] lro: Kconfig and Makefile

2007-07-30 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Kconfig and Makefile for LRO Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv4/Kconfig |8 net/ipv4/Makefile |1 + 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/ipv4/Kconfig b/net/ipv4/Kconfig index fb79097..d894f61 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH -rt 6/9] spinlock/rt_lock random cleanups

2007-07-30 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 10:28 +0530, Ankita Garg wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 07:45:40PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > --- > > include/linux/rt_lock.h |6 -- > > include/linux/spinlock.h |5 +++-- > > 2 files changed, 7

[PATCH 1/4][RFC] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

2007-07-30 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/inet_lro.h | 173 ++ net/ipv4/inet_lro.c | 590 ++ 2 files changed, 763 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) create mode

[PATCH 3/3] ehea: Eliminated some compiler warnings

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Klein
Fixed wrongly casted pointers Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 25 ++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c index 36ca322..9756211

Hangs and reboots under high loads, oops with DEBUG_SHIRQ

2007-07-30 Thread Attila Nagy
got exactly the same errors (only the TSC and the CPU value changing) on all four machines, could this really be a hardware error? full dmesg: http://people.fsn.hu/~bra/linux/x7dbe-20070730/with_debug_shirq dmesg with MSI enabled: http://people.fsn.hu/~bra/linux/x7dbe-20070730/with_msi_an

[PATCH 3/4][RFC] ehea: LRO support

2007-07-30 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Added LRO support using the "SKB aggregate" interface Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h |9 - drivers/net/ehea/ehea_ethtool.c | 15 +++ drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c| 82 +++--- 3 files

[PATCH 4/4][RFC] ehea: Kconfig

2007-07-30 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Kconfig changes for LRO Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/Kconfig |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/Kconfig b/drivers/net/Kconfig index f8a602c..fec4004 100644 --- a/drivers/net/Kconfig +++

[PATCH 0/4][RFC] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

2007-07-30 Thread Jan-Bernd Themann
Hi, this patch set contains the latest generic LRO code, a Kconfig / Makefile and an eHEA patch demonstrating how the "aggregate SKB" interface has to to be used. Drew, could you provide a patch for the myri10ge driver to show how the "receive in page" interface works? Please check the Kconfig /

[PATCH 2/3] ehea: Simplify resource usage check

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Klein
Use shorter method to determine whether adapter has configured ports Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 18 ++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

[PATCH 1/3] ehea: Fix workqueue handling

2007-07-30 Thread Thomas Klein
Fix: Workqueue ehea_driver_wq was not destroyed Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h |2 +- drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c |1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h

Re: [PATCH] DDB5477: Remove driver bits of support

2007-07-30 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ralf Baechle wrote: From: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c |8 drivers/serial/8250_pci.c | 20 include/linux/pci_ids.h|1 sound/oss/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] Fix msr register allocation

2007-07-30 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.07.30 12:25:54 -0300, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > Since the value in ret will go through a return statement, ^^^ You mean "err" I guess? > it does not need to be put in eax register directly. Instead, > we let the compiler do his job and choose what to do with

Re: PCI Quirk / Hidden Bus Report

2007-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
I also have the same type message in my dmesg from a Dell Latitude D820 with the latest BIOS: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1080-10bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0 PCI: Bus #04 (-#07)

Re: [PATCH] .gitignore update

2007-07-30 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:57:22PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jul 26 2007 16:15, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > >Somehow I ended up with the following in tree: > > > > $ git status > > ... > > # Untracked files: > > # (use "git add ..." to include in what will be

[PATCH] Fix msr register allocation

2007-07-30 Thread Glauber de Oliveira Costa
Since the value in ret will go through a return statement, it does not need to be put in eax register directly. Instead, we let the compiler do his job and choose what to do with it, potentially getting a better register allocation. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-07-30 Thread Chuck Lever
Miklos Szeredi wrote: Some mount options are never passed to the kernel, and thus can't appear in /proc/mounts. Examples include user, users, and _netdev for NFS. These options control *who* may mount and *when* to mount. They are not a property of the mount itself and are not added to

Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370

2007-07-30 Thread Cal Peake
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Gabriel C wrote: > Frank Hale wrote: > [ added linux-acpi to CC ] > > I have an Averatec 2370 laptop with the nVidia MCP51. With kernel > > 2.6.20 I had no issues with ACPI however with 2.6.21 and higher the > > kernel will hang on boot until I press the suspend button or

Re: Testing of CPRM on SD Card

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:23:42 +0530 "Midhun A" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey All, > > Thanks a lot for the replies. I have the development keys. But the > algorithm and some intellectual property needs to be licenced from the > 4C entity guys to implement it. As of now I just want to test

Re: LinuxPPS & spinlocks

2007-07-30 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 02:37:26PM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > > > In pps_event() is not useful using spin_lock_irqsave/restore() since > > the only difference between spin_lock_irqsave() and spin_lock() is > > that the former will turn off

Re: [PATCH] APM support depends on CONFIG_PM_SLEEP

2007-07-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 30 July 2007 12:12, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Commit 296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 broke building APM > support if CONFIG_PM_SLEEP is not set. Sorry for the breakage, my fault. > Reported by Toralf Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL

Re: Testing of CPRM on SD Card

2007-07-30 Thread Midhun A
Hey All, Thanks a lot for the replies. I have the development keys. But the algorithm and some intellectual property needs to be licenced from the 4C entity guys to implement it. As of now I just want to test the CPRM functionality. So licensing the algo for a prototype testing is a huge

Re: [PATCH 2/5] ehca: Generate event when SRQ limit reached

2007-07-30 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
Hi, > BTW, does your SRQ-capable hardware support generating the "last WQE > reached" event? There's not any reliable way to avoid problems when > destroying QPs attached to an SRQ without it, and the IB spec requires > CAs that support SRQs to generate it (o11-5.2.5 in chapter 11 of vol 1). > >

Re: Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Eric, On 26/07/07, Eric Sesterhenn / Snakebyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Len Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > [ 13.506890] ACPI Exception (processor_throttling-0084): > > > > > > AE_NOT_FOUND, Evaluating _PTC [20070126] > > > > > > [ 13.507101] ACPI Exception

Re: [PATCH] flush icache before set_pte() take 5.

2007-07-30 Thread Zoltan Menyhart
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: Considerations: - I can add CONFIG_MONTECITO if necessary. But it will be confusing, I think. What about this trick below? identify_cpu() finds out the "c->family". If any of the CPUs has c->family==32 (and the future versions...) then set a global flag. And:

bonnie++ benchmarks for ext2,ext3,ext4,jfs,reiserfs,xfs,zfs on software raid 5

2007-07-30 Thread Justin Piszcz
CONFIG: Software RAID 5 (400GB x 6): Default mkfs parameters for all filesystems. Kernel was 2.6.21 or 2.6.22, did these awhile ago. Hardware was SATA with PCI-e only, nothing on the PCI bus. ZFS was userspace+fuse of course. Reiser was V3. EXT4 was created using the recommended options on its

Re: [-mm PATCH 6/9] Memory controller add per container LRU and reclaim (v4)

2007-07-30 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:07:58PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > Hi Balbir, > > > diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mem-control-lru-and-reclaim mm/memcontrol.c > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/mm/memcontrol.c~mem-control-lru-and-reclaim > > 2007-07-28 01:12:50.0 +0530 > > +++

Re: [PATCH 4/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in ISDN subsystem common functions

2007-07-30 Thread Karsten Keil
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:41:05PM +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > The ISDN subsystem common functions use a semaphore as mutex. Use the > mutex API instead of the (binary) semaphore. > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --

Re: [BUG] i386 relocable kernel breakes /proc/kcore debugging

2007-07-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jan Kratochvil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:03:03 +0200, Vivek Goyal wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 04:43:43AM +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > ... >> > gdb 'thinks' that all kernel symbols are below 0x8000 , while they are > at >> > 0xC000 >> > >> > Turning

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-git3 init failure

2007-07-30 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Sid, On 29/07/07, Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Boot failure on x86_64 (64X2), says it can't find init, specifically > > /init. 2.6.23-rc1-git1 boots and runs successfully. I haven't tried > > -git2. I shall reboot on 2.6.23-rc1-git3 tomorrow and record the full > > message. >

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, spamassassin vs rpc stuffs, rpc 1, spamassassin 0

2007-07-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 30 2007 07:16, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Guillaume Chazarain wrote: >> > Comments anyone? >> >> This is not specific to the kernel. >> It was discussed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/24/258 >> http://cyberelk.net/tim/portreserve/ seems to be the solution, >> it's a pity it is not widely

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, spamassassin vs rpc stuffs, rpc 1, spamassassin 0

2007-07-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Guillaume Chazarain wrote: Comments anyone? This is not specific to the kernel. It was discussed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/24/258 http://cyberelk.net/tim/portreserve/ seems to be the solution, it's a pity it is not widely deployed. The better solution probably would have

Re: [PATCH] usbhid: add ASUS LCM to the blacklist

2007-07-30 Thread Chr
On Monday, 30. July 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Christian Lamparter wrote: > > > Some of ASUS' notebooks (e.g G Series) include a tiny oled display, which > > is > > attached to an internal USB bus. Unfortunatly the device reports a wrong > > DeviceDescriptor and is

Re: 2.6.23-rc1: no setup signature found...

2007-07-30 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Borislav Petkov wrote: Breakpoint 4, 0x00040200 in ?? () 1: x/i ($cs << 4) + $eip 0x40300: lea(%si),%dx (gdb) p/x $ds $1 = 0x18 This isn't the setup code, it's doing something else. Could you try this again, but when you get to this point, if the instruction displayed isn't a

Re: [PATCH][hid] Fix a NULL pointer dereference when we fail to allocate memory

2007-07-30 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 22/07/07, Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jesper Juhl napsal(a): > > drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c |3 ++- > > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c > > index b2baeae..3ff7468 100644 > >

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, spamassassin vs rpc stuffs, rpc 1, spamassassin 0

2007-07-30 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
> Comments anyone? This is not specific to the kernel. It was discussed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/24/258 http://cyberelk.net/tim/portreserve/ seems to be the solution, it's a pity it is not widely deployed. Cheers. -- Guillaume - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [-mm PATCH 6/9] Memory controller add per container LRU and reclaim (v4)

2007-07-30 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:07 +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > Hi Balbir, > > > diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mem-control-lru-and-reclaim mm/memcontrol.c > > --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/mm/memcontrol.c~mem-control-lru-and-reclaim > > 2007-07-28 01:12:50.0 +0530 > > +++

2.6.23-rc1, spamassassin vs rpc stuffs, rpc 1, spamassassin 0

2007-07-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; As in something in the rpc daemons started at boot time grabbed localhost:783, which is SA's local port. I had to kill fetchmail, get x working, edit the services to kill the rpc stuff and reboot before spamassassin would start. As spamassassin (spamd) is pretty important, that

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/2] ehca: remove checkpatch.pl's warnings "externs should be avoided in .c files"

2007-07-30 Thread Roland Dreier
> Was going to recreate this patch, but then I saw that you > probably have incorporated it (manually) in your latest git. > Just want to make sure I'm seeing it right. Yes, I ended up doing it by hand. Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH][hid] Fix a NULL pointer dereference when we fail to allocate memory

2007-07-30 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > --- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c > > +++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c > > @@ -743,7 +743,7 @@ static struct hid_device *usb_hid_configure(struct > > usb_interface *intf) > > hid->quirks = quirks; > > > > if (!(usbhid =

Re: [patch] add kdump_after_notifier

2007-07-30 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Bernhard's idea (kdump uses panic_notifier) is very good for me. But it isn't >> good for kdump user, because they want to take a dump ASAP when panicked. >> > > This one is better than registering kdump as one of the users of a > panic_notifier() list.

Re: PCI Quirk / Hidden Bus Report

2007-07-30 Thread pat-lkml
Thanks for the bump. Any additional information needed? Pat Erley Adrian Bunk wrote: Bernhard? cu Adrian On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 11:33:55PM -0400, pat-lkml wrote: I received: PCI: Bus #0b (-#0e) is hidden behind transparent bridge #0a (-#0a) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Please report the

Re: [-mm PATCH 6/9] Memory controller add per container LRU and reclaim (v4)

2007-07-30 Thread Dhaval Giani
Hi Balbir, > diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~mem-control-lru-and-reclaim mm/memcontrol.c > --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/mm/memcontrol.c~mem-control-lru-and-reclaim > 2007-07-28 01:12:50.0 +0530 > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-balbir/mm/memcontrol.c 2007-07-28 > 01:12:50.0 +0530 > /*

k8temp on 2.6.18

2007-07-30 Thread shacky
Hi. I'm using the 2.6.18 kernel (and I cannot upgrade it), but I need the "k8temp" module which is available only from the 2.6.21 version. Is there a way to use this module on my 2.6.18? Thank you very much! Bye. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: change the exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2007-07-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:18:41AM -0400, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:02:33 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > They are still completely unused, but hopefully some of the theoretical > > code that might use it will appear in the kernel in the near future... > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian

[PATCH] drivers/isdn/hisax/* - Fix some warnings when CONFIG_PCI=n

2007-07-30 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, I noticed some warning when CONFIG_PCI=n ... drivers/isdn/hisax/elsa.c:835: warning: 'dev_qs1000' defined but not used drivers/isdn/hisax/elsa.c:836: warning: 'dev_qs3000' defined but not used drivers/isdn/hisax/gazel.c:539: warning: 'setup_gazelpci' defined but not used

Re: [PATCH][hid] Fix a NULL pointer dereference when we fail to allocate memory

2007-07-30 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jesper Juhl wrote: > If, in usb_hid_configure(), we fail to allocate storage for 'usbhid', > "if (!(usbhid = kzalloc(sizeof(struct usbhid_device), GFP_KERNEL)))", > then we'll jump to the 'fail:' label where we have this code: > usb_free_urb(usbhid->urbin); >

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/audit.c: change the exports to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2007-07-30 Thread Steve Grubb
On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:02:33 Adrian Bunk wrote: > They are still completely unused, but hopefully some of the theoretical > code that might use it will appear in the kernel in the near future... > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Acked-by: Steve Grubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am

rpc.mountd crashes when extensively using netgroups

2007-07-30 Thread Stefan Walter
Hi all, we are seeing rpc.mountd crashes on our Red Hat EL4 systems. We have tracked down the bug and it seems to be still present in the current nfs-utils source. We are making extensive use of netgroups for NFS exports. On a large file server with hundreds of home directories we export every

Re: 2.6.20->2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Cox
> So the whole locking is to be able to keep irqs enabled for a long time, > without risking entry of the same IRQ handler on this same CPU, correct? As implemented - on any CPU. We also need to know that the IRQ handler is not doing useful work on another processor which is why we take the

Re: 2.6.23-rc1, KVM-AMD problem

2007-07-30 Thread Avi Kivity
Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 14:47:57 you wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 12:34:28 you wrote: [snip] Doesn't help, I still get the same crashes. I tried 2.6.22 again and it's rock solid by comparison. Do you mean,

Re: [PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h

2007-07-30 Thread Hirokazu Takata
Hi, Alexery, This change breaks m32r, too. Don't forget updating the other archs, please. From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove fs.h from mm.h Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:08:20 -0700 (PDT) > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > > Cross-compile tested

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 1/2] ehca: remove checkpatch.pl's warnings "externs should be avoided in .c files"

2007-07-30 Thread Hoang-Nam Nguyen
Hi Roland! > the patch looks fine except your mailer seems to have mangled > it... can you resend so I can apply it? Was going to recreate this patch, but then I saw that you probably have incorporated it (manually) in your latest git. Just want to make sure I'm seeing it right. Anyway, appreciate

Re: pci=assign-busses

2007-07-30 Thread Damien Wyart
Hello, Another report of the same kind. Box is an HP/Compaq nx7400. Before/after use of pci= option dmesgs attached. -- Damien Wyart Jul 23 11:41:06 dalpdw2 kernel: Linux version 2.6.23-rc1-23072007dw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070629 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-13)) #1 SMP Mon

Re: Testing of CPRM on SD Card

2007-07-30 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:20:58 +0530 "Sriram, Kannan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Midhun, > > There is no open-source implementation of CPRM (SD-Audio/ SD-Bind > standards). So first of all, you need to license keys from 4C (device > keys, media keys etc) and do your own implementation. Also

Re: [PATCH] usbhid: add ASUS LCM to the blacklist

2007-07-30 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Christian Lamparter wrote: > Some of ASUS' notebooks (e.g G Series) include a tiny oled display, which is > attached to an internal USB bus. Unfortunatly the device reports a wrong > DeviceDescriptor and is therefore identified as a HID device... Hi Christian, I have

Re: [2.6 patch] make nf_ct_ipv6_skip_exthdr() static

2007-07-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
Adrian Bunk wrote: > nf_ct_ipv6_skip_exthdr() can now become static. Applied, thanks. - 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 FAQ at

Re: [PATCH][netfilter] Avoid a possible NULL pointer deref in recent_seq_open()

2007-07-30 Thread Patrick McHardy
Jesper Juhl wrote: > There is a small problem in > net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_recent.c::recent_seq_open(). > > If the call to seq_open() returns != 0 then the code calls > kfree(st) but then on the very next line proceeds to > dereference the pointer - not good. Applied, thanks Jesper. - To

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