Re: WARN_ON() which sometimes sucks

2007-08-01 Thread Joe Korty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:20:48PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Linus Torvalds writes: > > > Umm. The WARN_ON() might actually get a "long long" value for all we know. > > Ie it's perfectly possible that the WARN_ON might look like > > > > /* Must not have high bits on */ > >

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix drivers/scsi/mvme147.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/scsi/mvme147.c 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/drivers/scsi/mvme147.c 2007-08-01 17:14:39.0

Re: [RFC 11/26] tmpfs white-out support

2007-08-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Jan Blunck wrote: > 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(+) I

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 05:09 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We could have independent problems with more or less the same symptoms, at least Teresa's problem seems much worse than ours, and if you and Ingo only experience a stuck delete key, it might be something

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix drivers/scsi/aha1542.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/drivers/scsi/aha1542.c 2007-08-01 17:09:40.0

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix include/asm-parisc/compat_rt_sigframe.h

2007-08-01 Thread Grant Grundler
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:55:00PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > Coding style fix Acked-by: Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks, grant > > Regards, > Michal > > -- > LOG > http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ > > Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We could have independent problems with more or less the same > symptoms, at least Teresa's problem seems much worse than ours, and if > you and Ingo only experience a stuck delete key, it might be something > else. i experienced nothing in this

Re: [PATCH] RT: Add priority-queuing and priority-inheritance to workqueue infrastructure

2007-08-01 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 07:59 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 20:52 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > Here's a simpler version .. uses the plist data structure instead of the > > 100 queues, which makes for a cleaner patch .. > > Hi Daniel, > > I like your idea on the

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please also send me the output of this script: > > > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh > > Send privately. thanks. Just to make sure, while you said that your TSC was off on that laptop, the bootup log of

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix drivers/media/video/zr36016.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/media/video/zr36016.c2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/drivers/media/video/zr36016.c 2007-08-01

Re: 2.6.22 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Nelson
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 09:22:41 am Bob Nelson wrote: > It looks to me like you were saying you would remove this extension to the > OProfile file system (/dev/oprofile/implementation). > However, it looks like it has made it into the mainline kernel code. As David > pointed out, the value

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Wed, August 1, 2007 15:58, Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/01/2007 03:33 PM, <:::.. TeresaII ..:::> wrote: > >> Problem is, that i can't reproduce it after last reboot. >> Can this be different on each reboot ? Any idea ? >> >> About another kernel: i only had -ck kernels since last year or more, i

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix drivers/media/video/zr36050.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/drivers/media/video/zr36050.c 2007-08-01

[PATCH] remove get_perm_addr from ucc_geth_ethtool.c

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Altenberg
Remove get_perm_addr from ucc_geth_ethtool.c This is needed because commit 313674afa8fdced2fe79f50f38e1c387b63d8790 inlines the generic function to the caller. Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/ucc_geth_ethtool.c |1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) Index:

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

2007-08-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25. Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel. This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk warning users.

PROBLEM: [2.6.22.1] Copying to full NFS dir

2007-08-01 Thread Raphael Manfredi
I've stumbled into a problem running 2.6.22.1 on both my NFS client and my NFS server. I've just upgraded from 2.4.31, so I have no idea whether this is a new problem or if it is known in the 2.6.x series. Here's a high-level description of the context: * The NFS server has a directory which is

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Henrique, if there's a patch to test, pls let me know. > Or maybe CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED should be N by default. I will hunt down the LKML mail and reply to it. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix drivers/media/video/zr36060.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/media/video/zr36060.c2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/drivers/media/video/zr36060.c 2007-08-01

Re: [ck] Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 8/2/07, <::.. Teresa_II ..::> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As i sad. I wasn't sure if its kernel related at all, it just was worse > first time i booted cfs-v19.1 patch. Now i cant reproduce it even > anymore :) Hi Teresa, Are you sure its not just a setting in Gnome/KDE for accessibility?

Re: [PATCH 005 of 35] Stop updating bi_idx, bv_len, bv_offset when a request completes

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Went through 1-4 and all look sane and seem to be nice clean ups with or without the rest of series. I didn't really dig into each conversion, so I can't say much about correctness tho. NeilBrown wrote: > Some requests signal partial completion. We currently record this > by updating

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues

2007-08-01 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
> Quoting Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > Hi! > > ACPI appears to have been broken with 2.6.23-rc1 on my T60 > > Userspace from ubuntu dapper. > > (Whereas I'm using a T43p with openSUSE 10.2.)

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc1] eCryptfs: fix lookup error for special files

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:01:14PM +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote: > When ecryptfs_lookup() is called against special files, eCryptfs > generates the following errors because it tries to treat them like > regular eCryptfs files. > > Error opening lower file for lower_dentry [0x810233a6f150],

Re: [PATCH] prevent SSB compilation on s390 part 2

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:34:04AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > drivers/ssb/Kconfig has already a depends on HAS_IOMEM which should > > prevent SSB from being selected. But appearantly it

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix include/asm-parisc/compat_rt_sigframe.h

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/include/asm-parisc/compat_rt_sigframe.h 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/include/asm-parisc/compat_rt_sigframe.h

Re: [PATCH] FRV: Make BSG declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-08-01 Thread David Howells
James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you sure you're testing with git head? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG cannot be > set unless CONFIG_BLOCK is (which was a bug in previous releases now > fixed in git head ... unless the fix has gone wrong?). Neither CONFIG_BLK_DEV_BSG nor CONFIG_BLOCK are

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix include/asm-blackfin/errno.h

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/include/asm-blackfin/errno.h 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/include/asm-blackfin/errno.h 2007-08-01

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Roman, Took me most of today trying to figure out WTH you did in fs2.c, more math and fundamental explanations would have been good. So please bear with me as I try to recap this thing. (No, your code was very much _not_ obvious, a few comments and broken out functions would have made a world

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:27:15PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: >> Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>> I'd be interested in seeing the results of the randconfig trials on the >>> driver with those 23 patches applied, but not particularly interested in >>> the intermediate result. >> I can

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix sound/pci/ca0106/ca_midi.h

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-mm-clean/sound/pci/ca0106/ca_midi.h 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/sound/pci/ca0106/ca_midi.h 2007-08-01 16:38:54.0

Re: [PATCH] prevent SSB compilation on s390 part 2

2007-08-01 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:34:04AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > drivers/ssb/Kconfig has already a depends on HAS_IOMEM which should > prevent SSB from being selected. But appearantly it looks like this > doesn't matter at all if it gets selected from

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread <::.. Teresa_II ..::>
У ср, 2007-08-01 у 15:58 +0200, Rene Herman пише: > I notice by the way that you are also using Thunderbird 2.0 -- that was my > own suspect; I had just switched from Thunderbird 1.5. I was at work, on windows maschine. At home, where my linux maschine is running i use evolution. But that have

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB BIOS early handoff only when the we the driver is configured

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, David Engraf wrote: > At the moment I have a Jetway/VIA Mainboard which seems to have a problem > with the handoff. Even > when I wait about 20 seconds the EHCI_USBLEGSUP_BIOS flag is not cleared. > I think this is a BIOS > bug and I will have to talk to Jetway/VIA. I have

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while (1) > sched_yield(); sched_yield() is being reworked at the moment. But in general we want apps to move away to sane locking constructs ASAP. There's some movement in the 3D space at least. Ingo - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 000 of 35] Refactor block layer to improve support for stacked devices.

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Avi Kivity wrote: > NeilBrown wrote: >> To achieve this, the "for_each" macros are now somewhat more complex. >> For example, rq_for_each_segment is: >> >> #define bio_for_each_segment_offset(bv, bio, _i, offs, _size)\ >> for (_i.i = 0, _i.offset = (bio)->bi_offset + offs,\ >>

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably > > not worth optimizing for it. > > I'm not so sure about that. sched_clock() has to be fast, so many > archs may want to continue to use jiffies. [...] i think Andi was talking

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

2007-08-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Borislav Petkov wrote: Breakpoint 4, 0x00040200 in ?? () 1: x/i ($cs << 4) + $eip 0x40300: lea(%si),%dx (gdb) c Continuing. if i do delete here, it loads the second stage of grub and continues to load the kernel. Is there another way to land at the jmp

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:27:15PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: > Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > I'd be interested in seeing the results of the randconfig trials on the > > driver with those 23 patches applied, but not particularly interested in > > the intermediate result. > > I can do that on weekend.

Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Oruba
Francis, this may be a good site to start with: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_739_7044,00.html Regards, Peter Oruba Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2007 15:27:23 schrieb Francis Moreau: > Hello, > > I'm used to hack Linux on a ARM based board and would like to be >

Re: 2.6.22 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-08-01 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Bob Nelson wrote: > It looks to me like you were saying you would remove this extension to the > OProfile file system (/dev/oprofile/implementation). > However, it looks like it has made it into the mainline kernel code. Just to be clear, this problem showed up in my

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:39:12PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: >> This patch fixes the following compile error: >> >> drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'advansys_board_found': >> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:17781: error: implicit declaration of function >> 'to_pci_dev' > > Or

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues

2007-08-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > Hi! > ACPI appears to have been broken with 2.6.23-rc1 on my T60 > Userspace from ubuntu dapper. (Whereas I'm using a T43p with openSUSE 10.2.) > > 1. During boot, I see a lot of messages like this: > [ 41.034204] acpi LNXSYSTM:00: uevent:

[PATCH -mm] Fix defined but not used warning in drivers/kvm/vmx.c

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Hi, move_msr_up() is used only on X86_64 and generates a warning on !X86_64 ... drivers/kvm/vmx.c:548: warning: 'move_msr_up' defined but not used ... Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- PS: Btw Avi why do you think I'm mysterious ?:) ... git-kvm.patch:Noted by

RE: [PATCH -rt] Preemption problem in kernel RT Patch

2007-08-01 Thread Beauchemin, Mark
sorry.. I sent the wrong patch file. There was a warning in the other one. diff -ur linux-2.6.23-rc1-rt0/include/linux/netdevice.h linux-2.6.23-rc1-rt0_new/include/linux/netdevice.h --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-rt0/include/linux/netdevice.h 2007-07-24 15:17:07.0 -0400 +++

Re: 2.6.22 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-08-01 Thread Bob Nelson
On Thursday 26 July 2007 09:02:22 am Stephane Eranian wrote: > Hello, > > I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. > This version of the kernel patch is relative to 2.6.22. Sorry for > the delay but there was some traveling on my part + a lot > of patches to integrate

Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 03:27 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: I'm used to hack Linux on a ARM based board and would like to be involved in x86_64 architecture but I don't know where I should start... Could anyone point out some nice documentations/books describing this architecture ? First and foremost the

RE: [PATCH -rt] Preemption problem in kernel RT Patch

2007-08-01 Thread Beauchemin, Mark
Ingo, I tried just removing the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT code, but that drops packets if another task has the lock. Here's the debug printouts: <4>xmit_lock_owner owned by sigd not softirq-net-rx/ <4>xmit_lock_owner owned by sigd not softirq-net-rx/ <4>xmit_lock_owner owned by sigd not

Re: Problem - disabling IRQ #20 and others

2007-08-01 Thread debian developer
On 8/1/07, Andev Debi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Im getting the following error while booting the kernel 2.6.22.1-cfs > > Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 30.272161] EXT3 FS on hda8, internal > journal > Aug 1 09:14:09 localhost kernel: [ 33.572083] device-mapper: ioctl: >

Re: [PATCH] - Remove current defines and uses of pr_err, add pr_emerg, pr_alert, pr_crit, pr_err, pr_warn, pr_notice to include/linux/kernel.h

2007-08-01 Thread Joe Perches
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 16:24 +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: > But why are you replacing the existing pr_*() with printk(KERN_*? Order of compilation if bisected? The idea is to eventually convert all single line printk(KERN_ fmt "\n",...) to pr_ tree wide. This leaves only the multiline printk(foo);

Re: Is PIE randomization breaking klibc binaries?

2007-08-01 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > So it seems to me that either it is something x86_64 specific or > > initramfs-specific. Will try to reproduce it. > My guess would be the former, rather than the latter. I haven't had a > chance to reproduce it myself yet (I'm on the road), but I

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> but that's nothing new. CFS cannot conjure up time measurement methods > that do not exist. If you have a low-res clock and if you create an app > that syncs precisely to the tick of that clock via timers that run off > that exact tick then there's nothing the scheduler can do about it. It

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1 -- It does not matter who's code gets merged!

2007-08-01 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:14 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8/1/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me repeat the key message: > > > > It does not matter who's code gets merged. > > It does not matter who's code gets merged. > > It does not matter who's code gets merged. >

Re: [PATCH] pata_sis: fix MWDMA for <= UDMA66 chipsets and UDMA for UDMA33 chipsets

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: * Fix MWDMA timings setup in sis_old_set_dmamode() and sis_66_set_dmamode(). The old timings were overclocked (even worse behavior than sis5513 IDE driver which depends on BIOS to program correct timings), the new timings are taken from the datasheet (they

Re: [patch 1/4] Store interrupt value

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: Use a stored value for which interrupts to enable. Changing this allows us to selectively turn off certain interrupts later and have them stay off. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACK. Regenerate against current kernel and I'll

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 03:33 PM, <:::.. TeresaII ..:::> wrote: Problem is, that i can't reproduce it after last reboot. Can this be different on each reboot ? Any idea ? About another kernel: i only had -ck kernels since last year or more, i can remember i had same behavier atleast 6 month ago, or

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in that case 'top' accounting symptoms similar to the above are not > > due to the scheduler starvation you suspected, but due the effect of > > a low-resolution scheduler clock and a tightly coupled > > timer/scheduler tick to it. > > Well, it

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Jason Wessel
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:10:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: I was hoping for a 2.6.24 merge. But I haven't actually looked at it yet. Hopefully Jason is planning to get it all out for review soonish. The current version is quite messy. I'd be much happier

Re: [PATCH] FRV: Make BSG declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK

2007-08-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:13 +0100, David Howells wrote: > From: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Make BSG function declarations dependent on CONFIG_BLOCK as they are not > compilable if the block layer is compiled out. > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > >

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Eugene Teo wrote: > Hi Gabriel, Hi Eugene, > Hope the following trivial patch helps. Yes it does , thx. > > >> Getting this with a randconfig ( >> http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-10 ) >> > [...] >> drivers/scsi/advansys.c:794:2: warning: #warning this driver is still not >>

Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:39:12PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote: > This patch fixes the following compile error: > > drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'advansys_board_found': > drivers/scsi/advansys.c:17781: error: implicit declaration of function > 'to_pci_dev' Or just remove the ifdefs around

Re: [2.6 patch] ppc .gitignore update

2007-08-01 Thread Grant Likely
On 8/1/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > arch/ppc/.gitignore shouldn't exclude arch/ppc/boot/include > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > --- /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.0 +0200 > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/arch/ppc/boot/.gitignore 2007-08-01 >

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 01:10:33AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I was hoping for a 2.6.24 merge. But I haven't actually looked at it yet. > Hopefully Jason is planning to get it all out for review soonish. The current version is quite messy. I'd be much happier if we could start with a light

Re: [PATCH] flush icache before set_pte take6. [4/4] optimization for cpus other than montecito

2007-08-01 Thread David Mosberger-Tang
On 8/1/07, Zoltan Menyhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do have model specific I cache semantics. > Not taking it into account will oblige you to flush in vain for the models > which do not require it. Why do you want to take this option? Given unlimited resources, your proposal makes

Re: Multiple CD-ROM Drives

2007-08-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:08:19PM -0400, Cal Peake wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Brian D. McGrew wrote: > > > Using FC5 with a 2.6.15 kernel my system (Dell Optiplex) see both > > drives. > > > > Using the 2.6.16.16 kernel that I've built I see no CD-ROM drives. > > > > What could I have

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/advansys.c: fix advansys_board_found compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Eugene Teo
Hi Gabriel, Hope the following trivial patch helps. > Getting this with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-10 > ) > [...] > drivers/scsi/advansys.c:794:2: warning: #warning this driver is still not > properly converted to the DMA API > drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In

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

2007-08-01 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:11:23AM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote: > How expensive would it be to allocate two , then use the MMU mark the > second page unwritable? Hardware wise it should be possible, (for Tweaking kernel ptes is prohibitive during clone() because that's kernel memory and it would

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread <:::.. TeresaII ..:::>
Indan Zupancic wrote: I'm having trouble reproducing this at will -- it sounded as though Teresa had less trouble at least originally. Teresa? I am at work actually, so i cant test anything. End of this week i got to vacation, so i possibly can return testing in 1 month again. Same here,

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > especially if one already knows that > > scheduler clock has only limited resolution (because it's based on > > jiffies), it becomes possible to use mostly 32bit values. > > jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably > not

[2.6 patch] ppc .gitignore update

2007-08-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
arch/ppc/.gitignore shouldn't exclude arch/ppc/boot/include Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- /dev/null 2006-09-19 00:45:31.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/arch/ppc/boot/.gitignore 2007-08-01 15:18:33.0 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +!include - To

Re: [PATCH] expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v2

2007-08-01 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:17:18PM -0400, Joe Korty wrote: > Add missing IRQs and IRQ descriptions to /proc/interrupts. > > /proc/interrupts is most useful when it displays every > IRQ vector in use by the system, not just those somebody > thought would be interesting. > > This patch inserts the

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 03:07 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 14:50, Rene Herman wrote: On 08/01/2007 02:34 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: Teresa was already using 2.6.22.1, with CFS (v19.1) patched in, so reverting that would be a matter

Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello, I'm used to hack Linux on a ARM based board and would like to be involved in x86_64 architecture but I don't know where I should start... Could anyone point out some nice documentations/books describing this architecture ? thanks -- Francis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 2/3] sound/pci ioremap/iounmap balancing

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Thompson
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:38:16 -0400 Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This would be rater a lacking check of returned errors. > >The other changes look incorrect. All these drivers use >card->private_free callback to release the resources even for the >error exit. Thus, you don't need

[PATCH] AT91: include atmel_lcdc.h in at91sam926{1,3}_devices.c

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Altenberg
Hi all, current git doesn't compile for CONFIG_ARCH_AT91SAM926{1,3} and and CONFIG_FB_ATMEL enabled, due to a missing inclusion of atmel_lcdc.h: /home/jan/kernel/git/linux-2.6/arch/arm/mach-at91/at91sam9263_devices.c: In function ‘at91_add_device_lcdc’:

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Please also send me the output of this script: > > http://people.redhat.com/mingo/cfs-scheduler/tools/cfs-debug-info.sh Send privately. > Could you also please send the source code for the "l.c" and "lt.c" apps > you used for your testing so i

[2.6 patch] update .gitignore

2007-08-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
Some shipped files were wrongly ignored by git. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- .gitignore |9 - 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/.gitignore.old 2007-08-01 14:12:43.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm2/.gitignore

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface

2007-08-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Segher Boessenkool wrote: +[EMAIL PROTECTED] { +compatible = "mmio-ide"; +device_type = "ide"; Why not "ata"? The hardware is called (E)IDE, the protocol is called ATA. Sorry for not denouncing this earlier. :-) ATA is the name of ANSI standard

THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive

2007-08-01 Thread Hugh Dickins
When updating this IBM ThinkPad T43p from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23-rc1 using make oldconfig, the text and default Y of config THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED bool "Enable input layer support by default" depends on THINKPAD_ACPI default y ---help--- Enables hot key

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Wed, August 1, 2007 14:50, Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/01/2007 02:34 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: > >> On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: > >>> Teresa was already using 2.6.22.1, with CFS (v19.1) patched in, so reverting >>> that would be a matter of patching it out again. She said

Re: Whats the problem with my IDE...

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
> I still have those messages, but now there seem to be much less of them. > > It would really help me, if someone could tell me about how critical > such error messages are. The CRC errors are indicative of cable or similar problems but each time you see a CRC error the transmission is

drivers/scsi/advansys.c compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 )

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
Getting this with a randconfig ( http://194.231.229.228/MM/randconfig-auto-10 ) ... drivers/scsi/advansys.c:794:2: warning: #warning this driver is still not properly converted to the DMA API drivers/scsi/advansys.c: In function 'advansys_board_found': drivers/scsi/advansys.c:17781: error:

Re: [PATCH] sysace: HDIO_GETGEO has it's own method for ages

2007-08-01 Thread Grant Likely
On 7/30/07, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way this driver triesto implement HDIO_GETGEO it'll never be > called. Then again on ppc it probably will never be called anyway > because it's utterly pointless. > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Heh, that's

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86_64 EFI support -v3: EFI boot support

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
> > Should I change "change_page_attr" to make it work before "mem_init"? Or > Should I change "init_memory_mapping" to make it can be used to change > mapping attributes? Which one is better? It's probably better to change init_memory_mapping. Just do it cleanly and correctly please. As in

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 02:34 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: Teresa was already using 2.6.22.1, with CFS (v19.1) patched in, so reverting that would be a matter of patching it out again. She said she wasn't seeing trouble on other kernels though. I was the

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Manu Abraham
Hi Steve, On 8/1/07, Steven Toth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi manu, > > Hauppauge deal with NXP on a daily basis. We have a number of 716x > products either in the market or coming to market and we can add some > leverage. > > I can push this through our FAE and account manager. Who's your

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

2007-08-01 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Borislav Petkov wrote: if i do delete here, it loads the second stage of grub and continues to load the kernel. Is there another way to land at the jmp instruction instead of poking blindly, maybe disassemble something parts of the initial code. \me reading grub-docs... Oh lovely. The

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver

2007-08-01 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Segher Boessenkool wrote: This doesn't mean that shift is better anyway. If everyone considers it better, I give up. But be warned that shift (stride) is not the only property characterizing register accesses -- the regs might be only accessible as 16/32-bit quantities, for

Re: [PATCH] prevent SSB compilation on s390 part 2

2007-08-01 Thread John W. Linville
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:34:04AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > drivers/ssb/Kconfig has already a depends on HAS_IOMEM which should > prevent SSB from being selected. But appearantly it looks like this > doesn't matter at all if it gets selected from

Re: [alsa-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Get rid of dead code in sound/pci/ac97/ac97_patch.c

2007-08-01 Thread Liam Girdwood
I'd prefer we keep this code in atm. The WM97xx touch driver needs it to eliminate any audio noise from the touchscreen ADC. I'll post the remaining touch driver patches in time for the next merge window. Liam On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 22:36 +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > File

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Wed, August 1, 2007 13:01, Rene Herman wrote: > On 08/01/2007 01:31 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> another reaction below in this thread reported kbd problems in vanilla >>> 2.6.22.1 as well. What is the X versions, etc.? Does the problem go away >>> if

[RFC] [PATCH] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
[apologies for the empty mail earlier; wetware error] RFC: Deprecate a.out ELF interpreter support The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter). One particular messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out

[RFC] Deprecate a.out ELF interpreters

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
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Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mackerras
Mariusz Kozlowski writes: > Second issue as reported earilier allmodconfig fails to build on imac g3. Do you really mean g3? If so it's a 32-bit kernel and it shouldn't be building lparmap.s. Or do you mean G5? > CC arch/powerpc/kernel/lparmap.s > AS

Re: [PATCH, RFD]: Unbreak no-mmu mmap

2007-08-01 Thread David Howells
Bernd Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. munmap can now unmap subparts of previously allocated blocks. This >makes behaviour more consistent with mmu Linux, and allows us to >simplify and speed up the uClibc malloc implementation. There's a problem with your alteration to

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] the increase in code size: > > > > 2.6.22: > >textdata bss dec hex filename > > 10150 243344 1351834ce kernel/sched.o > > > > recent git: > >textdata

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
> has to get the blessing of the maintainer. On the other hand, > as you just said, the maintainer has no such obligation. Umm nope. As a maintainer if you feed Linus stuff you wrote that he thinks is a bad idea it will not go in, and you'll get an explanation of why. The process isn't perfect

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > especially if one already knows that > scheduler clock has only limited resolution (because it's based on > jiffies), it becomes possible to use mostly 32bit values. jiffies based sched_clock should be soon very rare. It's probably not worth optimizing

Re: [PATCH 1/3] coredump: cleanup documentation for suid_dumpable

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
> > NAK - this feature is actively used and can be set by the sysctl > > interface. The PRCTL fixup was just a bug being fixed. The sysctl > > interface is still relevant. > > Thank you for correcting me. Appreciated. I am not aware that it is still > being actively used. May I know who or which

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > [...] e.g. in this example there are three tasks that run only for > > > about 1ms every 3ms, but they get far more time than should have > > > gotten fairly: > > > > > > 4544 roman 20 0 1796

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Jason Wessel
Paul Mundt wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:09:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: - Is anyone testing the kgdb code in here? Testing, yes. Succeeding, no. It's utterly hosed on SH in its present condition at least. Presumably it's been tested on at least one platform with some measure

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > [...] e.g. in this example there are three tasks that run only for > > about 1ms every 3ms, but they get far more time than should have > > gotten fairly: > > > > 4544 roman 20 0 1796 520 432 S 32.1 0.4 0:21.08 lt > > 4545 roman

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