Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
Roman, Thanks for the testing and the feedback, it's much appreciated! :-) On what platform did you do your tests, and what .config did you use (and could you please send me your .config)? Please also send me the output of this script:

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

2007-08-01 Thread Carlo Florendo
Arjan van de Ven 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. It does not matter who's code gets merged. What matters is that the problem gets solved and that the Linux

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hua Zhong wrote: I don't think it's the code superiority that decided the fate of the two schedulers. When CFS came out, the fate of SD was pretty much already decided. The fact is that Linus trusts Ingo, and as such he wants to merge Ingo's code. Of course I cannot say it's wrong, and Ingo's

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 Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:16 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: > > Did Ingo have the obligation to improve Con's work? Definitely not. > > Did Con have a right to get Ingo's improvements or > > suggestions? Definitely not. > > Yes, and that's where the inequality is. > > Unless the maintainer does a really

Re: [EXT4 set 8][PATCH 1/1]Add journal checksums

2007-08-01 Thread Girish Shilamkar
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:16 +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote: > I will make the changes and send an incremental patch. > Hi, I have made the changes and attached the incremental patch as per the review. This is the actual changelog which was missing in the original patch. -- The

Re: [REGRESSION] tg3 dead after s2ram

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:28:32 +0200 "Joachim Deguara" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On my Acer Ferrari 1000 the tg3 ethernet no longer is available > after a > > suspend to ram with the latet 2.6.23-rc1-git9. It seems to work for me

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > The removal of /etc/mtab in favor of /proc/mounts is a new requirement, > > and is not as trivial as you might hope. Internally the NFS client > > represents the mount options as a binary data structure, and it contains > > only the information that has traditionally been passed into the

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Markus Rechberger
Creating a wiki site for Empia based devices and setting up a Mailinglist worked out well. That way you also get the email addresses of people who are very likely interested in such device. Markus On 8/1/07, Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > After a bit of talks with NXP,

[PATCH] net: smc91x: Build fixes for general sh boards.

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mundt
SH boards in general only wire this up in 8 or 16-bit mode, and as we never had the wrappers for 32-bit mode defined, SMC_CAN_USE_32BIT caused build failure for the non-Solution Engine boards. This gets it building again. Also kill off the straggling set_irq_type() definition, this is left over

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 30/07/07, <::.. Teresa_II ..::> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > > > first of all i am not sure if its scheduler issue. But i didn't found > > anything about that in google related to something else. > > > > So i tried

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-08-01 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 03:04:07 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:57:48 +0200 Bongani Hlope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config > > attachment. > > It did come through, and I replied ;) > Thank you ;) - To

Re: ck vs. cfs : realtime audio performance

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
> >Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2007, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schulz: > >>I am currently testing the 2.6.22.1 cfs-rt9 vs. ck1 on my rather pure > >>realtime high-end-audio setup. (NO X, just a terminal, streaming .wav. > >>I am using my own written player and brutefir as the audio engine.) >

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mundt
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 of success, but it's

Re: eurotechwdt will cause reboot

2007-08-01 Thread Dave Young
>On 8/1/07, Wim Van Sebroeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dave, > > > config eurotechwdt to yes will cause system silent reboot. Is it right > > behaviour or a bug? > > I think this might be a bug. I'll look at the code and will ask you to do some > tests for me (if that is ok for you). > I'm

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:16 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: > > Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > It would be nice to have all this stuff in 2.6.24, which doesn't leave > > > a lot of time. > > > > Yes, that would be nice, but there's a lot of stuff that needs to get > > done before this. NFS IPv6, for

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 8/1/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But there's not much value in benchmarking if an important part of the > performance critical code is in some undebuggable driver... In this case we don't care about the performance of the video driver. This isn't a race to see who can get the

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > _after_ the dup_task_struct(). Then change sched_fork() to return a > > CPU number - hence we dont have a separate sched_fork_suggest_cpu() > > initialization function, only one, obvious sched_fork() function. > > Agreed? > > That puts task

Re: [PATCH 02/14] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:25 +0100, David Howells wrote: > diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h > index 209d3a4..eaf9854 100644 > --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h > +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h > @@ -83,19 +83,24 @@ > #define PG_private 11 /* If

RE: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Hua Zhong
> Did Ingo have the obligation to improve Con's work? Definitely not. > Did Con have a right to get Ingo's improvements or > suggestions? Definitely not. Yes, and that's where the inequality is. Unless the maintainer does a really bad job or pisses off Linus, anyone who wants to merge his code

Re: Q: PCI-X @ 266MHz on HP rx6600 (Qlogic 4Gb FC HBA)

2007-08-01 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 31 Jul 2007 at 9:50, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Andrew Patterson wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 23:23 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: > > > > > > > The 33/66/100/133 values refer to the bus-clock speed at which the > > > > card is operating. As is seen here (although

2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm2/ - the git-block tree remains dropped due to disageement with the Vaio - git-e1000new was withdrawn by the authors - git-wireless is back. It is still a >3MB diff, and appears to compile. - Is anyone

Re: [PATCH RT] Move RECURSION_LIMIT define up for more global use (take 2)

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I sent this out once before but it must have slipped under the > radar. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/28/325 thanks - applied. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

[PATCH 3/3] sound/soc ioremap/iounmap balancing

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Thompson
ioremap / iounmap balancing in sound/soc tree Signed-off-by: Scott Thompson hushmail.com> --- diff --git a/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c b/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c index 39f0246..cd89c41 100644 --- a/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c +++ b/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c @@ -385,6 +385,7

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

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Thompson
ioremap / iounmap balancing in sound/pci tree Signed-off-by: Scott Thompson hushmail.com> --- diff --git a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c index ac007ce..871b09f 100644 --- a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c +++ b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c @@ -1319,6 +1319,13 @@ static int

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

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Thompson
ioremap / iounmap balancing in sound/pci tree Signed-off-by: Scott Thompson postfail at hushmail.com --- diff --git a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c index ac007ce..871b09f 100644 --- a/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c +++ b/sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c @@ -1319,6 +1319,13 @@ static

[PATCH 3/3] sound/soc ioremap/iounmap balancing

2007-08-01 Thread Scott Thompson
ioremap / iounmap balancing in sound/soc tree Signed-off-by: Scott Thompson postfail at hushmail.com --- diff --git a/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c b/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c index 39f0246..cd89c41 100644 --- a/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c +++ b/sound/soc/s3c24xx/s3c24xx-i2s.c @@

Re: [PATCH RT] Move RECURSION_LIMIT define up for more global use (take 2)

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I sent this out once before but it must have slipped under the radar. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/28/325 thanks - applied. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Q: PCI-X @ 266MHz on HP rx6600 (Qlogic 4Gb FC HBA)

2007-08-01 Thread Ulrich Windl
On 31 Jul 2007 at 9:50, Andrew Vasquez wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Andrew Patterson wrote: On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 23:23 -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote: The 33/66/100/133 values refer to the bus-clock speed at which the card is operating. As is seen here (although a bit truncated

RE: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Hua Zhong
Did Ingo have the obligation to improve Con's work? Definitely not. Did Con have a right to get Ingo's improvements or suggestions? Definitely not. Yes, and that's where the inequality is. Unless the maintainer does a really bad job or pisses off Linus, anyone who wants to merge his code into

Re: [PATCH 02/14] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 21:25 +0100, David Howells wrote: diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 209d3a4..eaf9854 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h @@ -83,19 +83,24 @@ #define PG_private 11 /* If

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mundt
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 of success, but it's

Re: eurotechwdt will cause reboot

2007-08-01 Thread Dave Young
On 8/1/07, Wim Van Sebroeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave, config eurotechwdt to yes will cause system silent reboot. Is it right behaviour or a bug? I think this might be a bug. I'll look at the code and will ask you to do some tests for me (if that is ok for you). I'm ok for me.

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:16 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: Miklos Szeredi wrote: It would be nice to have all this stuff in 2.6.24, which doesn't leave a lot of time. Yes, that would be nice, but there's a lot of stuff that needs to get done before this. NFS IPv6, for example, is a

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Hawkins
On 8/1/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there's not much value in benchmarking if an important part of the performance critical code is in some undebuggable driver... In this case we don't care about the performance of the video driver. This isn't a race to see who can get the most

2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm2/ - the git-block tree remains dropped due to disageement with the Vaio - git-e1000new was withdrawn by the authors - git-wireless is back. It is still a 3MB diff, and appears to compile. - Is anyone

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: _after_ the dup_task_struct(). Then change sched_fork() to return a CPU number - hence we dont have a separate sched_fork_suggest_cpu() initialization function, only one, obvious sched_fork() function. Agreed? That puts task struct, kernel

Re: [linux-dvb] SAA7160/2

2007-08-01 Thread Markus Rechberger
Creating a wiki site for Empia based devices and setting up a Mailinglist worked out well. That way you also get the email addresses of people who are very likely interested in such device. Markus On 8/1/07, Manu Abraham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, After a bit of talks with NXP, they

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 30/07/07, ::.. Teresa_II ..:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, first of all i am not sure if its scheduler issue. But i didn't found anything about that in google related to something else. So i tried 2.6.22.1 kernel with new

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc1 Seems to be network related

2007-08-01 Thread Bongani Hlope
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 03:04:07 Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 02:57:48 +0200 Bongani Hlope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if the first email went through, resending without .config attachment. It did come through, and I replied ;) Thank you ;) - To unsubscribe from

Re: ck vs. cfs : realtime audio performance

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
Am Dienstag, den 31.07.2007, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Klaus Schulz: I am currently testing the 2.6.22.1 cfs-rt9 vs. ck1 on my rather pure realtime high-end-audio setup. (NO X, just a terminal, streaming .wav. I am using my own written player and brutefir as the audio engine.) Comment: This is

[PATCH] net: smc91x: Build fixes for general sh boards.

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mundt
SH boards in general only wire this up in 8 or 16-bit mode, and as we never had the wrappers for 32-bit mode defined, SMC_CAN_USE_32BIT caused build failure for the non-Solution Engine boards. This gets it building again. Also kill off the straggling set_irq_type() definition, this is left over

Re: request for patches: showing mount options

2007-08-01 Thread Miklos Szeredi
The removal of /etc/mtab in favor of /proc/mounts is a new requirement, and is not as trivial as you might hope. Internally the NFS client represents the mount options as a binary data structure, and it contains only the information that has traditionally been passed into the kernel

Re: [EXT4 set 8][PATCH 1/1]Add journal checksums

2007-08-01 Thread Girish Shilamkar
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 17:16 +0530, Girish Shilamkar wrote: I will make the changes and send an incremental patch. Hi, I have made the changes and attached the incremental patch as per the review. This is the actual changelog which was missing in the original patch. -- The journal

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 Tue, 2007-07-31 at 23:16 -0700, Hua Zhong wrote: Did Ingo have the obligation to improve Con's work? Definitely not. Did Con have a right to get Ingo's improvements or suggestions? Definitely not. Yes, and that's where the inequality is. Unless the maintainer does a really bad job

Re: [ck] Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Carlo Florendo
Hua Zhong wrote: I don't think it's the code superiority that decided the fate of the two schedulers. When CFS came out, the fate of SD was pretty much already decided. The fact is that Linus trusts Ingo, and as such he wants to merge Ingo's code. Of course I cannot say it's wrong, and Ingo's

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

2007-08-01 Thread David Engraf
At the moment I have a Jetway/VIA Mainboard which seems to have a problem with the handoff. Evenwhen 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. On the other hand, I don't need the EHCI controller in my

Re: 2.6.20-2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

2007-08-01 Thread Marcin Ślusarz
2007/7/30, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (..) does the patch below fix those timeouts? It tests the theory whether any POST latency could expose this problem. Ingo Index: linux/drivers/net/lib8390.c === ---

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection

2007-08-01 Thread Matt Sealey
Yeah please do a fixup for the boot wrapper. Or, if you have trouble, go into the firmware and type nvedit, add these lines; /isa/8042 find-device 8042 encode-string device-type (then ctrl-c to exit and nvstore to run it on next reboot. Try it without the patch first, on the firmware

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:12 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: Roman, Thanks for the testing and the feedback, it's much appreciated! :-) On what platform did you do your tests, and what .config did you use (and could you please send me your .config)? Please also send me the output of this script:

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
Roman, Thanks for the testing and the feedback, it's much appreciated! :-) On what platform did you do your tests, and what .config did you use (and could you please send me your .config)? Please also send me the output of this script:

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

2007-08-01 Thread Carlo Florendo
Arjan van de Ven 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. It does not matter who's code gets merged. What matters is that the problem gets solved and that the Linux

Re: [REGRESSION] tg3 dead after s2ram

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 17:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:28:32 +0200 Joachim Deguara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my Acer Ferrari 1000 the tg3 ethernet no longer is available after a suspend to ram with the latet 2.6.23-rc1-git9. It seems to work for me on the same

Re: Reboot hang FIXED

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 01:35 AM, kriko wrote: Machine hangs at summary screen where it would be trying a boot from DVD normally on cold boot, or reboot from Windows. reboot=b doesn't help. Sorted out, built 2 kernels, one with old driver, other with only new driver. The one with old driver hangs (it

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:36:30 -0400 Eric St-Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: +vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch A little VM experiment. See changelog for details. We don't have any tests to determine

Re: [ck] Re: SD still better than CFS for 3d ?

2007-08-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:19:36PM +1000, Matthew Hawkins wrote: On 8/1/07, Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But there's not much value in benchmarking if an important part of the performance critical code is in some undebuggable driver... In this case we don't care about the

ALPS touchpad with new Dell not recognised

2007-08-01 Thread William Pettersson
I've got a Dell Vostro 1400 here, which according to the Windows drivers has an ALPS touchpad that I'm working on. It has PS/2 pass through, which means I can move the pointer around. It also picks up (via hardware I assume) quick double-taps as click-and-drag. It however, doesn't do

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:30 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to reproduce this with any combination of features, and massive_intr tweaked to his work/sleep cycle. I notice he's collecting stats though, and they look funky.

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the testing and the feedback, it's much appreciated! :-) On what platform did you do your tests, and what .config did you use (and could you please send me your .config)? Please also send me the output of this script:

Re: 2.6.20-2.6.21 - networking dies after random time

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Marcin Ślusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ei_outb_p(ENISR_ALL, e8390_base + EN0_IMR); + /* force POST: */ + ei_inb_p(e8390_base + EN0_IMR); spin_unlock(ei_local-page_lock); enable_irq_lockdep_irqrestore(dev-irq, flags); Bad news. It doesn't

Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Pegasos keyboard detection

2007-08-01 Thread Matt Sealey
Just so you guys have it all in one pretty little package, these will remove the need for the Pegasos IDE and ISA fixups in the prom_init.c too. s /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 find-device d# 14 encode-int 0 encode-int d# 15 encode-int 0 encode-int encode+ encode+ encode+ s interrupts

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 23:09 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: +vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch A little VM experiment. See changelog for details. We don't have any tests to determine the effects of this, and nobody will bother setting one up, so ho hum, this remains

Re: [PATH 1/1] Kexec jump - v2 - kexec jump

2007-08-01 Thread Huang, Ying
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 11:51 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This patch implement the functionality of jumping from kexeced kernel to original kernel. A new reboot command named LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KJUMP is defined to trigger the jumping to (executing) the new kernel or jumping back to

Re: [patch 3/4] Enable link power management for ata drivers

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: libata drivers can define a function (enable_pm) that will perform hardware specific actions to enable whatever power management policy the user set up from the scsi sysfs interface if the driver supports it. This power management policy will be activated

Re: [PATCH 02/14] FS-Cache: Recruit a couple of page flags for cache management

2007-08-01 Thread David Howells
Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure its a good idea to overload page_has_private() with an overloadable page-flag. What if some future FS wants to use PG_owner_priv_2 for other purposes? All that it means is that releasepage() and co will get called if a page is to be released or

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 Eugene Teo
Hi Joe, Joe Perches wrote: Remove current #define and uses of pr_err Add pr_emerg, pr_alert, pr_crit, pr_err, pr_warn, pr_notice to include/linux/kernel.h Signed-off-by: Joe Perches [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/drivers/i2c/chips/menelaus.c b/drivers/i2c/chips/menelaus.c index

build error on powerpc for 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Rishikesh K Rajak
Hi Andrew, I am getting following error on powerpc almost for allyesconfig, allmodconfig. Error produced: PowerPC: allmodconfig,allyesconfig CC arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_64.o /home/risrajak/TEST2/TEST/linux/CurrentTest/23-rc1-mm2-testing/linux-2.6.23-rc1/arch/powerpc/lib/copyuser_64.S:

Re: Fwd: request_module() fails

2007-08-01 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:29:18 +0530 Gireesh Kumar M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to load some modules upon occurance of a GPIO interrupt. The ISR checks some register and then schedules a tasklet to act further on the interrupt. Inside the tasklet, I call request_module to load a

Re: [patch 1/4] Store interrupt value

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
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] Acked-by: Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- tejun -

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:02:30 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I get this warning. Looking at the comment in kernel/irq/resend.c it's harmless. Is it? yeah, harmless. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list:

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

2007-08-01 Thread jos
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. It does not matter who's code gets merged. What matters is that the problem

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 10:02:30 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I get this warning. Looking at the comment in kernel/irq/resend.c it's harmless. Is it? WARNING: at kernel/irq/resend.c:69 check_irq_resend() [c010456a] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [c010508d]

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

2007-08-01 Thread Dan Merillat
On 7/31/07, Eric Sandeen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, what I had did only that, so it was still a matter of probabilities... How expensive would it be to allocate two , then use the MMU mark the second page unwritable? Hardware wise it should be possible, (for constant 4k pagesizes, I have not

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Eric St-Laurent
On Wed, 2007-01-08 at 00:46 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Or you could do something more real-worldly like start up OO, firefox and friends, then run /etc/cron.daily/everything and see what the before-and-after effects are. The aggregate info we're looking for is captured in /proc/meminfo:

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, I get this warning. Looking at the comment in kernel/irq/resend.c it's harmless. Is it? WARNING: at kernel/irq/resend.c:69 check_irq_resend() [c010456a] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [c010508d] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [c01051e0] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 [c013b001]

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 8/1/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Fwd: request_module() fails

2007-08-01 Thread Gireesh Kumar M
Hi, I'm trying to load some modules upon occurance of a GPIO interrupt. The ISR checks some register and then schedules a tasklet to act further on the interrupt. Inside the tasklet, I call request_module to load a driver. But, here it's failing. Please see the error log pasted below. When I

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 03:58:48 -0400 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/1/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Paul Mundt
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:58:48AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On 8/1/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:36 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 09:30 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: yeah, the posted numbers look most weird, but there's a complete lack of any identification of test environment - so we'll need some more word from Roman. Perhaps this was run

Re: Reboot hang FIXED

2007-08-01 Thread kriko
using only new drivers works fine. ... oh well. I suppose it's not really worth it to try and debug that. Cheers. I just want to add that my DVD drive is not detected when using new driver. So back to old one -- kriko - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

MTD: pnc2000 iomem oops

2007-08-01 Thread Dave Young
Hi, The pnc2000 probe function cause oops. Possible reason is its iomem region not being remaped. I searched lkml history, the oops was reported at 2006-06-14, but still there. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/14/59 If the ioremap/iounmap can be added to it, is it the right fix? Regards dave - To

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 (vm-dont-run-touch_buffer-during-buffercache-lookups.patch)

2007-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 04:04:06 -0400 Eric St-Laurent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to try only this specific patch not the full -mm, is there any other patch I need to apply too? no, it is standalone. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 01:40:18 Christoph Lameter wrote: It does in the sense that slabs are allocated following policies. If you want to place individual objects then you need to use kmalloc_node(). Nick wants to place individual objects here -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Reboot hang FIXED

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 10:37 AM, kriko wrote: using only new drivers works fine. ... oh well. I suppose it's not really worth it to try and debug that. Cheers. I just want to add that my DVD drive is not detected when using new driver. So back to old one You shouldn't have dropped Alan from

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

2007-08-01 Thread Zoltan Menyhart
Jim Hull wrote: Not just crazy, but wrong - this *can* happen on pre-Montecito. Even though L1D is write-through and L2 was mixed I/D, the L1 I-cache could contain stale instrutions if there are missing flushes. I cannot agree with you. In order to consider an L1 I-cache entry as valid, a

Re: [patch] add kdump_after_notifier

2007-08-01 Thread Takenori Nagano
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Takenori Nagano [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, IMHO, most users don't use kdump, kdump users are only kernel developers and enterprise users. Not at all. So far the only kdump related bug report I have seen has been from fedora Core. Sorry, I thought general

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

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Tejun Heo wrote: Arjan van de Ven wrote: They were hardware problems. I don't think any amount of proper implementation can fix them. I have one DVD RAM somewhere in my pile of hardware which locks up solidly if any link PS mode is used and had a and the AHCI ALPM code decides to use power

Re: Linus 2.6.23-rc1

2007-08-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 28 2007 12:34, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: Time to investigate... Well it really is different. Simple test: - run Unreal Tournament 99 (nice 0, it gets 98%,99% CPU most of the time) - in a shell, `renice 20 $$; while :; do date; done;` The shell

Re: ATA over ethernet swapping

2007-08-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
I've been working on this for quite some time. And should post again soon. Please see the patches: http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/vm_deadlock/current/ For now it requires one uses SLUB, I hope that SLAB will go away (will save me the trouble of adding support) and I guess I

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

2007-08-01 Thread Huang, Ying
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:35 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: static unsigned long dma_reserve __initdata; +/* Flag indicating EFI runtime executable code area */ +static int efi_runtime_code_area; We don't normally use globals to modify function behaviour. DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 8/1/07, Paul Mundt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The generic code has a better chance of being merged if it actually works at least and doesn't break every platform out there that has an existing stub. It offers quite a bit of new functionality and does clean things up a bit, so it would

Re: [PATCH FINAL] Merge the Sonics Silicon Backplane subsystem

2007-08-01 Thread Michael Buesch
On Wednesday 01 August 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:24:54 +0200 Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Sonics Silicon Backplane is a mini-bus used on various Broadcom chips and embedded devices. Sigh. s390: drivers/ssb/main.c: In function 'ssb_ssb_read16':

Re: Reboot hang FIXED

2007-08-01 Thread kriko
On 08/01/2007 10:37 AM, kriko wrote: using only new drivers works fine. ... oh well. I suppose it's not really worth it to try and debug that. Cheers. I just want to add that my DVD drive is not detected when using new driver. So back to old one You shouldn't have dropped Alan from

Re: NETPOLL=y , NETDEVICES=n compile error ( Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 )

2007-08-01 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:05:00PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: Jarek Poplawski wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:14:36PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote: Jarek Poplawski wrote: On 28-07-2007 20:42, Gabriel C wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:44:45 +0200 Gabriel C [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [RFC PATCH] type safe allocator

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I wonder why we don't have type safe object allocators a-la new() in C++ or g_new() in glib? fooptr = k_new(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL); is nicer and more descriptive than fooptr = kmalloc(sizeof(*fooptr), GFP_KERNEL); and more safe than

Re: VT_PROCESS, VT_LOCKSWITCH capabilities

2007-08-01 Thread Frank Benkstein
Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 00:22:38 +0200 Frank Benkstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder why there are different permissions needed for VT_PROCESS (access to the current virtual console) and VT_LOCKSWITCH (CAP_SYS_TTY_CONFIG). Perhaps the issue with VT_LOCKSWITCH is that

Re: [PATCH 02/68] 0 - NULL, for arch/arm

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jul 27 2007 10:59, Al Viro wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:44:07AM +0200, Yoann Padioleau wrote: buf = alloc_safe_buffer(device_info, ptr, size, dir); - if (buf == 0) { + if (buf == NULL) {

Re: [PATCH 06/68] 0 - NULL, for arch/frv

2007-08-01 Thread Richard Knutsson
Mike Frysinger wrote: On 7/27/07, Robin Getz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is a definite style or semantic preference that everyone should live with - does it make sense to put checks in checkpatch.pl to enforce it? checkpatch.pl does not have enough semantic knowledge to know if

Re: [patch 3/4] Enable link power management for ata drivers

2007-08-01 Thread edwintorok
On 8/1/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + if (ata_id_has_hipm(dev-id) || ata_id_has_dipm(dev-id)) + dev-flags |= ATA_DFLAG_IPM; Is it safe to use ALPM on a device which only claims to support DIPM? I have tested on a Dell Inspiron 6400, it has ICH7-M (82801GBM) chipset.

Re: Reading a bad sector does not report failure as 'read error' but hangs PC with 'Machine Check Exception'

2007-08-01 Thread Robert Hancock
Hendrik . wrote: Ok, I did actually not copy the coreret code in the mcelog, leaving me some errors about the Northbridge. If I do it again it gives me something else. I made 2 digital photo's of 2 lockups when it happened and this is the result of the tool, the TSC is different in both errors,

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