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 is

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: 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 maybe

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 magnifies the

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 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: [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. It does not

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
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: 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 about the

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,\ _i.size

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: 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 from

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 the

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

[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 +0200

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. Thanks

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: 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 involved

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: [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 do that on

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 set.

[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 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 yours

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 area

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 plist

[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 +0200

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: [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 see

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/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 +0200

Re: [PATCH 007 of 35] Drop 'size' argument from bio_endio and bi_end_io.

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
NeilBrown wrote: As bi_end_io is only called once when the reqeust is compelte, the 'size' argument is now redundant. Remove it. Now there is no need for bio_endio to subtract the size completed from bi_size. So don't do that either. While we are at it, change bi_end_io to return void.

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

2007-08-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:13:14PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal I think that include should just go. There is no reason at all for a scsi driver to include stat.h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body

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 */ WARN_ON(offset

[PATCH -mm] Fix a section mismatch warning

2007-08-01 Thread Gabriel C
... WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x8b9f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:cache_remove_shared_cpu_map (between 'cpuid4_cache_sysfs_exit' and 'unexpected_machine_check') ... Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- ---

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

2007-08-01 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:17:15PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: -#includelinux/stat.h +#include linux/stat.h Why does this driver need stat.h at all? -- Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-08-01 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:10 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: rt_mutex_setprio() is just a function. It was also designed specifically for PI , so it seems fairly sane to use it in other PI type situations .. Yes. It is designed for PI and I wasn't suggesting you shouldn't use the logic

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 05:20 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Christoph Hellwig pisze: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:13:14PM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi, Coding style fix Regards, Michal I think that include should just go. There is no reason at all for a scsi driver to include stat.h As you wish Regards, Michal -- LOG

Re: [RFC 12/26] ext2 white-out support

2007-08-01 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 13:11 -0400, Josef Sipek wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:00:12PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, Josef Sipek wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 06:13:35PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote: Introduce white-out support to ext2. I think storing whiteouts on the

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

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Michal Piotrowski pisze: Hi, Coding style fix Christoph Hellwig: There is no reason at all for a scsi driver to include stat.h Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/scsi/mvme147.c

Re: Linux Kernel cfs scheduler and xorg kbd

2007-08-01 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Wed, August 1, 2007 17:09, 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

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 looks like

[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: 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.) 1.

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: 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 can

[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

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.

[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: 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

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? That

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

[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: 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 isn't

[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: [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

[RFC][PATCH] Remove stat.h from drivers/scsi/a3000.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, There is no reason at all for a scsi driver to include stat.h -- Christoph Hellwig Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/scsi/a3000.c 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution through libhugetlbfs and the system slowly stops running. One interesting

[RFC][PATCH] Coding style fix drivers/serial/icom.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/drivers/serial/icom.h2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++ linux-mm/drivers/serial/icom.h 2007-08-01 17:41:23.0 +0200

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

2007-08-01 Thread ::.. Teresa_II ..::
У чт, 2007-08-02 у 01:00 +1000, Matthew Hawkins пише: Are you sure its not just a setting in Gnome/KDE for accessibility? That tends to do crazy things like making control keys sticky... Yes, i use gnome, and all keyboard layouts are set in gnome, also group switching for layouts. But

Re: [PATCH 010 of 35] New function blk_req_append_bio

2007-08-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:16:40PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: /* - * Temporary export, until SCSI gets fixed up. + * Temporary(?) export, until SCSI gets fixed up. */ This abuse is still scheduled to go away, even if it didn't happen as part of the bsg introduction as I had hoped. - To

Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues

2007-08-01 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc1: T60 ACPI issues (CC changed from Borislav to ibm-acpi-devel). On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: 2. Pressing Fn/F4 does not trigger suspend to ram This normally triigers ACPI event which

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

2007-08-01 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:24:44 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be *really* great if we can find more about how they do it. How and when it's enabled and on which systems. Is it possible to find this out? No - it's really not a good idea for us to go and ask other OS's how

Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello Rene, On 8/1/07, Rene Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

[RFC][PATCH] Remove stat.h from drivers/scsi/a2091.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, There is no reason at all for a scsi driver to include stat.h -- Christoph Hellwig Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/scsi/a2091.c 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++

Re: THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Cc's added. On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: 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

netDMA on ARM?

2007-08-01 Thread Syed Khader
Hi All, I am trying to build netDMA support on linux-2.618.2 for arm-11 box. Firstly, is it possible build netDMA on non-intel platforms using the host dma channels present in the hardware? Secondly does this improve network performance on non-intel platforms without IOAT hardware support?

Re: pm_trace displays the wrong time from the RTC

2007-08-01 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Sorry for slow response, I've just noticed this thread. On Tuesday, 31 July 2007 23:20, Chuck Ebbert wrote: When resuming, systems print this when booted on 07/31/07: Date: 06/31/107 /drivers/base/power/trace.c::read_magic_time(): 114 get_rtc_time(time); 115 printk(Time:

[RFC][PATCH] Remove stat.h from drivers/scsi/gvp11.c

2007-08-01 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, There is no reason at all for a scsi driver to include stat.h -- Christoph Hellwig Regards, Michal -- LOG http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/log/ Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-mm-clean/drivers/scsi/gvp11.c 2007-07-09 01:32:17.0 +0200 +++

RE: [2.6 patch] drivers/block/cciss.c: fix check-after-use

2007-08-01 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
-Original Message- From: Adrian Bunk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2007 5:28 PM To: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); Jens Axboe Cc: ISS StorageDev; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] drivers/block/cciss.c: fix check-after-use The Coverity checker

Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Rene Herman
On 08/01/2007 05:30 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: Could anyone point out some nice documentations/books describing this architecture ? First and foremost the AMD64 architecture documentation from AMD itself: http://www.amd.com/gb-uk/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_739_7044,00.html

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Ingo Molnar 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: [PATCH 000 of 35] Refactor block layer to improve support for stacked devices.

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:52:35AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: Tejun 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

Re: Problem - disabling IRQ #20 and others

2007-08-01 Thread Andev Debi
On 8/1/07, debian developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: /proc/$pid/pagemap troubles

2007-08-01 Thread Dave Hansen
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 19:14 -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:43:10PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: + evpfn = min((src + count) / sizeof(unsigned long), + ((~0UL) PAGE_SHIFT) + 1); Should that hunk of code be any different for 32-bit processes on

Re: THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive

2007-08-01 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Subject: Re: THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive Cc's added. On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote: When updating this IBM ThinkPad T43p from 2.6.22 to 2.6.23-rc1 using make oldconfig, the text and default Y of

Re: [PATCH 82] drivers/scsi/zorro7xx.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-08-01 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:21 +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: [PATCH 82] ... Please no. This should be a simple mechanical substitution. I don't need to collect acks from everyone. This is a nice point to do a conversion like this, so I'll sort out the mismerges. Please assure me you have a

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 04:36:24PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: * 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

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm1 - loopback mount of files fails loop-use-unlocked_ioctl.patch

2007-08-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:03:04 PDT, Andrew Morton said: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc1/2.6.23-rc1-mm1/ Looks like -rc1-mm2 came out while I was hunting this, haven't tried that yet) File-backed loopback seems to be broken (note that I use a LVM volume

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks. Just to make sure, while you said that your TSC was off on that laptop, the bootup log of yours suggests a working TSC: Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. Standard kernels often disable the TSC later after running a bit with it (e.g.

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: My guess is that upon resume, I normally get some other acpi event which gets blocked with CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED. *Nothing* should be using any such events like that (that is an bug by itself), but let's find out if that's what

Re: Search for x86_64 documentation.

2007-08-01 Thread Andi Kleen
Francis Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was actually more interested in books which are more pleasant to read than a raw datasheet. The first volumes of the Intel and AMD architecture manuals are far from raw datasheets. In fact they're quite well written as brief introduction of x86

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-08-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
The only notable: GregKH wanted the pci_reenable_device() change associated with ata_piix to go in before the release, to avoiding release with an imperfect API. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to

Re: [PATCH 019 of 35] Convert bio_for_each_segment to fill in a fresh bio_vec

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hi, On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:17:27PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: i.e. instread of providing a pointer to each bio_vec, it provides a copy of each bio_vec. This allows a future patch to cause bio_for_each_segment to provide bio_vecs that are not in the bi_io_vec list, thus allowing for

Re: THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED seems regressive

2007-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: Forcing the selection at compile-time isn't such a great idea IMHO. Isn't there a way to support both old and new userspace? It only afects the *defaults* of various driver knobs that can be freely modified at runtime: without

Re: [PATCH 008 of 35] Introduce bi_iocnt to count requests sharing the one bio.

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:16:29PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: static int ordered_bio_endio(struct request *rq, struct bio *bio, int error) { struct request_queue *q = rq-q; - bio_end_io_t *endio; - void *private; if (q-bar_rq != rq)

Profiling the Kernel

2007-08-01 Thread Mohamed Bamakhrama
Hi *, I have a question regarding profiling the Linux kernel code during runtime (by profile, I mean the usage of each function/module within the kernel itself). I googled and found many system-wide profiler such as sysprof, Oprofile, etc... I am working on an embedded system project and currently

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1 huge pages VM freeze (maybe?)

2007-08-01 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 8/1/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nish Aravamudan wrote: On 7/31/07, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:44:21 -0600 Zan Lynx wrote: I was playing with huge pages and libhugetlbfs. Small programs like ls work fine. I tried running Evolution

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

2007-08-01 Thread John Stoffel
Tejun 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,\ _i.size =

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

2007-08-01 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:19 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:10 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: rt_mutex_setprio() is just a function. It was also designed specifically for PI , so it seems fairly sane to use it in other PI type situations .. Yes. It is

Re: [PATCH 013 of 35] Don't update bi_hw_*_size if we aren't going to merge.

2007-08-01 Thread Tejun Heo
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 12:16:55PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: ll_merge_requests_fn can update bi_hw_*_size in one case where we end up not merging. This is wrong. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] As this is a bug fix, I think it would better to bump this to the top of the series

Re: [PATCH 38] drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

2007-08-01 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:13:50 +0200 Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: CFS review

2007-08-01 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: thanks. Just to make sure, while you said that your TSC was off on that laptop, the bootup log of yours suggests a working TSC: Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. Standard kernels often disable

Re: [PATCH] fix slown down printk on boot compile error

2007-08-01 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 13:16:44 +0200 Heiko Carstens wrote: From: Heiko Carstens [EMAIL PROTECTED] The slow-down-printk-during-boot patch depends on preset_lpj being available. That's not the case for architectures that have it's own calibrate_delay() function. kernel/sched.c:3840: undefined

Re: PROBLEM: [2.6.22.1] Copying to full NFS dir

2007-08-01 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 17:00 +0200, Raphael Manfredi wrote: 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

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

2007-08-01 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 18:23:21 +0900 Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: 2.6.23-rc1-mm2

2007-08-01 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: Then reattaching a usb mouse caused this (only once) usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2 BUG: atomic counter underflow at: [c010456a] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30 [c010508d] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [c01051e0]

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