Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 panics

2007-09-05 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Roland Dreier wrote: > FWIW, I was running 2.6.23-rc5 on my laptop (along with iwlwifi-0.1.14 > for wireless) and I saw the same symptom: panic (blinking capslock) > while in X. I saw one panic out of maybe 12 hours of uptime over a > few reboots. The same system is quite

[RFC] disable PCIE 'Enable No Snoop' bit by default

2007-09-05 Thread Shaohua Li
PCIE 'Enable No Snoop' bit is set by default per PCIE spec, but OS assumes PCI DMA is snooped, which is legacy PCI device does. Enabling no snoop might cause potential DMA issues. This patch disables it, if a driver can work with no snoop, we can provide a helper to enable it. I didn't see any

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

2007-09-05 Thread Andi Kleen
>I agree. The patch is a nop. I just got overly paranoid. The whole >thing is just very prone to bugs. So do we need a patch for .23 or not? >; it does > seem perfectly acceptable though for the mm code to use kmap or vmap > (not kmap_atomic) internally somewhere in the pagetable code. i386

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 panics

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Dreier
FWIW, I was running 2.6.23-rc5 on my laptop (along with iwlwifi-0.1.14 for wireless) and I saw the same symptom: panic (blinking capslock) while in X. I saw one panic out of maybe 12 hours of uptime over a few reboots. The same system is quite stable with the stock Ubuntu 2.6.22 kernel. My

Re: [pre-2.6.23 REGRESSION] 2.6.23-rc3-git1 crash/stuck on VIA CN700 system

2007-09-05 Thread Andi Kleen
> This kernel boots up OK. Looking at the preprocessed C code the I assume you tested it a few times to make sure it really was the problem? Perhaps reenable it also once again and see if it hangs again just to be sure. > So what can we do about the clflush on this CPU? I'll just remove that

[BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 panics

2007-09-05 Thread Bob Tracy
This may be the most worthless bug report ever filed, but maybe someone else is seeing this that can shed some light on the matter. Everything was rock-solid with -rc3, but I've had two panics with -rc5 in as many days. The first occurred within five minutes of booting. The second was after

Re: recent nfs change causes autofs regression

2007-09-05 Thread Ian Kent
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:50 +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:37 +0100, David Howells wrote: > > Ian Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > But what about mounting with different protocol, tcp vs udp for example. > > > > I was referring specifically to the R/O / R/W

Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

2007-09-05 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, > On 02/09/07, Florian Lohoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > with current git i got this when "ifconfig eth1" down. eth1 had a mac > > address which looked really like an eth1394 ethernet although the module > > was not loaded. Something is really broken in 2.6.23-currentgit. I

Re: [PATCH][RFC] pte notifiers -- support for external page tables

2007-09-05 Thread Shaohua Li
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:32 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > [resend due to bad alias expansion resulting in some recipients > being bogus] > > Some hardware and software systems maintain page tables outside the normal > Linux page tables, which reference userspace memory. This includes > Infiniband,

[PATCH 2.6.23-rc4-mm1] m32r: serial: remove M32R_SIO_SHARE_IRQS

2007-09-05 Thread Hirokazu Takata
Remove an unused symbol M32R_SIO_SHARE_IRQS from drivers/serial/m32r_sio.h. Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/serial/m32r_sio.c |2 +- drivers/serial/m32r_sio.h |6 -- 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-05 Thread Syren Baran
Am Montag, den 03.09.2007, 04:58 +0200 schrieb Roman Zippel: > Hi, > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Did you even try to understand what I wrote? I didn't say that it's a > > > "common problem", it's a conceptual problem. The rounding has been > > > improved lately, so it's

[GIT PULL] m32r: Please pull m32r kernel updates for 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-05 Thread Hirokazu Takata
Hello, Linus, The following is a series of patches to update m32r architecure support for 2.6.23-rc5: - Rearrange platform support codes and move them to arch/m32r/platforms/ - Move config files to arch/m32r/config/ - Simplify and cleanup ei_handler routine of arch/m32r/kernel/entry.S

Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

2007-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Alan Cox wrote: On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:37:22 +0100 "Daniel J Blueman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs. Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs

Re: [PATCH] [AGPGART] intel_agp: fix stolen mem range on G33

2007-09-05 Thread Zhenyu Wang
On 2007.09.05 08:19:37 +, Randy Dunlap wrote: > *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** Thanks Randy. Here's updated patch with typo and tab style fixed. I misused x style. Subject: [PATCH] [AGPGART] intel_agp: fix stolen mem range on G33 G33 GTT stolen

Re: [PATCH] prevent kswapd from freeing excessive amounts of lowmem

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:01:25 -0400 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The current VM can get itself into trouble fairly easily on systems > with a small ZONE_HIGHMEM, which is common on i686 computers with > 1GB of memory. > > On one side, page_alloc() will allocate down to

Re: Regressions w.r.t. suspend behaviour in recent kernel versions

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:51:50 +0200 Felix Homann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:42:55 +0200 Felix Homann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Nearly two weeks, zero replies. > > Thanks for caring :-) > > > > >> Aug 9 00:22:13 jawaka kernel:

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 08:41 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:26 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > > > 2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod > > > in non-blocking mode. It also adds a

Re: tbench regression - Why process scheduler has impact on tbench and why small per-cpu slab (SLUB) cache creates the scenario?

2007-09-05 Thread Zhang, Yanmin
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 03:45 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > > > > > However, the approach treats the slabs in the same policy. Could we > > > > implement a per-slab specific approach like direct b)? > > > > > > I am not sure what you mean by same

Re: PCI: Unable to reserve mem region problem

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:32:38 -0400 "Karl Bellve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please CC any response. Thanks. > > I am having an issue with a Supermicro h8dce motherboard and failure to > recognize a 5th SATA drive after upgrading to Fedora 7. Can you send me an lspci -vvxxx so that I can

Re: ICH Intel PATA short cable override...

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 13:37:22 +0100 "Daniel J Blueman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH > controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs. > Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs specified as >

Re: [PATCH 1/1] pata_it821x: fix lost interrupt with atapi devices

2007-09-05 Thread Alan Cox
/from the media. */ > > + if (qc->nbytes < 2048) > > + return -EOPNOTSUPP; > > + > >/* No ATAPI DMA in smart mode */ > >if (itdev->smart) > >return -EOPNOTSUPP; > > > > This looks like a gross hack. Aren't you supposed to inspect > the command instead and

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Neil Horman
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 05:39:11PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source > > tree > > when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

2007-09-05 Thread Zachary Amsden
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 06:37 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 22:46 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote: > > I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under > > paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a > > bit on fixing this. I

Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

2007-09-05 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hi Davide, > > > > > > > > As I think about this more, I see more problems with > > > > > > > your argument. timerfd needs the ability to get and > > > > > > > get-while-setting just as much as the earlier APIs. > > > > > > > Consider a library that

use of asm/prom.h

2007-09-05 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi all, I noticed in the ALSA tree: -- sound/sparc/dbri.c -- index 12d11fc..e96023f 100644 @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ #include #include +#include #include #include (I don't mean to pick on this particular example, it is just what was in

NetApp sues Sun regarding ZFS

2007-09-05 Thread hui
Folks, The official announcement. http://www.netapp.com/news/press/news_rel_20070905 Dave Hitz's blog about it. http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/ bill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Why do so many machines need "noapic"?

2007-09-05 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Some systems lock up without the noapic option. I found one that will freeze while trying to set up the timer interrupt. Passing 'nolapic' makes it freeze just after: Setting up timer through ExtINT... works Sometimes it will boot up and then freeze during the startup scripts. Passing the

Re: kernel crashes inside MV643xx driver

2007-09-05 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:24:52AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 14:38:57 +0800 gshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > After I started the NFS server, it crashed: > > > > > > <3>Badness in local_bh_enable

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-05 Thread Mark Lord
Andrew Morton wrote: .. Hey, we just found something which doesn't crash my Vaio! sony:/home/akpm/hdparm-7.7> 0 ./hdparm --drq-hsm-error /dev/sda /dev/sda: triggering "stuck DRQ" host state machine error do_drq_hsm_error: Success ata status=0x58 ata error=0x00 ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0

[PATCH] prevent kswapd from freeing excessive amounts of lowmem

2007-09-05 Thread Rik van Riel
The current VM can get itself into trouble fairly easily on systems with a small ZONE_HIGHMEM, which is common on i686 computers with 1GB of memory. On one side, page_alloc() will allocate down to zone->pages_low, while on the other side, kswapd() and balance_pgdat() will try to free memory from

[PATCH 5/7 RESEND] cxgb3 - CQ context operations time out too soon.

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Currently, the driver only tries up to 5 times (5us) to get the results of a CQ context operation. Testing has shown the chip can take as much as 50us to return the response on SG_CONTEXT_CMD operations. So we up the retry count to 100 to cover high loads.

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-05 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:04:59 -0400 Kyle Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > However, it really DOES lock up under load. I even > > tried 2.6.23-rc4 and the absolute latest version of > > the > > driver and it still locks up, as in > > > Yich. I'm glad I'm still using sk98lin on my

[PATCH 7/7] cxgb3 - Update engine microcode version

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The new microcode engine version is set to 1.1.0 Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h

[PATCH 4/7 RESEND] cxgb3 - Set the CQ_ERR bit in CQ contexts.

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The cxgb3 driver is incorrectly configuring the HW CQ context for CQ's that use overflow-avoidance. Namely the RDMA control CQ. This results in a bad DMA from the device to bus address 0. The solution is to set the CQ_ERR bit in the context for these types

[PATCH 6/7] cxgb3 - Add T3C rev

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> add driver recognition for T3C rev board. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h |1 + drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c |3 +++ 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 3/7 RESEND] cxgb3 - remove false positive in xgmac workaround

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Qualify toggling of xgmac tx enable with not getting pause frames, we might not make forward progress because the peer is sending lots of pause frames. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h |1 +

[PATCH 2/7 RESEND] cxgb3 - log and clear PEX errors

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Clear pciE PEX errors late at module load time. Log details when PEX errors occur. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/t3_hw.c |6 ++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 1/7 RESEND] cxgb3 - Firmware update

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update firmware version. Allow the driver to be up and running with older FW image Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/common.h |2 +- drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c |9 + drivers/net/cxgb3/t3_hw.c

Re: [PATCH 9/11] cxgb3 - engine microcode update

2007-09-05 Thread Divy Le Ray
> > I think 9-14 still need to be incorporated. I don't see them in your > upstream branch, and they aren't in linus' tree either. I am not the blocker here. Sorry for the delay - again. I'm resubmitting these patches against net#upstream. Cheers, Divy - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Regressions w.r.t. suspend behaviour in recent kernel versions

2007-09-05 Thread Felix Homann
Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:42:55 +0200 Felix Homann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nearly two weeks, zero replies. Thanks for caring :-) Aug 9 00:22:13 jawaka kernel: EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Aug 9 00:22:13 jawaka kernel: WARNING: at

Fast path efficiency (Re: [rfc][patch] dynamic data structure switching)

2007-09-05 Thread Oleg Verych
* Sun, 2 Sep 2007 20:36:19 +0200 > I see, that in many places all pre-checks are done in negative form with resulting return or jump out. In this case, if function was called, what likely() path is? > +static void resize_pid_hash(void) > +{ > + unsigned int old_shift, new_shift; > + > +

Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

2007-09-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Hi Davide, > > > > > > As I think about this more, I see more problems with > > > > > > your argument. timerfd needs the ability to get and > > > > > > get-while-setting just as much as the earlier APIs. > > > > > > Consider a library that creates a timerfd file descriptor that > > > > > > is

Re: kernel 2.6.22: what IS the VM doing?

2007-09-05 Thread Rik van Riel
Sami Farin wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:26 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: ... *shrug* The attached patch should make sure kswapd does not free an excessive number of pages in zone_normal just because the pages in zone_highmem are difficult to free. It does give kswapd a large margin to

Re: [patches] [patch 3/5] x86: Add PCI extended config space access for AMD Barcelona

2007-09-05 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/5/07, Andreas Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:05:25PM +0200, Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You're missing the point. How will the PCI bus transactions be > > > different when using MMCONFIG versus your

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 16:26 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > > 2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod > > in non-blocking mode. It also adds a -w option to allow for explicit > > blocking > > operation. >

Re: 2.4.35.1 and panic at boot with arch=c3 and gcc-4.x

2007-09-05 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > I finally tracked the problem down to a dirty trick used to prevent > do_test_wp_bit() from being inlined (Axel, you identified the right > file). Unfortunately, this trick does not work anymore when gcc-4.x > is used without -fno-unit-at-a-time, so

2.4.35.1 and panic at boot with arch=c3 and gcc-4.x

2007-09-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
Axel, Richard, you both reported a very similar problem to me (panic at boot on VIA c3 with 2.4.35.1 when built with gcc-4.1). I could reproduce the problem with your configs here and compare the code with your working builds. I finally tracked the problem down to a dirty trick used to prevent

Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:34:38PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:46:11PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:53, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > * Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:43:21 +0100 > > > * User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 > > > > > > > > Build system: section

Re: Hang in 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-05 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:15:01AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > That's my impression as well. That's way too core/busy a codepath to have > > > a bug in. As I said earlier, almost anybody testing -rc5 is sure to hit > > > this within a few hours

[PATCH RFC 8/8] RCU: Make RCU priority boosting consume less power

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. This patch modified the RCU priority booster to explicitly sleep when there are no RCU readers in need of priority boosting. This should be a power-consumption improvement over the one-second polling cycle in the underlying RCU priority-boosting patch.

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source > tree > when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/module-init-tools.git;a=summary > If

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:16:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:27:35 +0200, Takashi Iwai said: > > > BTW, there are 10 different models to test for Dell with STAC9200 > > (dell-d2[1-3] and dell-m2[1-7], see > > modprobe snd_hda_intel model=dell-m23 > > was the magic

[PATCH RFC 7/8] RCU: rcutorture testing for RCU priority boosting

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. Still uses xtime because this patch is still against 2.6.22. This patch modifies rcutorture to also torture RCU priority boosting. The torturing involves forcing RCU read-side critical sections (already performed as part of the torturing of RCU) to run for

[PATCH RFC 6/8] RCU priority boosting for preemptible RCU

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. RCU priority boosting is needed when running a workload that might include CPU-bound user tasks running at realtime priorities with preemptible RCU. In this situation, RCU priority boosting is needed to avoid OOM. Please note that because Classic RCU does not

[PATCH RFC 5/8] RCU: CPU hotplug support for preemptible RCU

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. This patch allows preemptible RCU to tolerate CPU-hotplug operations. It accomplishes this by maintaining a local copy of a map of online CPUs, which it accesses under its own lock. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH RFC 4/8] RCU: synchronize_sched() workaround for CPU hotplug

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. The combination of CPU hotplug and PREEMPT_RCU has resulted in deadlocks due to the migration-based implementation of synchronize_sched() in -rt. This experimental patch maps synchronize_sched() back onto Classic RCU, eliminating the migration, thus hopefully

[PATCH RFC 3/8] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details

[PATCH RFC 2/8] RCU: Fix barriers

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment. Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

[PATCH RFC 1/8] RCU: Split API to permit multiple RCU implementations

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, not for inclusion. This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for subsequently merging the preemptible RCU implementation.

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-05 Thread Kyle Rose
> However, it really DOES lock up under load. I even > tried 2.6.23-rc4 and the absolute latest version of > the > driver and it still locks up, as in > Yich. I'm glad I'm still using sk98lin on my unmanned colo box. Kyle - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[PATCH RFC 0/8] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-05 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Work in progress, still not for inclusion. This is a respin of the following prior postings: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/7/276 (the four initial preemptible RCU patches) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/17/262 (hotplug CPU for preemptible RCU) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/22/348 (RCU priority

[PATCH 2/2] knfsd: Validate filehandle type in fsid_source

2007-09-05 Thread J. Bruce Fields
From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fsid_source decided where to get the 'fsid' number to return for a GETATTR based on the type of filehandle. It can be from the device, from the fsid, or from the UUID. It is possible for the filehandle to be inconsistent with the export information, so make

[PATCH 1/2] knfsd: Fixed problem with NFS exporting directories which are mounted on.

2007-09-05 Thread J. Bruce Fields
From: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Recent changes in NFSd cause a directory which is mounted-on to not appear properly when the filesystem containing it is exported. *exp_get* not returns -ENOENT rather than NULL and when commit 5d3dbbeaf56d0365ac6b5c0a0da0bd31cc4781e1 removed the NULL

nfsd patches for 2.6.23

2007-09-05 Thread J. Bruce Fields
We've got two nfsd patches that fix a regression and a possible oops, so both should probably go in before the 2.6.23 release. Patches will follow, but they're also available from "for-linus" at: ssh://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/exports/linux.git for-linus --b. Neil Brown (2): knfsd: Fixed

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:27:35 +0200, Takashi Iwai said: > BTW, there are 10 different models to test for Dell with STAC9200 > (dell-d2[1-3] and dell-m2[1-7], see modprobe snd_hda_intel model=dell-m23 was the magic incantation. I'm sure that every user who trips over this is going to call it a

[Patch] Add support for PCMCIA card Sierra WIreless AC850

2007-09-05 Thread Eric Leblond
Hi, This patch adds support for Sierra Wireless AC850 which has the same Ids as the AC710/750 but has a different firmware. PS: Please CC answer as I've not subscribed to the list. BR, -- Eric Leblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> INL SARL Signed-off-by: Eric Leblond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Linux 2.6.23-rc5-git1-krf1 (known regressions fixes)

2007-09-05 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, There are a few patches for regressions that was not merged yet. Subject : 8250 claims non existing device blocking IO port References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/18/20 Last known good : ? Submitter : Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Caused-By : ? Handled-By

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 06:51 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:41:37AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > You have this backwards: O_NONBLOCK is the default. That seems to be > > > what everyone wants, although I

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:41:37AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > You have this backwards: O_NONBLOCK is the default. That seems to be > > what everyone wants, although I implemented 'rmmod -w' because it seemed > > like a good option.

Re: [PATCH 3/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:40:15PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:55, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > Part 3: > > > > Makefile: > > init/Kconfig: > > add config DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS with appropriate > > big scary warning. It enables gcc and ld options > > for

Re: [PATCH][RFC]: pte notifiers -- support for external page tables

2007-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
[resend due to broken cc list in my original post] Jack Steiner wrote: On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:38:48PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: Some hardware and software systems maintain page tables outside the normal Linux page tables, which reference userspace memory. This includes Infiniband, other

Re: linux-2.6.23-rc4 ppc build failure

2007-09-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday 31 August 2007, Tony Breeds wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:56:50PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > > On 8/29/07, Bret Towe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > while trying to build a fresh kernel for my mini after upgrading from > > > gutsy > > > (and forgetting to save my .config) I hit

Re: [PATCH] Override 80-wire cable detection for Toshiba S1800-814 (resend)

2007-09-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Friday 31 August 2007, Daniel Exner wrote: > Hi! > > Please CC me, as I'm currently not subscribed to this list, thx. applied but please inline patches instead of attaching them next time (makes it much easier to review/apply them) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Clock trouble retest results with 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 (was: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1)

2007-09-05 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 25.08.2007 05:30 schrieb Andrew Morton: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:47:59 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - on console early during boot, also in SuSE's /var/log/boot.msg: your system time is not correct: Wed Jul 13 13:15:31 UTC 1910 setting system time

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

2007-09-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 22:46 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote: > I recently sent off a fix for lazy vmalloc faults which can happen under > paravirt when lazy mode is enabled. Unfortunately, I jumped the gun a > bit on fixing this. I neglected to notice that since the new call to > flush the MMU

Re: 2.4.35.1 md problem

2007-09-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 03:45:45PM +0200, Beschorner Daniel wrote: > I got a strange problem after I updated from 2.4.34.4 to 2.4.35.1: > > The kernel raid autodetection assembles my 2 raid-1 arrays, but mdstat > shows "0 blocks" for each md. > So the filesystem check complains about no valid

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:11:20 +0200, I wrote: > > At Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:34 -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:58:22 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ > > > > git-alsa.patch

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 16:30 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > 2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod > in non-blocking mode. It also adds a -w option to allow for explicit blocking > operation. As I suspected, this patch isn't in the tree. I am going to commit

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] pte notifiers -- support for external page tables

2007-09-05 Thread Avi Kivity
Rusty Russell wrote: On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:32 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: [resend due to bad alias expansion resulting in some recipients being bogus] Some hardware and software systems maintain page tables outside the normal Linux page tables, which reference userspace memory. This

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix (improve) deadlock condition on module removal netfilter socket option removal

2007-09-05 Thread Jon Masters
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 15:27 -0400, Neil Horman wrote: > Now, I suppose its possible that I've not been looking at the right source > tree > when doing my work. I've based my modprobe patch on this git tree: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kyle/module-init-tools.git;a=summary > If

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:54:55 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:34 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > % grep HDA_ .config > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y > > # CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP is not set > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y > > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y > >

Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Oleg Verych
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:46:11PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:53, Oleg Verych wrote: > > * Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:43:21 +0100 > > * User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 > > > > > > Build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux > > > > Maybe this is just a test suit to

Re: Sleep problems with kernels >= 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-09-05 Thread Stefan Richter
On 5 Sep, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:47:42 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Trying to free already-free IRQ 40 >> >>> pci_set_power_state(): 0002:20:0e.0: state=3, current state=5 >> >>> firewire_ohci: pci_set_power_state failed with >> >>>

Re: [PATCH] docproc: style & typo cleanups

2007-09-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:23:22PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > - fix typos/spellos in docproc.c and Makefile > - add a little whitespace {while, switch} (coding style) > - use NULL instead of 0 for pointer testing > Looks good - thanks. I will apply

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH][RFC] pte notifiers -- support for external page tables

2007-09-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 22:32 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > [resend due to bad alias expansion resulting in some recipients > being bogus] > > Some hardware and software systems maintain page tables outside the normal > Linux page tables, which reference userspace memory. This includes > Infiniband,

Re: [PATCH] Fix preemptible lazy mode bug

2007-09-05 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:42 +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> Rusty Russell wrote: >> >>> static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void) >>> { >>> - PVOP_VCALL1(set_lazy_mode, PARAVIRT_LAZY_FLUSH); >>> + if (unlikely(__get_cpu_var(paravirt_lazy_mode) ==

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:34 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:58:22 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ > > git-alsa.patch breaks audio on my laptop, worked fine in -rc3-mm1. Almost >

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Sep 5 2007 11:37, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >[Adding K{build,config} wizards to CC] > > > >On 05/09/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> $ make distclean > >> $ make defconfig > >> $ make

Re: building a specific in-tree module is currently a bit broken

2007-09-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:43:15AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > Also note that visor will not have any symvers until you have > a Module.symvers (which, ironically, is created at the end of "make vmlinux") Yeaa - it is hard to create it before we have vmlinux. Sam - To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH 1/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:47:00PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 14:43, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > These patches fix section names and add > > CONFIG_DISCARD_UNUSED_SECTIONS. It is not enabled > > unconditionally because only newest binutils have > > ld --gc-sections

Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface

2007-09-05 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hi Davide, > > > > > > As I think about this more, I see more problems with > > > > > your argument. timerfd needs the ability to get and > > > > > get-while-setting just as much as the earlier APIs. > > > > > Consider a library that creates a

Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:49 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > What does "it" stand for in this sentence? "it" is your patches, and I think we got to bottom of it .. "it" (i.e. your patches) don't actually work with modules, which is what you originally contended .. > My patch was tested to work in

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:46:34 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > % grep HDA_ .config > CONFIG_SND_HDA_INTEL=y > # CONFIG_SND_HDA_HWDEP is not set > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_REALTEK=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_ANALOG=y > CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_SIGMATEL=y > # CONFIG_SND_HDA_CODEC_VIA is not set > #

Re: modinfo question

2007-09-05 Thread Chris Snook
Justin Piszcz wrote: Is there anyway to get/see what parameters were passed to a kernel module? Running modinfo -p will show the defaults, but for example, st, the scsi tape driver, is there a way to see what it is currently using? I know in dmesg it shows this when you load it initially

Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:07, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 20:14 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 19:38, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > You version doesn't work with CONFIG_MODULES right? > > > > > > > > It works with CONFIG_MODULES. > > > >

Re: nfs4 hang regression

2007-09-05 Thread Bret Towe
On 9/5/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:41:18 -0700 "Bret Towe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > More than two weeks, you've bisected it and there's no sign of any action? > > I don't see this on Michal's list so perhaps it already got fixed in a > different >

Re: Sleep problems with kernels >= 2.6.21 on powerpc

2007-09-05 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:47:42 +0200 Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> Trying to free already-free IRQ 40 > >>> pci_set_power_state(): 0002:20:0e.0: state=3, current state=5 > >>> firewire_ohci: pci_set_power_state failed with > >>> -22<3>pci_device_suspend():

Re: [PATCH 0/3] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

2007-09-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 12:24:04PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 21:31 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 08:14:12PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 19:38, Daniel Walker wrote: > > > > > > You version doesn't work with

2.6.23-rc4-mm1 - git-alsa.patch breaks audio on Dell Latitude D820

2007-09-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:58:22 PDT, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ git-alsa.patch breaks audio on my laptop, worked fine in -rc3-mm1. Almost certainly bustification in the Intel HDA rewrite. Symptoms: alsamixer

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-05 Thread James Corey
--- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:01:30 -0600 > Rob Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 06:57:01PM +0200, Adrian > Bunk wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 11:16:36AM -0400, Kyle > Rose wrote: > > > > >From >

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