Re: [PATCH] [19/50] Experimental: detect if SVM is disabled by BIOS

2007-09-21 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:32:18AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Also allow to set svm lock. > > TBD double check, documentation, i386 support > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Could we have this patch tagged with x86 instead of "Experimental" in subject. Sam - To unsubs

Re: [PATCH] [9/50] i386: validate against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-09-21 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/21/07, Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/21/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > This path adds validation of the MMCONFIG table against the ACPI reserved > > motherboard resources. If the MMCONFIG table is found to be r

Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu

2007-09-21 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:45:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:32:02AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > +Select this for: > > + Pentiums (Pentium 4, Pentium D, Celeron, Celeron D) corename: > > + -Willamette > > + -Northwood > > +

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: Build failures on ppc64_defconfig

2007-09-21 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ... > IIRC I got build failures in: > drivers/net/spider_net.c [PATCH -mm] spider_net: Misc build fixes after recent netdev stats changes Unbreak the following: drivers/net/spider_net.c

Re: [PATCH] [9/50] i386: validate against ACPI motherboard resources

2007-09-21 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/21/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This path adds validation of the MMCONFIG table against the ACPI reserved > motherboard resources. If the MMCONFIG table is found to be reserved in > ACPI, we don't bother checking the E820 table. T

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: Build failures on ppc64_defconfig

2007-09-21 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ... > IIRC I got build failures in: > drivers/md/raid6int8.c This turned out to be a gcc bug -- I was using an old cross-compiler. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: Distributed storage. Security attributes and ducumentation update.

2007-09-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I'm pleased to announce third release of the distributed storage > subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local > nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to > form tree-like storages. How is this different from raid0/1 over nbd? Or raid0/1 o

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: Build failures on ppc64_defconfig

2007-09-21 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > BTW ppc64_defconfig didn't quite like 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 either ... > IIRC I got build failures in: > drivers/ata/pata_scc.c http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/21/557 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: [patch 7/7] Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax

2007-09-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. Should you also update kernel-parameters.txt? > +For example: > + > +crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M > + > +This would mean: > + > +1) if the RAM is smaller than 512M, then don't

Re: clockevents: fix resume logic

2007-09-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Ok, here we are. The bad one uses C2 which stops the local apic on the > > VAIO. I suspect we end up in the suspend/resume with going into C2 > > without the broadcast active. > > > > Can you try to get the output of SysRq-Q during the "it needs help from > > keyboard" period ? > > > >

Re: [NFS] NFS on loopback locks up entire system(2.6.23-rc6)?

2007-09-21 Thread Chakri n
On 9/21/07, Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. The requirement for 'hard' mounts is not that the server be up all > the time. The server can go up and down as it pleases: the client can > happily recover from that. > > The requirement is rather that nobody remove it permanently before

Re: [PATCH 2/3] missing null termination in power supply uevent

2007-09-21 Thread Anton Vorontsov
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:06:10PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Need to null terminate environment. Found by inspection > while looking for similar problems to platform uevent bug > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Much thanks, git-applymbox'ed to battery-2.6.git. I sup

Re: [PATCH v2] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use kio_addr_t

2007-09-21 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:39:36PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:15:16 -0500 > Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Convert the io_req_t members to kio_addr_t, to allow use on machines with > > more than 16 bits worth of IO ports (i.e. secondary busses on ppc64, etc).

Re: RTC wakealarm write-only, still has 644 permissions

2007-09-21 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 20 September 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > ...should they be changed to 200? Or perhaps file should be readable? No, mode 644 is fine. No reason to prevent "other" people from reading the alarm time (is there?) and if you write a legal value, that will work. So $SUBJECT is n

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [12/50] x86_64: Untable __init references between IO data

2007-09-21 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/21/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Earlier patch added IO APIC setup into local APIC setup. This caused > modpost warnings. Fix them by untangling setup_local_APIC() and splitting > it into smaller functions. The IO APIC initialization is only called > for the BP init. > > Also r

Re: [PATCH] [13/50] x86: Fix and reenable CLFLUSH support in change_page_attr()

2007-09-21 Thread Oleg Verych
* Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:32:11 +0200 (CEST) [] > - flush_map(&l); > + flush_map(&arg); + flush_map(&arg.l); CC arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.o arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c: In function 'global_flush_tlb': arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c:274: warning: passing argument 1 of 'flush_map' from inc

2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram

2007-09-21 Thread Mihai Donțu
Hi, Today, out of curiosity, I pulled 2.6.23-rc7 (leave on the edge in a quiet weekend). Anyway, it seems that radeonfb and my: "01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)" don't get along anymore, by: a) X somehow fails to initialize the card and

Re: [PATCH] [34/50] i386: Fix argument signedness warnings

2007-09-21 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: > > From: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > These build warnings: > > In file included from include/asm/thread_info.h:16, > from include/linux/thread_info.h:21, > from include/linux/preempt.h:9, > from include/linux/spinlock.h:49, > from includ

Re: [patch 04/28] Add cmpxchg64 and cmpxchg64_local to powerpc

2007-09-21 Thread Paul Mackerras
Mathieu Desnoyers writes: > Make sure that at least cmpxchg64_local is available on all architectures to > use > for unsigned long long values. > > Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "u

[PATCH] 2.6.22.6 user-mode linux: use address instead of value as argument in os_free_irq_by_cb

2007-09-21 Thread lepton
Hi, There is a bug in os_free_irq_by_cb, when the first element of active_fds list is free, the value of active_fds is not updated, just value in stack is updated. The intresting thing is that without this patch, a poweroff in user mode linux guest will halt the host linux system.It s

Re: [PATCH 2/3] user.c: use kmem_cache_zalloc()

2007-09-21 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:39:06 +0400 > Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quite a few fields are zeroed during user_struct creation, so use > > kmem_cache_zalloc() -- save a few lines and #ifdef. Also will help avoid > > #ifdef CONFIG_

[Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (resend)

2007-09-21 Thread David J. Wilder
My last posting was mangled by my mailer. I hope this one is better. Also corrected Randy's concerns. Please see previous posting for more information: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/4 (PATCH 0/2) Note: this patch requires "[Patch 2/2] Relay reset consumed" is applied. - Tra

[Patch 2/2] Relay reset consumed

2007-09-21 Thread David J. Wilder
This patch allows relay channels to be reset i.e. unconsumed. Basically allows a 'rewind' function for flight-recorder tracing. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt | 11 ++ include/linux/relay

Re: [PATCH -mm] sb16: Shut up uninitialized var build warning

2007-09-21 Thread Rene Herman
On 09/20/2007 07:52 PM, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:06, Rene Herman wrote: Blah. Your message has: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-2022-jp This apparently is caused by a combination of GCC using groovy UTF tickmarks in its error messages when in a UTF

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:56:56PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > [ sneaks away from the family for a bit to answer emails ] [ same here, now that you mention it... ] > -- > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:19:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > >

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:15:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:15:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:40:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrot

Re: possible corrections in the docs (Re: [PATCH] [7/50] x86: expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v2)

2007-09-21 Thread Joe Korty
Looks good to me. Joe Acked-by: Joe Korty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Eyleme Cagri: Kardesime Dokunma, Olum Yasalari Kaldirilsin

2007-09-21 Thread Deniz KURTUL
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Re: [git] CFS-devel, group scheduler, fixes

2007-09-21 Thread Tong Li
Mike, Could you try this patch to see if it solves the latency problem? tong Changes: 1. Modified vruntime adjustment logic in set_task_cpu(). See comments in code. This fixed the negative vruntime problem. 2. This code in update_curr() seems to be wrong: if (unlikely(!curr)) ret

possible corrections in the docs (Re: [PATCH] [7/50] x86: expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v2)

2007-09-21 Thread Oleg Verych
* Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:32:05 +0200 (CEST) [] > Index: linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt >=== > --- linux.orig/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > +++ linux/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt > @@ -347,7 +347,40 @@ connects the

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
[took off Ingo, because he has my ISP blacklisted, and I'm tired of getting those return mail messages. He can read LKML or you can re-CC him. Sad since this is a topic he should be reading. ] -- On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:15:03PM -0400, Steven Rost

Re: [PATCH] [11/45] x86_64: Remove rogue default m in drivers/video/Kconfig

2007-09-21 Thread Len Brown
Acked-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry, i thought we fixed this earlier. thanks, -Len On Friday 21 September 2007 16:44, Andi Kleen wrote: > > default m is near always wrong, like here. For some reason ACPI > likes to reintroduce these and I like to immediately squash them again > befor

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
[ sneaks away from the family for a bit to answer emails ] -- On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:19:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > -- > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > > > In any case, I will be looking at the scenarios

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: Build failure on ppc64 drivers/ata/pata_scc.c

2007-09-21 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi, On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:13:15 +0100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mel Gorman) wrote: > > > PPC64 building allmodconfig fails to compile drivers/ata/pata_scc.c . It > > doesn't show up on other arches because this driver is specific to the > > architecture. > >

Killing printk calls for size (Re: [PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports)

2007-09-21 Thread Oleg Verych
* Sat, 22 Sep 2007 00:32:04 +0200 (CEST) [] > arch/i386/kernel/traps.c | 16 > arch/i386/mm/fault.c | 13 +++-- > 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) It seems, like size can be reduced even more now: [] > report_bug(regs->eip, regs);

Re: linux 2.6.23-rc7 - 14 compile warnings

2007-09-21 Thread WANG Cong
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:33:56AM +0100, Dave Haywood wrote: >Contents: > ver_linux output > Summary of compile warnings > Full compile log > .config > > > >Linux s1 2.6.23-rc7-g335fb8fc #9 SMP Fri Sep 21 09:31:01 BST 2007 i686 Pentium >III (Cop

[-rc7 Patch] fs/isofs/namei.c: mark variables as uninitialized_var

2007-09-21 Thread WANG Cong
Fix may-be-used-uninitialized warnings. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/isofs/namei.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.23-rc7/fs/isofs/namei.c === --- linux-2.6.23-rc7.o

[GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.23-rc7

2007-09-21 Thread Len Brown
Hi Linus, Before 2.6.23, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release This restores some dmesg to what folks had in 2.6.22, and prevents a possible system hang on video switching. This will update the files shown below. thanks! -Len ps. ind

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D'

2007-09-21 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:31:39PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:03:19 +0100 (BST) Hugh Dickins > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > > > Seems I have a case of a largish i386 NUM

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:15:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:40:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: [ . . . ] > > > > + /* > > > > +

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Chan
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:49 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100 > > > Do patches look ok to you? > > I'm travelling so I haven't looked closely yet :-) > > Michael can take a look and I'll try to do so as well > tonight. >

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:19:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > -- > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > > > In any case, I will be looking at the scenarios more carefully. If > > > it turns out that GP_STAGES can indeed be cranked down a bit, well, > > > that is an easy chan

Re: Message codes (Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival)

2007-09-21 Thread Oleg Verych
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:15:39PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: [] > > >Not all, but critical info, that must exist in human-readable form of > > >course. > > > > I disagree. For a production product the you want minimal information > > to reduce the communication bandwidth required between the remot

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > > In any case, I will be looking at the scenarios more carefully. If > > it turns out that GP_STAGES can indeed be cranked down a bit, well, > > that is an easy change! I just fired off a POWER run with GP_STAGES > > set to 3, will let you kn

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:40:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Covering the pieces that weren't in Peter's reply. ;-) > > And thank you -very- much for the careful and thorou

Re: MTRR initialization

2007-09-21 Thread Howard Chu
Siddha, Suresh B wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:30AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: So now I have this, which is pretty much what I wanted: reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 reg02: base=0x1

RE: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 0/3] async_tx and md-accel fixes for 2.6.23

2007-09-21 Thread Williams, Dan J
> From: Neil Brown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Friday September 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:27:35 -0700 > > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Fix a couple bugs and provide documentation for the async_tx api. > > > > > > Neil, please 'ack' patch #3. > >

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 04:03:43PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:20:48AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: [ . . . ] > > Paul, > > > > Looking further into this, I still think this is a bit of overkill

Re: MTRR initialization

2007-09-21 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:33:30AM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > Hi, was wondering if anyone else has been tripped up by this... I've got > 4GB of > RAM in my Asus A8V Deluxe and memory hole mapping enabled in the BIOS. By > default, my system boots up with these MTRR settings: > > reg00: base=0x

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:40:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: Covering the pieces that weren't in Peter's reply. ;-) And thank you -very- much for the careful and thorough review!!! > > #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ > > #endif /*

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc7 0/3] async_tx and md-accel fixes for 2.6.23

2007-09-21 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday September 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:27:35 -0700 > Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fix a couple bugs and provide documentation for the async_tx api. > > > > Neil, please 'ack' patch #3. > > > > git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop async

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread maximilian attems
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:48:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained, > > written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very > > likely hasn't had users in years... if ever. > > > > If that picture is accurate (it's a

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edac_mc: sleeping function called from invalid context

2007-09-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Kernel 2.6.22.6: # echo "1" >/sys/devices/system/edac/pci/check_pci_parity # dmesg | tail -14 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:20 in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 Call Trace: [] down_read+0x15/0x24 [] pci_get_subsys+0x81/0x113 [] schedule_timeout+0x85/0xad

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

2007-09-21 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Saturday 22 September 2007 09:19:18 Kyle Moffett wrote: > I think that in order for this to work, there would need to be some > ABI whereby the resume-ing kernel can pass its entire ACPI state and > a bunch of other ACPI-related device details to the resume-ed kernel, > which I believ

Re: [PATCH 07/25] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for some ioctls

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:39:40 -0700 Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Some ioctl()s can cause writes to the filesystem. Take > > > these, and make them use mnt_want/drop_write() ins

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 07:23:09PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > -- > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > If you do a synchronize_rcu() it might well have to wait through the > > following sequence of states: > > > > Stage 0: (might have to wait through part of this to get out of "

Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu

2007-09-21 Thread Alan Cox
> > config MPSC > > bool "Intel P4 / older Netburst based Xeon" > > help > > sidenote: I always wondered what 'PSC' stood for ? Produces Smoke and Cooks ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mo

[PATCH Kbuild] Call only one make with all targets for O=

2007-09-21 Thread Milton Miller
Change the invocations of make in the output directory Makefile and the main Makefile for seperate object trees to pass all goals to one $(MAKE) via a new phony target "sub-make" and the existing target _all. When compiling with seperate object directories, a seperate make is called in the context

Re: [PATCH 07/25] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for some ioctls

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:03 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some ioctl()s can cause writes to the filesystem. Take > > these, and make them use mnt_want/drop_write() instead. > > > > We need to pass the filp one layer deeper in XFS, but > > somebody _ju

Re: [PATCH 14/22] NFS: Use local caching

2007-09-21 Thread David Howells
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Staubach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did I miss the section where the modified semantics about which > > mounted file systems can use the cache and which ones can not > > was implemented? > > Yes. fs/nfs/super.c: case Opt_sh

[PATCH 3/3] taskstats: fix stats->ac_exitcode to work on threads and use group_exit_code

2007-09-21 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
Threads also have an exit code on their own, so report it in TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID. For TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID, instead of relying only on the exit code of the leader, we use task->signal->group_exit_code if not null as suggested by Oleg Nesterov. Also, document that as of this patch, fill_thre

[PATCH 2/3] taskstats: tell fill_thread_group() whether it replies with PID or TGID stats

2007-09-21 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
fill_thread_group() may want to know if it is filling TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID or TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID stats, so give it this information in the tg_stats boolean. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jay Lan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jonath

[PATCH] JBD2/ext4 naming cleanup

2007-09-21 Thread Mingming Cao
JBD2 naming cleanup From: Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> change micros name from JBD_XXX to JBD2_XXX in JBD2/Ext4 Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext4/extents.c |2 +- fs/ext4/super.c |2 +- fs/jbd2/commit.c |2 +- fs/jbd2/journal.

[PATCH 1/3] taskstats: separate PID/TGID stats producers to complete the TGID ones

2007-09-21 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID used to return only the delay accounting stats, not the basic and extended accounting. With this patch, TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID also aggregates the accounting info for all threads of a thread group. TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_PID output should be unchanged TASKSTATS_CMD_ATTR_TGID

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > If you do a synchronize_rcu() it might well have to wait through the > following sequence of states: > > Stage 0: (might have to wait through part of this to get out of "next" queue) > rcu_try_flip_idle_state,/* "I" */ > rcu

Re: [PATCH 14/22] NFS: Use local caching

2007-09-21 Thread David Howells
Peter Staubach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did I miss the section where the modified semantics about which > mounted file systems can use the cache and which ones can not > was implemented? Yes. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

2007-09-21 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 21, 2007, at 17:16:59, Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The ACPI platform firmware is allowed to preserve information accross the hibernation-resume cycle, so this need not be the same. All of my comments related to the case where S4 is not b

Re: [PATCH 00/22] Introduce credential record

2007-09-21 Thread David Howells
Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are nonetheless in effect and (heaven forbid) should they be > abused you don't want to hide the facts from concerned observers. Because, I suspect, what the observer through /proc should see is what the process thinks it is doing, not what is tra

Re: [PATCH 11/22] CacheFiles: Permit the page lock state to be monitored

2007-09-21 Thread David Howells
Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is used by CacheFiles to detect read completion on a page in the > > backing filesystem so that it can then copy the data to the waiting netfs > > page. > > Won't it in any case want to lock the page too? No. Why would it? All it wants to do

[PATCH] JBD/ext34 cleanups: convert to kzalloc

2007-09-21 Thread Mingming Cao
Convert kmalloc to kzalloc() and get rid of the memset(). Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/ext3/xattr.c |3 +-- fs/ext4/xattr.c |3 +-- fs/jbd/journal.c |3 +-- fs/jbd/transaction.c |2 +- fs/jbd2/journal.c |3 +-- fs/jbd2/transactio

Re: [PATCH 10/22] CacheFiles: Add a hook to write a single page of data to an inode

2007-09-21 Thread David Howells
Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So why do you need a new address space operation? AFAICS the generic > implementation will work for pretty much everyone who supports the > existing prepare_write()/commit_write(). Because Christoph decreed that I wasn't allowed to call prepare_write()

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

2007-09-21 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 18:05 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > from printks and defining something that modifies pr_. > pr_level doesn't exist in mainline. pr_info and pr_debug do. pr_alert, pr_emerg, pr_crit, pr_err, and pr_warn could be added. > > #define pr_info(fmt, arg) printk(KERN_INFO PR_FMT f

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

2007-09-21 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 21 September 2007 12:45:27 pm Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What about something *really* hardcore ugly like: > > #ifdef __FILE__ > > #undef __FILE__ > > #define __FILE__ "" > > #endif > > (or similar preprocessor blecherousness) if y

RE: Megaraid driver not detecting RAID volumes in kernel 2.6.22?

2007-09-21 Thread Bagalkote, Sreenivas
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=288421 > > When running Fedora on a Dell 2950 w/ integrated LSI Perc5i (megaraid), the > system will not boot after upgrading to 2.6.22. The boot message indicates the > system is somehow seeing through RAID, cannot access logical volume. This > ca

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:20:48AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > + > > +/* > > + * PREEMPT_RCU data structures. > > + */ > > + > > +#define GP_STAGES 4 > > +struct rcu_data { > > + spinlock_t lock; /* Protect rc

Re: [PATCH 07/25] r/o bind mounts: elevate write count for some ioctls

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:52:57 -0700 Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some ioctl()s can cause writes to the filesystem. Take > these, and make them use mnt_want/drop_write() instead. > > We need to pass the filp one layer deeper in XFS, but > somebody _just_ pulled it out in February becau

Re: Linux 2.6.22.7

2007-09-21 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3067f6a..12edea0 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 22 -EXTRAVERSION = .6 +EXTRAVERSION = .7 NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

2007-09-21 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Sep 21, 2007, at 18:05:34, Joe Perches wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 17:34 -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: With a bit more glue that would cause GCC to notice that for a given qprintk_kmalloc the "qpk->type" is always zero because the level is too high, and therefore it would optimize out *ALL*

Re: [PATCH] [50/50] x86_64: Remove fpu io port resource

2007-09-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: Not needed on modern systems without external FPU TBD on i386 it is only needed for true 386s. Could remove it there TBD for >= 486 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_6

Linux 2.6.22.7

2007-09-21 Thread Chris Wright
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.22.7 kernel. It contains a single security bugfix for the x86_64 architecture. There is potential for local privilege escalation, so all x86_64 users are certainly encouraged to upgrade. CVE-2007-4573: x86_64: Zero extend all registers af

Re: [PATCH] [20/45] x86_64: Use 8 byte stack alignment when possible

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:34:31AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2007 23:13, Dave Jones wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Kernel doesn't use SSE2, so it doesn't need 16 byte alignment. Also > > > the stack can be already unaligned

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 21 September 2007 20:33, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote: On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:05:23 BST, Denys Vlasenko said: I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers

Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: Convert cpuinfo_x86 array to a per_cpu array v2

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:30:05 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > cpu_data is currently an array defined using NR_CPUS. This means that > we overallocate since we will rarely really use maximum configured cpus. > When NR_CPU count is raised to 4096 the size of cpu_data becomes > 3,145,728 bytes. This

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-21 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 06:31:12PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:46:53PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:40:03 -0400 Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:34:12AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > >

Re: [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu

2007-09-21 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:32:02AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > + Select this for: > +Pentiums (Pentium 4, Pentium D, Celeron, Celeron D) corename: > +-Willamette > +-Northwood > +-Mobile Pentium 4 > +-Mobile Pentium 4 M > +

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread Alan Cox
> According to an earlier thread, dgrs was never really maintained, > written for hardware that was never really distributed widely, and very > likely hasn't had users in years... if ever. > > If that picture is accurate (it's a story I was told), then I am > definitely queueing up a deletion p

Re: [PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports

2007-09-21 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 09/21/2007 06:32 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > From: Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Typically the oops first lines look like this: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > > printing eip: > c049dfbd > *pde = > Oops: 0002 [#1] > PREEM

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Friday 21 September 2007 20:33, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > On Friday 21 September 2007 19:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:05:23 BST, Denys Vlasenko said: > >> > >>> I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers'

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Friday 21 September 2007 21:13, Andi Kleen wrote: > Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware, > > if patches will be accepted: > > > >textdata bss dec hex filename > > 17653 109968 240 127861

RE: Message codes (Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival)

2007-09-21 Thread Gross, Mark
>-Original Message- >From: Joe Perches [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 3:33 PM >To: Gross, Mark >Cc: Rob Landley; Oleg Verych; Alexey Dobriyan; Michael Opdenacker; linux- >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; CE Linux Developers List; linux kernel >Subject: RE: Message codes (Re

RE: Message codes (Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival)

2007-09-21 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:12 -0700, Gross, Mark wrote: > Use compiler tricks to remove ALL the static printk string from > the kernel and replace the printk with something that outputs a > decimal index followed by tuples, of zero to N, hex-strings on > I proposed a mechanism for keeping all the pr

Re: [PATCH] [20/45] x86_64: Use 8 byte stack alignment when possible

2007-09-21 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 21 September 2007 23:13, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Kernel doesn't use SSE2, so it doesn't need 16 byte alignment. Also > > the stack can be already unaligned so letting the compiler align > > is useless. This may make some stack

[PATCH] [50/50] x86_64: Remove fpu io port resource

2007-09-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Not needed on modern systems without external FPU TBD on i386 it is only needed for true 386s. Could remove it there TBD for >= 486 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c |2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c ==

Re: [PATCH v2] pcmcia: Convert io_req_t to use kio_addr_t

2007-09-21 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:15:16 -0500 Olof Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Convert the io_req_t members to kio_addr_t, to allow use on machines with > more than 16 bits worth of IO ports (i.e. secondary busses on ppc64, etc). What about the formatting and field widths ? ulong would probably

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-21 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: For example, bnx2 maintainer says that driver and firmware are closely tied for his driver. IOW: you upgrade kernel and your NIC is not working anymore. Another argument is to make kernel be able to bring up NICs without needing firmware images in initramfs/initrd/hard drive. d

[PATCH] [48/50] x86_64: return correct error code from child_rip in x86_64 entry.S

2007-09-21 Thread Andi Kleen
From: Andrey Mirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Right now register edi is just cleared before calling do_exit. That is wrong because correct return value will be ignored. Value from rax should be copied to rdi instead of clearing edi. AK: changed to 32bit move because it's strictly an int Signed-off-by

[PATCH] [49/50] x86_64: Initialize 64bit registers for a.out executables

2007-09-21 Thread Andi Kleen
Previously the data from before the exec was kept in there. Zero them instead Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_aout.c |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_aout.c =

[PATCH] [46/50] x86: also show non-zero IRQ counts for vectors that currently don't have a handler

2007-09-21 Thread Andi Kleen
From: "Jan Beulich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It doesn't seem to make sense to hide these, even if their counts can't change at the point in time they're being displayed. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> arch/i386/kernel/irq.c | 18 +

[PATCH] [47/50] i386: avoid temporarily inconsistent pte-s

2007-09-21 Thread Andi Kleen
From: "Jan Beulich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One more of these issues (which were considered fixed a few releases back): Other than on x86-64, i386 allows set_fixmap() to replace already present mappings. Consequently, on PAE, care must be taken to not update the high half of a pte while the low half i

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