On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Hugh Dickins wrote:
Probably better, yes. In -mm Peter is doing an #ifdef CONFIG_SWAP
bdi_init() on swapper_space. Would make sense to do both together,
perhaps move them to a swapper_space_init() in swap_state.c, saving
his #ifdef too. I suggest leave such cleanups
This modifies nmi_watchdog_tick behavior for x86_64 arch to
consider both timer and pit/hpet IRQs just as the i386 arch does.
Without this fix a kernel crash occurs very early in the boot
process if nmi_watchdog is on.
Signed-off-by: David Bahi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:29 -0700 David J. Wilder wrote:
These patches provide a kernel tracing interface called trace.
(update) Moved the sample code to the new samples\ subdir
The motivation for trace is to:
- Provide a simple set of tracing primitives that will utilize the high-
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
There still are some oddities.
First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with C1E
patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box doesn't boot
(the suspend patches don't even thouch the boot
On Wednesday 26 September 2007 10:03:33 Ulrich Drepper wrote:
On 9/26/07, John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some reason that syslog() sleeps in __kernel_vsyscall()
when invoked from a signal handler?
Only very few functions are allowed to be called from signal
handlers. This
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Francois Romieu wrote:
The patch below is scheduled for inclusion before 2.6.23. Please try it and
see if it makes a difference on top of 2.6.23-rc8 (full dmesg will be welcome
too).
Thanks for the quick reply and fix. Unfortunately the fix didn't help in my
case.
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 05:00:20PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:39:01 +0400
Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frequently get these messages after resume from STR,
(subjectively, first STR is always OK).
Does this occur if you have the acpi support enabled
This patch adds a /sysfs/firmware/ibft/table binary blob which exports
the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure.
What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI
tools to extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI connection information
so that they can automagically mount
I have a series of patches to dmapool that I'd like opinions on. I
don't have any performance numbers yet, but some of the patches are a
good idea, with or without performance numbers.
One of the problems with dmapool is that it doesn't have a maintainer
listed. I've spent enough time looking
Btw, may_open() doesn't do mnt_want_write() around the truncation if
file is opened with O_TRUNC | O_RDONLY.
What's the path to may_open() in that case? open_namei() should wrap
all callers other than nfs, and it does:
/* O_TRUNC implies we need access checks for write
With one trivial change (taking the lock slightly earlier on wakeup
from schedule), all uses of the waitq are under the pool lock, so we
can use the locked (or __) versions of the wait queue functions, and
avoid the extra spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/dmapool.c
Check that 'align' is a power of two, like the API specifies.
Align 'size' to 'align' correctly -- the current code has an off-by-one.
The ALIGN macro in kernel.h doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/dmapool.c | 15 ---
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7
Also add documentation for how dma pools work, move the header above the
includes, add my copyright, add the original author's copyright, add a
GPL v2 licence to the file and fix the includes.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/dmapool.c | 161
The previous implementation simply refused to allocate more than a
boundary's worth of data from an entire page. Some users didn't know
this, so specified things like SMP_CACHE_BYTES, not realising the
horrible waste of memory that this was. It's fairly easy to correct
this problem, just by
Rolan/Sean,
What do you all think?
Steve.
Steve Wise wrote:
iw_cxgb3: Support iwarp-only interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.
Version 3:
- don't use list_del_init() where list_del() is sufficient.
Version 2:
- added a per-device mutex for the address and listening endpoints lists.
-
Hello,
I'm working with AndrewL733 on this issue. I'm doing the git bisect right now.
scanpci -f -1 causes the problem, scanpci -f -2 and scanpci -O do not.
The systems have two 1-Gig sticks in the D1 and C1 slots of the
motherboard. I ran memtest86 overnight and got no errors. (Samsung 1GB
Ulrich Drepper writes:
On 9/26/07, John Z. Bohach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there some reason that syslog() sleeps in __kernel_vsyscall() when
invoked from a signal handler?
Only very few functions are allowed to be called from signal handlers.
This is clearly spelled out in the
Appeases the warning parport0 (bw-qcam): use data_reverse for this!
Signed-off-by: Brett T. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
It seems to work fine with my Quickcam under 2.6.22.
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c b/drivers/media/video/bw-qcam.c
index 7d47cbe..01e47ed 100644
---
Jordan Crouse wrote:
Its the latter - max_pfn as read by find_max_pfn() in arch/i386/e820.c
is being set to 9F (640k) in the broken case, this due to the
the e820 map looking something like this:
Address Size Type
0009FC00 1
0009FC00 0400 2
000E 2000 2
* David J. Wilder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
These patches provide a kernel tracing interface called trace.
(update) Moved the sample code to the new samples\ subdir
The motivation for trace is to:
- Provide a simple set of tracing primitives that will utilize the high-
performance and
Also add documentation for how dma pools work, move the header above the
includes, add my copyright, add the original author's copyright, add a
GPL v2 licence to the file and fix the includes.
The fact that you have all these other changes mixed in makes the main
change very difficult to
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, David Newall wrote:
Miloslav Semler pointed out that a root process can chdir(..) out of
its chroot. Although this is documented in the man page, it conflicts
with the essential function, which is to change the root directory of
the process.
The root directory, '/'
Can we define this API to provide the same semantics as the memory
that dma_alloc_coherent() returns?
No, definitely not. The property of the mapping here is all about
ordering with respect to other DMAs (from the same device) and nothing
to do with coherency between the CPU's and device's
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:02:47 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Or should I now leave PG_swapcache as is,
given your designs on page-mapping?
will conflict with my idea ?
==
http://marc.info/?l=linux-mmm=118956492926821w=2
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:04:14 +0930
David Newall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Al Viro wrote:
Oh, for fsck sake... Folks, it's standard-required behaviour.
Ability to chroot() implies the ability to break out of it. Could
we please add that (along with reference to SuS) to l-k FAQ and be
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
There still are some oddities.
First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems with
C1E
patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the
Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
[...]
+static ssize_t
+ibft_read_binary(struct kobject *kobj, struct bin_attribute *attr, char *buf,
+ loff_t off, size_t count)
+{
+
+ struct ibft_device *ibft = container_of(kobj, struct ibft_device, kobj);
+ ssize_t len = ibft-hdr-length;
+
Hi,
i described it a little more in detail in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/184 2 months ago.
The kernel oopses often when there is (heavy) disk access, but not
always, thats the point, sometimes it runs 4 weeks, sometimes only a
few days. With older kernels sometimes the software raid was out
On 9/26/07, Brett Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Appeases the warning parport0 (bw-qcam): use data_reverse for this!
Signed-off-by: Brett T. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
It seems to work fine with my Quickcam under 2.6.22.
@@ -369,7 +374,11 @@ static void qc_reset(struct qcam_device *q)
I heard that project tree maintainers are encouraged to post merge plans
in time, so I'm going to do so now too. Although this time there isn't
much in store for drivers/{ieee1394,firewire} for the merge window
because we all got sidetracked lately... It's basically bugfixes which
I felt were
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
Check that 'align' is a power of two, like the API specifies.
Align 'size' to 'align' correctly -- the current code has an off-by-one.
The ALIGN macro in kernel.h doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/dmapool.c | 15 ---
1
Randy Dunlap wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:29 -0700 David J. Wilder wrote:
These patches provide a kernel tracing interface called trace.
(update) Moved the sample code to the new samples\ subdir
The motivation for trace is to:
- Provide a simple set of tracing primitives that will
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:13:56 -0700
Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Convert kmalloc to kzalloc() and get rid of the memset().
I split this into separate ext3/jbd and ext4/jbd2 patches. It's generally
better to raise separate patches, please - the ext3 patches I'll merge
directly but the
I am writing simple kernel module.
I have included linux/module.h
compiler gives me error that no such file, I also
searched it on my machine.
It really doesn't exist. I am using fedora 6.
How do I install required libraries.
Did you know? You can CHAT without downloading messenger. Go to
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:08:18 +0200
Guillaume Chazarain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Align with the opening parenthesis.
Changelog since V1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/21/527):
- renamed fill_threadgroup() and add_tsk() to respectively
fill_threadgroup_stats() and add_tsk_stats() as suggested
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:52:02PM +0300, Timo Jantunen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Francois Romieu wrote:
The patch below is scheduled for inclusion before 2.6.23. Please try it and
see if it makes a difference on top of 2.6.23-rc8 (full dmesg will be
welcome
too).
Thanks for the
On 9/26/07, Ray Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just as an aside, if you've tested this and it works, then there's no
point to keep the write_lpcontrol even as a comment. Kill those four
lines, and if someone's interested in what happened they'll just look
at the file history.
Point taken,
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
[...]
@@ -113,9 +133,12 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name,
struct device *dev,
return NULL;
}
- if (size == 0)
+ if (size == 0) {
return NULL;
-
+ } else if (size 4) {
+ size = 4;
+
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
[...]
@@ -142,14 +144,13 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_create(const char *name,
struct device *dev,
if ((size % align) != 0)
size = ALIGN(size, align);
- if (allocation == 0) {
- if (PAGE_SIZE size)
-
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:52:02PM +0300, Timo Jantunen wrote:
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Francois Romieu wrote:
The patch below is scheduled for inclusion before 2.6.23. Please try it
and
see if it makes a difference on top of 2.6.23-rc8 (full
As reported in the 2.6.23-rc4-mm1-thread and the What's in
linux-2.6-block.git for 2.6.24-thread I'm having trouble that
sometimes on bootup one drive from the SiI-3132 throws errors and
becomes inaccesible.
The latest kernel I have seen this error was 2.6.23-rc7-mm1.
From 7 boots 2 times the
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Sounds doable, as long as you can cope with long command lines (which
shouldn't be a biggie). (If you've got a swapfile or parts of a swap
partition already in use, it can be quite fragmented).
Hmm. This is an
On 2007-09-26 11:29:33 (+0100), mahamuni ashish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am writing simple kernel module.
I have included linux/module.h
compiler gives me error that no such file, I also
searched it on my machine.
It really doesn't exist. I am using fedora 6.
How do I install required
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--
Subject: Uninline find_task_by_xxx set of functions
From: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The find_task_by_something is a set of macros are used to find task by pid
depending on what kind
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 03:32:29PM -0500, Rune Torgersen wrote:
From: Scott Wood
Maybe that's how it was, but the current code initializes it (more or
less) directly with IMAP_ADDR, which also gets fed into ioremap.
One of the two has got to be wrong.
arch/ppc maps the immr area 1:1
On (26/09/07 21:40), D-Tick didst pronounce:
Hi,
i described it a little more in detail in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/184 2 months ago.
Are you sure about that link? It looks like my own posting.
The kernel oopses often when there is (heavy) disk access, but not
always, thats the
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 21:49, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 17:25 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
There still are some oddities.
First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 15:44 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:42:18 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
rely on accurate dirty page accounting to provide enough push back
I think we'd like to see a bit more justification than that, please.
it should read like this:
Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
[...]
@@ -65,13 +65,15 @@ void bacct_add_tsk(struct taskstats *stats, struct
task_struct *tsk)
void bacct_fill_threadgroup(struct taskstats *stats, struct task_struct *tsk,
bool tg_stats)
{
+ int group_exit_code;
+
From: Scott Wood
Maybe that's how it was, but the current code initializes it (more or
less) directly with IMAP_ADDR, which also gets fed into ioremap.
One of the two has got to be wrong.
arch/ppc maps the immr area 1:1 into kernel memory, so ioremap and
physical are the same.
See
* Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:37:05 -0700
* Organization: Linux Foundation
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:53:27 +0100
Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Otherwise 'modprobe -r' on a module having a dependency on bridge will
implicitly unload bridge, bringing down all connectivity that was
using bridges.
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:07:14 -0400 samson yeung wrote:
Hello,
I'm working with AndrewL733 on this issue. I'm doing the git bisect right now.
scanpci -f -1 causes the problem, scanpci -f -2 and scanpci -O do not.
Does the problem always happen when scanpci is making an ioperm
syscall (as
FWIW, on all the hardware I have, Windows is able to deal with:
(1) hibernate Windows
(2) run $(OTHER_OS)
(3) resume Windows
... which seems to me to say that Linux is doing it wrong if it can't
handle other ACPI users between hibernate and resume. But maybe
that's just my
Hi.
On Thursday 27 September 2007 06:30:36 Joseph Fannin wrote:
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:45:12AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
Sounds doable, as long as you can cope with long command lines (which
shouldn't be a biggie). (If you've got a swapfile or parts of a swap
partition
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:36:51AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:31:32AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:53:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was building a kernel for an iPaq {SA1110} and ran into this.
On 09/26/2007 10:25 PM, Kristof Provost wrote:
On 2007-09-26 11:29:33 (+0100), mahamuni ashish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am writing simple kernel module.
I have included linux/module.h
compiler gives me error that no such file, I also
searched it on my machine.
It really doesn't exist. I am
We are pleased to announce the 2.6.23-rc8-rt1 tree, which can be
downloaded from the new location:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/
Changes since 2.6.23-rc4-rt1
- update to -rc8
- A bunch of PowerPC stuff(Tony Breeds)
- rearrange thread flags
Le Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:47:54 +0200,
roel [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
+ if (thread_group_leader(tsk) ((tsk-flags PF_FORKNOEXEC)))
if (thread_group_leader(tsk) (tsk-flags PF_FORKNOEXEC))
Yeah, right, good catch.
+ group_exit_code = tg_stats ? tsk-signal-group_exit_code : 0;
On 26/09/07 12:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Please try the following debug patch to let us know what is going on.
-hpa
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
index 1a2e62d..a0ccf29 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
+++ b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
@@
On 9/26/07, Brett Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/26/07, Ray Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just as an aside, if you've tested this and it works, then there's no
point to keep the write_lpcontrol even as a comment. Kill those four
lines, and if someone's interested in what happened
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:12:50 -0700 Brett Warden wrote:
Appeases the warning parport0 (bw-qcam): use data_reverse for this!
Signed-off-by: Brett T. Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where does the warning come from? (what software produces it?)
---
It seems to work fine with my Quickcam under
Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 26/09/07 12:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Please try the following debug patch to let us know what is going on.
-hpa
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
index 1a2e62d..a0ccf29 100644
--- a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
+++
Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux Driver core
subsystem, as of 2.6.23-rc8.
If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
List of outstanding regressions from 2.6.22:
- none known.
List of
Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux USB subsystem, as of
2.6.23-rc8
If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
List of outstanding regressions from 2.6.22:
- none known.
List of outstanding
Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux PCI subsystem, as of
2.6.23-rc8.
If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
List of outstanding regressions from 2.6.22:
- none known.
List of outstanding
* Oleg Verych [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-26 20:18]:
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1172,33 +1172,50 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(
do {
unsigned long long start = 0, end = ULLONG_MAX;
unsigned long long size = -1;
no need in
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 12:54 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:13:56 -0700
Mingming Cao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Convert kmalloc to kzalloc() and get rid of the memset().
I split this into separate ext3/jbd and ext4/jbd2 patches. It's generally
better to raise separate
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 23:06:53 +0200
Oleg Verych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:37:05 -0700
* Organization: Linux Foundation
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:53:27 +0100
Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Otherwise 'modprobe -r' on a module having a dependency on bridge will
Matthew Wilcox wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:47:41PM +0200, roel wrote:
The brackets in the first if/else are not required, and you could combine
the two statements:
You mean braces, not brackets. And I find this little fetish of yours
highly disturbing. I prefer to use braces, and
Al Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Umm... Perhaps a better primitive would be make sure that our cred is
not shared with anybody, creating a copy and redirecting reference to
it if needed.
I wanted to make the point that once a cred record was made live - i.e. exposed
to the rest of the system
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:16 -0400
With one trivial change (taking the lock slightly earlier on wakeup
from schedule), all uses of the waitq are under the pool lock, so we
can use the locked (or __) versions of the wait queue functions, and
avoid the
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:17 -0400
Check that 'align' is a power of two, like the API specifies.
Align 'size' to 'align' correctly -- the current code has an off-by-one.
The ALIGN macro in kernel.h doesn't.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:10:04AM +0800, Denis Cheng wrote:
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Committed, thanks.
--Mark
--
Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in
the body of a
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:18 -0400
Also add documentation for how dma pools work, move the header above the
includes, add my copyright, add the original author's copyright, add a
GPL v2 licence to the file and fix the includes.
Signed-off-by:
Hi Davide,
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
.TH TIMERFD_CREATE 2 2007-09-26 Linux Linux Programmer's Manual
.SH NAME
timerfd_create, timerfd_settime, timer_gettime \-
timers that notify via file descriptors
.SH SYNOPSIS
.\ FIXME . This header file may well change
.\
From: Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:01:19 -0400
The previous implementation simply refused to allocate more than a
boundary's worth of data from an entire page. Some users didn't know
this, so specified things like SMP_CACHE_BYTES, not realising the
horrible
On 26/09/07 14:04 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Jordan Crouse wrote:
On 26/09/07 12:14 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Please try the following debug patch to let us know what is going on.
-hpa
diff --git a/arch/i386/boot/memory.c b/arch/i386/boot/memory.c
index 1a2e62d..a0ccf29
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 02:46:52PM -0400, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
This patch adds a /sysfs/firmware/ibft/table binary blob which exports
the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure.
Please don't do that. Binary files are for things that are
pass-through only, not anything that the kernel
Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:05:33PM +0200, Bernhard Walle:
* Oleg Verych [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-26 20:18]:
--- a/kernel/kexec.c
+++ b/kernel/kexec.c
@@ -1172,33 +1172,50 @@ static int __init parse_crashkernel_mem(
do {
unsigned long long start = 0, end = ULLONG_MAX;
Christer Weinigel wrote:
*spends five minutes with Google*
From the OpenBSD FAQ (an operating system most know for being really,
really focused on security):
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq10.html
Any application which has to assume root privileges to operate is
pointless to
Steve,
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:35 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
We're pleased to announce the release of the v2.6.23-rc4-rt1 kernel,
which can be downloaded from a new place:
Jordan Crouse wrote:
Hmm - the old code seems to fail to e801 when CF was set too:
int $0x15 # make the call
jc bail820 # fall to e801 if it fails
cmpl$SMAP, %eax # check the return is
Due to the issues surrounding this patch, I'm dropping it from my repo.
thanks,
greg k-h
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 07:55:56PM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
This patch, loosely based on a patch from Robert Hancock, which was in
turn based on a patch from Jesse Barnes, fixes a boot-time hang
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:46:52 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
This patch adds a /sysfs/firmware/ibft/table binary blob which exports
the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure.
What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table?
i.e., what is this binary blob (?)
I don't see a binary blob in this patch
Hi.
Current linus' git tree:
x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-ld: BFD 2.15 assertion fail
/home/thomas/source/crosstool-0.43/build/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.5-glibc-2.3.6/binutils-2.15/bfd/linker.c:619
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x20749d): In function `xpad_probe':
: undefined reference to
--
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 14:35 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
A bunch of patches are postponed for -rt2 (they are neither ignored
nor forgotten):
- simple_irq change (Kevin Hilman): needs more thought
- RCU updates (Paul McKenney): needs
On 26/09/07 14:20 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Testing this patch now:
From 2efa33f81ef56e7700c09a3d8a881c96692149e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:11:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [x86 setup] Handle case of improperly terminated E820
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:46:52 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek wrote:
This patch adds a /sysfs/firmware/ibft/table binary blob which exports
the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure.
What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI
tools to extract from the machine NICs the
Erez Zadok wrote:
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
fs/unionfs/debug.c | 108 +++
1 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/unionfs/debug.c b/fs/unionfs/debug.c
index 9546a41..09b52ce 100644
---
Rafael,
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 23:00 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
First, with the x86-64: Disable local APIC timer use on AMD systems
with C1E
patch and my collection of suspend patches applied, the box doesn't boot
(the suspend patches don't even thouch the boot code, so they
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:36:08 +0200
Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:49:38 -0500
Jose R. Santos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:50:46 +0200
Jan Kara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Kara wrote:
-#define create_jbd_proc_entry() do {}
Erez Zadok wrote:
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ int check_empty(struct dentry *dentry, struct
unionfs_dir_state **namelist)
BUG_ON(!S_ISDIR(dentry-d_inode-i_mode));
- if ((err = unionfs_partial_lookup(dentry)))
+ if (unlikely((err = unionfs_partial_lookup(dentry
Greg KH wrote:
Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux PCI subsystem, as of
2.6.23-rc8.
If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
List of outstanding regressions from 2.6.22:
- none known.
List
On 9/26/07, Ray Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/26/07, Brett Warden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 9/26/07, Ray Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just as an aside, if you've tested this and it works, then there's no
point to keep the write_lpcontrol even as a comment. Kill those four
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:40:58PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux PCI subsystem, as of
2.6.23-rc8.
If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
outstanding issues not listed here, please let me know.
Handle memory allocation failures when reading packets.
We have to read something from the host, even if we can't allocate any
memory. If we don't, the host side of the device may fill up and stop
delivering interrupts because no new packets can be queued.
A single sk_buff is allocated whenever
A bunch of MTU-related cleanups in the network code.
First, there is the addition of the notion of a maximally-sized
packet, which is the MTU plus headers. This is used to size the skb
that will receive a packet. This allows ether_adjust_skb to go away,
as it was used to resize the skb after it
Greg KH wrote:
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:40:58PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
Greg KH wrote:
Here's a summary of the current state of the Linux PCI subsystem, as of
2.6.23-rc8.
If the information in here is incorrect, or anyone knows of any
outstanding issues not listed here,
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:31:02 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would that waste a little memory? I think not with SLUB,
but perhaps with SLOB, which packs a little tighter.
maybe just depends on the amount of used anon_vma and page_mapping_info etc...
I don't think a system
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:49:28AM +0930, David Newall wrote:
...
Look, when chroot was being designed, I think they intended that even root
should be unable to get out. They went so far as to say that dot-dot
wouldn't let you out; and it doesn't.
...
You are claiming They went so far as to
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