Re: [patch 2/2] VFS: allow filesystem to override mknod capability checks

2007-09-27 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday September 24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add a new super block flag, that results in the VFS not checking if the current process has enough privileges to do an mknod(). If this flag is set, all mounts for this super block will have the nodev

WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:397 smp_call_function_mask()

2007-09-27 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:22:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc8/2.6.23-rc8-mm2/ Laurent, It triggered a WARNING on first run in qemu: [0.31] WARNING: at arch/x86_64/kernel/smp.c:397 smp_call_function_mask() [

Re: [PATCH] fs: Correct SuS compliance for open of large file without options

2007-09-27 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 07:19:27PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 02:34:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: Ok, how then should I advertise this better? What can we do better to help userspace programmers out in this regard? Would you accept a patch which causes the deprecated

Re: [PATCH -mm] Hook up group scheduler with control groups

2007-09-27 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:42:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: @@ -219,6 +225,9 @@ static inline struct task_grp *task_grp( #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED tg = p-user-tg; +#elif CONFIG_FAIR_CGROUP_SCHED + tg = container_of(task_subsys_state(p, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id), +

Re: Stardom SATA HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? I don't feel too confident about applying this to

[PATCH] libata drain fifo on stuck DRQ HSM violation

2007-09-27 Thread Mark Lord
Tejun Heo wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Alan Cox wrote: I think there have been enough cases where this draining was necessary. IIRC, ata_piix was involved in those cases, right? If so, can you please submit a patch which applies this only to affected controllers? I don't feel

Re: [3/4] dma: document dma_flags_set_dmabarrier()

2007-09-27 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 06:13:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Document dma_flags_set_dmabarrier(). Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner [EMAIL PROTECTED] This looks really good! thanks, grant Acked-by: Grant Grundler [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- DMA-API.txt | 26 ++

[git patches] net driver fixes

2007-09-27 Thread Jeff Garzik
And an e1000 id patch. Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c |1 + drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c |1 +

Re: [13/17] Virtual compound page freeing in interrupt context

2007-09-27 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:42:17 -0700 Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static noinline void vcompound_free(void *addr) +{ + if (in_interrupt()) { Should be (in_interrupt() || irqs_disabled()) ? Regards, -Kame - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Problems with SMP ACPI powering off

2007-09-27 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 27 September 2007 18:00, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 27 September 2007 23:29, Mark Lord wrote: Question: do we disable all CPUs except 0 when doing ACPI power off? No, but we should. We used to. It is absolutely mandatory -- else it confuses the BIOS on some boards

Re: drivers/usb/misc/emi*.c have the biggest data objects in the whole tree

2007-09-27 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 11:35:34AM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: Hi Tapio, You are the author of these files. Are you still maintaining them? If not, do you know who is the current maintainer? These two object files hold the biggest data objects in the whole Linux kernel after lockdep:

Re: [PATCH -mm1 0/2] Fix unlocked call to idr_find()

2007-09-27 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 04:33:54PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This a series of 2 patches that should be applied on top of the other ipc patches, in 2.6.23-rc6-mm1. ... They should be applied to 2.6.23-rc6-mm1, in the following order: Didn't you mean 2.6.23-rc8-mm1, btw? Regards, Jarek

Re: [PATCH] Module use count must be updated as bridges are created/destroyed

2007-09-27 Thread Herbert Xu
Jan Beulich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we have an unsolvable problem here then, unless infrastructure gets added that allows a module to declare itself as not-implicit-unload-safe, forcing modprobe -r to keep its hands off it. Ugly. Yes I've always wanted to have a separate count that

Re: sata_sil24 broken since 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-27 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On 9/27/07, Tejun Heo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Torsten Kaiser wrote: Known good is for me 2.6.23-rc3-mm1, the first known bad is 2.6.23-rc4-mm1. I will try to look at the diff between these revisions some more, but the change in sata_sil24.c looked like a perfect match for the symptoms I

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