Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: Spinlock fixes for softirqs

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:31:52 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > doesn't Andrew have a version of these patches that move the useful > patch text into the area where it will get copied into the permanent > kernel changelog? > > also, your PHYLIB patches give no notion at all of

Re: [PATCH] PHYLIB: Spinlock fixes for softirqs

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
doesn't Andrew have a version of these patches that move the useful patch text into the area where it will get copied into the permanent kernel changelog? also, your PHYLIB patches give no notion at all of proper patch order. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] sb1250-mac: Driver model & phylib update

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: A driver model and phylib update. It includes the following changes: 1. Removal of unused module options. 2. Phylib support and the resulting removal of generic bits for handling the PHY. 3. Proper reserving of device resources and using ioremap()ped handles

Re: [PATCH] sb1250-mac.c: De-typedef, de-volatile, de-etc...

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Remove typedefs, volatiles and convert kmalloc()/memset() pairs to kcalloc(). Also reformat the surrounding clutter. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: Remove the "linux-" prefix. Hmm, it looks like a

[sdhci] mmc0: unrecognised SCR structure version 1

2007-09-28 Thread Adam Wysocki
[CCd to possibly interested Pierre Ossman and Rodolfo Giometti] Hi there, First, sorry for my poor english - I am not a native. I know there have been a thread about this problem few months ago, but as far as I see it did not led to any results:

Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

2007-09-28 Thread Ryan Lortie
On Tue, 2007-03-07 at 12:45 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > We just want a more flexible approach then what we are already using[0]. > > I'll see about writing something up when I get back to my computers[1] > and have things set back up[2]. > > Zephaniah E. Hull. > > 0: EVIOCGRAB. > 1: The

regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
My apologies for the two bogus addresses in the "To" of my previous message. Script error, won't happen again. Frans Pop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
Wolfgang Erig wrote: > the latest kernel does not power off my system. This is a known regression in rc8. See this mail and thread for details: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/239 The issue has already been fixed in Linus' git tree. Please try again with that, or apply the patches included in the

Re: regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed on old laptop

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Wolfgang Erig wrote: > Hi, > > the latest kernel does not power off my old laptop. > > 2.6.22 succeeded > 2.6.23-rc8 failed > > $ git bisect good > Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this > [626073132b381684c4983e0d911e9aceb32e2cbc] Assembly header and main routine > for new x86 setup

Re: MSI interrupts and disable_irq

2007-09-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:47:16 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > > I am trying to track down a forcedeth driver issue described by bug 9047 > > in bugzilla (2.6.23-rc7-git1 forcedeth w/ MCP55 oops under heavy load). > > I added a patch to synchronize the timer

Re: regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Wolfgang Erig wrote: > Hi, > > the latest kernel does not power off my system. > > 2.6.22 succeeded > 2.6.23-rc8 failed > > $ git bisect bad > Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this > [f216cc3748a3a22c2b99390fddcdafa0583791a2] ACPI: suspend: consolidate > handling of Sx states. > >

Re: [PATCH] Fix compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64

2007-09-28 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 12:04:47AM +, Maarten Bressers wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:49:26 -0700 > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:56:30PM +, Maarten Bressers wrote: > > > This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64, > >

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-09-28 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: > I feel it better than 20.5 but the later is more stable. Let me explain. > > I patched a 2.6.22.9 kernel with both versions 22 and 20.5[1]. With the 22 > version if i lock the screen (run screensaver) or i try to run a wine program > i

Re: MSI interrupts and disable_irq

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ayaz Abdulla wrote: I am trying to track down a forcedeth driver issue described by bug 9047 in bugzilla (2.6.23-rc7-git1 forcedeth w/ MCP55 oops under heavy load). I added a patch to synchronize the timer handlers so that one handler doesn't accidently enable the IRQ while another timer

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread Benjamin Carr
> >> What kind of partition table is it? MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB > >> limit. > Issue number one -- don't use fdisk, as it doesn't support devices that > big. Use parted instead: climate:~ benc$ sudo parted /dev/sdc check 1 Warning: Partition 1 is 2005GB, but the file system is

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 at 8:49pm, Benjamin Carr wrote What kind of partition table is it? MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB limit. Hadn't thought of that, doesn't look good. -Ben sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 benc's password: Issue number one -- don't use fdisk, as it doesn't support devices

Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 28 September 2007 05:55, Daniel Spång wrote: > Applications with dynamic input and dynamic memory usage have some > issues with the current overcommitting kernel. A high memory usage > situation eventually results in that a process is killed by the OOM > killer. This is especially

KDB?

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 28 September 2007 12:16, Trond Myklebust wrote: > crash> bt 3188 crash> ps|grep ps Hey, that looks just like kdb! But I heard that kgdb is better in every way than kdb. Innocently yours, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 28 September 2007 06:35, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > ,,,it would be grand (and dangerous) if we could provide for a > button that would just kill off all outstanding pages against a dead > device. Substitute "resources" for "pages" and you begin to get an idea of how tricky that actually

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread Benjamin Carr
> What kind of partition table is it? MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB > limit. Hadn't thought of that, doesn't look good. -Ben sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 benc's password: Disk /dev/sdc1: 2004.8 GB, 2004856477184 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243743 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 *

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Benjamin Carr wrote: >>> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 >> ^ Uh... > > yeah, long day: > > Disk /dev/sdc: 12999.9 GB, 1288871168 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1580491 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > >Device Boot Start

Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

2007-09-28 Thread William Cattey
Your fix seems to have remedied a problem we are having with EDID fetches through vm86.c. At the present moment, we're trying to understand your cleanup so as to back port it to an earlier rev of the kernel (2.6.18). 3 questions for you: 1. Are we correct in understanding that your

Re: regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed on old laptop

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Wolfgang Erig wrote: > Hi, > > the latest kernel does not power off my old laptop. > > 2.6.22 succeeded > 2.6.23-rc8 failed > > $ git bisect good > Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this > [626073132b381684c4983e0d911e9aceb32e2cbc] Assembly header and main routine > for new x86 setup

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread Benjamin Carr
> > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 > ^ Uh... yeah, long day: Disk /dev/sdc: 12999.9 GB, 1288871168 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1580491 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1

Re: [PATCH][resend] PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-28 06:23]: Yoichi's original patch and explanation can be found at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/23/411 I've no idea why it hasn't been applied unless nobody is quite sure who owns it. As a PCI fix I guess Greg does (and drop it

Re: [PATCH] libata drain fifo on stuck DRQ HSM violation

2007-09-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan Cox wrote: Drain up to 512 words from host/bridge FIFO on stuck DRQ HSM violation, rather than just getting stuck there forever. Why 512 words ? Though I have queued Mark's patch to be applied, my gut feeling would lean towards a single DRQ block, rather than 512.

regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed on old laptop

2007-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Erig
Hi, the latest kernel does not power off my old laptop. 2.6.22 succeeded 2.6.23-rc8 failed $ git bisect good Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this [626073132b381684c4983e0d911e9aceb32e2cbc] Assembly header and main routine for new x86 setup code Which more info is needed?

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Benjamin Carr wrote: >> What kind of partition table is it? MS-DOS partition tables have a 2 TB >> limit. > > Hadn't thought of that, doesn't look good. > -Ben > > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc1 ^ Uh... > benc's password: > > Disk /dev/sdc1: 2004.8 GB, 2004856477184 bytes >

Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

2007-09-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
William Cattey wrote: > Andi, > > Sorry to have taken so long to take another step with this problem. > Once my customers had a work-around, other priorities crowded out this > project. Today Chuck and I did a little more work. We'd heard that a > more recent kernel alleged to fix this stuff.

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

2007-09-28 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:11:07AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > It is only the nested removal problem. Well such a count could apply to direct removals too. In other words, you could ask modprobe to remove all modules for which this count is zero. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at

regression in 2.6.23-rc8 - power off failed

2007-09-28 Thread Wolfgang Erig
Hi, the latest kernel does not power off my system. 2.6.22 succeeded 2.6.23-rc8 failed $ git bisect bad Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this [f216cc3748a3a22c2b99390fddcdafa0583791a2] ACPI: suspend: consolidate handling of Sx states. Which more info is needed? Wolfgang - To

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX (right path this time)

2007-09-28 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Trying again with the right path... x86_64/00-INDEX | 14 ++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) --- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59:00.0 -0500 +++

Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

2007-09-28 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 27 September 2007 23:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > Actually we perhaps could address this at the VFS level in another > way. Processes which are writing to the dead NFS server will > eventually block in balance_dirty_pages() once they've exceeded the > memory limits and will remain

[PATCH] Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX

2007-09-28 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- x86_64/00-INDEX | 14 ++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) --- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59:00.0 -0500 +++ Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX

Re: vga text console not working on 2.6.23-rc8

2007-09-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 22:03 +0200, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > I have just compiled a 2.6.23-rc8 using the config from my 2.6.22 as a basis > and I came out with a not working (almost black) vga text console. > > This is what I'm getting on my logs: > > Console: colour dummy

Re: [PATCH RFC] paravirt_ops: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops

2007-09-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Nakajima, Jun wrote: > Yes. For the native, "safe_halt" is "sti; hlt". The "native_halt" is > just "hlt". So the para_virt part of "hlt" could be moved to pv_cpu_ops, > and the "sti" part stays in pv_irq_ops. > By "sti part", you mean the full "sti; hlt" sequence of safe_halt, right? Since it

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-28 Thread Frans Pop
On Friday 28 September 2007, Frans Pop wrote: > My Toshiba Satellite A40 (i386, P4 Mobile) hangs during boot after: > Marking TSC unstable due to: possible TSC halt in C2. > Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. A few new boot attempts show the problem is more likely at: Probing IDE

[PATCH] Remove nonstandard line break from Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX

2007-09-28 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove nonstandard line break from Documentation/powerpc/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This is the only instance of a newline in a 00-INDEX file description, and it confuses my 00-INDEX > index.html converter.

[PATCH]: Documentation/vm/00-INDEX

2007-09-28 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add a 00-INDEX file for Documentation/vm Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/vm/00-INDEX | 20 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) --- /dev/null 2007-04-23 10:59:00.0 -0500 +++

RE: [PATCH RFC] paravirt_ops: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops

2007-09-28 Thread Nakajima, Jun
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Nakajima, Jun wrote: > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > > > > > > + .pv_irq_ops = { > > > + .init_IRQ = native_init_IRQ, > > > + .save_fl = native_save_fl, > > > + .restore_fl = native_restore_fl, > > > + .irq_disable =

Re: [PATCH/RFC] video gfx: merge kconfig menus

2007-09-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 23:25 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > Is there some reason that we don't put all video gfx config in one > place? Is the split just historical, based on subdirectory locations, > or is there a bigger reason for it? Just historical, based on subdirectory locations. Someone did

Re: [PATCH 2/2] [VIDEO FRAMEBUFFER] Blackfin BF54x framebuffer device driver for a SHARP LQ043T1DG01 TFT LCD

2007-09-28 Thread Antonino A. Daplas
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:43 +0800, Bryan Wu wrote: > From: Michael Hennerich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:33:01 +0800 > Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [VIDEO FRAMEBUFFER] Blackfin BF54x framebuffer device > driver for a SHARP LQ043T1DG01 TFT LCD > > Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich

Re: [COMPAT] Add compat_merge64 helper

2007-09-28 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 29 September 2007, Kyle McMartin wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:38:23AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > 1. Byte order matches the order in which 64 bit arguments are split > >    in system call conventions on all platforms. > > I checked powerpc, sparc, and mips, which are

Re: [PATCH] Fix compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64

2007-09-28 Thread Maarten Bressers
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:49:26 -0700 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:56:30PM +, Maarten Bressers wrote: > > This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64, > > use of deprecated function pci_find_device() and a section mismatch. > >

Re: [COMPAT] Add compat_merge64 helper

2007-09-28 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:01:31PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote: > I checked powerpc, sparc, and mips, which are (besides parisc) the only > 64-bit with 32-bit userspace big endian architectures that I could think > of offhand. A quick grep shows sh64 too... Paul? > Ah, no CONFIG_COMPAT on sh64

Re: [COMPAT] Add compat_merge64 helper

2007-09-28 Thread Kyle McMartin
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:38:23AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > 1. Byte order matches the order in which 64 bit arguments are split >in system call conventions on all platforms. I checked powerpc, sparc, and mips, which are (besides parisc) the only 64-bit with 32-bit userspace big endian

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Eric Sandeen wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: >> Including LKML on this one as it may be a partition size limit? Sdc1 is >> not 11TB. >> >> Justin. > > Yup saw the same thing: > > (1957867653*1024)/1024/1024/1024/1024 = 1.82T > > I'm afraid you don't have a truncated filesystem, you have a

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

2007-09-28 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:35:44 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:42:17 -0700 > > Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > +static noinline void vcompound_free(void *addr) > > > +{ > >

Re: [COMPAT] Add compat_merge64 helper

2007-09-28 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 29 September 2007, you wrote: > +static inline u64 compat_merge64(u32 left, u32 right) > +{ > +#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN) > +   return ((u64)left << 32) | right; > +#else /* defined (__LITTLE_ENDIAN) */ > +   return ((u64)right << 32) | left; > +#endif > +} Looks good, if we

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: minimum support for the Blackfin relocations

2007-09-28 Thread Bernd Schmidt
Andrew Morton wrote: if (rev > OLD_FLAT_VERSION) { + unsigned long persistent = 0; `persistent' here only has meaning inside the next nesting level, so should be moved down into that scope for readability reasons. See below. + if

[PATCH] Generic compat_sys_fallocate

2007-09-28 Thread Kyle McMartin
Basically everyone is using the same sys32_fallocate. Delete a whole bunch of archdep code and move the compat wrapper to fs/compat.c Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mips/kernel/linux32.c|7 --- arch/mips/kernel/scall64-o32.S|2 +-

[COMPAT] Add compat_merge64 helper

2007-09-28 Thread Kyle McMartin
To be used when endianness matters for argument ordering when reassembling a 64-bit value out of two register halves. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/compat.h |9 + 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

Re: General slowness with using 64Gb HIGHMEM option on 32-bit kernel

2007-09-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Sergey Popov wrote: Short description: after recompiling 32-bit kernel with 64Gb highmem support and rebooting into it, OS started working very much slower then before. Specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo [EMAIL PROTECTED],4Ghz on Intel i965Q-based motherboard. 6Gb of DDR2 RAM, 2x1Gb+2x2Gb,

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2 NULL dereference in __mnt_is_readonly in ftruncate

2007-09-28 Thread Edward Shishkin
Dave Hansen wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 01:30 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:54:20 -0600 Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Near the end of my boot sequence, there is a kernel error. I am not sure exactly what user-space is doing to make this happen, but I know

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread Eric Sandeen
Justin Piszcz wrote: > Including LKML on this one as it may be a partition size limit? Sdc1 is > not 11TB. > > Justin. Yup saw the same thing: (1957867653*1024)/1024/1024/1024/1024 = 1.82T I'm afraid you don't have a truncated filesystem, you have a truncated block device. I'm afraid this

Re: [PATCH RFC] paravirt_ops: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops

2007-09-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Nakajima, Jun wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >> This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of >> functionally related ops: >> >> pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints >> pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too) >> pv_misc_ops

Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

2007-09-28 Thread Chakri n
No change in behavior even in case of low memory systems. I confirmed it running on 1Gig machine. Thanks --Chakri On 9/28/07, Chakri n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is a the snapshot of vmstats when the problem happened. I believe > this could help a little. > > crash> kmem -V >

RE: [PATCH RFC] paravirt_ops: refactor struct paravirt_ops into smaller pv_*_ops

2007-09-28 Thread Nakajima, Jun
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > This patch refactors the paravirt_ops structure into groups of > functionally related ops: > > pv_info - random info, rather than function entrypoints > pv_init_ops - functions used at boot time (some for module_init too) > pv_misc_ops - lazy mode, which didn't fit

Re: [PATCH] i915: make vbl interrupts work properly on i965g/gm

2007-09-28 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Friday, September 28, 2007 3:23 pm Roland Dreier wrote: > > I don't have a 945 to test with, but Dave might... > > Actually I'm not looking for testing (I can test fine on my own > laptop :) I was just hoping someone with docs could tell me "MSI is > documented to be broken on 945GM" or "Oh

Re: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:48:53 -0700

2007-09-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
Maarten Bressers wrote: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:56:30 + (UTC) Maarten Bressers wrote: This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64, use of deprecated function pci_find_device() and a section mismatch. Build log and

Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: minimum support for the Blackfin relocations

2007-09-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:09:25 +0800 Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Bernd Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This just adds minimum support for the Blackfin relocations, > since we don't have enough space in each reloc. The idea > is to store a value with one relocation so that

Re: Out of memory management in embedded systems

2007-09-28 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 11:15 -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:36:34 +0200 > Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:11 -0400 > > Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:04:23 -0400 > > > "linux-os \(Dick

Re: [PATCH RFC 6/9] RCU priority boosting for preemptible RCU

2007-09-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Gautham R Shenoy wrote: > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU_BOOST > > +/* > > + * Task state with respect to being RCU-boosted. This state is changed > > + * by the task itself in response to the following three events: >

Re: [PATCH] Fix compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64

2007-09-28 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 08:56:30PM +, Maarten Bressers wrote: > This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64, > use of deprecated function pci_find_device() and a section mismatch. > Build log and .config file included. > > Signed-off by: Maarten Bressers <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Fix compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64

2007-09-28 Thread Maarten Bressers
Sorry Randy, I accidentally deleted the subject line, so I sent it again. On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:48:53 -0700 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:56:30 + (UTC) Maarten Bressers wrote: > > > This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on

[RFC][PATCH] make module refcounts use percpu_counters

2007-09-28 Thread Dave Hansen
Module refcounts currently use a percpu counter stored in the 'struct module'. However, we also have a more generic implementation that does stuff like handle hotplug cpus. I'm not actually all that convinced that this refcount actually does a lot of good, with cpus racing bumping the counters

Re: [PATCH RFC 6/9] RCU priority boosting for preemptible RCU

2007-09-28 Thread Gautham R Shenoy
Hi Paul, Some silly doubts. On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 11:39:01AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > 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

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:48:53 -0700

2007-09-28 Thread Maarten Bressers
Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:56:30 + (UTC) Maarten Bressers wrote: > > > This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64, > > use of deprecated function pci_find_device() and a section mismatch. > > Build log and .config file

Re: [2/4] dma: redefine dma_flags_set_dmabarrier() for sn-ia64

2007-09-28 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:12:19 -0700 > +static inline int dma_flags_set_dmabarrier(int dir) { > + return (dir | (DMA_BARRIER_ATTR<< DMA_ATTR_SHIFT)); > +} > + > +static inline int dma_flags_get_direction(int dir) { > + return (dir & DMA_DIR_MASK); > +} > + >

Re: [1/4] dma: add dma_flags_set_dmabarrier() to dma interface

2007-09-28 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:10:59 -0700 > +#ifndef ARCH_CAN_REORDER_DMA > +static inline int dma_flags_set_dmabarrier(int dir) { > + return dir; > +} > +#endif /* ARCH_CAN_REORDER_DMA */ Coding style, that initial openning brace should be on a line by itself. - To

Re: [PATCH 0/4] allow drivers to flush in-flight DMA v2

2007-09-28 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:09:26 -0700 > > On Altix, DMA may be reordered between a device and host memory. > This reordering can happen in the NUMA interconnect, and it usually > results in correct operation and improved performance. In some > situations it may be

Re: PROBLEM: Network sky2 Module, kernel version 2.6.23-rc7

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
ben soo wrote: i spoke too soon. The Gbit interface still dies. Lasted around 19hrs. or so. i can't tell if there are hardware issues: yesterday a Gbit NIC on the firewall died. Different chip (Realtek), different driver, different machine, same segment. Segment is a mix of 100Mbit and

Re: vga text console not working on 2.6.23-rc8

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > I have just compiled a 2.6.23-rc8 using the config from my 2.6.22 as a basis > and I came out with a not working (almost black) vga text console. > > This is what I'm getting on my logs: > > Console: colour dummy device 80x25 > console [tty0] enabled >

Re: [PATCH -mm -v3 1/2] i386/x86_64 boot: setup data

2007-09-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Huang, Ying wrote: > Hi, Peter, > > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:04 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Huang, Ying wrote: >>> Known Issues: >>> >>> 1. Where is safe to place the linked list of setup_data? >>> Because the length of the linked list of setup_data is variable, it >>> can not be copied into

Re: [PATCH] i915: make vbl interrupts work properly on i965g/gm

2007-09-28 Thread Roland Dreier
> I don't have a 945 to test with, but Dave might... Actually I'm not looking for testing (I can test fine on my own laptop :) I was just hoping someone with docs could tell me "MSI is documented to be broken on 945GM" or "Oh yeah, 945GM requires you to set SECRET_MSI_ENABLE_BIT in register FOO

Re: Truncated Filesystem

2007-09-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
Including LKML on this one as it may be a partition size limit? Sdc1 is not 11TB. Justin. On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Benjamin Carr wrote: For the second time in two weeks, a system restart has resulted in a truncated filesystem on my server. The server is running 64bit SuSE with a fibrechannel

RE: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-09-28 Thread Gaston, Jason D
>-Original Message- >From: Jean Delvare [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 8:51 AM >To: Gaston, Jason D >Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel >Tolapai > >Hi

Re: [PATCH 7/8] scsi: megaraid_sas - support for poll_mode_io (reduced interrupt)

2007-09-28 Thread Brian King
bo yang wrote: > Added module parameter "poll_mode_io" to support for "polling" (reduced > interrupt operation). > In this mode, IO completion interrupts are delayed. At the end of > initiating IOs, > the driver schedules for cmd completion if there are pending cmds. >

Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7

2007-09-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:24:20 -0400 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > This seems reasonable, so I tried to use it. Here are the results > > and comments and meta-comments. > > > > > > 1. Please forcibly wrap text lines in mail body at around column 70-72. > > > > 2. Put

Re: [PATCH] Fix compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64

2007-09-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:56:30 + (UTC) Maarten Bressers wrote: > This (trivial) patch fixes two compiler warnings for 2.6.23-rc8 on x86_64, > use of deprecated function pci_find_device() and a section mismatch. > Build log and .config file included. > > Signed-off by: Maarten Bressers <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates

2007-09-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:32:00 -0400 Erez Zadok wrote: > 1. Updates chapter 13 (printing kernel messages) to expand on the use of >pr_debug()/pr_info(), what to avoid, and how to hook your debug code with >kernel.h. > > 2. New chapter 19, branch prediction optimizations, discusses the

Re: General slowness with using 64Gb HIGHMEM option on 32-bit kernel

2007-09-28 Thread Nick Piggin
On Saturday 29 September 2007 03:15, Sergey Popov wrote: > Short description: after recompiling 32-bit kernel with 64Gb highmem > support and rebooting into it, OS started working very much slower > then before. > > Specifications: Intel Core 2 Duo [EMAIL PROTECTED],4Ghz on Intel i965Q-based >

Re: [15/17] SLUB: Support virtual fallback via SLAB_VFALLBACK

2007-09-28 Thread Nick Piggin
On Saturday 29 September 2007 03:33, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 September 2007 13:36, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > SLAB_VFALLBACK can be specified for selected slab caches. If fallback > > > is available then the conservative settings

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Ingo Molnar wrote: Maybe there's more to come: if we can get CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED to work properly then your Xorg will have a load-independent 50% of CPU time all to itself. It seems that perhaps that 50% makes more sense on a single/dual CPU system than on a more robust one, such as a

PATCH: tcp rfc 2385 security/bugfix for sparc64

2007-09-28 Thread Peter Lieven
TCP MD5 signatures on sparc64 (big-endian) completely fail on current kernel releases in interoperability with Cisco/Foundry or other little-endian linux systems. The root cause is a cast in the return statement of tcp_v4_md5_do_lookup, where a tcp4_md5sig_key is casted onto tcp_md5sig_key

Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

2007-09-28 Thread Chakri n
Here is a the snapshot of vmstats when the problem happened. I believe this could help a little. crash> kmem -V NR_FREE_PAGES: 680853 NR_INACTIVE: 95380 NR_ACTIVE: 26891 NR_ANON_PAGES: 2507 NR_FILE_MAPPED: 1832 NR_FILE_PAGES: 119779

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH v3] iw_cxgb3: Support"iwarp-only"interfacesto avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

2007-09-28 Thread Sean Hefty
Kanevsky, Arkady wrote: Exactly, it forces the burden on administrator. And one will be forced to try one mount for iWARP and it does not work issue another one TCP or UDP if it fails. Yack! And server will need to listen on different IP address and simple * will not work since it will need to

[PATCH 3/3] New script to check coding-style compliance on multiple regular files

2007-09-28 Thread Erez Zadok
The script calls checkpatch.pl on each file, and formats any error messages to comply with standard compiler error messages: file_name:line_number:error_message This is particularly useful when run from within a text editor which can parse these error messages and show the user a buffer

[PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates

2007-09-28 Thread Erez Zadok
1. Updates chapter 13 (printing kernel messages) to expand on the use of pr_debug()/pr_info(), what to avoid, and how to hook your debug code with kernel.h. 2. New chapter 19, branch prediction optimizations, discusses the whole un/likely issue. Cc: "Kok, Auke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:

[PATCH 2/3] Update usage string for checkpatch.pl

2007-09-28 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index dae7d30..ecbb030 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ if

[PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates

2007-09-28 Thread Erez Zadok
The following is a series of patches related to coding standards. The first patch updates the CodingStandards document with respect to printk debugging and un/likely use; the second patch updates the usage string for checkpatch.pl; the third patch introduces a new small perl script that can be

Re: [PATCH 3/8] scsi: megaraid_sas - add module param max_sectors, cmd_per_lun

2007-09-28 Thread Brian King
bo yang wrote: > +static ssize_t > +sysfs_max_sectors_read(struct kobject *kobj, > + struct bin_attribute *bin_attr, > + char *buf, loff_t off, size_t count) > +{ > + struct Scsi_Host *host = class_to_shost(container_of(kobj, > +

Re: PATCH: tcp rfc 2385 security/bugfix for sparc64

2007-09-28 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:20:15 -0700 (PDT) > Thanks for finding this bug. > > > --- linux.old/include/net/tcp.h 2007-09-28 21:43:26.0 +0200 +++ > > linux/include/net/tcp.h 2007-09-28 21:45:35.0 +0200 @@ -1055,6 > > +1055,7 @@ static

Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH v3] iw_cxgb3: Support"iwarp-only"interfacesto avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

2007-09-28 Thread Steve Wise
Kanevsky, Arkady wrote: Exactly, it forces the burden on administrator. And one will be forced to try one mount for iWARP and it does not work issue another one TCP or UDP if it fails. Yack! I see your point. I have no defense. My hands have been tied on fixing this properly... And

Re: [patch 0/2] suspend/resume regression fixes

2007-09-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 28 September 2007 23:17, Mark Lord wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 16:27 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > .. > >> On a closely related note: I just now submitted a patch to fix > >> SMP-poweroff, > >> by having it do disable_nonboot_cpus before doing poweroff. > >>

Re: PATCH: tcp rfc 2385 security/bugfix for sparc64

2007-09-28 Thread David Miller
From: "Peter Lieven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 22:42:25 +0200 (CEST) > TCP MD5 signatures on sparc64 (big-endian) completely fail on current > kernel releases in interoperability with Cisco/Foundry or other > little-endian linux systems. > > The root cause is a cast in the

Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7

2007-09-28 Thread Bill Davidsen
Randy Dunlap wrote: This seems reasonable, so I tried to use it. Here are the results and comments and meta-comments. 1. Please forcibly wrap text lines in mail body at around column 70-72. 2. Put patches inline in the mail body, not as attachments. I'll offer this suggestion, knowing it

Re: [patch 0/2] suspend/resume regression fixes

2007-09-28 Thread Mark Lord
Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 16:27 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: .. On a closely related note: I just now submitted a patch to fix SMP-poweroff, by having it do disable_nonboot_cpus before doing poweroff. Which has led me to thinking.. ..are similar precautions perhaps necessary

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm2: problems on HP nx6325

2007-09-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 27 September 2007 17:49, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 17:59 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > 2) CPU hotplug is busted (onlining of CPU1 kills the kernel), probably > > > due to > > >the same issue that I'm having with the -hrt version of 2.6.23-rc8 > > >

Re: [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups

2007-09-28 Thread Sean
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:06:09 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The problem with git-commit is who's repo to add the hook to. I did > > attempt to do this by picking up each of linus' main releases and then > > using the git blame engine to attribute each "failure" to a

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