[PATCH] UML - change sigcontext fields to match x86

2007-12-05 Thread Jeff Dike
git-x86, in commit 70aa1bd3839e3ec74ce65316528a82570e8de666, changed a lot of the sigcontext field names. This patch changes UML usage to match. I also changed includes of generic headers from "" to <>. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/um/sys-i386/signal.c | 50

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Dumazet
Ingo Molnar a écrit : * Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $ gcc -O2 -o burner burner.c $ ./burner Time to perform the unit of work on one thread is 0.040328 s Time to perform the unit of work on 2 threads is 0.040221 s ok, but this actually suggests that scheduling is fine for this,

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/5] Remove existing directory listing implementation

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Hansen
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 20:08 +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote: > Remove the existing readdir implementation. You may have had a better description in your 0/5 mail, but this is what goes into the git log in the end, so I think you need to beef this up a bit. -- Dave -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ gcc -O2 -o burner burner.c > $ ./burner > Time to perform the unit of work on one thread is 0.040328 s > Time to perform the unit of work on 2 threads is 0.040221 s ok, but this actually suggests that scheduling is fine for this, correct?

Re: [patch 1/3] driver core: Introduce default attribute groups.

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:50:23PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > This is lot like default attributes for devices (and indeed, > a lot of the code is lifted from there). > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > drivers/base/driver.c | 44

Re: [patch 0/3] driver core: Fix s390, get default driver attributes for free.

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:50:01PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I spent some time fixing up the driver tree on s390 and found that the > easiest way to do so is to introduce default attribute groups for > device drivers (like for devices). > > Since I'm lazy, I didn't take care to

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Jie Chen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jie Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just ran the same test on two 2.6.24-rc4 kernels: one with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED on and the other with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED off. The odd behavior I described in my previous e-mails were still there for both kernels. Let me know

Re: [PATCH] no need to mess with KBUILD_CFLAGS on uml-i386 anymore

2007-12-05 Thread Jeff Dike
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:36:15AM +, Al Viro wrote: > Now that X86_32 is provided on Kconfig level for uml-i386, there's > no need to play with it explicitly on Makefile level anymore. ACK Jeff -- Work email - jdike at linux dot intel dot com -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Eric Dumazet
Ingo Molnar a écrit : * Jie Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just ran the same test on two 2.6.24-rc4 kernels: one with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED on and the other with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED off. The odd behavior I described in my previous e-mails were still there for both kernels. Let me

[PATCH] esp_scsi: Fix reset cleanup spinlock recursion

2007-12-05 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
The esp_reset_cleanup() function is called with the host lock held and invokes starget_for_each_device() which wants to take it too. Here is a fix along the lines of shost_for_each_device()/__shost_for_each_device() adding a __starget_for_each_device() counterpart which assumes the lock has

[PATCH 001/001] parport: Added support for the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI ExpressCard

2007-12-05 Thread Luis Mendes
From: Luís P Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Added pci vendor id Quatech - 0x135c - to include/linux/pci_id.h Added pci device id for the Quatech SPPXP-100 ExpressCard - 0x278 - to include/linux/pci_id.h Modified drivers/parport/parport_pc.c to support the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI

Re: [RFC 1/4] dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface

2007-12-05 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 12:20:15 -0700 "Dan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Haavard, > > Some (delayed) comments. Thanks for the feedback. > A few questions: > The one change that seems to be missing, at least in my mind, is > extending struct dma_client to include details about the slave

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kobject changes broken with hvcs driver on powerpc

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 07:42:02PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > The 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kernel build fails with build failure, > > CC drivers/char/hvcs.o > drivers/char/hvcs.c: In function ‘hvcs_open’: > drivers/char/hvcs.c:1180: error: wrong type argument to unary

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: kobj changes fallout on powerpc

2007-12-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 06:41:40PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:15:15AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > > powerpc allyesconfig fails on the following two drivers (iseries_defconfig > > fails for the veth one): > > > > drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function

Re: [patch] ext2: xip check fix

2007-12-05 Thread Carsten Otte
Nick Piggin wrote: Am I missing something here? I wonder how s390 works without this change? -- ext2 should not worry about checking sb->s_blocksize for XIP before the sb's blocksize actually gets set. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6/fs/ext2/super.c

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jie Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just ran the same test on two 2.6.24-rc4 kernels: one with > CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED on and the other with CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED > off. The odd behavior I described in my previous e-mails were still > there for both kernels. Let me know If I can be

Re: [patch 1/2] x86, ptrace: support for branch trace store(BTS)

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Markus Metzger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Changes to the last version: > - split implementation into two layers: ds/bts and ptrace > - renamed TIF's > - save/restore ds save area msr in __switch_to_xtra() > - make block-stepping only look at BTF bit hm, i tried to merge your patches, but

Re: [PATCH] capabilities: introduce per-process capability bounding set (v10)

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KaiGai Kohei wrote: > Andrew Morgan wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> KaiGai Kohei wrote: +if (!!cap_issubset(*inheritable, + cap_combine(target->cap_inheritable, +

[PATCH] exec: allow > 2GB executables to run on 64-bit systems

2007-12-05 Thread Dave Anderson
When a executable that is greater than 2GB in size is attempted on a 64-bit system on a file system that calls, or uses generic_file_open() as its open handler, it fails with an EOVERFLOW erro. This patch adds a call to force_o_largefile() call in open_exec(), as done in sys_open() and

Re: [PATCH] Platform real time clock driver for Dallas 1511 chip.

2007-12-05 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 16:46:51 -0800, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +struct rtc_plat_data { > + struct rtc_device *rtc; > + void __iomem *ioaddr; /* virtual base address */ > + unsigned long baseaddr; /* physical base address */ > + int size;

Re: Possible bug from kernel 2.6.22 and above, 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-05 Thread Jie Chen
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jie Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Simon Holm Th??gersen wrote: ons, 21 11 2007 kl. 20:52 -0500, skrev Jie Chen: There is a backport of the CFS scheduler to 2.6.21, see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/19/127 Hi, Simon: I will try that after the thanksgiving holiday to

Re: [PATCH] pci: Omit error message for benign allocation failure

2007-12-05 Thread Jun'ichi Nomura
Gary Hade wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 06:23:32PM -0500, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote: >> Kernel always tries to. But it's best effort basis, IMO. >> (Maybe your patch is going to fix that?) > > If you are seeing the allocation failures both with and > without my original patch I doubt that an

[PATCH 001/001] parport: Added support for the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI ExpressCard

2007-12-05 Thread Luís Mendes
From: Luís Mendes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Added pci vendor id Quatech - 0x135c - to include/linux/pci_id.h Added pci device id for the Quatech SPPXP-100 ExpressCard - 0x278 - to include/linux/pci_id.h Modified drivers/parport/parport_pc.c to support the Quatech SPPXP-100 Parallel port PCI Expresscard

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:33:20AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > BTW, note that it would be a polite thing for GnuTLS when it is > encrpyting data, which represents information which might not be > available to an adversary, and SHA1 hash it (out of paranoia) and feed > it to /dev/random. > >

[git pull] scheduler, futex, lockdep fixes

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull my git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git this contains 5 miscellaneous core kernel fixes: the most significant one is the final version of Steve's futex related stack corruption fix. There's also another small futex fix,

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-05 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Mon 2007-12-03 22:45:06, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Dec 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > I compiled a .24-ish kernel for it with CONFIG_NO_HZ and > > > > CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS. To get the system boot at least sometimes I > > >

about mounting the sysfs

2007-12-05 Thread wit
Hi, I found the initialization code of the sysfs in version 2.6.22: int __init sysfs_init(void) { int err = -ENOMEM; sysfs_dir_cachep = kmem_cache_create("sysfs_dir_cache", sizeof(struct sysfs_dirent), 0, 0, NULL, NULL); if

[RFC PATCH 3/5] Add list_for_each_entry_reverse_from()

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Introduce list_for_each_entry_reverse_from() needed by a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/list.h | 13 + 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) --- a/include/linux/list.h +++ b/include/linux/list.h @@ -562,6 +562,19 @@ static inline

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: some whitespace cleanups in paging code

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix > some checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches. thanks, applied. btw., if there's any file you are particularly interested in cleaning up as a whole, you can

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: > > Ok, whats going on here is an issue with how the smolt RPM installs the > UUID and how Fedora's Live CD does an install. It's a complete false alarm > on the kernel side, sorry for the confusion. BTW, You may be better off using

[PATCH] x86_64: some whitespace cleanups in paging code

2007-12-05 Thread Joerg Roedel
This patch does some whitespace cleanups in the paging code to fix some checkpatch.pl warnings of my formerly merged cleanup patches. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/mm/init_64.c|2 +- include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h | 22 +++--- 2 files

[RFC PATCH 5/5] Directory cache invalidation

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Changes to keep dirent cache uptodate. Dirent cache stored as part of topmost directory's struct file needs to be marked stale whenever there is a modification in any of the directories that is part of the union. Modifications(like addition/deletion of new entries) to a directory can occur from

[RFC PATCH 4/5] Directory seek support

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Directory seek support. Define the seek behaviour on the stored cache of dirents. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/read_write.c | 11 --- fs/union.c| 171 +- include/linux/fs.h|8 ++

[RFC PATCH 2/5] Add New directory listing approach

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Another readdir implementation for union uounted directories. Reads dirents from all layers of the union into a cache, eliminates duplicates, before returning them into userspace. The cache is stored persistently as part of struct file of the topmost directory. Instead of original directory

[RFC PATCH 1/5] Remove existing directory listing implementation

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Remove the existing readdir implementation. Signed-off-by: Bharata B Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/readdir.c | 10 + fs/union.c| 333 -- include/linux/union.h | 23 --- 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 358 deletions(-)

[RFC PATCH 0/5] Union Mount: A Directory listing approach with lseek support

2007-12-05 Thread Bharata B Rao
Hi, In Union Mount, the merged view of directories of the union is obtained by enhancing readdir(2)/getdents(2) to read and merge the entries of all the directories by eliminating the duplicates. While we have tried a few approaches for this, none of them could perfectly solve all the problems.

Re: [Timers SMP] can this machine be helped?

2007-12-05 Thread Robert Hancock
Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Robert Hancock wrote: Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: I've got an old 2xP-II @ 400MHz Compaq AP400 system, which I'm still using. It has many peculiarities, so, I wouldn't be surprised if the answer to my questions would be "sorry, the patient is

[PATCH] lost content of /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

2007-12-05 Thread Denis V. Lunev
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc dentry disappeared during d_revalidate. d_revalidate only dentries from shadowed one and below. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9504 CC: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Marcus Better <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <[EMAIL

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Mike McGrath
Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 04:23:12PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:18:27PM -0600, Mike McGrath wrote: Matt Mackall wrote: which would have been in v2.6.22-rc4 through the normal CVE process. The only

Re: + aoe-properly-initialise-the-request_queues-backing_dev_info.patch added to -mm tree

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 15:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -- > Subject: aoe: properly initialise the request_queue's backing_dev_info > From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:45:15PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Hello. > > Matti Aarnio wrote: > > > Does vger.kernel.org have spam filter and automatically drop spams? > > > > Yes. Yes. And even worse: SILENTLY drop it. The reason was: > > > > global taboo header: m!OJFS! > > > > I

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kobject changes broken with hvcs driver on powerpc

2007-12-05 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi Andrew, The 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 kernel build fails with build failure, CC drivers/char/hvcs.o drivers/char/hvcs.c: In function ‘hvcs_open’: drivers/char/hvcs.c:1180: error: wrong type argument to unary exclamation mark make[2]: *** [drivers/char/hvcs.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [drivers/char]

Re: [Bug 9182] Critical memory leak (dirty pages)

2007-12-05 Thread Krzysztof Oledzki
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9182 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Component|Other

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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Subject: SCHED - Use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU

2007-12-05 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 6:44 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> However, that said, Steven's testing work on the mainline port of our >> series sums it up very nicely, so I will present that in lieu

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Matti Aarnio wrote: > > Does vger.kernel.org have spam filter and automatically drop spams? > > Yes. Yes. And even worse: SILENTLY drop it. The reason was: > > global taboo header: m!OJFS! > > I don't recall why that was declared taboo, but it apparently bites > on References:

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 10:25:52PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Hello. > > I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 11 hours ago, but it seems to me my message has not delivered yet. > Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered. > So, I'm thinking

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 01:29:12PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:18:11PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > > While debugging Exim4's GnuTLS interface, I recently found out that > > > reading from /dev/urandom

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread David Miller
From: Tetsuo Handa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 22:25:52 +0900 > I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 11 hours ago, but it seems to me my message has not delivered yet. > Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered. > So, I'm

Re: Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Does vger.kernel.org have spam filter and automatically drop spams? It definitely does, otherwise the lists would be flooded with spam (as for example sourceforge mailinglist are). -- Jiri Kosina -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] i386 IOAPIC: de-fang IRQ compression

2007-12-05 Thread Natalie Protasevich
On Nov 27, 2007 10:21 PM, Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > commit c434b7a6aedfe428ad17cd61b21b125a7b7a29ce > (x86: avoid wasting IRQs for PCI devices) > created a concept of "IRQ compression" on i386 > to conserve IRQ numbers on systems with many > sparsely populated IO

Does vger.kernel.org automatically drop spams?

2007-12-05 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. I posted a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11 hours ago, but it seems to me my message has not delivered yet. Usually it won't take 10 minutes to be delivered. So, I'm thinking my messages was dropped. Does vger.kernel.org have spam filter and

Re: [patch 06/18] ieee1394: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Stefan Richter
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> @@ -275,7 +270,7 @@ int dma_region_mmap(struct dma_region *d >> if (!dma->kvirt) >> return -EINVAL; >> >> -/* must be page-aligned */ >> +/* must be page-aligned (XXX: comment is wrong, we could allow pgoff) */ >> if (vma->vm_pgoff !=

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: kobj changes fallout on powerpc

2007-12-05 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:15:15AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > powerpc allyesconfig fails on the following two drivers (iseries_defconfig > fails for the veth one): > > drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c: In function 'ehea_driver_sysfs_add': > drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c:2812: error: 'struct

Re: [patch 06/18] ieee1394: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Stefan Richter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Convert ieee1394 from nopage to fault. > Remove redundant vma range checks (correct resource range check is retained). I never really looked into that part of the 1394 drivers and I'm too lazy to figure this out myself, so I ask: What would trip the .fault handler?

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use macros instead of TASK_ flags

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +#define is_task_stopped(task)((task->state & TASK_STOPPED) != 0) > +#define is_task_stopped_or_traced(task) \ > + ((task->state & (TASK_STOPPED | TASK_TRACED)) != 0) > +#define is_task_loadavg(task)

Re: Patch submission question [not in the FAQ]

2007-12-05 Thread WANG Cong
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:36:54AM -0800, Gabriele Gorla wrote: >Hello, >I have submitted a patch for the 3x- driver on >alpha several months ago to both the driver maintainer >and the linux-scsi mailing list. >I have read all the FAQ and I tried to stick to the >instructions to the letter.

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Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: define all _PAGE_* in terms of _PAGE_BIT_*

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sorry, forgot to check the patches before submission. Will > > > > > cleanup and resubmit soon. > > > > > > > > please if possible send a delta against x86.git, not a > > > > replacement patch. It's easier for the patchflow. > > > > > > Not

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 05:18:11PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > > While debugging Exim4's GnuTLS interface, I recently found out that > > reading from /dev/urandom depletes entropy as much as reading from > > /dev/random would. This has

Re: [PATCH] fcrypt endianness misannotations

2007-12-05 Thread David Howells
Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've checked it and it still works with this patch. Acked-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-05 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:54:52AM -0800, Ray Lee wrote: > (Why hasn't anyone been cc:ing Matt on this?) I didn't because I am not a regularly enough visitor of this mailing list to know who is in charge of what. > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 12:41:25PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > A PRNG is clearly

Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Unify include/asm-x86/linkage_[32|64].h

2007-12-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:18:45AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:19:45PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:15:19AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > UML can't switch to the regparm(3) convention on

Re: [PATCH] VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk

2007-12-05 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 11:06:55AM -0500, Eric Paris wrote: > > Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low > > pages available in userspace virtually memory and can thus be used to > > circumvent the mmap_min_addr low memory

Re: [-mm PATCH] kallsyms should prefer non weak symbols

2007-12-05 Thread Paulo Marques
Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: * Paulo Marques ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When resolving symbol names from addresses with aliased symbol names, kallsyms_lookup always returns the first symbol, even if it is a weak symbol. [...] From: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Mathieu

Re: [NETNS]: Fix /proc/net breakage

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:00:25 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=2b1e300a9dfc3196ccddf6f1d74b91b7af55e416 > Commit: 2b1e300a9dfc3196ccddf6f1d74b91b7af55e416 > Parent:

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[patch 0/3] driver core: Fix s390, get default driver attributes for free.

2007-12-05 Thread Cornelia Huck
Hi Greg, I spent some time fixing up the driver tree on s390 and found that the easiest way to do so is to introduce default attribute groups for device drivers (like for devices). Since I'm lazy, I didn't take care to delay the uevent for device drivers to after adding the attribute groups, but

[patch 3/3] zfcp: Use device_driver default attribute groups.

2007-12-05 Thread Cornelia Huck
CC: Swen Schillig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_ccw.c | 14 -- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_ext.h |3 +-- drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_sysfs_driver.c | 27 --- 3 files changed, 9

[patch 1/3] driver core: Introduce default attribute groups.

2007-12-05 Thread Cornelia Huck
This is lot like default attributes for devices (and indeed, a lot of the code is lifted from there). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/driver.c | 44 +++- include/linux/device.h |2 ++ 2 files changed, 45

[patch 2/3] netiucv: Use device_driver default attribute groups.

2007-12-05 Thread Cornelia Huck
CC: Ursula Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c | 16 ++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/s390/net/netiucv.c @@ -2089,6

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Subject: SCHED - Use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, that said, Steven's testing work on the mainline port of our > series sums it up very nicely, so I will present that in lieu of > digging up my -rt numbers unless you specifically want them too. Here > they are: i'm well aware of

Patch submission question [not in the FAQ]

2007-12-05 Thread Gabriele Gorla
Hello, I have submitted a patch for the 3x- driver on alpha several months ago to both the driver maintainer and the linux-scsi mailing list. I have read all the FAQ and I tried to stick to the instructions to the letter. However the patch has been completely ignored. No reply, no comment, no

Re: [RFC v2] Documentation about unaligned memory access

2007-12-05 Thread Jan Kara
A minor typo: ... > Avoiding unaligned accesses > === > > The easiest way to avoid unaligned access is to use the get_unaligned() and > put_unaligned() macros provided by the header file. > > Going back to an earlier example of code that potentially causes unaligned

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: define all _PAGE_* in terms of _PAGE_BIT_*

2007-12-05 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:27:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > please run patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, it gives: > > > > > > > > > > total: 10 errors, 0 warnings, 42 lines checked > > > > > > > > > > (please send a followup

Re: [PATCH v2] Fix hardware IRQ time accounting problem.

2007-12-05 Thread Frederik Himpe
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:51:44 +1100, Tony Breeds wrote: > The commit fa13a5a1f25f671d084d8884be96fc48d9b68275 (sched: restore > deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc), unconditionally calls > update_process_tick() in system context. In the deterministic > accounting case this is the correct

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: define all _PAGE_* in terms of _PAGE_BIT_*

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > please run patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, it gives: > > > > > > > > total: 10 errors, 0 warnings, 42 lines checked > > > > > > > > (please send a followup cleanup patch - i picked up your series and > > > > this > > > > is a minor

Re: Add LZO compression support to cryptoapi

2007-12-05 Thread Zoltan Sogor
Hi Herbert! Herbert Xu wrote: Hi Zoltan: On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:44:07AM +0100, Zoltan Sogor wrote: I'm Zoltan Sogor at University of Szeged, Hungary, and we are working on new flash file system (UBIFS) cooperating with Nokia Corp. We would like to use cryptoapi in UBIFS

Re: [PATCH] Updates to nfsroot documentation (take 2)

2007-12-05 Thread Andi Kleen
Amos Waterland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The difference between ip=off and ip=::off has been a cause of much > confusion. Document how each behaves, and do not contradict ourselves > by saying that "off" is the default when in fact "any" is the default > and is descibed as being so lower

Re: drivers/net/iseries_veth.c dubious sysfs usage

2007-12-05 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 01:30 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > In doing a massive kobject cleanup of the kernel tree, I ran across the > iseries_veth.c driver. > > It looks like the driver is creating a number of subdirectories under > the driver sysfs directory. This is odd and probably wrong. You want >

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-05 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Diego Calleja wrote: El Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:47:45 +0100, "J.A. Magallón" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: That is what I like of C++, with good placement of high level features like const's and & (references) one can gain fine control over what gets copied or not. But...if there's some way Linux

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86_64: define all _PAGE_* in terms of _PAGE_BIT_*

2007-12-05 Thread Joerg Roedel
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:07:54PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 01:38:09PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > * Joerg Roedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > +#define _PAGE_PRESENT

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] 32-bit pointers in x86-64

2007-12-05 Thread Andrew Pinski
On 12/5/07, Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> "Andrew Pinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25.11.07 19:45 >>> > >On 11/25/07, Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 7.1. Add __attribute__((pointer_size(XXX))) and #pragma pointer_size > >> to allow 64-bit pointers in 32-bit mode and viceversa > > >

Re: What can we do to get ready for memory controller merge in 2.6.25

2007-12-05 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:11:14 +0900 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd like to post some patches below in the next week. > - throttling the number of callers of try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages() > - background reclaim and high/low watermark. > - some cleanups. > I'd like to hold

Re: [patch 05/18] kvm: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Avi Kivity
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert KVM from nopage to fault. @@ -3111,27 +3105,21 @@ out: return r; } -static struct page *kvm_vm_nopage(struct vm_area_struct *vma, - unsigned long address, - int *type) +static int

Re: [patch 04/18] uio: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Nick Piggin
On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:25:00AM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > Am Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:10:42 +0100 > schrieb Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:04:08AM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > > Am Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:51 +1100 > > > schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > >

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-05 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:50 -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:35:31PM +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > Intel's newest dual 10GbE NIC can easily (?) throw ~14M packets per > > second. (theoretical peak at 1514bytes/frame) > > Granted, installing such a device on a single

Re: [build bug] undefined reference to `dib3000mc_get_tuner_i2c_master'

2007-12-05 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Hmm, seems like -common part contains also code that is not completely > > common to all the modules. > > How about this? > that does the trick and 2.6.24-rc4 now builds & boots fine with that > config. Thanks, > Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH -v2] fix for futex_wait signal stack corruption

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just a minor nit. Can we please use "futex" instead of "fu" ? I'm just > envisioning the next union member named "ba". > > Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Please apply with the s/fu/futex/ change. This needs to go into stable >

[PATCH] netmos 9855 fix

2007-12-05 Thread chripell
Fixes wrong netmos 9855 serial port configuration. Generated on 20071205 against v2.6.21 Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/parport/parport_serial.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_seri

[PATCH] max3100 driver

2007-12-05 Thread chripell
This patch adds support for the MAX3100 SPI UART. Generated on 20071205 against v2.6.23 Signed-off-by: Christian Pellegrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/serial/Kconfig |7 + drivers/serial/Makefile|1 + drivers/serial/max3100.c

Re: [patch 04/18] uio: nopage

2007-12-05 Thread Hans-Jürgen Koch
Am Wed, 5 Dec 2007 11:10:42 +0100 schrieb Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:04:08AM +0100, Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > > Am Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:51 +1100 > > schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > > Convert uio from nopage to fault. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Subject: SCHED - Use a 2-d bitmap for searching lowest-pri CPU

2007-12-05 Thread Gregory Haskins
>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2007 at 4:34 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Gregory Haskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The current code use a linear algorithm which causes scaling issues on >> larger SMP machines. This patch replaces that algorithm

[PATCH] as-iosched: fix incorrect comments

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Carroll
Two comments refer to deadlines applying to reads only. This is not the case. Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- block/as-iosched.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/as-iosched.c b/block/as-iosched.c index dc715a5..4513fc5 100644

[PATCH] as-iosched: fix write batch start point

2007-12-05 Thread Aaron Carroll
New write batches currently start from where the last one completed. We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this makes little sense. Instead, start the next batch from the request with the earliest deadline in the hope that we avoid a deadline expiry later on.

Re: [patch 1/3] bdi patches

2007-12-05 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 11:52 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Thursday November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/foo/ > > > > > > bdi-task-dirty.patch > > > bdi-sysfs.patch > > > bdi-min.patch > > > bdi-max.patch > > > > > > > > > Is my current

Re: [RFC PATCH] x86: Unify include/asm-x86/linkage_[32|64].h

2007-12-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:19:45PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 12:15:19AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > UML can't switch to the regparm(3) convention on i386 since it links > > > with userspace code, so if assembler code uses

Re: [PATCH] as-iosched: fix incorrect comments

2007-12-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Dec 05 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +1100, Aaron Carroll wrote: > > Two comments refer to deadlines applying to reads only. This is > > not the case. > > > > Signed-off-by: Aaron Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Acked-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] as-iosched: fix write batch start point

2007-12-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Dec 05 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:07:07PM +1100, Aaron Carroll wrote: > > New write batches currently start from where the last one completed. > > We have no idea where the head is after switching batches, so this > > makes little sense. Instead, start the next

Re: broken dpt_i2o in 2.6.23 (was: ext2_check_page: bad entry in directory)

2007-12-05 Thread Anders Henke
On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:30:54 +0900 FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 17:11:55 -0800 > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:04:03 +0900 > > > FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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