Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 08:41 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > logic. Any ideas how this could be fixed? BTW, no idea, fs is taboo land here. (panic() is my very favorite function...;) -Mike -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
> I think I do. You appear to be arguing that small businesses, such as > paint shops or garages, could re-install iBCS2 support. You seem to be under the illusion that iBCS2 support works currently in mainline and that only this patch would break it. That's not the case. It's a significant

Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 08:41 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > BTW Mike: Your server bounces my messages. Hm. I don't have a server. Might have something to do with some naughty task frequently scribbling zeros to /etc/resolv.conf when I brutally reboot my box (i give myself cause to do that quite a

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 kernel panic while bootup

2008-01-19 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:54:46 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:24:13 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi Andrew, > >> > >> The 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 kernel panic while bootup with bootup message > > > >

sysfs network namespace support - was this patch set forgotten ?

2008-01-19 Thread Ian Brown
Hello, I saw some posts (from about a month ago) about network namespace support patches; I wonder: what is the status of this patch set ? was it somehow forgotten ? (I don't see it in v2.6.24-rc8 mm tree). see: http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2007-12/msg07720.html

Re: [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64

2008-01-19 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Jan 19, 2008 9:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yinghai Lu wrote: > > [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64 > > > > mtrr_trim_uncached_memory is only used in x86_64, > > > > so disable_mtrr_trim is not needed for x86_32 > > > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL

Re: 2.6.24-rc8 oops ext3_clear_inode+0x25/0xa0

2008-01-19 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 22:00 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I've just got this oops (causing the machine to hang finally)... > > > > Any ideas? > > Soeren > > I've seen an awful lot of oopses out there on this path, > kswapd->shrink_icache_memory;

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread David Newall
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:03:22PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > >> It's not necessarily that simple. It might be for KFC and Dominoes, but >> for others, SCO is not the complete story. Many legacy systems are >> written in COBOL, and must pay a per-seat licence for that on

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 kernel panic while bootup

2008-01-19 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:24:13 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Andrew, >> >> The 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 kernel panic while bootup with bootup message > > Can you please bisect it? I'd start with git-x86. These: > >

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup

2008-01-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mike Travis wrote: > >> Excuse my ignorance but why wouldn't this work: > >> > >> static numanode_t pxm_to_node_map[MAX_PXM_DOMAINS] > >> = { [0 ... MAX_PXM_DOMAINS - 1] = > >> NUMA_NO_NODE }; > >> ... > int acpi_map_pxm_to_node(int pxm)

Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS: create /proc//mountinfo

2008-01-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Miklos Szeredi wrote: - for mount ID's use IDA (from the IDR library) instead of a 32bit counter, which could overflow IDAs tend to get reused quickly, which can cause race conditions. Any reason not to just use a 64-bit counter? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

2008-01-19 Thread Al Boldi
Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 21:14 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > > I was just attacked by some deadlock issue involving sqlite3 and > > konqueror. While sqlite3 continues to slowly fill a 7M-record db in > > transaction mode, konqueror hangs for a few minutes, then continues only > >

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:03:22PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > It's not necessarily that simple. It might be for KFC and Dominoes, but > for others, SCO is not the complete story. Many legacy systems are > written in COBOL, and must pay a per-seat licence for that on top of the > per-seat

Re: PROBLEM: Celeron Core

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:53:41PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Isn't it the case that an idle machine will use > >> less power when throttled than when not? > >> > > > > No that is not the case (not even on old CPUs) > > > Then why would it run cooler? Ok for

Re: [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64

2008-01-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Yinghai Lu wrote: [PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory is only used in x86_64, so disable_mtrr_trim is not needed for x86_32 Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> That seems like a bug, and if so this patch goes the wrong direction. (If the

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread David Newall
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:16:25PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > >> Andi Kleen wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote: >>> >>> compatibility. This is a sleeping giant for Linux. There are plenty of

Re: [PATCH] Update emacs indentation instructions.

2008-01-19 Thread David Brown
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:40:29AM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote: +(setq c-default-style "linux") This variable is not defined when emacs starts up. Best is to always use a hook. Both of these examples are directly copied out of the emacs manual. Setting a variable before a module is

Re: PROBLEM: Celeron Core

2008-01-19 Thread David Newall
Andi Kleen wrote: >> Isn't it the case that an idle machine will use >> less power when throttled than when not? >> > > No that is not the case (not even on old CPUs) > Then why would it run cooler? What generates the heat when not throttled? What stops generating heat when throttled?

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:16:25PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > > > >> compatibility. This is a sleeping giant for Linux. There are plenty of > >> > > > > Interesting choice of words. > > > KFC and

Re: PROBLEM: Celeron Core

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
> Isn't it the case that an idle machine will use > less power when throttled than when not? No that is not the case (not even on old CPUs) -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [PATCH] fill in missing pv_mmu_ops entries for PAGETABLE_LEVELS >= 3

2008-01-19 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Marcelo Tosatti wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:20:15PM -0200, Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: Hi, This small series provides some more fixes towards the goal to have the PARAVIRT selectable for x86_64. After that, just some more small steps are needed. The first fix is not even

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix unconditional arch/x86/kernel/pcspeaker.c?compiling

2008-01-19 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 18 January 2008 11:10:19 Matt Mackall wrote: > > * Disable support for readahead, page writeback, pdflush and swap > > when we have no storage at all (typically booting from an > > initramfs). This corresponds to 69 KB of source code! > > That'd be nice, yes. It would

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread David Newall
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > >> compatibility. This is a sleeping giant for Linux. There are plenty of >> > > Interesting choice of words. > KFC and Dominoes use SCO for their cash registers, to pick just two enormous future

[PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64

2008-01-19 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] x86: disable_mtrr_trim only need for x86_64 mtrr_trim_uncached_memory is only used in x86_64, so disable_mtrr_trim is not needed for x86_32 Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c index

Re: PROBLEM: Celeron Core

2008-01-19 Thread David Newall
Andi Kleen wrote: > I think the misunderstanding on your side is relative to what there > is less heat. Throttling essentially reduces temporary heat spikes on > the silicon, but does not make the system overall take less power > or generate less heat as measured over a longer time because it will

Re: [CALL FOR TESTING] Make Ext3 fsck way faster [2.6.24-rc6 -mm patch]

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Thursday 17 January 2008 04:47, Abhishek Rai wrote: > > if Abhishek wants to pursue it, would be to pull in all of the > > indirect blocks when the file is opened, and create an in-memory > > extent tree that would speed up access to the file. It's rarely > > worth doing this without

Re: Regression with idle cpu cycle handling in 2.6.24 (compared to 2.6.22)

2008-01-19 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:03:38AM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:52:44PM +0100, dAniel hAhler wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've now found the reason and a workaround for this. Apparently, it's > > related to CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED and can be worked around by > > assigning a

Re: 2.6.24-rc8 oops ext3_clear_inode+0x25/0xa0

2008-01-19 Thread Eric Sandeen
Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > Dear all, > > I've just got this oops (causing the machine to hang finally)... > > Any ideas? > Soeren I've seen an awful lot of oopses out there on this path, kswapd->shrink_icache_memory; some get a little further and oops in ext3_discard_reservation. A few were

Re: [CALL FOR TESTING] Make Ext3 fsck way faster [2.6.24-rc6 -mm patch]

2008-01-19 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 03:04, Andrew Morton wrote: > I'm wondering about the real value of this change, really. > > In any decent environment, people will fsck their ext3 filesystems > during planned downtime, and the benefit of reducing that downtime > from 6 hours/machine to 2 hours/machine

Re: Where's the create() pointer?

2008-01-19 Thread Justin Banks
Trond Myklebust wrote > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 12:02 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > > Trond Myklebust wrote > > > > > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 08:07 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > > > > It's probably been this way for a long time, and I'm just noticing, but > > > > I can't seem to find the create()

Re: Regression with idle cpu cycle handling in 2.6.24 (compared to 2.6.22)

2008-01-19 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 03:52:44PM +0100, dAniel hAhler wrote: > Hello, > > I've now found the reason and a workaround for this. Apparently, it's > related to CONFIG_FAIR_USER_SCHED and can be worked around by > assigning a really small value to the boinc users cpu_share (125 is > the uid of

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:29PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > Can you please queue this patch in -mm for .25. It was posted earlier > > and nobody complained. > > I'm sure I complained. I'm sure I said something about SCO Did you? > compatibility. This is a sleeping

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-19 Thread David Newall
Andi Kleen wrote: > Can you please queue this patch in -mm for .25. It was posted earlier > and nobody complained. I'm sure I complained. I'm sure I said something about SCO compatibility. This is a sleeping giant for Linux. There are plenty of machines running legacy SCO applications, just

Re: [PATCH] Update emacs indentation instructions.

2008-01-19 Thread Johannes Weiner
Hi, David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +Fortunately, modern versions of GNU emacs support different indentation > +styles. If you want to use the Linux kernel style for all C code, place > +the following in your .emacs file: > + > +(setq c-default-style "linux") This variable is not

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup

2008-01-19 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Jan 19, 2008 4:41 PM, Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Rientjes wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mike Travis wrote: > > > >>> Yeah, NID_INVAL is negative so no unsigned type will work here, > >>> unfortunately. And that reduces the intended savings of your change since > >>> the

Re: new file in kernel.

2008-01-19 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Sat, 2008-01-19 12:12:10 -0300, Rafael Sisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Jan, > > The idea of the indirection is to make it transparent for the user. > The idea is to do almost the same as what IPC does. The user calls > "get", then "attach". In the "get" syscall I create a tmp file and

Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and then it crashes with: >> >> [0.00] Bootmem setup node 0 -3fff >> [0.00] KERN_NOTICE cpu_to_node(0): usage too early! >> PANIC: early exception 06 rip 10:81f77f30 error 0

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1: WARN_ON() in clockevents_register_device() on HP nx6325

2008-01-19 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 17 of January 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/ > > - selinux is busted on one of my two selinux-enabled test machines. > > - suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk are totally hosed on one of my test

Re: [lguest build regression fix] Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2008-01-19 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sunday 20 January 2008 10:49:45 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:24:47AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 05:06:04 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > # CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST is not set > > > CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST=y > > > > This looks like a "randconfig" bug, to be

[PATCH 1/2] W1: w1_therm.c ds18b20 decode freezing temperatures correctly

2008-01-19 Thread David Fries
commit c4ad974f3acef11e538e825ca0cb73be6faf2461 Author: David Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun Nov 4 18:14:21 2007 -0600 Corrected the decoding of negative C temperatures. The code did a binary OR of two bytes to make a 16 bit value, but assignd it to an integer. This caused the value to not

[PATCH 2/2] W1: w1_therm.c is flagging 0C etc as invalid

2008-01-19 Thread David Fries
commit d05074b1beb66d40283228bd226f7244407375bb Author: David Fries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Jan 19 18:06:49 2008 -0600 The extra rom[0] check is flagging valid temperatures as invalid when there is already a CRC data transmission check. w1_therm_read_bin() if (rom[8] == crc &&

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
David Rientjes wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mike Travis wrote: > >>> Yeah, NID_INVAL is negative so no unsigned type will work here, >>> unfortunately. And that reduces the intended savings of your change since >>> the smaller type can only be used with a smaller CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT. >>> >>

Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Remove information leak in Linux CIFS clientg

2008-01-19 Thread Steve French
Just merged into the cifs-2.6 tree, changing the last patch as you just suggested to take out the logged path name. On Jan 19, 2008 5:25 PM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:55:53PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2008 4:30 PM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc

2008-01-19 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Thomas, On Jan 19, 2008 10:00 PM, Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +static int pnp_alloc_port(struct pnp_resource_table *res) > +{ [snip] > + res->port_resource = krealloc(res->port_resource, > + (sizeof(struct resource) * res->allocated_ports) > +

Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

2008-01-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: That will break if the kernel is > 4GB won't it? Also same for pmd. The kernel can't be > 4 GB; after all, we're running here with paging disabled, so inherently we're < 4 GB... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [lguest build regression fix] Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2008-01-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 10:24:47AM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008 05:06:04 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > x86 randconfig testing found the following build failure: > > > > arch/x86/lguest/boot.c: In function 'lazy_hcall': > > arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:151: error: implicit

Re: linux device ordering at boot time

2008-01-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Well, it's a major pain in the a**. I've no idea, what reversed the order of > PCI devices, but I had to disable the automatic dvb driver loading in order It depends on the order you load the modules Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makes lguest's irq handler typesafe

2008-01-19 Thread Rusty Russell
On Saturday 19 January 2008 15:08:28 Tejun Heo wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: > > There are three possibilities: (1) force everyone to use void *, (2) > > force everyone to be type-correct, (3) allow both with some tricks. > > Currently we're on (1). For kthread, with only dozens of users, I

Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and then it crashes with: >> >> [0.00] Bootmem setup node 0 -3fff >> [0.00] KERN_NOTICE cpu_to_node(0): usage too early! >> PANIC: early exception 06 rip 10:81f77f30 error 0

Re: [lguest build regression fix] Re: 2.6.24-rc8-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2008-01-19 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sunday 20 January 2008 05:06:04 Ingo Molnar wrote: > x86 randconfig testing found the following build failure: > > arch/x86/lguest/boot.c: In function 'lazy_hcall': > arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:151: error: implicit declaration of function > 'paravirt_get_lazy_mode' arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:151:

Re: [PATCH] x86: Construct 32 bit boot time page tables in native format.

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +1: > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE > + btl $5, %eax > + jnc err_no_pae > +#endif > > xorl %ebx,%ebx /* This is the boot CPU (BSP) */ > jmp 3f > + > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE > +err_no_pae: > + /* It is probably

Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Remove information leak in Linux CIFS clientg

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:55:53PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 4:30 PM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:06:57PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > > > The access denied message in the dmesg log reveals no more information > > > than strace on stat of

Re: linux device ordering at boot time

2008-01-19 Thread Hans-Peter Jansen
Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2008 schrieben Sie: > I have a question concerning the ordering of devices during the boot > process and I hope that the kernel mailing list is the right place for > this question. In my computer are two raid controllers with one raid > array connected to each of them

[PATCH] (2.6.24-rc8-mm1) -mm v2 Smack socket label setting fix

2008-01-19 Thread Casey Schaufler
From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Correct the checks in smack_inode_setxattr to include the socket labeling attributes. Simplify and correct smack_sock_graft, while the values it was setting were safe they were not correct and the job was not being done efficiently.

Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Remove information leak in Linux CIFS clientg

2008-01-19 Thread Steve French
On Jan 19, 2008 4:30 PM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:06:57PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > > The access denied message in the dmesg log reveals no more information > > than strace on stat of a local file does (which also returns access > > You can't strace a

[PATCH] Update emacs indentation instructions.

2008-01-19 Thread David Brown
For quite some time now, Emacs has supported multiple coding styles, including one very close to the Linux style. Update the Emacs configuration instructions in the documentation to reflect this. Signed-off-by: David Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/CodingStyle | 39

Re: [updated PATCH] xen: fix section usage in xen-head.S and setup.c

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:23:51PM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >Failing to specify "ax" in the pushsection caused ld to generate > >an additional section for .init.text appending a number. > > > > Thanks for tracking this down. I think the "ax" appeared and >

Re: Why not creating a GIT RT tree ?

2008-01-19 Thread James Cloos
> "Francis" == Francis Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> It is in the one-head per patch style, and has the single-file >> patches applied rather than the quilt queue. Francis> Why don't you have one commit per patch ? I started it before they had the broken out patches and haven't

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup

2008-01-19 Thread David Rientjes
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Mike Travis wrote: > > Yeah, NID_INVAL is negative so no unsigned type will work here, > > unfortunately. And that reduces the intended savings of your change since > > the smaller type can only be used with a smaller CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT. > > > > Excuse my ignorance but

Re: [PATCH] [4/7] Convert TSC disabling to generic cpuid disable bitmap

2008-01-19 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 19:57 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2008 19:15:48 Ian Campbell wrote: > > diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/time.c b/arch/x86/xen/time.c > > index 6f5c74a..b3721fd 100644 > > --- a/arch/x86/xen/time.c > > +++ b/arch/x86/xen/time.c > > @@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ __init

Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Remove information leak in Linux CIFS clientg

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 04:06:57PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > The access denied message in the dmesg log reveals no more information > than strace on stat of a local file does (which also returns access You can't strace a process you don't own. And you might not be able to access the directory

Re: [updated PATCH] xen: fix section usage in xen-head.S and setup.c

2008-01-19 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Sam Ravnborg wrote: Failing to specify "ax" in the pushsection caused ld to generate an additional section for .init.text appending a number. Thanks for tracking this down. I think the "ax" appeared and disappeared over time, but this looks like the proper solution. Are you going to

Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-01-19 Thread Dmitry
Hi, 2008/1/20, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:48:32PM +0300, Dmitry wrote: > > > Well... It's a common suggestion not to duplicate code. The wm97xx bus > > looks mostly like platform. The only difference is the name. To help > > visualisation, devices can have

Re: " Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup" causes early panic in __build_all_zonelists

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> One of my test systems didn't boot with latest git-x86. I bisected it >> down to f1321f875910172bcc3e1f302fe145a9e4d3bdf7 >> >> With later patches the fault seemed to happen even earlier before >> other initialization messages.

Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

2008-01-19 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
add cc (ingo) and then please update to CFS-v24.1 http://people.redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/sched-cfs-v2.6.22.15-v24.1.patch On 1/19/08, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > > This kernel is vanilla 2.6.22.y or with CFS? > > Yes

Re: [linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] Remove information leak in Linux CIFS client

2008-01-19 Thread Steve French
The access denied message in the dmesg log reveals no more information than strace on stat of a local file does (which also returns access denied and displays access denied), but I agree that logging on -EACCESS on lookup does clutter the log. I think it is ok to log a message on unexpected

Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-01-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:48:32PM +0300, Dmitry wrote: > Well... It's a common suggestion not to duplicate code. The wm97xx bus > looks mostly like platform. The only difference is the name. To help > visualisation, devices can have parents. Just set (in pseudocode) > wm97xx-touchscreen->parent

Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> and then it crashes with: >> >> [0.00] Bootmem setup node 0 -3fff >> [0.00] KERN_NOTICE cpu_to_node(0): usage too early! >> PANIC: early exception 06 rip 10:81f77f30 error 0

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x43524): Section mismatch: reference to > > > .init.text: (between 'timer_cpu_notify' and 'msleep') > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4c6f6): Section mismatch: reference to > > > .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu') > > > WARNING:

Re: [PATCH] timer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:57:15AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The caller is __cpuinit. > Also, this code block and its caller are inside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU > blocks, so this code should reflect that config symbol's usage. > > WARNING:

Re: [patch] util-linux-ng: unprivileged mounts support

2008-01-19 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > But 'fusermount -u /tmp/test' does work, doesn't it? You're submitting patches to get rid of fusermount, aren't you? Most users absolutely have no idea what fusermount is and they would __really__ like to see umount(8) working finally.

Re: [PATCH] hrtimer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 10:31:46PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:57:10AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Fix section mismatch in hrtimer.c: > > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x50c61): Section mismatch: reference to > >

Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: Add config variables for SMP_MAX

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Adds and increases some config variables to accomodate larger SMP >> configurations: >> >> NR_CPUS: max limit now 4096 >> NODES_SHIFT: max limit now 9 >> THREAD_ORDER: max limit now 3 >>

Re: [PATCH] hrtimer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:57:10AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Fix section mismatch in hrtimer.c: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x50c61): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: > (between 'hrtimer_cpu_notify' and 'down_read_trylock') > > Noticed

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Change size of node ids from u8 to u16 fixup

2008-01-19 Thread Mike Travis
David Rientjes wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: > >>> +#if MAX_NUMNODES > 256 >>> +typedef u16 numanode_t; >>> +#else >>> +typedef u8 numanode_t; >>> +#endif >>> + >>> #endif /* _LINUX_NUMA_H */ >> that is wrong, you can not change pxm_to_node_map from int to u8 or u16. >> Thanks

Re: [PATCH] rcu: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:56:43AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > rcu_online_cpu() should be __cpuinit instead of __devinit. > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4b6d5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: > (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:52:55AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > kbuild emit section mismatch warnings when it detects that someone does a > > call from a non-init section to a init section. > > The rationale here is that the init section

[updated PATCH] xen: fix section usage in xen-head.S and setup.c

2008-01-19 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Failing to specify "ax" in the pushsection caused ld to generate an additional section for .init.text appending a number. A side effect of this was a section mismatch warning because modpost did not recognize a .init.text section named .init.text.1: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text.head+0x247): Section

[PATCH 1/1] arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64

2008-01-19 Thread Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
The i386 and x86_64 arch directories contain nothing but a generated symlink to arch/x86/boot/bzImage when a tree a built. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/.gitignore |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2

Re: konqueror deadlocks on 2.6.22

2008-01-19 Thread Al Boldi
Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > This kernel is vanilla 2.6.22.y or with CFS? Yes with CFSv20.4, as in the log. It also hangs on 2.6.23.13 > On 1/19/08, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just attacked by some deadlock issue involving sqlite3 and > > konqueror. While sqlite3

Re: Why not creating a GIT RT tree ?

2008-01-19 Thread Jon Smirl
On 1/18/08, Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Francis Moreau wrote: > > > Maybe I missed it but I'm wondering why GIT is not used for > > the RT development ? I can't find a rt tree anywhere and all > > new rt release spoke about a patchset to apply on mainline > >

Re: [patch] util-linux-ng: unprivileged mounts support

2008-01-19 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > This is an experimental patch for supporing unprivileged mounts and > > umounts. > > User unmount unfortunately still doesn't work if the kernel doesn't have > the unprivileged mount support but as we discussed this in last July that > shouldn't be needed for this case. > > % mount -t

Re: Why not creating a GIT RT tree ?

2008-01-19 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello, On Jan 18, 2008 10:59 PM, James Cloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Francis" == Francis Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Francis> I can't find a rt tree anywhere and all new rt release spoke > Francis> about a patchset to apply on mainline kernels. > > It is not perfect, but I

Re: Where's the create() pointer?

2008-01-19 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 12:02 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > Trond Myklebust wrote > > > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 08:07 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > > > It's probably been this way for a long time, and I'm just noticing, but > > > I can't seem to find the create() (among others) pointer for NFS > >

[PATCH] Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc

2008-01-19 Thread Thomas Renninger
Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc The patch is against 2.6.24-rc6-mm1. Latest BIOS ACPI PNP device resource descriptions may have (especially on the general device PNP0c02) more than 20 IO port resources. Reserve the space in a static array wastes a lot of memory on every PNP

Re: [PATCH] x86 reboot: Remove inb_p usage

2008-01-19 Thread Alan Cox
> Stupid question from the peanut gallery: If you're going to go through > all this, maybe it would be better to define an inline > isa_bus_delay(void) { udelay(2); } and use that instead? I can only There are very few places it crops up - in fact that one is the only non pic/pit/cmos example in

[PATCH] hrtimer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix section mismatch in hrtimer.c: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x50c61): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'hrtimer_cpu_notify' and 'down_read_trylock') Noticed by Johannes Berg and confirmed by Sam Ravnborg. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap

[PATCH] timer: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The caller is __cpuinit. Also, this code block and its caller are inside #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU blocks, so this code should reflect that config symbol's usage. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4252f): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between

[PATCH] rcu: fix section mismatch

2008-01-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> rcu_online_cpu() should be __cpuinit instead of __devinit. WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4b6d5): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: (between 'rcu_cpu_notify' and 'wakeme_after_rcu') Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: Help needed to fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 15:07:28 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > kbuild emit section mismatch warnings when it detects that someone does a > call from a non-init section to a init section. > The rationale here is that the init section are discarded at runtime and > if this call happens after the init

Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-01-19 Thread Dmitry Baryshkov
Ben Dooks wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:11:45PM +, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> >> > I will need some more time to review and understand the need for the >> > new bus in the driver. >> >> Most likely this can be converted to platform_bus. Maybe this

Re: [PATCH] Core driver for WM97xx touchscreens

2008-01-19 Thread Dmitry
Hi, 2008/1/19, Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:11:45PM +, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote: > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > I will need some more time to review and understand the need for the new > > > bus in the driver. > > > Most likely this can be converted to

Re: [PATCH] LatencyTop: make reason (blk_execute_rq+0x7a/0xd) known

2008-01-19 Thread Török Edwin
Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Török Edwin wrote: >> >> Cause Maximum >> Average >> SCSI device ioctl 34.2 msec >> 14.4 msec > > great! I'll put this into my patchkit! Thanks. >> I also noticed some

Re: linux device ordering at boot time

2008-01-19 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 19 2008 20:14, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > >I don't know, what the proble, but the fstab workaround functioniert: >form: >/dev/sda3 / xfs defaults0 1 >to: >UUID=7c167a53-30ff-4d47-a206-ce8caf2397ba / xfs > defaults

Re: [PATCH] LatencyTop: make reason (blk_execute_rq+0x7a/0xd) known

2008-01-19 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Török Edwin wrote: >> [...] >> P.S.: LatencyTop could have a feature to ask for more details on unknown >> latency reasons, and it would generate a systemtap script itself, that >> would show the backtraces to help figure out whats going on. > > I've

Re: Why not creating a GIT RT tree ?

2008-01-19 Thread Francis Moreau
On Jan 18, 2008 8:12 PM, Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True, but then how would you do it. One thing is that most of these > branches would interact with each other. Touching the same code quite > a bit. So it doesn't always help. But pulling out patches can help us to > an extent. >

Re: [PATCH] [7/8] CPA: Implement GBpages support in change_page_attr()

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 19 January 2008 19:53:14 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > arch/x86/mm/pageattr_64.c | 150 > > -- > > 1 file changed, 119 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) > > please unify the files first, we dont want

Re: linux device ordering at boot time

2008-01-19 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
I don't know, what the proble, but the fstab workaround functioniert: form: /dev/sda3 / xfs defaults0 1 to: UUID=7c167a53-30ff-4d47-a206-ce8caf2397ba / xfs defaults0 1 in this fix switched form device name to UUID based

Re: ACPI early ioremap problems

2008-01-19 Thread Andi Kleen
> hm, so are you saying that on 64-bit there's in essence no usable > ioremap facility between zap_low_mappings() and paging_init()? > (early_ioremap() is not usable anymore, and ioremap() is not yet > usable.) I guess we'll have to pick up the 32-bit early_ioremap() code > for 64-bit as well.

Re: Where's the create() pointer?

2008-01-19 Thread Justin Banks
Trond Myklebust wrote > > On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 08:07 -0700, Justin Banks wrote: > > It's probably been this way for a long time, and I'm just noticing, but > > I can't seem to find the create() (among others) pointer for NFS > > filesystems. > > > > Specifically, If I look at

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