[PATCH] [2/9] GBPAGES: Add feature macros for the gbpages cpuid bit

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h |2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: linux/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h === --- linux.orig/include/asm-x86/cpufeature.h +++

Re: [PATCH] [SPARC/SPARC64] fix usage of .section .sched.text in assembler code

2008-01-28 Thread David Miller
From: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:54:39 +0100 ld will generate an unique named section when assembler do not use ax but gcc does. Add the misisng annotation. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Applied, thanks Sam. --

[PATCH] [3/9] GBPAGES: Split LARGE_PAGE_SIZE/MASK into PUD_PAGE_SIZE/PMD_PAGE_SIZE

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Split the existing LARGE_PAGE_SIZE/MASK macro into two new macros PUD_PAGE_SIZE/MASK and PMD_PAGE_SIZE/MASK. Fix up all callers to use the new names. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/head_64.S |8 arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S |4

[PATCH] [4/9] Add pgtable accessor functions for GB pages

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/pgtable_32.h |2 ++ include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h |6 ++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) Index: linux/include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h === ---

[PATCH] [5/9] GBPAGES: Support gbpages in pagetable dump

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/fault.c === --- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++ linux/arch/x86/mm/fault.c

[PATCH] [6/9] GBPAGES: Add gbpages support to lookup_address

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c|5 + include/asm-x86/pgtable.h |1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c === ---

[PATCH] [7/9] Add an option to disable direct mapping gbpages and a global variable

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt |3 +++ arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 12 include/asm-x86/pgtable_64.h |2 ++ 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+) Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c

Re: [PATCH] Atari floppy: Rename disk_type to atari_disk_type

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:28:35PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Atari floppy: Rename disk_type to atari_disk_type Commit edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf Driver core: convert block from raw kobjects to core devices This moves the block devices to /sys/class/block.

Re: [git pull] Fix recent Ocfs2 breakage

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:33:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: Greg's commit c60b71787982cefcf9fa09aa281fa8c4c685d557 inadvertantly broke Ocfs2 userspace ABI, so I have a rather high priority single line patch from Joel to fix things up for you to pull. A copy of the patch is attached to the

RE: fixed a bug of adma in rhel4u5 with HDS7250SASUN500G.

2008-01-28 Thread Kuan Luo
Robert wrote: Kuan Luo wrote: Robert worte. Kuan, does this patch (using the notifiers to see if the command is really done) still work if one port on the controller has ADMA disabled because it's in ATAPI mode? I seem to recall Allen Martin mentioning that notifiers wouldn't

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 23:49 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Kasper Sandberg wrote: [...] snip I can invalidate this theory... i helped a guy on irc debug this problem, and he had ati. I tried having him stop using fglrx, and go to r300.. same problem, and same problem

[PATCH] [8/9] GBPAGES: Implement gbpages support in change_page_attr()

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 13 - 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c === --- linux.orig/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++

[PATCH] [9/9] GBPAGES: Do kernel direct mapping at boot using GB pages

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
This should decrease TLB pressure because the kernel will need less TLB faults for its own data access. Only done for 64bit because i386 does not support GB page tables. This only applies to the data portion of the direct mapping; the kernel text mapping stays with 2MB pages because the AMD

Re: High wake up latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED

2008-01-28 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:53PM +0100, Guillaume Chazarain wrote: Unfortunately it seems to not be completely fixed, with this script: The maximum scheduling latency of a task with group scheduler is: Lmax = latency to schedule group entity at level0 + latency to

Re: [PATCH 06/19] dlm: align midcomms message buffer

2008-01-28 Thread Fabio M. Di Nitto
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:50:29 -0600 David Teigland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Fabio M. Di Nitto [EMAIL PROTECTED] gcc does not guarantee that a static buffer is 64bit aligned. This change allows sparc64 to work. This buffer is not static:

Re: [PATCH] x86: Reduce ifdef sections in fault.c

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Harvey Harrison wrote: Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] x86.git has my patch which makes the pgd_list the same for 32-bit and 64-bit, which means the code which traverses that list can be common now. J --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 31 +-- 1

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:31:57PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: In my script, its one line: mkinitrd -f initrd-$VER.img $VER \ where $VER is the shell variable I edit to = the version number, located at the top of the script. Unforch, its failing: No module pata_amd found for kernel

Re: 2.6.24 panics initializing ne2k in mips.

2008-01-28 Thread Rob Landley
On Monday 28 January 2008 02:17:37 Rob Landley wrote: The 2.6.23 kernel built for mips with the attached .config works fine for me under qemu (both big endian and little endian), but a 2.6.24 mips kernel segfaults initializing the ne2k driver (again when run under qemu). I've traced it to

[GIT PULL] ext4 update

2008-01-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Hi Linus, Please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git for_linus This is the major set of updates meant for 2.6.24 from the ext4 team; these patches have been baking in -mm for a while. The two major features included here is the multi-block allocator

[PATCH] dlm/user.c: static initialization improvements

2008-01-28 Thread Denis Cheng
also change name_prefix from char pointer to char array. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- fs/dlm/user.c | 13 +++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/dlm/user.c b/fs/dlm/user.c index 4f74154..2cc5415 100644 --- a/fs/dlm/user.c +++

Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:42:28 Linus Torvalds wrote: My problem is that the *driver* already exists (because it's compiled in), and has already initialized itself, and has already registered. Then, initrd tries to load an old module for that driver. I hate to say it, but this is user

Re: [Patch] Removal of FUTEX_FD

2008-01-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Friday 25 January 2008 20:40:46 Eric Sesterhenn wrote: hi, since FUTEX_FD was scheduled for removal in June 2007 lets remove it. Google Code search found no users for it and NGPT was abandoned in 2003 according to IBM. futex.h is left untouched to make sure the id does not get reassigned.

Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: also there are some users are using LinuxBIOS or other firmware that doesn't have or like ACPI support. but they still need numa. for them ACPI doesn't help. We've had this discussion before. The right way even if you don't want to do full ACPI is to do just the minimal

Re: [PATCH 3/5] Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name

2008-01-28 Thread Rusty Russell
On Monday 28 January 2008 10:38:40 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: When trying to load a module with the same name as a built-in one, a scary kobject backtrace comes up. Prevent that from checking for this condition and warning the user as to what exactly is going on. Cc: Rusty Russell [EMAIL

[PULL] module patches

2008-01-28 Thread Rusty Russell
The following changes since commit 8561b089afbaed2651591e5a4574fdca451d82f2: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge git://git.kernel.org/.../wim/linux-2.6-watchdog are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus master Denis

Re: [PATCH 0/3][RFC] x86: Catch stray non-kprobe breakpoints

2008-01-28 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:38:56PM +0530, Abhishek Sagar wrote: Greetings, Non kprobe breakpoints in the kernel might lie inside the .kprobes.text section. Such breakpoints can easily be identified by in_kprobes_functions and can be caught early. These are problematic and a warning should

2.6.24-ext4-1 patchset released

2008-01-28 Thread Theodore Ts'o
I've just released 2.6.24-ext4-1. It's basically just a clean up of the stable patch series, in response to LKML review comments, in preparation for Linus to pull them into mainline. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git 2.6.24-ext4-1

Re: [git pull] Fix recent Ocfs2 breakage

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Fasheh
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:08:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Joel Becker (1): ocfs2: Fix userspace ABI breakage in sysfs This is fine with me, for now. Great, thanks. From: Joel Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ocfs2: Fix userspace ABI breakage in sysfs The userspace ABI of ocfs2's

Re: [PATCH] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card

2008-01-28 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi, On Jan 29, 2008 1:33 AM, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What part of kernel documentation uses doxygen? So then, what's the problem? Why is it there? We have a kernel documentation language. Please use it or plain text. Yes please. Pekka -- To

Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heikki Orsila) writes: +Some complain that kernel interfaces change too often for out-of-the-tree +modules, but this claim is false. Changing an interface can be delicate work, +and it can take significant amount of developer effort. Therefore, interfaces +are not changed

Re: [2.6 patch] let LOG_BUF_SHIFT default to 17

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 16 kB is often no longer enough for a normal boot of an UP system. Better would be to just disable by default/remove noisy messages to make the kernel boot output shorter. I think we got a lot of IMHO useless messages in there. -Andi -- To unsubscribe

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Florian Attenberger
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:13:21 -0500 Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had to reboot early this morning due to a freezeup, and I had a bunch of these in the messages log: == Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel: [42461.915961] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0

Re: [Xen-devel] dm-band: The I/O bandwidth controller: Performance Report

2008-01-28 Thread INAKOSHI Hiroya
Hi, Ryo Tsuruta wrote: The results of bandwidth control test on band-groups. = The configurations of the test #3: o Prepare three partitions sdb5 and sdb6. o Create two extra band-groups on sdb5, the first is of user1 and the

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:32:44AM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: BIOS updates are broken on all Dell systems due to Commit 109f0e93b6b728f03c1eb4af02bc25d71b646c59, which is now in 2.6.24. static inline void fw_setup_device_id(struct device *f_dev, struct device *dev) { - /* XXX

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-28 Thread david
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:30:05PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: As user pages are always in highmem, this should be easy to decide: only send SIGDANGER when highmem is full. (Yes, there are inodes/dentries/file descriptors in lowmem, but I doubt apps

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24-git usb reset problems

2008-01-28 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jan 28 2008, Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:49:35PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi, Running latest -git (head 91525300baf162e83e923b09ca286f9205e21522) and connecting my cf usb storage device yields and endless stream of: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c II

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. Sorry, that was actually SLIT. SRAT is not two dimensional, but also relatively simple. SLIT you don't really need to implement. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [2.6 patch] let LOG_BUF_SHIFT default to 17

2008-01-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 07:35:00AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 16 kB is often no longer enough for a normal boot of an UP system. Better would be to just disable by default/remove noisy messages to make the kernel boot output shorter. I think we got a

Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c II

2008-01-28 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Jan 29, 2008 12:09 AM, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. Sorry, that was actually SLIT. SRAT is not two dimensional, but also relatively simple. SLIT you don't really need to implement. need to add some CONFIG option

Re: [git pull] Fix recent Ocfs2 breakage

2008-01-28 Thread Joel Becker
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:08:04PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: And please please please please document stuff like this, and all of the different files you have in this subdirectory in Documentation/ABI/ so Huh, I didn't know Documentation/ABI existed. That would certainly help in the

Re: [PATCH] x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c II

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:39:30PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 12:09 AM, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SRAT is essentially just a two dimensional table with node distances. Sorry, that was actually SLIT. SRAT is not two dimensional, but also relatively simple. SLIT you

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Mikael Pettersson
Tino Keitel writes: Hi folks, with 2.6.24-rc8, Wake On LAN doesn't work anymore as it used to with 2.6.23 on my Mac mini Core Duo. I saw that this was reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 and on netdev a patch for the sky2 driver was sent by Stephen Hemminger.

Re: [RFC] Per-thread getrusage

2008-01-28 Thread Sripathi Kodi
Hi Andrew, On Monday 28 January 2008 11:22, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:57:05 +0530 Vinay Sridhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Last year, there was discussion about per-thread getrusage by adding RUSAGE_THREAD flag to getrusage(). Please refer to the thread

[2.6.24 REGRESSION] BUG: Soft lockup - with VFS

2008-01-28 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
hi all! in the 2.6.24 become i some soft lockups with usb-phone, when i pluged in the mobile, then the vfs-layer crashed. am afternoon can i the .config send, and i bisected the kernel, when i have time. pictures from crash: http://students.zipernowsky.hu/~oliverp/kernel/regression_2624/ --

Re: (ondemand) CPU governor regression between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Toralf Förster wrote: At Sunday 27 January 2008 Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote : You can set that to 0 to ask ondemand gov to include nice load into account while calculating cpu freq changes: # echo 0 /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/ondemand/ignore_nice_load This should restore the

Re: 2.6.25 regression: VIDEO_DEV=y/m, I2C=n compile error

2008-01-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:33:34PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Hi Adrian and Marcin, On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:52:16 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Commit 8ffbc6559493c64d6194c92d856196fdaeb8a5fb causes the following compile error with CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=y/m,

Re: 2.6.24 regression: Wake On Lan in sky2 broken on Mac mini

2008-01-28 Thread Tino Keitel
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:21:30 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Tino Keitel writes: Hi folks, with 2.6.24-rc8, Wake On LAN doesn't work anymore as it used to with 2.6.23 on my Mac mini Core Duo. I saw that this was reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9721 and

[PATCHv2 8/9] x86: Unify variable names in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_??.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c |8 1 files changed, 4

[PATCHv2 9/9] x86: Unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_??.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
Remainder of unification can occur inplace. size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCHv2 5/9] x86: Unify strings in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_??.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
There seems to be a preference for the 64 bit version so use that on 32 bit and drop the stray leading . Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCHv2 1/9] x86: Unify whitespace and comments in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_??.lds

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_32.lds |6 +++---

[PATCHv2 2/9] x86: Unify whitespace in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_??.scr

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_32.scr |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3

Unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/{vmlinux.scr,misc.c}

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
Changes from last time: * Use .rodata.compressed instead of .data.compressed. * Use the 64 bit strings rather than the 32 bit versions, dropping the odd leading . -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Helge Hafting
Peter Zijlstra wrote: My wish is that distros would just boot without requiring an initrd. I know how to make them for redhat and debian based distros, but the fact that you can't (easily) cross-build them makes it a very tedious construct. Debian is easy enough - make sure the drivers for

[PATCHv2 3/9] x86_64: Switch to .rodata.compressed in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_??.scr

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
vmlinux_64 and vmlinux_32.scr are now identical size shows an expected movement from .text to .rodata and 4 extra bytes of padding. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[PATCHv2 4/9] x86_64: Unify arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux_??.scr

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
The files are now identical so merge them. size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/Makefile

[PATCHv2 6/9] x86: Unify whitespace and comments in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_??.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c | 20 +---

[PATCHv2 7/9] x86: Unify headers in arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_??.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ian Campbell
size reports no change in arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc_32.c |1 -

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Greg KH wrote: Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision.

Re: [RFC PATCH] KGDB: various refactorings

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jan Kiszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things I changed: - Reduce EXPORT_SYMBOLs, switch the rest to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL - Drop code that is (yet) unused - Rename variables, refactor their types (personal taste, for sure) - Remove extern for function prototypes - Remove

Re: [RFC PATCH] KGDB: various refactorings

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jan Kiszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, forgot to refresh for this hunk: - rename CHECK_EXCEPTION_STACK to EXCEPTION_STACK_READY thanks, applied to x86.git. minor nit: #ifndef CONFIG_X86_32 -#define CHECK_EXCEPTION_STACK() ((__get_cpu_var(init_tss))[0].x86_tss.ist[0]) +#define

Re: [PATCH] Only print kernel debug information for OOMs caused by kernel allocations

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:11:57 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 09:56, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:10:07 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 06:52, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:24:21 +0100

Re: [RFC] Per-thread getrusage

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:54:12 +0530 Sripathi Kodi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does Roland's patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/18/589) look good to go in, provided Ulrich's comment (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/19/15) is addressed? Sure, it looks sane - it avoids the problematic

Re: Question about DMA

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:58 +0100 Francis Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My DMA controller has very little in common with ISA DMA one. But I'd like to use it in a driver. This driver can do DMA but with the help of an external DMA controller. It's only implement the slave side. So

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] PWM LED driver

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:32:32 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:33:45 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + if (i 0) { + for (i = i - 1; i = 0; i--) { + led_classdev_unregister(leds[i].cdev); +

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
[ You really ought to CC people :-) ] On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 20:09 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following patch series extends CPU isolation support. Yes, most people want to virtuallize CPUs these days and I want to isolate them :). The primary idea here is to be able to use some CPU

Re: [PATCH] Only print kernel debug information for OOMs caused by kernel allocations

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 28 January 2008 09:56, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:10:07 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 06:52, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:24:21 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently suffered an 20+ minutes oom

Re: [RFC] Per-thread getrusage

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:48:23 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:57:05 +0530 Vinay Sridhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Last year, there was discussion about per-thread getrusage by adding RUSAGE_THREAD flag to

[PATCH] x86_64: mark x86_cpu_to_node_map_init to __initdata like other xx_init

2008-01-28 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] x86_64: mark x86_cpu_to_node_map_init to __initdata like other xx_init Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c index f0e5cab..d7af3fd 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/numa_64.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@

Re: Question about DMA

2008-01-28 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 01/28/2008 09:55 AM, Francis Moreau wrote: No ;) Heh :) My DMA controller has very little in common with ISA DMA one. But I'd like to use it in a driver. This driver can do DMA but with the help of an external DMA controller. It's only implement the slave side. So basically this driver

Re: Unpredictable performance

2008-01-28 Thread Asbjørn Sannes
Ray Lee wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 12:49 PM, Asbjørn Sannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray Lee wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 3:32 AM, Asbjorn Sannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am experiencing unpredictable results with the following test without other processes running (exception

[PATCH 2/2] kobject : kerneldoc comment fix

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Young
Fix kerneldoc comment of kobject_create. Signed-off-by: Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- lib/kobject.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -upr a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c --- a/lib/kobject.c 2008-01-28 16:53:08.0 +0800 +++ b/lib/kobject.c

Re: [PATCH] Only print kernel debug information for OOMs caused by kernel allocations

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:10:07 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 06:52, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:24:21 +0100 Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently suffered an 20+ minutes oom thrash disk to death and computer completely

Re: [Regression] 2.6.24-git3: Major annoyance during suspend/hibernation on x86-64 (bisected)

2008-01-28 Thread Dmitry Adamushko
On 28/01/2008, Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday, 27 of January 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 2.6.24-git3 adds a 5 - 10 sec delay to the suspend and hibernation code paths (probably related to the disabling of

Re: Question about DMA

2008-01-28 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello Jiri, On Jan 27, 2008 11:34 PM, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/27/2008 09:51 PM, Francis Moreau wrote: 1/ Why does the function take only one address ? I would expect it to take both a source and a destination address for the dma controller to transfer data. since your

[PATCH 1/2] driver-core : convert to use class_find_device api

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Young
Convert to use class_find_device api in drivers/base/core.c Signed-off-by: Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/base/core.c | 32 +++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff -upr a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c ---

Re: [PATCH] remove duplicating priority setting in try_to_free_p

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:43:56 +0900 minchan kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this is actually a bugfix. The code you're removing doesn't do the if (priority zone-prev_priority) thing. shrink_zones() in try_to_free_pages() already called note_zone_scanning_priority().

Re: Unpredictable performance

2008-01-28 Thread Asbjørn Sannes
Nick Piggin wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2008 02:03, Asbjørn Sannes wrote: Asbjørn Sannes wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: On Friday 25 January 2008 22:32, Asbjorn Sannes wrote: Hi, I am experiencing unpredictable results with the following test without other

Re: [v4l-dvb-maintainer] 2.6.25 regression: VIDEO_DEV=y/m, I2C=n compile error

2008-01-28 Thread Trent Piepho
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:33:34PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:52:16 +0200 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Commit 8ffbc6559493c64d6194c92d856196fdaeb8a5fb causes the following compile error with

Re: [patch] drop linux/ufs_fs.h from userspace export and relocate it to fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:41:51 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blah, you're right. combo patch here we come. --- Per previous discussions about cleaning up ufs_fs.h, people just want this straight up dropped from userspace export. The only remaining consumer (silo) has been

Re: [patch] drop linux/ufs_fs.h from userspace export and relocate it to fs/ufs/ufs_fs.h

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:41:51 -0500 Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: blah, you're right. combo patch here we come. --- Per previous discussions about cleaning up ufs_fs.h, people just want this straight up dropped from userspace

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 7/9] atmel_serial: Add DMA support

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:02:00 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:41:49 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#define PDC_RX_BUF(port) (port)-pdc_rx[(port)-pdc_rx_idx] +#define PDC_RX_SWITCH(port)(port)-pdc_rx_idx = !(port)-pdc_rx_idx

[GIT PULL] sh updates for 2.6.25-rc1

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git Which contains: Adrian McMenamin (2): sh: Kill off hs7751rvoip reference from arch/sh/Kconfig. cdrom: Add support for Sega Dreamcast GD-ROM. Andrew Murray (2): sh: sh7712 clock support

Re: Question about DMA

2008-01-28 Thread Francis Moreau
Hello Haavard, On Jan 28, 2008 10:21 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:55:58 +0100 Francis Moreau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My DMA controller has very little in common with ISA DMA one. But I'd like to use it in a driver. This driver can do DMA but

Re: Question about DMA

2008-01-28 Thread Francis Moreau
On Jan 28, 2008 10:04 AM, Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/28/2008 09:55 AM, Francis Moreau wrote: Which bus is it in this case? Basically it's a bus which is used to access memories. Thanks -- Francis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [rfc] exposing MMR's of on-chip peripherals for debugging purposes

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 28, 2008 5:16 AM, Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the trouble is that this file currently weighs in at ~1.8 megs. this is because it contains all the information for all Blackfin processors we support (which currently, is about ~23 variants). it's only going to get bigger as

Re: [PATCH 0/8] x86: fix section mismatch warnings

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following serie of 8 patches contains: x86: fix Section mismatch warning in srat_64.c = straightforward - please apply x86: fix Section mismatch warning in mcheck/mce_64.c = I took some assumptions on use of notifier. See comments and

Re: [PATCH -mm] kprobes: kretprobe user entry-handler (updated)

2008-01-28 Thread Abhishek Sagar
On 1/28/08, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neither the changelog nor the newly-added documentation explain why Linux needs this feature. What will it be used for?? There's a detailed discussion along with an example on this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/13/58 and a bit on:

Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

2008-01-28 Thread Clemens Ladisch
Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: Greg KH wrote: Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that

Re: [RFC] Per-thread getrusage

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:38:17 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the code was using find_task_by_vpid() then OK (I guess). But it is Yup, find_task_by_vpid() will find the proper (i.e. in your namespace) task. looking the tids up in the init_pid_ns. Which I assume means

Re: [PATCH] [8/18] BKL-removal: Remove BKL from remote_llseek

2008-01-28 Thread Bodo Eggert
Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 05:38 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008 05:13:09 Trond Myklebust wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 03:58 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: The problem is that it's not a race in who gets to do its thing first, but a

Re: [RFC] Per-thread getrusage

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:48:23 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 13:57:05 +0530 Vinay Sridhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Last year, there was discussion about per-thread getrusage by adding RUSAGE_THREAD

Re: kobject oops with maple bus

2008-01-28 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On Sat, January 26, 2008 8:44 pm, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:53:20PM +, Adrian McMenamin wrote: Greg, Just updated my git to the latest sources and get these (seemingly non-fatal) oops with the Dreamcast maple bus. I'll investigate further, but they may mean something to

Re: [PATCH] Fake NUMA emulation for PowerPC (Take 2)

2008-01-28 Thread Balbir Singh
* Nish Aravamudan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-27 12:22:54]: On 1/27/08, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Paul Mackerras [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-27 22:55:43]: Balbir Singh writes: Here's a better and more complete fix for the problem. Could you please see if it works

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] PWM LED driver

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:29:32 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if (i 0) { - for (i = i - 1; i = 0; i--) { - led_classdev_unregister(leds[i].cdev); - pwm_channel_free(leds[i].pwmc); - } + while (i-- 0) { +

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] PWM LED driver

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:15:51 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:32:32 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:33:45 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + if (i 0) { + for (i = i - 1; i = 0;

Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] PWM LED driver

2008-01-28 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: - if (i 0) { - for (i = i - 1; i = 0; i--) { - led_classdev_unregister(leds[i].cdev); - pwm_channel_free(leds[i].pwmc); - } + while (i-- 0) { + 

Re: [GIT PULL] i2c updates for 2.6.25

2008-01-28 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Jon, On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:36:03 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: On 1/27/08, Jean Delvare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linus, Please pull the i2c subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.25 from: git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 i2c-for-linus The support for modalias loading of i2c modules

Re: [RFC] Per-thread getrusage

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:38:17 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the code was using find_task_by_vpid() then OK (I guess). But it is Yup, find_task_by_vpid() will find the proper (i.e. in your namespace) task. looking the tids up in the init_pid_ns.

Kernel is not booting.............

2008-01-28 Thread ManojKwal
Greetings! System details: Board: DTSP-ARM926Ej-S(new board) Cross-toolchain: ELDK4.1 Linux kernel: 2.6.18 u-boot: 1.1.6 I sucessfully port u-boot on board...But when i boot the kernel it stuck in mid.The complete log is following: DRM-Engine # bootm 0x8 ##

<    6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   >