Re: High wake up latencies with FAIR_USER_SCHED

2008-01-28 Thread Guillaume Chazarain
Unfortunately it seems to not be completely fixed, with this script: #!/usr/bin/python import os import time SLEEP_TIME = 0.1 SAMPLES = 5 PRINT_DELAY = 0.5 def print_wakeup_latency(): times = [] last_print = 0 while True: start = time.time() time.sleep(SLEEP_TIME)

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

2008-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: H. Peter Anvin wrote: and we already have to have code to synchronize the PGDs on !PAE and the PMDs on Xen (although that was supposedly getting fixed). No, I don't have any plans there. Xen will continue to require non-shared kernel pmd, at least for a 32-bit

Re: Fwd: show label for swap partition.

2008-01-28 Thread Zan Lynx
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 14:58 -0500, Jason Price wrote: > I apologize if this is the wrong forum. Please CC me on replies. > > A admin accidentally deleted the swap line from the fstab file. We > mount the swap filesystem via labels. However, there seems to be no > way to list the label on an

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

2008-01-28 Thread Joachim Deguara
Quick history, this is a harmless patch that got dropped by Andi as a mixup to dropping another patch of mine that was made obsolete by Yinghai. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/559581 -Joachim -- x86: add PCI IDs to k8topology_64.c This just adds the PCI IDs of AMD's

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

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
H. Peter Anvin wrote: and we already have to have code to synchronize the PGDs on !PAE and the PMDs on Xen (although that was supposedly getting fixed). No, I don't have any plans there. Xen will continue to require non-shared kernel pmd, at least for a 32-bit host. I think the point is

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:22:04PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > The structure device_driver(in device.h)

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Richard Heck wrote: > Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure it's > > not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? > I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or someone, > could explain

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2008-01-28 14:56:33, 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,

Fwd: show label for swap partition.

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Price
I apologize if this is the wrong forum. Please CC me on replies. A admin accidentally deleted the swap line from the fstab file. We mount the swap filesystem via labels. However, there seems to be no way to list the label on an existing swap partition, via the command line swap tools (mkswap,

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Heck
Andrey Borzenkov wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Daniel Barkalow wrote: Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or someone, could

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-28 Thread Theodore Tso
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 will > respond to SIGDANGER by closing

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

2008-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! /* * Swap suspend & friends need this for resume because things like the intel-agp * driver might have split up a kernel 4MB mapping. */ -char __nosavedata swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE] +char swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE] thanks, applied. Sorry, this is subtle and I've

Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5)

2008-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Doug Maxey wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:51 EST, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_ibft); Is this x86-specific? Are suitable Kconfig dependencies in place? Originally I had it to be x86-specific but was told that I should make it all platforms since the IBFT is platform

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[WATCHOG] v2.6.24 watchdog patches

2008-01-28 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Linus, Please pull from 'master' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git This will update the following files:

Re: at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread trimarchi
Hi, > On Monday 28 January 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:15:00 +0100 >> michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > I implement a little patch (ndr just for a try) for the atmel serial >> > driver atmel_serial.c to wakeup the system when it is in suspend-ram >>

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Ingo Molnar - Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:01:49PM +0100] | | * Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > > Are kobjects protected against accidental copying? If not add | > > to the 'magic value' too, and check that - it becomes | > > copying-resistent that way and has the same cost to check.

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

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > /* > > > * Swap suspend & friends need this for resume because things like the > > > intel-agp > > > * driver might have split up a kernel 4MB mapping. > > > */ > > > -char __nosavedata swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE] > > > +char swsusp_pg_dir[PAGE_SIZE] > > > > thanks, applied.

Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V1

2008-01-28 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:04:43AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > So I'd like to know what can we do to help to merge the 4 patches from > > Christoph in mainline, I'd appreciate comments on them so we can help > > to address any outstanding

[PATCH] synclink_gt fix missed serial input signal changes

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Fulghum
Fix missed serial input signal changes caused by rereading the serial status register during interrupt processing. Now processing is performed on original status register value. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c2008-01-24 16:58:37.0

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >> >Richard Heck wrote: >> >> Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> >>> Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure >> >>> it's

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

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 12:33 -0600, Steve French wrote: > On Jan 28, 2008 2:17 AM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I completely agree. If one thread writes A and another writes B then the > > > kernel should record either A or B, not ((A & 0x) | (B & > > > 0x))

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: mention email-clients.txt in SubmittingPatches

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Jackson
Randy wrote: > Does Sylpheed IMAP do filtering for you? > > It does not according to the Sylpheed FAQ, but the FAQ is > extremely out of date. You are correct that the Sylpheed FAQ, such as at: http://sylpheeddoc.sourceforge.net/en/faq/faq-1.html states: 1.8 Q08 Does Sylpheed have

Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5)

2008-01-28 Thread Doug Maxey
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:51 EST, Konrad Rzeszutek wrote: > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_ibft); > > > > Is this x86-specific? Are suitable Kconfig dependencies in place? > > Originally I had it to be x86-specific but was told that I should make it all > platforms since the IBFT is platform

Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5)

2008-01-28 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
On Sunday 27 January 2008 01:01:23 you wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:06:29 -0400 Konrad Rzeszutek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: Hey Andrew, > > > > Please add this patch along with Greg KH's kobject fixes. > > erm, OK. But I don't think I'm the appropriate conduit for iscsi paches. > > By

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-28 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > It's been discussed before, but I suspect the main reason why it was > never done is no one submitted a patch. Also, the problem is actually > a pretty complex one. There are a couple of different stages where > you might want to send an alert to processes: > > * Data is starting to

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Ingo Molnar - Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:01:49PM +0100] | | * Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > > Are kobjects protected against accidental copying? If not add | > > to the 'magic value' too, and check that - it becomes | > > copying-resistent that way and has the same cost to check.

Re: kobject oops with maple bus

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:41:49AM -, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > 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

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

2008-01-28 Thread Nathan Lynch
Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a member struct > > > > > driver_private which > > > > > contains the

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > >Richard Heck wrote: > >> Daniel Barkalow wrote: > >>> Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure > >>> it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? > >> > >>

Re: [PATCH update] firewire: fix "kobject_add failed for fw* with -EEXIST"

2008-01-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Jarod Wilson wrote: > Looks straight-forward enough, and I'll give these a spin shortly and see if > I > can reproduce the situation I was hitting with my raid array... As far as the naming of devices is concerned, the bug and the necessary fix are entirely obvious. But the interaction with

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greeting; >> >> 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

Re: [PATCH] Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc - working version - Addon patch 3

2008-01-28 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 19:07 +0100, Rene Herman wrote: > On 28-01-08 17:04, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > Can you try these two "on top" patches pls. > > Thought I could, but my machine begs to differ... > > === > pnp: the driver 'cs4236_isapnp' has been registered > cs4236_isapnp 01:01.00:

[PATCH 11/18] MMC: OMAP: Abort stuck commands

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When a card is removed while it is being accessed, a command can get stuck so that no timeout or end of command interrupt ever occurs. The command getting stuck is almost always CDM12, but also the other commands can get stuck. Catch a stuck command with a

[PATCH 10/18] MMC: OMAP: General cleanup for MMC multislot support

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> General code cleanup, modifications at some dev_* functions and other hacks at mmc_omap_irq() for MMC multislot support. Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: >Richard Heck wrote: >> Daniel Barkalow wrote: >>> Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure >>> it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? >> >> I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if

[PATCH 18/18] MMC: OMAP: Do not busy wait for end of command for ever

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The limit was a fixed 100k limit in the busy loop, which is not accurate. It would better to have time limit for the worst case which occurs when sending 80 cycles at 400 kHz and takes about 200 microseconds, so limit the max time spend in the busy loop

[PATCH 15/18] MMC: OMAP: Move failing command abortion to workqueue

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Abort failed command from workqueue rather than from an interrupt, allowing longer delays in abortion. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/mmc/host/omap.c | 82 --- 1 files changed,

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Jackson
Max wrote: > Also "CPU sets" seem to mostly deal with the scheduler domains. True - though "cpusets" (no space ;) sched_load_balance flag can be used to see that some CPUs are not in any scheduler domain, which is equivalent to not having the scheduler run on them. -- I won't

[PATCH 17/18] MMC: OMAP: Start new commands from work queue instead of irq

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use work queues for starting new commands instead of starting them directly from irq handler. The command scheduling needs to be delayed a bit for some cards which should not be done from an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH 14/18] MMC: OMAP: Use tasklet instead of workqueue for cover switch notification

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The cover waitqueue is occasionally scheduled twice from timer and the interrupt and oops follows. It would have been possible to fix this problem with spinlocks but using tasklet was a dropin sloution with no need for locking. This path also adds some

[PATCH 16/18] MMC: OMAP: Lazy clock shutdown

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MMCA spec says the mmc clock should be kept running for at least 8 cycles after the last RW request. Ensure this with lazy clock disable after a request, or with an explicit delay before switching a slot. Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 13/18] MMC: OMAP: Check the get_cover_state function pointer if not set

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Kyungmin Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If the get_cover_state is not set, it occurs the oops. Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/mmc/host/omap.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git

[PATCH 12/18] MMC: OMAP: Using setup_timer instead of init_timer

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Using setup_timer() instead of init_timer() on omap.c file. Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/mmc/host/omap.c | 14 -- 1 files changed, 4

[PATCH 09/18] MMC: OMAP: Power functions modified to MMC multislot support

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Modifications at power functions to MMC multislot support. This patch also move board-specific code out of MMC OMAP driver. Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren

[PATCH 08/18] MMC: OMAP: Fix timeout calculation for MMC multislot support

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix the data timeout calculation for MMC multislot support. Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL

[PATCH 05/18] MMC: OMAP: Introduce new multislot structure and change driver to use it

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Introduce new MMC multislot structure and change driver to use it. Note that MMC clocking is now enabled in mmc_omap_select_slot() and disabled in mmc_omap_release_slot(). Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL

[PATCH 01/18] MMC: OMAP: Include missing from previous merging

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch adds an include missing from previous merging mainline tree into linux-omap tree. Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/mmc/host/omap.c |1 + 1 files

[PATCH 06/18] MMC: OMAP: Add back cover switch support

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch adds back MMC cover switch support in a way that supports multiple slots. Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Lavinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony

[PATCH 02/18] MMC: OMAP: Remove extra divisor increase

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As noted by Kyungmin Park, the divisor calculation has an unnecessary increase. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/mmc/host/omap.c |1 - 1 files changed, 0

[PATCH 07/18] MMC: OMAP: New release dma and abort xfer functions

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> New functions to support MMC multislot: mmc_omap_release_dma() and mmc_omap_abort_xfer(). Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Carlos Eduardo Aguiar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

[PATCH 04/18] MMC: OMAP: Remove cover switch handling to allow adding multislot support

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch removes the MMC cover switch handling temporarily to make following multislot patches cleaner. MMC cover switch handling will be added back in later patches after adding basic multislot support. Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[PATCH 03/18] MMC: OMAP: Fix the BYTEBLOCK capability removal

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
From: Francisco Alecrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> According with commit 255d01af9a990fd5166f04ed0cc0b30b7b67e81e from Linux-OMAP tree, the BYTEBLOCK capability was removed by Pierre Ossman. MMC_CAP_BYTEBLOCK is not defined causing the compile error: drivers/mmc/host/omap.c: In function

[PATCH 00/18] MMC: OMAP: Sync MMC OMAP driver with mainline tree

2008-01-28 Thread Carlos Aguiar
Hi Pierre, Tony and folks, The patch series that follows is a synchronization of MMC OMAP driver from Linux-OMAP tree into mainline tree. Basically, it brings MMC multislot support for OMAP boards with one slot (like H2 1611, H3 1710) or two slots (like H4 2420 and N800). Others boards supported

Re: [RFC] some page can't be migrated

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > We call something(GFP_KERNEL) under rcu_read_lock()? I've lost track of > the myriad flavours of rcu which we purport to support, but I don't think > they'll all like us blocking under rcu_read_lock(). > > We _won't_ block, because

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Jeff Garzik
Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting; 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 action 0x2 frozen Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel:

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote: >> [ 64.037975] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 >> [ 64.038102] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x65 >> [ 64.038227] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:58:89:3d:07/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma >> 45056 in [ 64.038229] res

[PATCH] Introduce softpanic V.2

2008-01-28 Thread Bodo Eggert
Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a soft panic, which does not stop the system completely. You can still scroll the screen and read the messages. Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Fixed: s/SOFTPANIC/CONFIG_SOFTPANIC/ I did not implement shutting down

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Jackson
Max wrote: > So far it seems that extending cpu_isolated_map > is more natural way of propagating this notion to the rest of the kernel. > Since it's very similar to the cpu_online_map concept and it's easy to > integrated > with the code that already uses it. If it were just realtime support,

Re: [patch 0/4] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V1

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > So I'd like to know what can we do to help to merge the 4 patches from > Christoph in mainline, I'd appreciate comments on them so we can help > to address any outstanding issue! There are still some pending issues (RCU troubles). I will post V2

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greeting; >> >> 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

[PATCH] Add iSCSI IBFT support (v0.4.5) - fixes to the header files.

2008-01-28 Thread Konrad Rzeszutek
This patch (v0.4.5) adds /sysfs/firmware/ibft/[initiator|targetX|ethernetX] directories along with text properties which export the the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table (iBFT) structure. What is iSCSI Boot Firmware Table? It is a mechanism for the iSCSI tools to extract from the machine NICs the iSCSI

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are kobjects protected against accidental copying? If not add > > to the 'magic value' too, and check that - it becomes > > copying-resistent that way and has the same cost to check. (which is > > negligible anyway) > > Oh, that's a very cool idea, I

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting; 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 action 0x2 frozen Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel:

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: > >> [PATCH] [CPUISOL] Support for workqueue isolation > > > > The thing about workqueues is that they should only be woken on a CPU if > > something on that CPU accessed them. IOW, the workqueue on a CPU handles > > work that was called by

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Max Krasnyanskiy
Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:34 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:59:10AM -0600, Paul Jackson wrote: Thanks for the CC, Peter. Thanks from me too. Max wrote: We've had scheduler support for CPU isolation ever since O(1) scheduler went it. I'd like to

NULL pointer in nvidiafb initialisation (manual modprobe)

2008-01-28 Thread Bruno Prémont
While booting a nforce (first generation) based computer with udev module loading disabled and loading nvidiafb.ko later on from console (modprobe nvidiafb) I experience the following trace. This does not happen every time nor does it happen when nvidiafb gets loaded by udev. Kernel is 2.6.24

Re: [PATCH update] firewire: fix "kobject_add failed for fw* with -EEXIST"

2008-01-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Jarod Wilson wrote: > We may have another issue there though, as when this happened to me, the md > layer apparently never noticed (after ~6 hours) that one of the array members > had disappeared -- not sure if that's firewire's fault or md's though... This > will presumably avoid this

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
Gene Heskett wrote: Greeting; 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 action 0x2 frozen Jan 27 19:42:11 coyote kernel:

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Richard Heck wrote: > Daniel Barkalow wrote: >> Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure >> it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? > I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or > someone, could explain in moderate detail how

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix usage of .section .sched.text in assembler code

2008-01-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:13:34AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > It would be better to have a definition we could use from assembler > > code but I did not find a suitable header file for it. > > hm, include/asm-x86/linkage.h? No - it is for general use so it should live in include/linux/*

Re: at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:21:57 -0800 David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What will AVR32 (AP7) need to do, when it supports system sleep states? Not sure. The PIOs seem to require a clock in order to detect a pin change, so I don't think we can enter very deep sleep states if we want to be

Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > > No you cannot do that because there are still callbacks that come later. > > The invalidate_all may lead to invalidate_range() doing nothing for this > > mm. The ops notifier and the freeing of the structure has to wait until > > release(). > > Could

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Max Krasnyanskiy
Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:59:10AM -0600, Paul Jackson wrote: Thanks for the CC, Peter. Thanks from me too. Max wrote: We've had scheduler support for CPU isolation ever since O(1) scheduler went it. I'd like to extend it further to avoid kernel activity on those CPUs

Re: [PATCHv3 2.6.25] i2c: adds support for i2c bus on Freescale CPM1/CPM2 controllers

2008-01-28 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Hi Bryan, >> + >> + /* register new adapter to i2c module... */ >> + >> + result = i2c_add_adapter(>adap); > > As I was pointed before, please use the new style i2c driver interface: >

Re: [PATCH 41/49] ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4

2008-01-28 Thread Eric Sandeen
The latest version of the mballoc patch in the ext4dev git patch queue has a potential uninitialized use: CC [M] fs/ext4/mballoc.o fs/ext4/mballoc.c: In function ‘ext4_mb_free_blocks’: fs/ext4/mballoc.c:4408: warning: ‘bitmap_bh’ may be used uninitialized in this function There are 2 gotos

Re: [PATCH] block: look up block device path in sysfs

2008-01-28 Thread Dan Williams
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 13:22 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:04:51PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: > > Given an fd on a block device, returns a string like > > > > /block/sda/sda1 > > > > which can be used to find related information in /sys. > > > > Ideally we

Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > But what if the caller is already holding the mmap_sem? Why force the > acquire into this function? Since we are dealing with a semaphore/mutex, Then you need to call __register_mmu_notifier. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Max Krasnyanskiy
Paul Jackson wrote: Thanks for the CC, Peter. Ingo - see question at end of message. Max wrote: We've had scheduler support for CPU isolation ever since O(1) scheduler went it. I'd like to extend it further to avoid kernel activity on those CPUs as much as possible. I recently added the

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:57:36PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have added a lot more "robustness" checks to the kobject core now, > > see the lkml messages about the maple bus for examples of where it is > > catching real problems already. And

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Max Krasnyanskiy
Hi Peter, Peter Zijlstra wrote: [ You really ought to CC people :-) ] I was not sure who though :) Do we have a mailing list for scheduler development btw ? Or it's just folks that you included in CC ? Some of the latest scheduler patches brake things that I'm doing and I'd like to make them

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

2008-01-28 Thread Steve French
On Jan 28, 2008 2:17 AM, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I completely agree. If one thread writes A and another writes B then the > > kernel should record either A or B, not ((A & 0x) | (B & > > 0x)) > > The problem is pretty nasty unfortunately. To solve it

Re: [Patch v2] Make PCI extended config space (MMCONFIG) a driver opt-in

2008-01-28 Thread Tony Camuso
Greg, Have you given Grant's suggestion any further consideration? I'd like to know how the MMCONFIG issues discussed in this thread are going to be handled upstream. I have a patch implemented in RHEL 5.2, but I would rather have the upstream patch implemented, whatever it is. Grant Grundler

Re: 2.6.24-rt1: timing problems (was [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes)

2008-01-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 05:46 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 17:59 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > > > Hi Ingo... back to testing. > > History: > > > > 2.6.23.x + rt has not been very usable for audio applications. > > 2.6.24-rt1: same so far. > > > > Why: Jack

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:16:48AM +0100, Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for answering so late, I'm only tracking netdev and ppc mailing list. > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: > > > The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a member struct > > > driver_private

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for answering so late, I'm only tracking netdev and ppc mailing list. > > > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: > > > > The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a

Re: git-x86 oopses in acpi_ps_peek_opcode

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:11:13PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > do you still see that crash? > > > > New the second oops in > > allocate_threshold_blocks->sysfs_add_file->kobject_uevent_env happens > > (see other mail) > > that's a Linus -git

Re: at91sam9260 wakeup on serial port

2008-01-28 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 28 January 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:15:00 +0100 > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > I implement a little patch (ndr just for a try) for the atmel serial > > driver atmel_serial.c to wakeup the system when it is in suspend-ram state. > > I

Re: [2.6.24-rc6-mm1]Build failure in drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:10:48PM -0600, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for answering so late, I'm only tracking netdev and ppc mailing list. > > > > On Thursday 10 January 2008 18:34, Greg KH wrote: > > > > The structure device_driver(in device.h) has a

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Richard Heck
Daniel Barkalow wrote: Can you switch back to old IDE to get your work done (and to make sure it's not a hardware issue that's developed recently)? I think it'd be really, REALLY helpful to a lot of people if you, or someone, could explain in moderate detail how this might be done. I tried

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
[ 64.037975] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 64.038102] ata1.00: BMDMA stat 0x65 [ 64.038227] ata1.00: cmd c8/00:58:89:3d:07/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 45056 in [ 64.038229] res 51/40:58:8b:3d:07/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) [

Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable

2008-01-28 Thread Frederik Himpe
On ma, 2008-01-28 at 12:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > > > > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that

Re: git-x86 oopses in acpi_ps_peek_opcode

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > do you still see that crash? > > New the second oops in > allocate_threshold_blocks->sysfs_add_file->kobject_uevent_env happens > (see other mail) that's a Linus -git problem, the upstream kobject changes - try Greg's and Yinghai Lu's patch below,

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

2008-01-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:19:29 +0100 David Sterba wrote: [resending due to send problems, sorry about any dups] > Hi Linus, > > I'm submitting driver for IPWireless PC Card modem for inclusion to 2.6.25. > > The driver has been in -mm series as ipwireless_cs.git tree for > some time and has

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 v2

2008-01-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tried it, it worked successfully! With stock kernel, previous way I had to use it was mem=8832M and top showed this: top - 18:53:52 up 1 min, 2 users, load average: 1.03, 0.30, 0.10 Tasks: 169 total, 1

Re: [PATCH] Allocate pnp resources dynamically via krealloc - working version - Addon patch 1

2008-01-28 Thread Rene Herman
On 28-01-08 17:04, Thomas Renninger wrote: Can you try these two "on top" patches pls. Thought I could, but my machine begs to differ... === pnp: the driver 'cs4236_isapnp' has been registered cs4236_isapnp 01:01.00: driver attached cs4236_isapnp 01:01.02: driver attached cs4236_isapnp

patch pm-export-device_pm_schedule_removal.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2008-01-28 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: PM: Export device_pm_schedule_removal to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is pm-export-device_pm_schedule_removal.patch This tree can be found at

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: > I believe at this point, its moot. I captured quite a few instances of that > error message while rebooting the last time, all of which occurred long > before I logged in and did a startx (I boot to runlevel 3 here), so the > kernel was NOT tainted

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: fix runtime error in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_amd_64.c

2008-01-28 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have added a lot more "robustness" checks to the kobject core now, > see the lkml messages about the maple bus for examples of where it is > catching real problems already. And the kobject debugging code is now > "unified", printing out everything in

Re: git-x86 oopses in acpi_ps_peek_opcode

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:34:49PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > git-x86 tip 5b838c0d9d7269eb4d21532da126b3c90db46c67 with x86-64 defconfig > > oopses on boot with > > > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at c20001815000 > > IP: []

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