[BUG] 2.6.24 net/core/dev.c:1416 skb_gso_segment()

2008-01-28 Thread Leonardo Baldelli
WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1416 skb_gso_segment() Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: P2.6.24 #1 Call Trace: IRQ [811c4496] [811c4736] [81028c39] [811d24b4] [811c6e18] [811e1163] [88603d35] [8103aa24] [811f1e4a]

Re: kbuild: Preparing for merge window

2008-01-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:04:22PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:58:13 +0100 Sam Ravnborg wrote: The following is the list of patches queued up for the merge window at the moment. I have during the last week done several modpost changes to make section ismatch

[patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
The invalidation of address ranges in a mm_struct needs to be performed when pages are removed or permissions etc change. Most of the VM address space changes can use the range invalidate callback. invalidate_range() is generally called with mmap_sem held but no spinlocks are active. If

[patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks for subsystems with rmap

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
Callbacks to remove individual pages if the subsystem has an rmap capability. The pagelock is held but no spinlocks are held. The refcount of the page is elevated so that dropping the refcount in the subsystem will not directly free the page. The callbacks occur after the Linux rmaps have been

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

2008-01-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 28 of January 2008, 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

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

2008-01-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 27 2008 15:38, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: Subject: [PATCH 3/5] Module: check to see if we have a built in module with the same name 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

Re: [PATCH] firewire: fail open() quickly if the node doesn't exist anymore

2008-01-28 Thread Stefan Richter
Jarod Wilson wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2008 12:21:56 pm Stefan Richter wrote: Scenario: Process A keeps the character device file of node N open. N is being unplugged. File /dev/fwN won't be destroyed as long as A doesn't close it. Now, process B opens /dev/fwN as well. Previously it

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Net: e100, fix iomap mem accesses

2008-01-28 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 01/28/2008 11:31 PM, Kok, Auke wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: Please resend when convenient. Maybe more luodly or something, I dunno. just repost to me and Jeff and I'll pick it up this week if Jeff does not. Sent few hours ago, you should had received a copy, hadn't you? -- To unsubscribe

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:38 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: btw: I'm cross posting this to lkml and debian-user,... hope nobody feels offended :-) How much RAM is in your machine? There's a known problem with sata_nv ADMA with ATAPI devices and over 4GB of

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi everybody. I've just bought and installed a LG GGW-H20L Blu-Ray burner,... This is an SATA device, I'm running a 2.6.23.10 kernel (not the Debian version) on Debian sid (AMD64) and I use the proprietary nvidia drivers (169.07). The system is an Dual (!)

Re: [LTP] [TEST] : LTP Build failure on 2.6.24 kernel

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 28 January 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:21:01PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:43:16PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 28,

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:32 -0800, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: Just this patches. RT patches cannot achieve what I needed. Even RTAI/Xenomai can't do that. For example I have separate tasks with hard deadlines that must be enforced in 50usec kind of range and basically no idle time

Re: [PATCH 3/7] X86: Fix trailing statements should be on next line

2008-01-28 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Paolo, On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: Fix trailing statements should be on next line -if ( partial_status SW_C3 ) printk(SW: condition bit 3\n); -if ( partial_status SW_C2 ) printk(SW: condition bit 2\n); -if ( partial_status SW_C1 )

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:38 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: btw: I'm cross posting this to lkml and debian-user,... hope nobody feels offended :-) How much RAM is in your machine? There's a known problem with sata_nv ADMA with ATAPI

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

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
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 work in this case. I just

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:47 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Nope, I/we are still trying to figure out how to fix this properly.. I see :-) Uhm is there a bugreport opened, so that I can trace your efforts? Or would you be so kind to inform me when you have a patch an Linus accepted it? :-) btw:

[PATCH 2.6.24] irq: patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel ICH10 LPC Controller DeviceID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/arch/x86/pci/irq.c.orig2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24/arch/x86/pci/irq.c 2008-01-28 14:58:22.0 -0800 @@ -571,6 +571,10 @@

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Gene Heskett wrote: And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted a couple of times now, here's another: [0.00] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [0.00] If you got timer trouble try acpi_use_timer_override what the heck is that

[PATCH 2.6.24] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel ICH10 LPC and SMBus Controller DeviceID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/include/linux/pci_ids.h.orig 2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24/include/linux/pci_ids.h2008-01-28 15:05:41.0 -0800 @@ -2339,6

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

2008-01-28 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Steven Rostedt wrote: Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: No, this isn't the WARN_ON(). this does have the feel of being scheduling related,

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: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mark Lord wrote: .. Another way is to use the make_bad_sector utility that is included in the source tarball for hdparm-7.7, as follows: make_bad_sector --readback /dev/sda 474507 Apparently not in

Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-28 Thread Robin Holt
+void mmu_notifier_release(struct mm_struct *mm) ... + hlist_for_each_entry_safe_rcu(mn, n, t, + mm-mmu_notifier.head, hlist) { + if (mn-ops-release) + mn-ops-release(mn, mm); +

Re: cups slow on linux-2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Jeff Chua
2008/1/29 Krzysztof Oledzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Strange. You stated that 2.6.23.12 is OK, however above patch was included in 2.6.23.4: Are you 100% sure that 2.6.23.12 is OK? Sorry, my mistake. I had another system on 2.6.23.12 and was not OK, so I bisected starting from 2.6.23. git bisect

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 17:47 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: Nope, I/we are still trying to figure out how to fix this properly.. I see :-) Uhm is there a bugreport opened, so that I can trace your efforts? Or would you be so kind to inform me when you have a patch

Re: [PATCH] [NET]: Remove PowerPC code from fec.c

2008-01-28 Thread Greg Ungerer
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:33:45 +0100 From: Jochen Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Garzik, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Vitaly Bordug [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED], Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL

Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Hi Linus, I'd like you to pull the task_killable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various comments (and acks) have been taken into account. Andrew's had the first fifteen patches (up to, and

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: 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

DMA mapping on SCSI device?

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
We've got a bit of a problem with the sata_nv driver that I'm trying to figure out a decent solution to (hence all the lists CCed). This is the situation: The nForce4 ADMA hardware has 2 modes: legacy mode, where it acts like a normal ATA controller with 32-bit DMA limits, and ADMA mode where

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

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 8:04 AM, richard kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Frysinger wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 5:40 AM, Bryan Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 05:16 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: the trouble is that this file

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: .. And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted a couple of times now, here's another: [0.00] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [0.00] If you got timer trouble try

Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
G'day Linus, mate Could you pull the dmapool branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git please? All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various comments (and acks) have been taken into account. It's a fairly nice performance improvement, so

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

2008-01-28 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Jan 28, 2008 7:08 PM, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 8:04 AM, richard kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there is a lot of duplication in your file, but you could slim it down a bit if thats the only objection. i

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Max Krasnyanskiy
Daniel Walker wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:32 -0800, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: Just this patches. RT patches cannot achieve what I needed. Even RTAI/Xenomai can't do that. For example I have separate tasks with hard deadlines that must be enforced in 50usec kind of range and basically no

Re: [PATCH] Fix procfs task exe symlink

2008-01-28 Thread Matt Helsley
On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:29:37 -0800 Matt Helsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew, please consider this patch for inclusion in -mm. ... Can't say that we're particularly exercised about mvfs's problems, but the current way of

Re: [patch 05/26] mount options: fix afs

2008-01-28 Thread David Howells
Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Add a .show_options super operation to afs. Use generic_show_options() and save the complete option string in afs_get_sb(). Sounds reasonable, but I can't test it till I get back from LCA. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Grant Grundler
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:20:36PM -0800, Jason Gaston wrote: This patch adds the Intel ICH10 LPC and SMBus Controller DeviceID's. Jason, two questions: Have you submitted these to pciids.sf.net? Where are these used in the kernel? thanks, grant Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL

[PATCH 2.6.24] ahci: RAID mode SATA patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel ICH10 SATA RAID Controllers DeviceID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/drivers/ata/ahci.c.orig2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24/drivers/ata/ahci.c 2008-01-28 14:58:22.0 -0800 @@ -475,6 +475,8 @@

[PATCH 3 of 4] x86: pud_clear: only reload cr3 if necessary

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rather than unconditionally reloading cr3, only do so if the pud we're updating is within the active pgd. This eliminates TLB flushes most of the time. The performance-critical uses of pud_clear are during execve and exit, but in those cases cr3 is referring to some other pagetable. The only

[PATCH 4 of 4] x86: update reference for PAE tlb flushing

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Remove bogus reference to Pentium-II erratum A13 and point to the actual canonical source of information about what requirements x86 processors have for PAE pagetable updates. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h |6 --

[PATCH 0 of 4] x86: cleanups from pmd lifetime series

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Hi Ingo, Here's a followup set from that last batch of patches: 1. fix up the pgd_ctor merge, so that non-PAE will end up getting kernel mappings 2. revert optimise-pud_clear-cr3-reload 3. only do a cr3 reload if pud_clear is being used on the active pagetable 4. update documentation

[PATCH 2 of 4] x86: revert defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear()

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Revert defer cr3 reload when doing pud_clear() since I'm going to replace it. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/asm-x86/pgalloc_32.h |7 --- include/asm-x86/pgtable-3level.h | 21 ++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

[PATCH 1 of 4] x86: unify PAE/non-PAE pgd_ctor

2008-01-28 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
The constructors for PAE and non-PAE pgd_ctors are more or less identical, and can be made into the same function. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: William Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mm/pgtable_32.c | 58 +- 1 file

[PATCH 2.6.24] ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel ICH10 IDE mode SATA Controller DeviceID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c.orig2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24/drivers/ata/ata_piix.c 2008-01-28 14:58:22.0 -0800 @@ -263,6 +263,14

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Building this and installing it along with the appropriate initrd (which might be handled by Fedora's install scripts) Or mine, which I've been using for years. You're ahead of a surprising number of

RE: [PATCH 2.6.24] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Gaston, Jason D
-Original Message- From: Grant Grundler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:22 PM To: Gaston, Jason D Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux- [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] pci_ids: patch for

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

2008-01-28 Thread Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:26 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: 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

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

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 7:08 PM, Daniel Barkalow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you submit the XML files and the autogeneration code? The C file isn't really source. Not only is it big, it'll probably change around a whole lot when you make small changes

[PATCH 2.6.24] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel ICH10 SMBus Controller DeviceID's Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.orig 2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 2008-01-28 15:29:26.0 -0800 @@

Re: Udev coldplugging loads 8139too driver instead of 8139cp

2008-01-28 Thread Michael Tokarev
Frederik Himpe wrote: Linux 2.6.24 kernel gives the following messages when udev coldplugging loads the driver for my NIC: 8139too :00:0b.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 20) is an enhanced 8139C+ chip 8139too :00:0b.0: Use the 8139cp driver for improved performance and stability. There

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted a couple of times now, here's another: [0.00] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [0.00] If you got timer trouble try

[PATCH 2.6.24] hda_intel: ALSA HD Audio patch for Intel ICH10 DeviceID's

2008-01-28 Thread Jason Gaston
This patch adds the Intel ICH10 HD Audio Controller DeviceID's. Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux-2.6.24/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c.orig 2008-01-24 14:58:37.0 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c 2008-01-28 14:58:22.0 -0800 @@ -98,6 +98,7

Re: [2.6 patch] unexport sys_{open,read}

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:10:40AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: Now that they are unused we can finally unexport sys_{open,read}. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linus. any reason this is not in? fs/open.c |1 - fs/read_write.c |1 - 2 files changed, 2

Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:11:47 -0700 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day Linus, mate Could you pull the dmapool branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git please? The usual form is, I believe,

RE: [PATCH] Force enable HPET on (some?) ICH9 boards

2008-01-28 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
Patch looks good. If BIOS does not report HPET on more of such systems we may have to add other chipsets in ICH9 family (ICH9_8, ...) as well. Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Alistair John Strachan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

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

2008-01-28 Thread Roel Kluin
Carlos Aguiar wrote: From: Juha Yrjola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce new MMC multislot structure and change driver to use it. diff --git a/drivers/mmc/host/omap.c b/drivers/mmc/host/omap.c It could be that I misunderstand, but... @@ -897,19 +1037,106 @@ static const struct mmc_host_ops

Re: [patch 1/6] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-01-28 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: USE_AFTER_FREE!!! I made this same comment as well as other relavent comments last week. Must have slipped somehow. Patch needs to be applied after the rcu fix. Please repeat the other relevant comments if they are still relevant I thought I had

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: And so far no one has tried to comment on those 2 dmesg lines I've quoted a couple of times now, here's another: [0.00] Nvidia board detected. Ignoring ACPI timer override. [0.00] If you

Re: Udev coldplugging loads 8139too driver instead of 8139cp

2008-01-28 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:46:08 +0300 Michael Tokarev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frederik Himpe wrote: Linux 2.6.24 kernel gives the following messages when udev coldplugging loads the driver for my NIC: 8139too :00:0b.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 20) is an enhanced 8139C+ chip 8139too

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Building this and installing it along with the appropriate initrd (which might be handled by Fedora's install scripts) Or mine, which I've been using

Re: [CPUISOL] CPU isolation extensions

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 16:12 -0800, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: Not accurate enough and way too much overhead for what I need. I know at this point it probably sounds like I'm talking BS :). I wish I've released the engine and examples by now. Anyway let me just say that SW MAC has crazy

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: [...] Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and include it. Bingo! Thanks Robert, I'll try it again with that line commented. I wasn't aware of that

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: Building this and installing it along with the appropriate initrd (which might be handled by Fedora's

Re: Default Linux Capabilities default in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Matt LaPlante
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:12:01 -0600 Matt LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing a make oldconfig with the new 2.6.24 kernel. I came to the prompt for Default Linux Capabilities which defaults to No: --- Default Linux Capabilities (SECURITY_CAPABILITIES) [N/y/?] (NEW) ? ---

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: [...] Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and include it. Bingo! Thanks Robert, I'll try it again

[PATCH] SELinux: Fix double free in selinux_netlbl_sock_setsid()

2008-01-28 Thread Paul Moore
As pointed out by Adrian Bunk, commit 45c950e0f839fded922ebc0bfd59b1081cc71b70 caused a double-free when security_netlbl_sid_to_secattr() fails. This patch fixes this by removing the netlbl_secattr_destroy() call from that function since we are already releasing the secattr memory in

Re: [PATCH] correct inconsistent ntp interval/tick_length usage

2008-01-28 Thread john stultz
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:07 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: Hi, On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, john stultz wrote: This difference in calculation was causing the clocksource correction code to apply a correction factor to the clocksource so the two intervals were the same, however this results in the

[PATCH] x86_64: fix overlap between pagetable with bss section

2008-01-28 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] x86_64: fix overlap between pagetable with bss section one early crash on one 8 node 256g machine Command line: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8 initrd=kernel.org/mydisk11_x86_64.gz rw root=/dev/ram0 debug initcall_debug apic=debug acpi.debug_level=0x000f pci=routeirq ip=dhcp

Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:07:34PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: The usual form is, I believe, git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc.git dmapool Otherwise people get all confused and think it's an empty tree (like I just did). Sorry! There were no replies to v2 of

Re: Default Linux Capabilities default in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Matt LaPlante wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:12:01 -0600 Matt LaPlante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm doing a make oldconfig with the new 2.6.24 kernel. I came to the prompt for Default Linux Capabilities which defaults to No: --- Default Linux Capabilities

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

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 02:53:34PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Please send me patches, in a form that can be merged, along with a proper changelog entry, in the order in which you wish them to be applied, so I know exactly what changes you are referring to. I'll send each patch as a reply to this

Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:45:25 -0700 Matthew Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: afaik these patches have been tested by nobody except thyself? I've tested them myself, then I sent them to the perf team who ran the (4 hour long) benchmark, and they reported success. As with many patches these

PCI x86: always use conf1 to access config space below 256 bytes

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
PCI x86: always use conf1 to access config space below 256 bytes Thanks to Loic Prylli [EMAIL PROTECTED], who originally proposed this idea. Always using legacy configuration mechanism for the legacy config space and extended mechanism (mmconf) for the extended config space is a simple and very

Re: [PATCH 0/2] Relax restrictions on setting CONFIG_NUMA on x86

2008-01-28 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
here's a QuickStart: http://redhat.com/~mingo/x86.git/README Thanks! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at

[PATCH] Change pci_raw_ops to pci_raw_read/write

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
We want to allow different implementations of pci_raw_ops for standard and extended config space on x86. Rather than clutter generic code with knowledge of this, we make pci_raw_ops private to x86 and use it to implement the new raw interface -- raw_pci_read() and raw_pci_write().

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

2008-01-28 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:44:31 -0800 Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 01:32:06PM -0500, Tony Camuso wrote: 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

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
Gene Heskett wrote: .. That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also. .. The two programs operate entirely differently from each other, so it may still be worth trying the make_bad_sector utility there. dd goes through the regular kernel I/O calls, whereas make_bad_sector sends raw ATA commands

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

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 07:05:05PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: I think there's only one fundamental disagreement; and that is: do we think that things are now totally fixed and no new major issues will arrive after the fix yet another mmconfig thing patches are merged. If the answer is

Re: DMA mapping on SCSI device?

2008-01-28 Thread Grant Grundler
On Jan 29, 2008 11:08 AM, Robert Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The last solution I tried was to set the DMA mask on both ports to 32-bit on slave_configure when an ATAPI device is connected. However, this runs into complications as well. This is run on initialization and when trying to

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Lord
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: [...] Check the /etc/modprobe.conf file, a lot of distributions use this to generate the initrd. If there's references to pata_amd it'll try and include it. Bingo! Thanks

[git pull] Fix recent Ocfs2 breakage

2008-01-28 Thread Mark Fasheh
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 bottom of this e-mail. Embarassingly enough, I missed this while

Re: DMA mapping on SCSI device?

2008-01-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 06:08:44PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: The thought of using the SCSI struct device for DMA mapping was brought up at one point.. any thoughts on that? I believe this will work on some architectures and not others. Anything that uses include/asm-generic/dma-mapping.h

Re: struct cifs_dfs_referral_inode_operations is unused

2008-01-28 Thread Steven French
We have one DFS patch remaining to merge and then will need to do a cleanup patch Steve French Senior Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin phone: 512-838-2294 email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/28/2008 04:11 PM To Igor Mammedov

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

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
Joachim Deguara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick history, this is a harmless patch that got dropped by Andi as a mixup to It's not harmless. dropping another patch of mine that was made obsolete by Yinghai. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/559581 No that's not the correct

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

2008-01-28 Thread Harvey Harrison
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- arch/x86/mm/fault.c | 31 +-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c index e28cc52..2737493 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c +++

[PATCH] x86_64: fix overlap between pagetable with bss section v2

2008-01-28 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] x86_64: fix overlap between pagetable with bss section v2 one early crash on one 8 node 256g machine Command line: console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8 initrd=kernel.org/mydisk11_x86_64.gz rw root=/dev/ram0 debug initcall_debug apic=debug acpi.debug_level=0x000f pci=routeirq ip=dhcp

Re: [PATCH] SELinux: Fix double free in selinux_netlbl_sock_setsid()

2008-01-28 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:20:26 -0500 As pointed out by Adrian Bunk, commit 45c950e0f839fded922ebc0bfd59b1081cc71b70 caused a double-free when security_netlbl_sid_to_secattr() fails. This patch fixes this by removing the netlbl_secattr_destroy() call from

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

2008-01-28 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Monday 28 January 2008 07:48:06 pm Andi Kleen wrote: Joachim Deguara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quick history, this is a harmless patch that got dropped by Andi as a mixup to It's not harmless. dropping another patch of mine that was made obsolete by Yinghai.

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

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
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 static boot tables

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 11:35 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 January 2008, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Gene Heskett writes: On Monday 28 January 2008, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 09:17 +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: 1. Wrong mailing list; use linux-ide (@vger)

Re: down_killable implementations for every architecture

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote: As part of the TASK_KILLABLE changes, we're going to need down_killable(). Unfortunately, semaphores are implemented for every architecture, which we should probably fix at some point. It would be best to just change it now before doing

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: .. That's ok, dd seemed to do the job also. .. The two programs operate entirely differently from each other, so it may still be worth trying the make_bad_sector utility there. dd goes through the regular kernel I/O calls,

Re: [PATCH] correct inconsistent ntp interval/tick_length usage

2008-01-28 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, john stultz wrote: Regardless, current_tick_length() really is the base interval we're using in the error accumulation loop, so it seems the cleanest interface to use (just to avoid redundancy at least) when establishing the clocksource's interval length. Or do you

Re: [PATCH] Improve Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 01:09:59AM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote: * Make a remark about avoiding unnecessary changes in interfaces * Improve wording Well, improve is a bit judgemental :) @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Executive Summary You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not,

Re: [AUDIT]: Increase skb-truesize in audit_expand

2008-01-28 Thread David Miller
From: James Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:13:03 +1100 (EST) On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Herbert Xu wrote: Hi: [AUDIT]: Increase skb-truesize in audit_expand The recent UDP patch exposed this bug in the audit code. It was calling pskb_expand_head without increasing

Re: Problem with ata layer in 2.6.24

2008-01-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 28 January 2008, Kasper Sandberg wrote: [...] We have no way of debugging that module, so please try 2.6.24 without it. Sorry, I can't do this and have a working machine. The nv driver has suffered bit rot or something since the FC2 days when it COULD run a 19 crt at 1600x1200,

Re: [PATCH 0/32] ide-tape redux v1

2008-01-28 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi Bart, [...] the BKL in idetape_write_release() with finer-grained locking etc, probably also some pipeline improvements, removal of OnStream support, etc. but that'll come later. On-Stream support has been long gone but it seems that deprecation warning etc. managed to

Re: DMA mapping on SCSI device?

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
The ideal solution would be to do mapping against a different struct device for each port, so that we could maintain the proper DMA mask for each of them at all times. However I'm not sure if that's possible. I cannot imagine why it should be that difficult. The PCI subsystem could over a

[PATCH] [0/9] Latest GBPAGES patchkit for 2.6.25

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
This patchkit implements support for the 1GB pages of AMD Fam10h CPUs in the kernel direct mapping. Change to previous versions: - Ported to latest change_page_attr - kexec now works again - Ported to latest git-x86 - Minor cleanups. I believe this patchkit is ready for the 2.6.25 merge.

[PATCH] [1/9] Handle kernel near memory hole in clear_kernel_mapping

2008-01-28 Thread Andi Kleen
This was a long standing obscure problem in the relocatable kernel. The AMD GART driver needs to unmap part of the GART in the kernel direct mapping to prevent cache corruption. With the relocatable kernel it is in theory possible that the separate kernel text mapping straddles that area too.

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