Re: [BUG] io-scheduler : spinlock deadlock

On Thu, Jan 31 2008, Dave Young wrote: > While building kernel, lockdep detected spinlock deaklock and after a > while the system hung. > > Attached is the screenshot. Fixed by commit 149a051f82d2b3860fe32fa182dbc83a66274894 yesterday, just updated your kernel. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] mm: MADV_WILLNEED implementation for anonymous memory

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 14:40 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:28:59 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Implement MADV_WILLNEED for anonymous pages by walking the page tables and > > starting asynchonous swap cache reads for all encountered swap pages. > >

[Kbuild] How to clean a particular directory ?

Hello, I'd like to clean a particular directory in the kernel tree. I tried several things such as: $ make drivers/char clean $ make -f scripts/Makefile.clean obj=drivers/char But it doesn't work. Could anybody give me a hint ? Thanks -- Francis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 05/15] IPC/semaphores: remove one unused parameter from semctl_down()

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Pierre Peiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> semctl_down() takes one unused parameter: semnum. This patch proposes to get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Pierre Peiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ipc/sem.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3

Re: [PATCH 6/6] s390: Use generic percpu linux-2.6.git

On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:53 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Change s390 percpu.h to use asm-generic/percpu.h > > do the s390 maintainer agree with this change (Acks please), and has it > been tested on s390? Now I'm confused. The patch has been a

Re: about relocs.c on x86

Yinghai Lu wrote: why not rename relocs.c to relocs_32.c? Because we're trying to get rid of all the _32 and _64 files? -- Chris -- 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.

Re: [PATCH 2/5] x86: c_p_a clflush_cache_range fix

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 08:40 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thursday 31 January 2008 08:36:02 Huang, Ying wrote: > > Because in i386 early boot stage, boot_cpu_data may be not available, > > which makes clflush_cach_range() into infinite loop, which is called > > by change_page_attr(). This patch fix

Re: [RFC v2 2/5] dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface

On Wednesday 30 January 2008, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > > > > Example: USB tends to use one packet per "frame" and have the DMA > > > > request signal mean "give me the next frame". It's sometimes been > > > > very important to use use the tuning options to avoid some on-chip > > > > race condi

Re: [2.6 patch] remove smbfs

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:30:55 -0600 "Steve French" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 7:13 PM, Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:47:17 +0200 > > > > > > > In addition, cifs cannot completely replace smbfs atm. > > > > > > > Even todays sold NAS-boxes (often

Re: Purpose of numa_node?

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:48:13PM -0500, Chris Snook wrote: > While pondering ways to optimize I/O and swapping on large NUMA machines, I > noticed that the numa_node field in struct device isn't actually used > anywhere. We just have a couple dozen lines of code to conditionally > create a sy

about relocs.c on x86

why not rename relocs.c to relocs_32.c? it is only used for 32 bit, even it is host app. YH -- 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 F

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