[mm] Crashkernel memory reservation fails with 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

2008-02-04 Thread Sachin P. Sant
While trying to configure kdump with 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 [ on a x86-64 box ] i ran into this problem. Here is the snippet from dmesg during the failure. [ dmesg log attached ] early_ioremap(040e, 0002) = -02103442418 early_iounmap(82a0040e, 0002)

Where to send new pcmcia driver?

2008-02-04 Thread Kristoffer Ericson
Greetings, Im almost finished with my pcmcia driver for the h64461 chipset, it works fine just need to clean it up. Now looking at the MAINTAINER list it doesn't reference anyone special as the maintainer for pcmcia subsystem. So in short where should I send the patch? Also, I've tried on

Soft lockup 2.6.23.14-uc0

2008-02-04 Thread Doug Kehn
Hi All, I am observing kernel soft lockups when running network throughput tests with NUTTCP. The kernel is a stock 2.6.23 kernel with patches from uClinux.org. I have applied the incremental 2.6.23 patches to produce the resulting 2.6.23.14-uc0 kernel. This kernel is executing on a 266MHz

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 00/15] IPC: code rewrite + new functionalities

2008-02-04 Thread Benjamin Thery
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! * Patches 9 to 15 propose to add some functionalities, and thus are submitted here for RFC, about both the interest and their implementation. These functionalities are: - Two new control-commands: . IPC_SETID: to change an IPC's id. . IPC_SETALL:

Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

2008-02-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 10:53 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: commit 8d947344c47a40626730bb80d136d8daac9f2060 Author: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Jan 30 13:31:12 2008 +0100 x86: change write_idt_entry signature

Re: [patch] pci: pci_enable_device_bars() fix

2008-02-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Morton wrote: Actually I (and probably others) generally avoid cc'ing mailing lists on patch traffic. I spew out enough script-generated traffic as it is. You pretty much always ensure the driver author gets CC'd, which is exemplary :) Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this

What's about WiMAX?

2008-02-04 Thread Marc Donner
hi list, i have here a few wimax 802.16e zyxel pcmcia cards, which only work on windows. is anybody interrested in developing a driver for these wimax cards? regards Marc -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:27 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project simplicity doesn't matter much for you and you think it's fine to duplicate Linux page cache in the user space to keep

Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

2008-02-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 4, 2008 10:53 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: commit 8d947344c47a40626730bb80d136d8daac9f2060 Author: Glauber de Oliveira Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Jan 30 13:31:12 2008 +0100 x86: change write_idt_entry signature does the patch below ontop of x86.git#mm

Re: [PATCH 23/37] Suspend: Clean up Kconfig (V2)

2008-02-04 Thread Pavel Machek
On Thu 2008-01-31 23:36:54, Len Brown wrote: From: Johannes Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] This cleans up the suspend Kconfig and removes the need to declare centrally which architectures support suspend. All architectures that currently support suspend are modified accordingly. Signed-off-by:

Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

2008-02-04 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 3 2008 20:19, Petr Vandrovec wrote: sad to say, but f06e4ec... breaks booting the kernel in vmware (bisected). Booting just stops after Checking for 'hlt' instruction... commit f06e4ec1c15691b0cfd2397ae32214fa36c90d71 Author: Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed Jan 30

[PATCH 21/22] ide-tape: bump minor driver version

2008-02-04 Thread Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- drivers/ide/ide-tape.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c index 5c5..2e6198f 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-tape.c @@ -15,7

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2008-02-04 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi Bart, here are the pending ide-tape patches reworked which incorporate all review points raised so far. Several new patches are appended to the original series which i thought would be reasonable to sumbit along with the others. Also, i've applied ide-tape: dump gcw fields on error in

[Wireless, ath5k] 2.6.24-git13 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150

2008-02-04 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
git top: 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150 [ 399.582185] wpa_supplicant[4383]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp bf87a690 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000] [ 406.277199] wpa_supplicant[4384]: segfault at 30 ip 080697ca sp bfc13a30 error 4 in wpa_supplicant[8048000+4c000] [

[PATCH 2/2 (resend)] Get rid of the kill_pgrp_info() function

2008-02-04 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
There's only one caller left - the kill_pgrp one - so merge these two functions and forget the kill_pgrp_info one. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/sched.h |1 - kernel/signal.c | 21 -

[PATCH 1/2 (resend)] Clean up the kill_someting_info

2008-02-04 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
This is the first step (of two) in removing the kill_pgrp_info. All the users of this function are in kernel/signal.c, but all they need is to call __kill_pgrp_info() with the tasklist_lock read-locked. Fortunately, one of its users is the kill_something_info(), which already needs this lock in

Re: locking api self-test hanging

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:07:44 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With current mainline I'm getting intermittent hangs here: http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/p2033590.jpg with this config:

Re: [PATCH 02/22 -v7] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

2008-02-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
Hi Paul, First I want to say, Thank you, for taking the time to explain this in considerable detail. But I still have some minor questions. (Even though you already convinced me, but I still want full understanding ;-) On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote: Yep, you have

[patch 1/3] vfs: introduce perform_write in a_ops

2008-02-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce a new perform_write() address space operation. This is a single-call, bulk version of write_begin/write_end operations. It is only used in the buffered write path (write_begin must still be implemented), and not for in-kernel writes to pagecache.

[patch 2/3] fuse: clean up setting i_size in write

2008-02-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
From: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Extract common code for setting i_size in write functions into a common helper. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Index: linux/fs/fuse/file.c === ---

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
James Bottomley wrote: Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project simplicity doesn't matter much for you and you think it's fine to duplicate Linux page cache in the user space to keep the in-kernel part of the project as

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] LIO Target iSCSI/SE PS3-Linux / FC8 builds

2008-02-04 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hi Again, Almost forgot, I put the following RPMs that iscsi userspace tools rpms depends for LIO-console.pl and LIO-demo.sh: perl-Curses-1.15-1.fc6.ppc.rpm perl-IO-All-0.33-3.fc5.noarch.rpm perl-IO-String-1.08-1.2.fc5.rf.noarch.rpm http://linux-iscsi.org/builds/ps3-linux/ These should work,

Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-02-04 Thread mark gross
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:11:47PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox 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? All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various comments (and acks) have been

Re: [PATCH 0/9] firewire-sbp2: misc hotplug related patches

2008-02-04 Thread Stefan Richter
John Stoffel wrote: I've completely given up on my Firewire/USB external enclosure with a PL-3xxx chipset. Is it a variant whose firmware cannot be updated? Do you want it for further testing purposes? I'd be happy to ship it to you if you like. The offer is appreciated, but as mentioned

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

2008-02-04 Thread Pallipadi, Venkatesh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Morton Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 4:33 PM To: Toralf Förster Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: (ondemand) CPU governor regression between 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 On

[PATCH 3/4 v2] cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix

2008-02-04 Thread Cliff Wickman
Update cpuset documentation to match the October 2007 Fix cpusets update_cpumask changes that now apply changes to a cpusets 'cpus' allowed mask immediately to the cpus_allowed of the tasks in that cpuset. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Cliff Wickman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PATCH 2/4 v2] hotplug cpu move tasks in empty cpusets to parent various other fixes

2008-02-04 Thread Cliff Wickman
Various minor formatting and comment tweaks to Cliff Wickman's [PATCH_3_of_3]_cpusets__update_cpumask_revision.patch I had had iff, meaning if and only if in a comment. However, except for ancient mathematicians, the abbreviation iff was a tad too cryptic. Cliff changed it to if, presumably

[PATCH 1/4 v2] hotplug cpu move tasks in empty cpusets to parent node_online_map fix

2008-02-04 Thread Cliff Wickman
As of the October 2007 kernel/cpuset.c patch Memoryless nodes: Use N_HIGH_MEMORY for cpusets, cpuset nodes are relative to the nodes with (HIGH) memory, not relative to all nodes in node_online_map. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acked-by: Cliff Wickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:18:43AM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. Will this api work with the

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
Bart Van Assche wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 1:27 PM, Vladislav Bolkhovitin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project simplicity doesn't matter much for you and you think it's fine to duplicate Linux page cache in the user space to keep

Re: [PATCH 2/3] enhanced syscall ESTALE error handling (v2)

2008-02-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
In FUSE interrupts are sent to userspace, and the filesystem decides what to do with them. So it is entirely possible and valid for a filesystem to ignore an interrupt. If an operation was non-blocking (such as one returning an error), then there would in fact be no purpose in checking

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 21:38 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:56 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:16 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: So, James, what

Re: [PATCH 0/9] firewire-sbp2: misc hotplug related patches

2008-02-04 Thread John Stoffel
Stefan John Stoffel wrote: I've completely given up on my Firewire/USB external enclosure with a PL-3xxx chipset. Stefan Is it a variant whose firmware cannot be updated? No, it can be updated, and I have done that once before. It became a little more stable, but not much. I forget the

Re: [PATCH] Remove Barcelona Thermal Throttling

2008-02-04 Thread Russell Leidich
On Feb 3, 2008 11:20 PM, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:13:53PM -0800, Russell Leidich wrote: All, You can imagine my dismay when I recently learned that, after all our collective effort, hardware thermal throttling does not work reliably on Barcelona,

Re: [Kconfig {SM,E}] 2.6.24-git13 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150

2008-02-04 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
On 2/4/08, Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Oliver. On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:56:07PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: git top: 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150 ---8--- drivers/spi/Kconfig:156:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'SPI_PXA2XX'

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

2008-02-04 Thread Toralf Förster
At Monday 04 February 2008 Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote : This looks like is related to the report here http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0801.3/1260.html Can you try the workarounds on that thread and see whether the problem goes away. Yes, I already answered here :

Re: 20000+ wake-ups/second in 2.6.24. Bug?

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Lord
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:29:03 -0500 Mark Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: re: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9489 This just happened here again. Or at least I finally noticed that the fan on my notebook seemed to be running hard for much longer than usual.

Re: [PATCH 10/10] udf: constify udf_bitmap_lookup array

2008-02-04 Thread Jan Kara
On Sat 02-02-08 22:37:07, Marcin Slusarz wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:52:44PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: On Wed 30-01-08 22:04:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: udf_bitmap_lookup never changes, so constify it Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jan Kara [EMAIL

Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

2008-02-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:58:40PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: Ok. Andrea wanted the same because then he can void the begin callouts. Exactly. I hope the page-pin will avoid me having to serialize the KVM page fault against the start/end

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - ATA problem?

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Lord
Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 03 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe its the same, but lemme paste it for sure, yes: [ 26.339926] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs [ 26.340119] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1 [ 26.350129] ..MP-BIOS

Re: [Kconfig {SM,E}] 2.6.24-git13 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150

2008-02-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Oliver. On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:56:07PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: git top: 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150 ---8--- drivers/spi/Kconfig:156:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'SPI_PXA2XX' refers to undefined symbol 'PXA_SSP' WARNING:

[PATCH 1/2] sysfs: Allow removal of symlinks in the sysfs root

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Fasheh
Allow callers of sysfs_remove_link() to pass a NULL kobj, in which case sysfs_root will be used as the parent directory. This allows us to tear down top level symlinks created via sysfs_create_link(), which already has similar handling of a NULL parent object. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh [EMAIL

[PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb

2008-02-04 Thread Mark Fasheh
/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects. Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v5

2008-02-04 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: Right but that pin requires taking a refcount which we cannot do. GRU can use my patch without the pin. XPMEM obviously can't use my patch as my invalidate_page[s] are under the PT lock (a feature to fit GRU/KVM in the simplest way), this is why

Re: [PATCH 2/3] enhanced syscall ESTALE error handling (v2)

2008-02-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
I don't know what NFS does, but returning EINTR without actually canceling an operation in the server is generally not a good idea. This is what NFS has been doing, for several decades, and no one has complained yet. Is it really? Man nfs says something quite different (emphasis

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 6/9] atmel_serial: Split the interrupt handler

2008-02-04 Thread michael
Hi Haavard diff --git a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c b/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c index 477950f..c61fcc3 100644 --- a/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c +++ b/drivers/serial/atmel_serial.c @@ -337,9 +337,12 @@ atmel_buffer_rx_char(struct uart_port *port, unsigned int status, struct

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote: The way a user space solution should work is to schedule mmapped I/O from the backing store and then send this mmapped region off for target I/O. mmap'ing may avoid the copy, but the overhead of a mmap operation is quite often much *bigger* than

[PATCH] mmc: Handle suspend/resume in Ricoh MMC disabler (resent refreshed)

2008-02-04 Thread Frank Seidel
From: Philip Langdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] As pci config space is reinitialised on suspend/resume cycle, the disabler needs to work its magic at resume time. For symmetry this change also explicitly enables the controller at suspend time but it's not strictly necessary. Signed-off-by: Philip

Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

2008-02-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: I think the problem here is that the PCI BAR is bigger and spans the region reported by ACPI: Ok, then it doesn't help that it's not busy. In that case, the only real fix is to simply do the ACPI reservations *after* PCI probing. Which is what it

Re: [patch 00/27] 2.6.22-stable review

2008-02-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:30:28PM +0100, Oliver Pinter (Pint?r Oliv?r) wrote: On 2/2/08, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.22.17 release. There are 27 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:16 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project simplicity doesn't matter much for you and you think it's fine to duplicate Linux page cache in the user space to keep the

[PATCH 4/4 v2] hotplug cpu move tasks in empty cpusets - refinements

2008-02-04 Thread Cliff Wickman
Narrow the scope of callback_mutex in scan_for_empty_cpusets(). Avoid rewriting the cpus, mems of cpusets except when it is likely that we'll be changing them. Have remove_tasks_in_empty_cpuset() also check for empty mems. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.24-mm1 section type conflict cleanup

2008-02-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:52:23PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi Andrew, The 2.6.24-mm1 kernel build fails at many places with section type conflict build error. What arch? We have troubles with powerpc as pointed out by Al in another thread. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this

[patch 3/3] fuse: implement perform_write

2008-02-04 Thread Miklos Szeredi
From: Nick Piggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Introduce fuse_perform_write. With fusexmp (a passthrough filesystem), large (1MB) writes into a backing tmpfs filesystem are sped up by almost 4 times (256MB/s vs 71MB/s). [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - split into smaller functions - testing Signed-off-by: Nick

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:16 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project simplicity doesn't matter much for you and you think it's fine to duplicate Linux page cache in the

Re: What's about WiMAX?

2008-02-04 Thread Marc Donner
On Monday 04 February 2008, you wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:00:30PM +0100, Marc Donner wrote: i have here a few wimax 802.16e zyxel pcmcia cards, which only work on windows. is anybody interrested in developing a driver for these wimax cards? I might be interested. Do you hvae

Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

2008-02-04 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thursday 31 January 2008 05:50:13 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: I think so. There was one objection that it introduced a dependency on pnpacpi loading after PCI bus enumeration, though. Linus also suggested that pnpacpi could be marking the

[git pull] x86 updates

2008-02-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Find the shortlog below. 78 commits: most of them are fixes, cleanups and low-risk items. There is one group of higher-risk items: the now pretty much rounded up

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread David Dillow
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 14:53 +0100, Bart Van Assche wrote: Another issue I have to look further into is that dd and xdd report different results for very large block sizes ( 1 MB). Be aware that xdd reports 1 MB as 100, not 1048576. Though, it looks like dd is the same, so that's probably

[PATCH 1/2] change clone_flags type to u64

2008-02-04 Thread Cedric Le Goater
From: Cedric Le Goater [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is a preliminary patch changing the clone_flags type to 64bits for all the routines called by do_fork(). It prepares ground for the next patch which introduces an enhanced version of clone(). This is work in progress. All conversions might not be

DMAR EHCI failures

2008-02-04 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi, I have this in dmesg: DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr ee1512000 DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set PCI-DMA: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [00:1d.7] fault addr 7d5f DMAR:[fault reason 06] PTE Read

Re: What's about WiMAX?

2008-02-04 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Marc, i have here a few wimax 802.16e zyxel pcmcia cards, which only work on windows. is anybody interrested in developing a driver for these wimax cards? are these PCMCIA or CardBus cards. Or do they actually end up exposing an USB host controller? Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe

Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

2008-02-04 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 4, 2008 11:36 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great! I've added: you did all the hard work by bisecting it down so fast - fixing it was easy :) Ingo, Took me the whole of Friday night. I thought it was just me and my vmware, so I didn't bother reporting until Jan reported it.

[PATCH] Whine about suspicious return values from module's -init() hook

2008-02-04 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
One head-scratching session could be noticeably shorter with this patch... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- kernel/module.c |6 ++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/module.c +++ b/kernel/module.c @@ -2171,6 +2171,12 @@ sys_init_module(void __user *umod,

Re: [UPDATED v4] WM97xx touchscreen drivers

2008-02-04 Thread linux01
Mark Brown wrote: This patch series adds support for the touchscreen controllers provided by Wolfson Microelectronics WM97xx series chips in both polled and streaming modes. I integrated this patch with our 2.6.24 kernel and it broke our APM-based battery monitor, which uses an ADC channel

Re: brk randomization breaks columns

2008-02-04 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: Not sure this helps... If I only randomize _end_ of heap, it still works. If I try to randomize beggining of heap, too, it will not even start recent binaries :-(. I don't uderstand this, sorry. Ehen the mapping for the new process is being

Re: Commit f06e4ec breaks vmware

2008-02-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jeff Chua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 4, 2008 7:51 PM, Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sad to say, but f06e4ec... breaks booting the kernel in vmware commit f06e4ec1c15691b0cfd2397ae32214fa36c90d71 I had the same problem. But I bisect down to a earlier commit. Reverting

Re: 2.6.24-git4+ regression

2008-02-04 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 15:36 +0100, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote: On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:36:36PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: I can't reproduce this with a pure cpu load. I started 10 while :; do :; done instances and aside from slowing down, nothing bad happened. yes, while true; do

Re: [RFC v2 0/5] dmaengine: Slave DMA interface and example users

2008-02-04 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:39:47 -0700 Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, the issue is how to do this without requiring an interrupt+callback sequence for each transaction or requiring the client to carry per transaction unmap-data. For example NET_DMA never sees a dma_addr_t and

Re: [mm] Crashkernel memory reservation fails with 2.6.24-rc8-mm1

2008-02-04 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Vivek Goyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-04 19:38]: Bernahard, any idea who is the competitor here? Hm ..., can you boot the kernel without crashkernel= and provide the /proc/iomem? Bernhard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 09/15] (RFC) IPC: new kernel API to change an ID

2008-02-04 Thread Daniel Lezcano
Pavel Emelyanov wrote: Kirill Korotaev wrote: Cedric Le Goater wrote: Hello Kirill ! Kirill Korotaev wrote: Pierre, my point is that after you've added interface set IPCID, you'll need more and more for checkpointing: - create/setup conntrack (otherwise connections get dropped), - set task

[Kconfig {SM,E}] 2.6.24-git13 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150

2008-02-04 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
git top: 9135f1901ee6449dfe338adf6e40e9c2025b8150 ---8--- drivers/spi/Kconfig:156:warning: 'select' used by config symbol 'SPI_PXA2XX' refers to undefined symbol 'PXA_SSP' WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe01e): Section mismatch in reference from the function acpi_unmap_lsapic() to the

[PATCH 2.6.24.stable] PCI: Fix fakephp deadlock

2008-02-04 Thread Ian Abbott
From: Ian Abbott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stable request for 2.6.24. This patch works around a problem in the fakephp driver when a process writing 0 to a power sysfs file to fake removal of a PCI device ends up deadlocking itself in the sysfs code. The patch was recently accepted into Linus' tree

Kernel can't find / in 2.6.24-git?

2008-02-04 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
Don't panic. First thing to try is reenabling CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED. edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf is first bad commit commit edfaa7c36574f1bf09c65ad602412db9da5f96bf Author: Kay Sievers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon May 21 22:08:01 2007 +0200 Driver core: convert block from

Re: [PATCH 5/5] typesafe: TIMER_INITIALIZER and setup_timer

2008-02-04 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:19:44PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: This patch lets timer callback functions have their natural type (ie. exactly match the data pointer type); it allows the old unsigned long data type as well. Downside: if you use the old unsigned long callback type, you won't

Both 2.6.24-mm1 and 2.6.24-git11 do NOT see any of mine LVM-2 disks

2008-02-04 Thread Igor M Podlesny
Hello, everybody! :-) On 2008-02-03 14:51, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:35:23 +0700 Igor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/02/2008, Igor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] And I've tried linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1 — it fails even running MDs saying that do_md_run() returning -22.

Re: locking api self-test hanging

2008-02-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:43:04 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:07:44 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0800 Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With current mainline I'm getting intermittent hangs here:

Re: [PATCH 0/6] udf: next round of cleanups

2008-02-04 Thread Jan Kara
On Sun 03-02-08 19:33:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This patchset contains next round of various UDF fs cleanups. [PATCH 1/6] udf: udf_get_block, inode_bmap - remove unneeded checks [PATCH 2/6] udf: create function for conversion from timestamp to timespec [PATCH 3/6] udf: convert

Re: brk randomization breaks columns

2008-02-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, code in binfmt_elf is really strange. elf_bss += load_bias; elf_brk += load_bias; start_code += load_bias; end_code += load_bias; start_data += load_bias; end_data += load_bias; /*

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 6/9] atmel_serial: Split the interrupt handler

2008-02-04 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:36:25 +0100 Remy Bohmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A long shot, but can it be that the ringbuffer overflows, and that therefor characters are lost? That's what I was thinking too. If this is indeed the cause, the dev_err() added by the debug patch I posted should trigger

Re: hpet on nforce4/MCP51 in asus a6t

2008-02-04 Thread Carlos Corbacho
[Adding tglx to CC as he knows more about HPET's than I] On Sunday 03 February 2008 18:33:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a asus a6t with nforce4/MCP51 chipset. I pass to kernel 2.6.24 32 bit the options acpi_use_timer_override and hpet=force, in this way and the timer IRQ ends up

brk randomization breaks columns

2008-02-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Columns is very popular game of year about 1993, and brk randomization breaks it. (Along with my boot, but who cares about boot when game is broken?) echo 1 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space breaks columns echo 0 /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space fixes them. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls

Re: [Bug 9884] using the attached config hangs the kernel at boot

2008-02-04 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 4 of February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9884 --- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-02-04 03:58 --- Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 03:33:58 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[PATCH] kbuild: Fix instrumentation removal breakage on avr32

2008-02-04 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:10:42 +0100 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathieu Desnoyers (5): Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig AVR32 still includes Kconfig.instrumentation, so it won't build after this... I did point this out when the patch was submitted, I

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Fix instrumentation removal breakage on avr32

2008-02-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:44:48PM +0100, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:10:42 +0100 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mathieu Desnoyers (5): Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig AVR32 still includes Kconfig.instrumentation, so it

Re: Fwd: brk randomization breaks columns

2008-02-04 Thread Pavel Machek
I still don't seem to fully understand what is happening here -- aparently this is triggerable only with old programs linked against libc.so.5, and I am not able to trigger it with my trivial program when I link it against old libc.so.5, which just basically does brk() and checks

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

2008-02-04 Thread Christer Weinigel
Diego Zuccato wrote: In the cited example it's illegal to go outside certain parameters SOMEWHERE (if it was illegal everywhere, the the hardware shouldn't allow it and the sw could do nothing... not considering hw mods). Another example is WiFi: USA, Europe and Japan allows a different number

Re: x86: Why have __copy_from_user_ll_nocache* been exported?

2008-02-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry Andrew. I misunderstood the patch flow. And much more important, the tone of my email was not appropriate. Due to unrelated reasons I was Thursday evening in a mood in which I should not have left emails out of my postponed folder without

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:56 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:16 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project

[PATCH v2] mmc: extend ricoh_mmc to support Ricoh RL5c476

2008-02-04 Thread Frank Seidel
From: Frank Seidel [EMAIL PROTECTED] This patch (base on current linus git tree plus Philip Langdales suspend/resume patch) adds support for the Ricoh RL5c476 chip: with this the mmc adapter that needs this disabler (R5C843) can also be handled correctly when it sits on a RL5c476. (+ minor style

Re: [PATCH] mmc: extend ricoh_mmc to support Ricoh RL5c476

2008-02-04 Thread Frank Seidel
Hi, On Samstag 02 Februar 2008 08:16:48, you (Philip Langdale) wrote: Again, thanks a lot for investigating and finding the appropriate magic incantations. My main comment is to please base this on top of my suspend/resume patch which Pierre said he accepted but which isn't in his tree yet -

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-04 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:56 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 20:16 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: James Bottomley wrote: So, James, what is your opinion on the above? Or the overall SCSI target project simplicity doesn't matter

Re: [2.6.24-rc8-mm1][regression?] numactl --interleave=all doesn't works on memoryless node.

2008-02-04 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 18:37 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: Hi Andi, 3. 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 set_mempolicy(2) behavior 3.1 check nodesubset(nodemask argument, node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY]) in mpol_check_policy() - check failed when memmoryless node exist. (i.e.

Re: [PATCH] per-process securebits

2008-02-04 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2008-02-01 20:07:01, James Morris wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: Really? I'd feel a lot more comfortable if yesterday's version 1 had led to a stream of comments from suitably-knowledgeable kernel developers which indicated that those developers had scrutinised

Re: hpet on nforce4/MCP51 in asus a6t

2008-02-04 Thread cecco
Carlos Corbacho carlos at strangeworlds.co.uk writes: [Adding tglx to CC as he knows more about HPET's than I] On Sunday 03 February 2008 18:33:57 f.cecco77 at tiscali.it wrote: Hello, I have a asus a6t with nforce4/MCP51 chipset. I pass to kernel 2.6.24 32 bit the options

Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 05:24:41PM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hello, Greg KH, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 09:10:08 -0800, a ?crit : On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:18:43AM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind

Re: [PATCH] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Greg KH, le Mon 04 Feb 2008 09:10:08 -0800, a écrit : On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:18:43AM +, Samuel Thibault wrote: This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted etc and thus the

Re: [RFC] Sectionized printk data

2008-02-04 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 04:48:34PM +0100, Johannes Weiner wrote: Hi, current approaches to have printk format strings in the corresponding data section to the function they appear in look like the following (at least what I have seen so far): int __init some_function(void) {

Re: [PATCH 02/10] udf: fix udf_build_ustr

2008-02-04 Thread Jan Kara
On Thu 31-01-08 20:57:47, Marcin Slusarz wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:45:32AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: On Wed 30-01-08 22:03:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: udf_build_ustr was completely broken when size = UDF_NAME_LEN - 1 or size 2 nobody noticed because all callers set size

[PATCH] at91_mci: use generic GPIO calls

2008-02-04 Thread Nicolas Ferre
From: David Brownell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Update the AT91 MMC driver to use the generic GPIO calls instead of the AT91-specific calls; and to request (and release) those GPIO signals. That required updating the probe() fault cleanup codepaths. Now there is a single sequence for freeing resources,

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