Re: IO queuing and complete affinity with threads (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity)

2008-02-07 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:47:47AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Here's a variant using kernel threads only, the nasty arch bits are then > > > not needed. Works for me, no

Re: [rfc] direct IO submission and completion scalability issues

2008-02-07 Thread Nick Piggin
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:14:19AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:09:59AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > > You get better behaviour in the slab and page allocators and locality > > and cache hotness of memory. For example, I guess in a filesystem / > > pagecache heavy

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

2008-02-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Christoph, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote: > > - DMA can be a problem since there's generally no way for kmemcheck to > > determine when/if a chunk of memory is used for DMA. Ideally, DMA should > > be > > allocated with untracked caches, but this requires annotation of the > >

Re: IO queuing and complete affinity with threads (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity)

2008-02-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here's a variant using kernel threads only, the nasty arch bits are then > > not needed. Works for me, no performance testing (that's a hint for Alan > > to try and queue up some

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-07 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I really need the entry point to be at offset 0, so that I can get pointers to my data. I could not figure out how to do it any other way. And if 0 is taken, I thought I'd put header at the end. Why not just put the structure at 0, and put pointers in the structure

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region.

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:32:59 +0200 Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Provide acpi_check_{mem_}region. > > Drivers can additionally check against possible ACPI interference by also > invoking this shortly before they call request_region. > If -EBUSY is returned, the driver must not

Re: IO queuing and complete affinity with threads (was Re: [PATCH 0/8] IO queuing and complete affinity)

2008-02-07 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a variant using kernel threads only, the nasty arch bits are then > not needed. Works for me, no performance testing (that's a hint for Alan > to try and queue up some testing for this variant as well :-) Well this

Re: [GIT PULL] LED updates

2008-02-07 Thread Németh Márton
Richard Purdie wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:38 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008, Richard Purdie wrote: >>> Márton Németh: >>> leds: Add support for hardware accelerated LED flashing >>> leds: hw acceleration for Clevo mail LED driver >> This one has

Re: [git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Eric Dumazet
Nick Piggin a écrit : On Friday 08 February 2008 13:13, Christoph Lameter wrote: are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm.git slub-linus (includes the cmpxchg_local fastpath since the cmpxchg_local work by Matheiu is in now, and the

Re: [RFT 1/1] single_chip test

2008-02-07 Thread Tino Keitel
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 22:51:04 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: [...] > What's the srev a phy ver printed few lines above this, please? ath5k_pci :02:00.0: registered as 'phy0' SINGLE: 1, srev: a3, phy: phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'pid' ath5k phy0: Atheros AR5424 chip found (MAC: 0xa3,

Re: [git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Nick Piggin
On Friday 08 February 2008 13:13, Christoph Lameter wrote: > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm.git slub-linus > > (includes the cmpxchg_local fastpath since the cmpxchg_local work > by Matheiu is in now, and the non atomic

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

2008-02-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote: > - DMA can be a problem since there's generally no way for kmemcheck to > determine when/if a chunk of memory is used for DMA. Ideally, DMA should be > allocated with untracked caches, but this requires annotation of the > drivers in question.

Re: 2.6.24 says "serial8250: too much work for irq4" a lot.

2008-02-07 Thread Rob Landley
On Thursday 07 February 2008 15:19:39 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > Specifically, qemu isn't paravirtualized, it's fully virtualized. The > > same kernel can run on real hardware just fine. (Sort of the point of > > the project...) > > > > I can yank the warning for the kernels

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >I really need the entry point to be at offset 0, so > >that I can get > >pointers to my data. I could not figure out how to do > >it any other > >way. And if 0 is taken, I thought I'd put header at the > >end. > > > > Why not just put the structure at 0, and put pointers in > the

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > While I'm not trying to set you up for a firing squad, if you can show > > that the only use this driver has is as underlying support for Acer/HP > > xyz drivers, > > Certainly at the moment, this is the only real use it has (and the

[PATCH] mxser: convert large macros to functions

2008-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/mxser.c === --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/char/mxser.c 2008-02-08 07:07:55.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/mxser.c 2008-02-08

Re: UBI: add mtd_num sysfs attribute

2008-02-07 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
Greg KH wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:07:40PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6b76ba466bbd47397efad0fdaeaa5ebf7d462c7 Commit: b6b76ba466bbd47397efad0fdaeaa5ebf7d462c7 Parent:

[GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.25-rc0 (#2)

2008-02-07 Thread Len Brown
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git release Nothing exciting here, generally just tweaks to the previous batch. This will update the files shown below. thanks! -Len ps. individual patches are available on [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

2008-02-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Feb 8, 2008 1:32 AM, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the slab layer allocates pages < PAGE_SIZE. You need to take a fault > right? So each object would need its own page? No. We allocate a shadow page for each data page which we then use as a per-byte "bitmap." For every

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

2008-02-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
Pekka Enberg wrote: No. We need to not track the whole page to avoid recursive faults. So for kmemcheck we absolutely do need cache_cache but we can, of course, hide that under a alloc_cache() function that only uses the extra cache when CONFIG_KMEMCHECK is enabled? Btw, one option is to

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3

2008-02-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Christoph, Christoph Lameter wrote: SLABs can be excepted from tracking? Yes. __GFP_NOTRACK can be used to suppress tracking of objects (but we still take the page fault for each access). That is required for things like DMA filled pages that are never initialized by the CPU.

[PATCH] ide-cd: replace ntohs with generic byteorder macro be16_to_cpu

2008-02-07 Thread Borislav Petkov
commit d41c6bc739e7ea7880f7f5983a9694f2e0214d92 Author: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri Feb 8 07:25:44 2008 +0100 ide-cd: replace ntohs with generic byteorder macro be16_to_cpu Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c

Re: [PATCH] isdn: fix section mismatch warning in enpci_card_msg

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 06:58:33 +0100 > Hi David - did you apply only this > or all 5 patches? > I can resend if you prefer with Karsten's ack included. Only this one, I don't have the others so feel free to send thos. > PS. Do you usual take isdn patches?

Re: [PATCH] isdn: fix section mismatch warning in enpci_card_msg

2008-02-07 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:20:40PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:42:42 +0100 > > > Fix following warnings: > > WARNING: drivers/isdn/hisax/built-in.o(.text+0x3cf50): Section mismatch in > > reference from the function

Re: UBI: add mtd_num sysfs attribute

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:07:40PM +, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b6b76ba466bbd47397efad0fdaeaa5ebf7d462c7 > Commit: b6b76ba466bbd47397efad0fdaeaa5ebf7d462c7 > Parent:

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 07 February 2008 21:02, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 01:38:01 Ray Lee wrote: > > That's clear to me (whereas the original wasn't), though I would > > still argue for this driver being select'ed by the drivers that > > require it. As you note, other laptop

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-07 Thread Glenn Griffin
Updated to incorporate Eric's suggestion of using a per cpu buffer rather than allocating on the stack. Just a two line change, but will resend in it's entirety. Signed-off-by: Glenn Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/net/tcp.h|8 ++ net/ipv4/syncookies.c|7 +-

RE: [PATCH 0/7] blk_end_request: full I/O completion handler

2008-02-07 Thread S, Chandrakala (STSD)
Hi, Thanks for the information! We would like to know when does the 2.6.25 kernel will be available at kernel.org. Thanks, Chandrakala -Original Message- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 4:09 PM To: S, Chandrakala (STSD) Cc: Kiyoshi Ueda;

Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject_del()

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:08:42PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:25:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0800,

Re: DMI: add-type-41

2008-02-07 Thread Matt Domsch
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote: > Hi All, > > Would appreciate feedback on this patch. > > Thanks in advance, > Wim. > > commit 4956e4e5e77b5a8f87bcfe6127ef17a406edf94b > Author: Wim Van Sebroeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon Dec 31 17:21:33 2007 + > >

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Holvenstot
Thomas - I believe that the following is the output you are looking for - sorry for the delay - between doctors and grandkids I was ready for a few pain pills and a long nap. I suspect you often feel the same way after dealing with some who post here. Thank you for your support Chris [

Re: C++ in linux kernel

2008-02-07 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi > I am a kernel newbie. > I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance. > I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword. > What could the problem be? under using gcc, new operator use malloc by default. but linux doesn't have malloc. Could you

Re: [stable] [patch 00/73] 2.6.23-stable review

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:50:15PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.23.15 release. > There are 73 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to > this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let > us know. If

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Len Brown
good description, Carlos. applied. thanks, -Len On Thursday 07 February 2008 20:19, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > >

Re: [stable] [patch 00/45] 2.6.24-stable review

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:45:49PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.24.1 release. > There are 45 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to > this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let > us know. If

Re: blackfin compile error

2008-02-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Feb 6, 2008 2:12 PM, Robin Getz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed 6 Feb 2008 11:23, Matt Mackall pondered: > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 17:18 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > Commit 698dd4ba6b12e34e1e432c944c01478c0b2cd773 broke blackfin: > > > > > > <-- snip --> > > > > > > ... > > > CC

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-07 Thread Glenn Griffin
> Or maybe use percpu storage for that... That seems like a good approach. I'll incorporate it into my v6 patch, and send out an update. Thanks. > I am not sure if cookie_hash() is always called with preemption disabled. > (If not, we have to use get_cpu_var()/put_cpu_var()) cookie_hash is

[LINUX-KERNEL] C++ in linux kernel

2008-02-07 Thread rohit h
Hi, I am a kernel newbie. I tried to insmod a C++ module containing classes, inheritance. I am getting 'unresolved symbol' error when I use the 'new' keyword. What could the problem be? What kind of runtime support is needed ( arm linux kernel)? Is a patch available for it? Thanks, Rohit

Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject_del()

2008-02-07 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:55 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:25:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > > > While playing with

[PATCH 2/2] x86: regparm(3) is mandatory, no need to annotate

2008-02-07 Thread Harvey Harrison
Functions in ptrace.c and signal_32.c were defined with __attribute(regparm(3)) which is unnecessary now that X86_32 must compile this way. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kernel/ptrace.c|1 - arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c |1 - 2 files changed, 0

[PATCH] kbuild: silence CHK/UPD messages according to $(quiet)

2008-02-07 Thread Mike Frysinger
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- init/Makefile |4 +++- scripts/Kbuild.include |8 ++-- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/init/Makefile b/init/Makefile index 633392f..c5f157c 100644 --- a/init/Makefile +++ b/init/Makefile @@

[PATCH 1/2] x86: make X86_32 pt_regs members unsigned long

2008-02-07 Thread Harvey Harrison
Similar to X86_64, move the 32 bit pt_regs to be unsigned long. Adopt the X86_64-style of casting orig_ax to long in the signal.c if statements when checking for >=0. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c |4 ++-- include/asm-x86/ptrace.h|

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:11:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"? > > Heh. I just took it directly then. > > I think it's more of a VM patch than a SCSI patch anyway, so I don't

Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject_del()

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:25:46PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > > > While playing with hotplug memory remove on 2.6.24-mm1, I > > > noticed that

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:11:03PM -0800, Phil Oester wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:27:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > kgdb? Not so interesting. We have many more hard problems happening at > > user sites, not in developer hands. > > FWIW, I'm not a fulltime developer by any means,

Re: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix loop with last port

2008-02-07 Thread Mark Lord
Yinghai Lu wrote: [PATCH] sata_mv: fix loop with last port commit f351b2d638c3cb0b95adde3549b7bfaf3f991dfa sata_mv: Support SoC controllers cause panic: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HITACHI HDS7225S V44O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] 488390625 512-byte hardware sectors

Re: [GIT] Please pull 2 NFS client fixes

2008-02-07 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:07:21 -0500 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > commit 5d47a35600270e7115061cb1320ee60ae9bcb6b8 > > Author: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu Feb 7 17:24:07 2008 -0500 > > > >

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-02-07 Thread Rogelio Serrano
On Jan 9, 2008 12:07 AM, Tuomo Valkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One should always indicate the version of software when complaining. Well, > > $ uname -a > Linux noi 2.6.14 #1 PREEMPT Sun Oct 30 20:18:48 EET 2005 i686 GNU/Linux > > I've tried upgrading, and failed: the megatonne

Re: [patch 13/45] USB: sierra: add support for Onda H600/Zte MF330datacard to USB Driver for Sierra Wireless

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:21:55PM -0800, Kevin Lloyd wrote: > > 2.6.24-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let > us > > know. > > > > -- > > From: Bruno Redondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Added support for Onda H600/Zte MF330 GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA datacard > >

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

2008-02-07 Thread David Newall
Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi David, > > > I think you're missing my point: as long as the license stays the way > it is now, you can never distribute proprietary code unless you've > consulted a lawyer and even then you run the risk of being sued for > infringement if the

Re: [PATCH] knfsd: Remove NLM_HOST_MAX and associated logic.

2008-02-07 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 01:03:37PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > Lockd caches information about hosts that have recently held locks it > expedite the taking of further locks. Applied, thanks!--b. > > It periodically discards this information for hosts that have not been > used for a few minutes.

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:37:07 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have >

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: allow embedded targets to disable sysctl_check.c

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 14:38:58 +0100 Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disable sysctl_check.c for embedded targets. This saves about about 11 kB > in .text and another 11 kB in .data on a PXA255 embedded platform. > Nice improvement. But iirc sysctl_check was overtly a temporary thing.

Re: [patch 10/18] sg: nopage

2008-02-07 Thread Douglas Gilbert
For the patch shown below: Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert SG from nopage to fault. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --- drivers/scsi/sg.c | 23

Re: [git pull] device-mapper update for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:04:47PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 02:45:32 + Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dm: move deferred bio flushing to workqueue > > To my unpracticed eye this one looks fairly fundamental. Unfortunately the > changelog: >

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:16:43 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > >

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Sob. Can we please merge "Convert SG from nopage to fault"? Heh. I just took it directly then. I think it's more of a VM patch than a SCSI patch anyway, so I don't think you really should even have tried to push it through the SCSI tree. It's

Re: [git pull] device-mapper update for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 02:45:32 + Alasdair G Kergon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dm: move deferred bio flushing to workqueue To my unpracticed eye this one looks fairly fundamental. Unfortunately the changelog: Add a single-thread workqueue for each mapped device and move flushing of

[GIT PATCH] hwmon updates against v2.6.24 (~git17)

2008-02-07 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Linus: Please pull from: git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git release You'll get two new drivers and cleanups all over the place. The addition of individual alarm sysfs files to all drivers continues. All of these patches made it into the most recent -mm, at least.

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

2008-02-07 Thread David Newall
Alan Cox wrote: >> It would not be improper to say that "such and such a lawyer said this >> and that." I'm not proposing that you breach their copyright in their >> > > It would be highly improper given these were business discussions > involving companies using Linux. Then you should

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

2008-02-07 Thread David Newall
Hans-Jürgen Koch wrote: > The license says that derivative work has to be GPL. Naturally, every > sensible and practically usable license has gray areas. We know that > and we live with that. But if there's room for interpretation, it's > perfectly OK and helpful, if the copyright holder states

Re: [GIT] Please pull 2 NFS client fixes

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 20:07:21 -0500 Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > commit 5d47a35600270e7115061cb1320ee60ae9bcb6b8 > Author: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu Feb 7 17:24:07 2008 -0500 > > NFS: Fix a potential file corruption issue when writing > > If

[git pull] device-mapper update for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Alasdair G Kergon
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm.git to get the following device-mapper update for 2.6.25: Alasdair G Kergon (5): dm: mark function lists static dm ioctl: remove lock_kernel dm: targets no longer experimental dm mpath: add

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:56:46 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp

Module loading/unloading and "The Stop Machine"

2008-02-07 Thread Max Krasnyansky
Hi Rusty, I was hopping you could answer a couple of questions about module loading/unloading and the stop machine. There was a recent discussion on LKML about CPU isolation patches I'm working on. One of the patches makes stop machine ignore the isolated CPUs. People of course had questions

Re: [PATCH] Change pci_raw_ops to pci_raw_read/write

2008-02-07 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:36:18AM -0500, Tony Camuso wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:54:05 -0500 >> Tony Camuso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Matthew, >>> >>> Perhaps I missed it, but did you address Yinghai's concerns? >>> >>> Yinghai Lu wrote: On Jan 28, 2008

[GIT PULL] XFS update for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Lachlan McIlroy
Please pull from the for-linus branch: git pull git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6.git for-linus This will update the following files: fs/xfs/Makefile-linux-2.6 |1 - fs/xfs/linux-2.6/spin.h| 45 --- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_aops.c| 43 ++- fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c

RE: [patch 13/45] USB: sierra: add support for Onda H600/Zte MF330datacard to USB Driver for Sierra Wireless

2008-02-07 Thread Kevin Lloyd
> 2.6.24-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us > know. > > -- > From: Bruno Redondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Added support for Onda H600/Zte MF330 GPRS/UMTS/HSDPA datacard Per our earlier discussion we probably don't want to have this one in the Sierra

[PATCH] Fix FRV cmpxchg_local

2008-02-07 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
Fix the FRV cmpxchg_local by breaking the following header dependency loop : linux/kernel.h -> linux/bitops.h -> asm-frv/bitops.h -> asm-frv/atomic.h -> asm-frv/system.h -> asm-generic/cmpxchg_local.h -> typecheck() defined in linux/kernel.h and linux/kernel.h -> linux/bitops.h ->

Re: + smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Thursday 07 February 2008 9:15:19 pm David Miller wrote: > From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:54:56 -0500 > > > I have no idea what was causing the mail problem, probably somebody > > in our IT department playing around with some new knobs, oh well. I > >

Re: [PATCH] isdn: fix section mismatch warning in enpci_card_msg

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:42:42 +0100 > Fix following warnings: > WARNING: drivers/isdn/hisax/built-in.o(.text+0x3cf50): Section mismatch in > reference from the function enpci_card_msg() to the function > .devinit.text:Amd7930_init() > WARNING:

Re: + smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 20:54:56 -0500 > I have no idea what was causing the mail problem, probably somebody > in our IT department playing around with some new knobs, oh well. I > resubscribed this afternoon with both fingers crossed. In the future please

[git pull] more SLUB updates for 2.6.25

2008-02-07 Thread Christoph Lameter
are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm.git slub-linus (includes the cmpxchg_local fastpath since the cmpxchg_local work by Matheiu is in now, and the non atomic unlock by Nick. Verified that this is not doing any harm after some

Re: [PATCH] [IPV6] Minor cleanup: remove unused definitions in net/ip6_fib.h

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: "Rami Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 18:23:58 +0200 > Hi, > > This patch removes some unused definitions and one method typedef > declaration (f_pnode) > in include/net/ip6_fib.h, as they are not used in the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] [IPV6] Minor clenup: remove two unused definitions in net/ip6_route.h

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: "Rami Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:58:07 +0200 > Remove IP6_RT_PRIO_FW and IP6_RT_FLOW_MASK definitions in > include/net/ip6_route.h, as they are not used in the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: Rami Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. If you grep for "fc_metric" in the

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 01:38:01 Ray Lee wrote: > That's clear to me (whereas the original wasn't), though I would > still argue for this driver being select'ed by the drivers that > require it. As you note, other laptop specific drivers do so, and > Linus has come down in favor of that as

[PATCH] knfsd: Remove NLM_HOST_MAX and associated logic.

2008-02-07 Thread NeilBrown
Lockd caches information about hosts that have recently held locks it expedite the taking of further locks. It periodically discards this information for hosts that have not been used for a few minutes. lockd currently has a value NLM_HOST_MAX, and changes the 'garbage collection' behaviour

Re: + smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-07 Thread Paul Moore
On Thursday 07 February 2008 8:34:02 pm David Miller wrote: > From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:14:34 -0500 > > > My apologies, those mailing list postings there haven't hit my inbox yet. > > I had to remove you a few days ago, see my other reply to > Andrew. > > You

Re: Kernel Panic in MPT SAS on 2.6.24 (and 2.6.23.14, 2.6.23.9)

2008-02-07 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Just noticed that Eric's address was wrong, so resend with corrected Cc. Eric, my intial report was http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/300 > Am Thursday, den 7 February hub Krzysztof Oledzki folgendes in die Tasten: > > Hi! > > > >While installing my new firewall I got the following kernel panic

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Ray Lee
On Feb 7, 2008 5:19 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > > > Do you have list of hardware/platforms

Re: [stable] [patch 00/45] 2.6.24-stable review

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 12:24:57PM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:12:30PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:44:30AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > > > Greg, > > > > > > Is there any reason why the XFS patch I sent to the stable list a > > > couple of

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based > but don't use

Re: + smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 15:14:34 -0500 > My apologies, those mailing list postings there haven't hit my inbox yet. I had to remove you a few days ago, see my other reply to Andrew. You are back on the lists now, so I hope that bounce problem has been solved.

Re: frv cmpxchg_local compile error

2008-02-07 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Commit 14e0cb3c60b89c4a2512852ffc18601c72314a0f broke frv compilation: > > <-- snip --> > > ... > CC arch/frv/kernel/asm-offsets.s > In file included from include/asm/system.h:271, > from include/asm/bitops.h:19, >

Re: [stable] [patch 00/45] 2.6.24-stable review

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:50:34PM -0500, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 02/07/2008 03:45 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.24.1 release. > > There are 45 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to > > this one. If anyone has any issues

Re: + smack-unlabeled-outgoing-ambient-packets.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 12:04:59 -0800 > It was on linux-kernel and netdev. I've restored those cc's. Perhaps Paul missed it because his email address was bouncing with "user unknown" errors a few days ago so he got removed from all the mailing lists @ vger

Re: [patch] block layer: kmemcheck fixes

2008-02-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, David Miller wrote: > > Maybe cpus these days have so much store bandwith that doing > things like the above is OK, but I doubt it :-) I seriously doubt the same is true for the IO requests (which are different anyway, and tend to happen at a much lower frequency than

Re: MM kernels 2.6.24-rc*-mm*, 2.6.24-mm1: gnome-terminal stuck in tty_poll

2008-02-07 Thread Jay Cliburn
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:24:47 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 20:49 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 18:23 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:10:50 -0600 "J. K. Cliburn" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: [stable] [patch 00/45] 2.6.24-stable review

2008-02-07 Thread David Chinner
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:12:30PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:44:30AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > > Greg, > > > > Is there any reason why the XFS patch I sent to the stable list a > > couple of days ago is not included in this series? > > > >

Re: [-mm PATCH] sysdev_unregister() should call kobject_del()

2008-02-07 Thread Badari Pulavarty
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:38 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:56:58PM -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > While playing with hotplug memory remove on 2.6.24-mm1, I > > noticed that /sysfs directory entries are not getting removed. > > > > sysdev_unregister()

Re: [patch] block layer: kmemcheck fixes

2008-02-07 Thread David Miller
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:42:56 -0800 (PST) > Can we please just stop doing these one-by-one assignments, and just do > something like > > memset(rq, 0, sizeof(*rq)); > rq->q = q; > rq->ref_count = 1; > INIT_HLIST_NODE(>hash); >

Re: Kernel Panic in MPT SAS on 2.6.24 (and 2.6.23.14, 2.6.23.9)

2008-02-07 Thread Maximilian Wilhelm
Am Thursday, den 7 February hub Krzysztof Oledzki folgendes in die Tasten: Hi! > >While installing my new firewall I got the following kernel panic in > >the MPT SAS driver which I need for the disks. > >The first kernel I bootet was 2.6.23.14 which did panic so I tried a > >2.6.24 which

Re: ACPI_WMI: worst config description of all times

2008-02-07 Thread Carlos Corbacho
On Friday 08 February 2008 00:12:24 Ray Lee wrote: > On Feb 7, 2008 3:51 PM, Carlos Corbacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 07 February 2008 23:33:54 Ray Lee wrote: > > > Do you have list of hardware/platforms that require this feature to > > > get the hardware to work? (acer abc123,

Re: [stable] [patch 00/45] 2.6.24-stable review

2008-02-07 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 11:44:30AM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > Greg, > > Is there any reason why the XFS patch I sent to the stable list a > couple of days ago is not included in this series? > > http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2008-02/msg00027.html > > We've had multiple reports of it, and

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Harvey Harrison
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 19:07 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > > is still pending resolution, but

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 17:04 -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > > it). There's the

[GIT] Please pull 2 NFS client fixes

2008-02-07 Thread Trond Myklebust
Hi Linus, Please pull from the "master" branch of the repository at git pull git://git.linux-nfs.org/pub/linux/nfs-2.6.git This will update the following files through the appended changesets. Cheers, Trond fs/Kconfig |7 ++- fs/nfs/write.c | 20

[PATCH] x86: Simplify cpu_idle_wait

2008-02-07 Thread Venki Pallipadi
Earlier commit 40d6a146629b98d8e322b6f9332b182c7cbff3df added smp_call_function in cpu_idle_wait() to kick cpus that are in tickless idle. Looking at cpu_idle_wait code at that time, code seemed to be over-engineered for a case which is rarely used (while changing idle handler). Below is a

Re: [GIT PATCH] final SCSI updates for 2.6.24 merge window

2008-02-07 Thread Harvey Harrison
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 18:56 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > Quite a bit of this is fixing things broken previously (the advansys fix > is still pending resolution, but I'll send it as an -rc fix when we have > it). There's the final elimination of all drivers that are esp based > but don't use

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