On 23/02/2008, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
Yes, but still I suspect wmb() is not enough. Note that try_to_wake_up()
first checks (reads) the task-state,
if (!(old_state state))
goto out;
without
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 11:48 -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
+static int cpu_rt_runtime_write(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
+ struct file *file,
+
Is there any reason they couldn't just be merged to mainline?
I think it's a useful facility.
ummm, now why did we made that decision... I think we decided that
it's the sort of thing which one person can run once per few months
and that will deliver its full value. I can maintain it
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If so, could we avoid that problem by using 0 rather than -1 as the
unlimited value? It looks from what I've read in the Documentation
changes as though 0 isn't really a meaningful value.
0 means no time, quite
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
No, wmb is not enough. I've provided an explanation in the original thread.
Here, let me answer your explanation from this thread (lots snipped to
keep it concise):
First off:
Actually, there seems to be _no_ problem at all, provided a task to
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
it's not a LOAD that escapes *out* of the region. It's a MODIFY that gets
*in*:
Not with the smp_wmb(). That's the whole point.
Ie the patch I'm suggesting is sufficient is appended, and the point is
that any write before the critical region
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
Hopefully Linus will apply the patch from Hugh's email, but that isn't the
general solution to this increasingly worse problem.
Done.
Linus
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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Al Viro wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:38AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
With most of debugfs now copied to generic code in libfs,
we can remove the original copy and replace it with thin
wrappers around libfs.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Saturday, 23 of February 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Unfortunately, I missed your Bugzilla comment at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10030#c28
Strange... But obviously you did see it eventually.
Well, in the face of it, I'm
* Factor out chipset family detection from init_chipset_sis5513()
to sis_find_family().
* Use sis_find_family() in sis5513_init_one() to fail early if the
chipset is unsupported.
* Keep a local copy sis5513_chipset in sis5513_init_one()
and set .udma_mask according to chipset family.
*
* Check for IDE_HFLAG_NO_SET_MODE host flag in ide_set_pio(),
ide_set_[pio,dma]_mode(), ide_set_xfer_rate() and set_pio_mode().
* Remove no longer needed IDE_HFLAG_NO_SET_MODE host flag checking
from ide_tune_dma().
* Remove superfluous -set_pio_mode checking from do_special().
This is a
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:40:17 + (GMT) Hugh Dickins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2.6.25-rc1 percpu changes broke CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT's per_cpu checking
on several architectures. On s390, sparc64 and x86 it's been weakened to
not checking at all; whereas on powerpc64 it's become too strict,
Allocate 'struct it821x_dev' objects for both ports in it821x_init_one().
Fixes potential OOPS in it821x_quirkproc() (uses 'itdev' unconditionally)
and other problems ('itdev' is needed for correct operation of the driver).
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
21/02/08 19:46, Éric Piel wrote/a écrit:
In the mean time, here is a patch which should get the situation already
much cleaner. It has been tested on various configs (with and without
DSDT). Let me know if you think it is acceptable.
It seems the patch looks ok for people around so here is a
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:53:06 +0100, Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi Alexander.
I more than less expected people to scream ugly, ugly!.
That was my first thought and the reason why it stayed in my inbox
for so long.
But I could not find a better way to do it. We could do it in
James Bottomley wrote:
This is the latest crop of bug fixes plus one new driver: mvsas. We're
[...]
Jeff Garzik (1):
mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver
[...]
Ke Wei (1):
mvsas: convert from rough draft to working driver
I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:02 -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If so, could we avoid that problem by using 0 rather than -1 as the
unlimited value? It looks from what I've read in the Documentation
changes as though 0
Jeff Garzik wrote:
On the net driver side of things, I have a few new net drivers that I
have queued for 2.6.26, because they did not make the merge window. This
is inconsistent with your apparently policy.
s/apparently/apparent/
Sometimes my fingers don't type the words that come out of my
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original
author of mvsas, but...
Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?
I'm personally of the opinion that a new driver that doesn't add anything
but itself (ie no
John Levon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Soren wrote sysprof when he tried an earlier version of oprofile and
found it slightly non-obvious. Instead of doing any of these things:
This is not accurate. Sysprof started by me adding a hierarchical call
view to speedprof, a SIGPROF profiler which was
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In that case I guess I'll have to add signed versions of the
read_uint/write_uint methods.
Yes, I looked at that, I found the interface somewhat unfortunate, it
would mean growing the struct with two more
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 23 February 2008 14:17:55 Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig
b/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/Kconfig
index 0159701..afb8f43 100644
---
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 15:50 +0100, stephane eranian wrote:
Peter,
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:29 -0800, stephane eranian wrote:
Hello,
As suggested by people on this list, I have changed perfmon2 to use
the high resolution timers as the interface to allow timeout-based
On 23 Feb 2008 21:15:52 +0100 Soeren Sandmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It was only later I tried oprofile and found it not only much more
difficult to use, but also much less useful when I did get it to work.
Could we please be very careful to not conflate oprofile's kernel support
with
On Thursday, 21 of February 2008, Julian Blake Kongslie wrote:
I'm getting a hang at suspend on 2.6.25-rc2. Booting with
no_console_suspend let me catch the error, which I photographed and
transcribed (hopefully without error) below.
This is a Lenovo Thinkpad T43p.
I've attached my config
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the
original
author of mvsas, but...
Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?
I'm
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Éric Piel wrote:
As recommended by Christoph Hellwig, even if we can't rely on the userspace
firmware loader so early at boot, at least use normal syscall (as in
init/do_mounts_*.c). Similarly, use kfree() instead of ACPI_FREE().
So I'm missing a lot of the background
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:31 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the
original
author of mvsas, but...
Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?
I'm personally of the opinion
Is it possible to catch this automatically, like, by re-defining
likely/unlikely to the raw form in specific file(s)?
Sure it would be possible to define a IN_VDSO symbol in all vdso
related files and then do that. Might be useful for other things
too. vdso has some very specific requirements.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:50:35 + David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit *signed* values to do_div().
Make it
instead hand 64-bit unsigned values. This gets
(sorry for being offtpoic, but while experts are here...)
A typical implementation of atomic_add_unless() can return 0 immediately
after the first atomic_read() (before doing cmpxchg). In that case it doesn't
provide any barrier semantics. See include/asm-ia64/atomic.h as an example.
We should
The latest maintenance release GIT 1.5.4.3 is available at the
usual places:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/
git-1.5.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (tarball)
git-htmldocs-1.5.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs)
git-manpages-1.5.4.3.tar.{gz,bz2}
On 23/02/2008, Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
it's not a LOAD that escapes *out* of the region. It's a MODIFY that gets
*in*:
Not with the smp_wmb(). That's the whole point.
Ie the patch I'm suggesting is sufficient is
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:01:55 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:50:35 + David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: David Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The kernel NTP code shouldn't hand 64-bit
hpt366: fix section mismatch warnings
Fix following warnings:
WARNING: o-sparc64/vmlinux.o(.data+0x195a38): Section mismatch in reference
from the variable hpt37x_info.0 to the variable .devinit.data:hpt370
WARNING: o-sparc64/vmlinux.o(.data+0x195a40): Section mismatch in reference
from the
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:16:16PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
Fortunately, I2c no longer uses numeric device IDs but names. So what are the
alternatives?
1. modify the I2c subsystem to accept OF names additionally to I2c names
(proposed by Jon smirl).
Sounds like Jean isn't very
Does anyone else have any input on this? Tips, suggestions, ideas,
comments, constructive criticism, anything at all. I am, however,
trying to avoid a flame war.
~Nicholas (Alex) Marquez
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Marquez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I submitted
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:27 PM, Michael Buesch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 23 February 2008 12:07:51 Ingo Molnar wrote:
I have to say, after having observed multiple incidents around b43 in
the past few months you are one of the worst driver maintainers i've
ever seen on lkml:
On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:56:42 Samuel Masham wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Rob Landley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The patches that fixed it for me were:
http://kernel.org/hg/index.cgi/linux-2.6/rev/85295
http://kernel.org/hg/index.cgi/linux-2.6/rev/85296
Which, as
On Wednesday, 20 of February 2008, Tino Keitel wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:52:22 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 20:49:04 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
On Mon 2008-02-18 01:28:15, Tino Keitel wrote:
Hi folks,
with 2.6.25-rc2, my Mac mini Core Duo hangs at
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Nicholas Marquez wrote:
Does anyone else have any input on this? Tips, suggestions, ideas,
comments, constructive criticism, anything at all. I am, however,
trying to avoid a flame war.
I missed it the first time you posted it, so thanks for
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
Thomas, do you consider ntp to fall under git-hrt?
I'll pick it up.
OK. And this is still
git+ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git#mm,
yes?
Yes
Can we please define the scope of that tree?
Primary
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and
it really is worth moving things over if you can.
Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things...
Having switched to ata_piix i can confirm that smartd doesn't hand the system
anymore.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
the comment on the very top of drivers/ata says:
tristate Serial ATA (prod) and Parallel ATA (experimental) drivers
That's the one I was referring to.
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On Saturday 23 February 2008 22:32:46 Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
The insults being? A few quotes, please.
If you really want to know, the
Because the new driver works, if you just set it up right.
for me was clearly a hint that I'm just an other imcompetent
user, who can't even follow the
First of all, thanks for the input!
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Nick Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Nicholas Marquez wrote:
Does anyone else have any input on this? Tips, suggestions, ideas,
comments, constructive criticism, anything at all.
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
Jeff Garzik (1):
mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver
[...]
drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981
I just noticed that the file permissions on that file are 755 in
Hi,
On Saturday 23 February 2008, Anders Eriksson wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But at this point libata is working much better than the old IDE stuff, and
it really is worth moving things over if you can.
Ok, I'll take a stab at that tomorrow. Two things...
Having switched to
Modify the help descriptions of block/Kconfig for clarity, accuracy and
consistency.
Refactor the BLOCK description a bit. The wording This permits ... to be
removed isn't quite right; the block layer is removed when the option
is disabled, whereas most descriptions talk about what happens when
x86: fix build on some non-C locales[1].
For some locales regex range [a-zA-Z] does not work as it is supposed to
so we have to specify LANG=C to make it work as intended.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_alphabet
Signed-off-by: Priit Laes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
diff --git
Adds a new type of supported control file representation, a map from
strings to u64 values.
Each map entry is printed as a line in a similar format to
/proc/vmstat, i.e. $key $value\n
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/cgroup.h | 19 +
This patchset is a roll-up of the non-contraversial items of the
various patches that I've sent out recently, fixed according to the
feedback received.
In summary they are:
- general rename of read_uint/write_uint to read_u64/write_u64
- use these methods for cpusets and memory controller files
Adds a function for returning the value of a resource counter member,
in a form suitable for use in a cgroup read_u64 control file method.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/res_counter.h |5 -
kernel/res_counter.c|5 +
2 files changed, 9
This removes the need for people to remember to pass the -n flag to
echo when writing values to cgroup control files.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/cgroup.c |5 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: cgroup-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/cgroup.c
This function isn't needed - a NULL pointer in the cftype read
function will result in the same EINVAL response to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 14 --
1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
Index: cgroup-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/mm/memcontrol.c
Remove the seq_file boilerplate used to construct the memcontrol stats
map, and instead use the new map representation for cgroup control
files
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 30 ++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 24
Many of the cpusets control files are simple integer values, which
don't require the overhead of memory allocations for reads and writes.
Move the handlers for these control files into cpuset_read_u64() and
cpuset_write_u64().
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
kernel/cpuset.c |
The releasable control file provided by the cgroup framework exports
the state of a per-cgroup flag that's related to the notify-on-release
feature. This isn't really generally useful, unless you're trying to
debug this particular feature of cgroups.
This patch moves the releasable file to the
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Ultimately no, it's not. However, we are now late in the -rc2 time frame and
the release of -rc3 seems to be imminent. At this point, IMO, that's the
safest thing to do. BTW, appended is the patch I'd like to get applied.
In the interest of
Olof Johansson wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
Jeff Garzik (1):
mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver
[...]
drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981
I just noticed that the file permissions on that
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 05:28:23PM -0500, Nicholas Marquez wrote:
First of all, thanks for the input!
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Nick Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Nicholas Marquez wrote:
There are a few places in the Makefile where options
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:31:02 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote:
I know I am probably shooting myself in the foot here, since I am the original
author of mvsas, but...
Should we be adding new drivers during -rc?
Hi!
I'm trying to free space by truncating big file, and I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al gps.nmea
-rw-r--r--1 root root 2332070 Feb 19 22:13 gps.nmea
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# gps.nmea
-sh: cannot create gps.nmea: No space left on device
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# rm gps.nmea
[EMAIL
The cgroup debug subsystem isn't generally useful for users. It should default
to n.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
init/Kconfig |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Index: cgroup-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/init/Kconfig
Several people have justifiably complained that the _uint suffix is
inappropriate for functions that handle u64 values, so this patch just
renames all these functions and their users to have the suffic _u64.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
include/linux/cgroup.h |8
Update the memory controller to use read_u64 for its
limit/usage/failcnt control files, calling the new
res_counter_read_u64() function.
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 15 ++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Index:
On Sunday, 24 of February 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Ultimately no, it's not. However, we are now late in the -rc2 time frame
and
the release of -rc3 seems to be imminent. At this point, IMO, that's the
safest thing to do. BTW, appended is
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 18:31 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
Olof Johansson wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 09:13:33AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
Jeff Garzik (1):
mvsas: Add Marvell 6440 SAS/SATA driver
[...]
drivers/scsi/mvsas.c| 2981
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 00:57 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!
I'm trying to free space by truncating big file, and I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ls -al gps.nmea
-rw-r--r--1 root root 2332070 Feb 19 22:13 gps.nmea
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# gps.nmea
-sh: cannot create gps.nmea: No
Laurent Riffard wrote:
Le 16.02.2008 09:25, Andrew Morton a écrit :
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/
Got this in dmesg output:
[ cut here ]
WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c:129 __ioremap+0xc7/0x182()
Modules
The boot_delay switch seems to be behaving strangely in the
current -git. Setting it to =10 makes the output 'bursty'
it becomes slow for some printk's whilst others scroll by
at regular speed.
Setting it any higher than that seems to make it pause for
a really long time before it outputs any
Good evening
In the thread Merging of completely unreviewed drivers I got reminded
of the use tabs not spaces-mentality.
My question is: why?
The tab-character serves us well as a indent-indicator, but for some
reason there has been focus on its relation to spaces. On the question
How long
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:03:23 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:41:05 +0100 Haavard Skinnemoen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From: Atsushi Nemoto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fix NCFGR.SPD setting on 10Mbps. This bug was introduced by
conversion to generic PHY
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 03:31:31PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:25:14 +0100,
Peter Zijlstra wrote:
lspci -vvv:
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
Is this a regression, i.e. did you get similar
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:05:07 -0800
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had it queued for 2.6.26 which I guess was wrong. I'll bump it into
2.6.25.
Thanks!
Is it needed in 2.6.24.x?
I think so. The last time that code was changed was before 2.6.23
AFAICT, so perhaps 2.6.23.x as well.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:45:38PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
As recommended by Christoph Hellwig, even if we can't rely on the userspace
firmware loader so early at boot, at least use normal syscall (as in
init/do_mounts_*.c). Similarly, use kfree() instead of ACPI_FREE().
So I'm
A loop mount/umounting a pcdrw or iso9660 (through the pktcdvd device)
sees a stack overflow in four or five tries. Doing the same thing with
the same CD in a normal non-pktcdvd-mounted drive doesn't cause a crash.
Here's a couple of oopses. config follows.
(There are a wide variety. Some I
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Dan Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Kumar Gala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 14, 2008, at 12:14 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Kumar Gala
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dan,
Only allocate the FPU area when the application actually uses FPU, i.e., in the
first lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using apps.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
Index: linux-2.6-x86/arch/x86/kernel/i387.c
Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration
of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following
two optimizations:
1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in the first
lazy FPU trap. This could save memory for non-fpu using
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Morton wrote:
I didn't need to write a new kernel module to enable that
thirteen-character shell script, and I don't believe one needs to write a
new kernel module to put a nice easy-to-use GUI around oprofile either.
This is one of those
Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:33:34 -0800 Paul Menage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks good, except for the name uint(), can we make it u64(). Integers are
32
bit on both ILP32 and LP64, but we really
Gabriel C wrote:
Laurent Riffard wrote:
Le 16.02.2008 09:25, Andrew Morton a écrit :
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.25-rc2/2.6.25-rc2-mm1/
[..]
I'm getting that in mainline now on one of my older laptops also.
we fixed the cause of the machine you
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:34:38PM -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote:
Split the FPU save area from the task struct. This allows easy migration
of FPU context, and it's generally cleaner. It also allows the following
two optimizations:
1) only allocate when the application actually uses FPU, so in
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Balbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
res_counter_read_u64() I'd also want to rename all the other
*read_uint functions/fields to *read_u64 too. Can I do that in a
separate patch?
Sounds sensible to me.
Sure, fair enough.
Actually, since
Hello,
We will need 64 bit counters of the slow context switches,
one counter for each new created task (e.g. u64 ctxt_switch_counts;)
We will only need them during the lifetime of the tasks.
To increment by +1 the task's 64 bit counter (it's fast)
each one slow context switch.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 06:34:39PM -0800, Suresh Siddha wrote:
+ if (!tsk-thread.cntxt)
+tsk-thread.cntxt = alloc_cntxt_struct();
Please use tabs, not spaces for indentation.
+union thread_cntxt *alloc_cntxt_struct(void)
+{
+ return
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 04:49 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
Hi Andrew,
Andrew Morton wrote:
I didn't need to write a new kernel module to enable that
thirteen-character shell script, and I don't believe one needs to write a
new kernel module to put a nice easy-to-use GUI around oprofile
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:08:38 +0100
J.C. Pizarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We will need 64 bit counters of the slow context switches,
one counter for each new created task (e.g. u64 ctxt_switch_counts;)
Please send a patch ...
I will explain your later why of it.
... and explain exactly why
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Sunday, 24 of February 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Ultimately no, it's not. However, we are now late in the -rc2 time frame
and
the release of -rc3 seems to be imminent. At this point,
This patch fixes the following compile error caused by
commit 3a2d5b700132f35401f1d9e22fe3c2cab02c2549:
-- snip --
...
CC drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.o
/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c:
In function ‘u132_suspend’:
Hi Paul,
A couple of proposals have been made recently by people working Linux
on smaller systems, for improving realtime isolation and memory
pressure handling:
(1) cpu isolation for hard(er) realtime
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/21/517
Max Krasnyanskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] (Resend) Use get_personality()
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:16:29 -0800
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:37:31 -0500 Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 12:27:10PM +0300, Alexey
On 2008/2/24, Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:08:38 +0100
J.C. Pizarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We will need 64 bit counters of the slow context switches,
one counter for each new created task (e.g. u64 ctxt_switch_counts;)
Please send a patch ...
diff
On Sa, 2008-02-23 at 19:13 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
===
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/usb/host/u132-hcd.c
@@ -3214,14 +3214,19 @@ static
Pavel Machek wrote:
On Sat 2008-02-23 23:08:58, David Newall wrote:
Pavel Machek wrote:
On Fri 2008-02-22 23:44:09, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Zaurus is one example, second is small screen where you need big font
to
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
It happened in a workqueue. There could be lots of similar cases: Some
interrupt-driven event causes a hotplug action. Since the action can't
be carried out in interrupt context, the driver has no choice but to
defer it to a workqueue or kernel
On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:08:46 +0100
J.C. Pizarro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, one last reply on the (overly optimistic?) assumption that you are not a
troll.
+++ linux-2.6_git-20080224/include/linux/sched.h2008-02-24
04:50:18.0 +0100
@@ -1007,6 +1007,12 @@
struct
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
drivers/scsi/mvsas.c |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
Discovered while compiling Linus' tree in preparation for today's linux-next.
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c b/drivers/scsi/mvsas.c
index 30e20e6..de762f4
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
static void blah(void)
{
if (foo) {
bar;
bar2;
return;
}
if (this) {
that;
that2;
return;
}
/* yay, got rid of two levels of indent! */
good
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