Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-26 Thread Andreas Schwab
Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Kiyoshi Ueda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking at this problem, but

[PATCH] Misc: phantom, consistent whitespace

2008-02-26 Thread jan sonnek
Make it consistent with the rest of the header. Signed-off-by: jan sonnek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- include/linux/phantom.h |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/phantom.h b/include/linux/phantom.h index

Re: [PATCH 2/3] exporting capability name/code pairs (final#2)

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew G. Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Acked-by: Andrew G. Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tested-by: Andrew G. Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers Andrew Kohei KaiGai wrote: | [PATCH 2/3] exporting capability name/code pairs | | This patch enables to export code/name pairs of capabilities the

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:45:00AM -0600, Chris Holvenstot wrote: Jiri - I am tempted to lie to you and say it was in both modes, or when running under X only, but to tell you the truth while I have not seen it while running in console mode, I have not spent enough time there to make a

Re: [PATCH 2/3] fbdev: Make deferred I/O work as advertized

2008-02-26 Thread Jaya Kumar
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Markus Armbruster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about pushing the fb_defio fixes independently of any new fb_defio users? If fb_defio was worth merging into Linus's tree, it should be worth fixing there, whether new users are in shape already or not. I

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote: Hmm, I have been seeing repeated keys a lot under X on my athlon 700, but mainly when I have firefox running (which is of course quite a load on the poor old thing). This has been going on for probably the last year or so. I thought it was

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 26 February 2008 20:16:11 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Yeah, sync_file_range has slightly unusual semantics and introduce the new concept, writeout, to userspace (does writeout include in drive cache? the kernel doesn't think so, but the only way to make

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

2008-02-26 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline void +prepare_adaptive_wait(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct adaptive_waiter *adaptive) ... +#define prepare_adaptive_wait(lock, busy) {} This is evil. Use empty inline

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Ric Wheeler
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jamie Lokier wrote: By durable, I mean that fsync() should actually commit writes to physical stable storage, Yes, it should. I was surprised that fsync() doesn't do this already. There was a lot of effort put into block I/O write barriers during 2.5, so that

Re: epoll design problems with common fork/exec patterns

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, David Schwartz wrote: Eric Dumazet wrote: Events are not necessarly reported by descriptors. epoll uses an opaque field provided by the user. It's up to the user to properly chose a tag that will makes sense if the user app is playing

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Michael Kerrisk
Following up after quite some time: Davide Libenzi wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Michael Kerrisk wrote: On Jan 25, 2008 12:57 AM, Davide Libenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:10:18PM +, Davide Libenzi wrote: On Fri, 18

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 6/9] add a loop counter based timeout mechanism

2008-02-26 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:06 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe you have _way_ too many config variables. If this can be set at runtime, does it need a config option, too? Generally speaking, I think until this algorithm has an

Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] Linux 2.6.25-rc3 - various unexported functions () on powerpc

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi, The 2.6.25-rc3 kernel build fails on powerpc with allyesconfig config option, the .config has been attached. ... Builds fine here. Local problem (e.g. disk full) on your machine? cu Adrian -- Is there not

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: Jan Kiszka wrote: At this chance: We still see the same unbalanced sched-other load on our NUMA box as Gernot once reported [1]: top - 11:19:20 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 29.52, 9.54, 3.37 Tasks: 502 total, 41 running, 461 sleeping, 0

[2.6.25-rc2-mm1] Oops in __kmalloc

2008-02-26 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi, while booting up a notebook on 32 bit, this oopses appeared on the console after ext3 fsck: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/mem_oops/ It's 2.6.25-rc2-mm1, I can't find similar reports, is this known or hardware issue (unlikely, 2.6.24.2 seems to be OK)? -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-26 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:49:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andy Whitcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so that would be the following, work for everyone? WARNING: mutexes are preferred for single holder semaphores #1: FILE: Z95.c:1: + DECLARE_MUTEX(foo); WARNING:

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 26 February 2008 20:16:11 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: Yeah, sync_file_range has slightly unusual semantics and introduce the new concept, writeout, to userspace (does writeout include in drive cache? the kernel doesn't think so, but the only way to make

Re: Linux 2.6.24.3 (if_addrlabel.h HEADERS_CHECK failure)

2008-02-26 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:38:47 + Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy Dunlap wrote: We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.24.3 kernel. When HEADERS_CHECK=y: make[3]: *** No rule to make target

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
mm-page_file_methods.patch This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. Why do swap pages have a different index to everyone else? Because the page-index of an anonymous page is related to

[2.6.25 patch] drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: fix 64bit division

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:21:00PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: With 2.6.25-rc3 and a config file with CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X=m CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_HIFN_795X_RNG=y I get the following build error on at least ARM and MIPS: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 759 modules ERROR:

Re: [2.6.25-rc1] jerky mouse cursor and randoooom key repeats

2008-02-26 Thread Chris Holvenstot
Jiri - For what it is worth, and understand that it is hard to prove a negitive, on slack moments over the weekend I repeatedly booted my system into single user (console) mode using a kernel with CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED set to yes. To date I have NOT been able to recreate the repeating key issue

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Kiszka
Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: Jan Kiszka wrote: At this chance: We still see the same unbalanced sched-other load on our NUMA box as Gernot once reported [1]: top - 11:19:20 up 4 min, 1 user, load average: 29.52, 9.54, 3.37 Tasks: 502 total, 41 running,

Re: 2.6.25-rc[12] Video4Linux Bttv Regression

2008-02-26 Thread Robert Fitzsimons
Bisecting this won't be that easy. The support for the depreciated V4L1 API were removed from bttv driver. Now, it uses v4l1-compat module, that translates a V4L1 call into a V4L2 one. I'll try to seek for troubles at the current code. I think I might have seen this problem but it didn't

[BUG] Potential data corruption when splice data spliced from socket to another socket

2008-02-26 Thread Changli Gao
After reviewing the tcp splice receive code, I found that instead of increasing the page reference counter, pipe buffer holds the socket buffer by calling skb_get(skb). When you splice this pipe buffer to another socket, such as a TCP socket, though the function sendpage returns, the page buffer

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:29 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: mm-page_file_methods.patch This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. Why do swap pages have a different index to everyone else?

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Ric Wheeler wrote: I was surprised that fsync() doesn't do this already. There was a lot of effort put into block I/O write barriers during 2.5, so that journalling filesystems can force correct write ordering, using disk flush cache commands. After all that effort, I was very surprised to

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know who told you that or why, but it's obvious nonsense, Correct. Exports should be marked GPL if and only if they cannot be used except in a derivative work. If it is possible to use them without taking sufficient protectable expression,

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 16:29 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: mm-page_file_methods.patch This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. Why do swap pages have a different index to everyone else?

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Miklos Szeredi
mm-page_file_methods.patch This makes page_offset and others more expensive by adding a conditional jump to a function call that is not usually made. Why do swap pages have a different index to everyone else? Because the page-index of an anonymous page

Re: [linux-pm] Fundamental flaw in system suspend, exposed by freezer removal

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: IMO the device driver should assure that no new children will be registered concurrently with the -suspend() method (IOW, -suspend() should wait for all such registrations to complete and should prevent any new ones from being started)

Re: Kernel oops with bluetooth usb dongle

2008-02-26 Thread Quel Qun
-- Original message -- From: Marcel Holtmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Quel, Bad news: I still cannot use the device. hcitool inq, hcitool scan, hcitool name btaddr and hcitool info btaddr commands work. hcitool cc btaddr, sdptool btaddr, rfcomm

Re: [ugly patch] Save .15W-.5W by AHCI powersaving

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Lord
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This is a patch (very ugly, assumes you have just one disk) to bring powersaving to AHCI. You need Alan's SCSI autosuspend (attached) patch as a base. It saves .5W compared to config with disk spinning, and even .15W compared to hdparm -y... on my thinkpad x60 anyway.

Re: Tabs, spaces, indent and 80 character lines

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jan Engelhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now back to coding, oh and don't forget send a patch for CodingStyle since a mail without one is often taken even less seriously. Someone with a patch to Emacs to use tabs for ident + spaces for alignment maybe? :-) -- Krzysztof Halasa -- To

Re: Sata-MV, Intergated Sata Device Support

2008-02-26 Thread Mark Lord
saeed wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: ... Saeed: isn't this what your SOC patches already implemented for us? As near as I can tell, sata_mv now already has support for the 60x1C0. Saeed's stuff didn't support PCI though, and Jon Li is definitely talking about PCI... yes, my

Re: [linux-pm] Fundamental flaw in system suspend, exposed by freezer removal

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Stern
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, David Newall wrote: David Brownell wrote: On Tuesday 26 February 2008, David Newall wrote: Hardware can be inserted and removed while we're in a suspend state; and there's nothing that we can do about it until we resume. Is it fair to say, then, that having

Re: problem with starting 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git

2008-02-26 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:28:32 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:27:34 +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: Of course there is a typo in the subject :) 2.5.25-rc1 - 2.6.25-rc1 Hello, I tried 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git on my laptop (x86 32bit)

[PATCH] ext2: correct type miss (linux-2.6.24.3)

2008-02-26 Thread ohyama_sec
From: Hiroyasu Ohyama Maybe I found a type miss in fs/ext2/ext2.h which is in linux-2.6.24.3, and write difference below. Signed-off-by: Hiroyasu OHYAMA [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- fs/ext2/ext2.h.orig 2008-02-27 00:56:34.0 +0900 +++ fs/ext2/ext2.h 2008-02-26 19:12:55.0 +0900

Re: [dm-devel] Re: device mapper not reporting no-barrier-support?

2008-02-26 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Feb 26 2008, Alasdair G Kergon wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:20:50PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:26:15 +0100 Anders Henke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently stuck between Kernel LVM and DRBD, as I'm using Kernel 2.6.24.2 with DRBD 8.2.5 on top of an

Re: [ugly patch] Save .15W-.5W by AHCI powersaving

2008-02-26 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 05:42:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: BTW we can also save power by allowing the user to choose to disable hotplugging support. Then we can power down PHYs that are not in use. That requires the addition of some policy controls, because it is user-specific whether

[PATCH] pidns: make pid-level and pid_ns-level unsigned

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
These values represent the nesting level of a namespace and pids living in it, and it's always non-negative. Turning this from int to unsigned int saves some space in pid.c (11 bytes on x86 and 64 on ia64) by letting the compiler optimize the pid_nr_ns a bit. E.g. on ia64 this removes the

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Fix b43 driver build for arm

2008-02-26 Thread Gordon Farquharson
Hi Ben On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Ben Dooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I build all of my ARM kernels on an x86 box, it is much faster and I don't have to ensure I have a read/write capable filesystem for any of my ARM boards. The patch has been merged into Andrew's -mm tree.

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix nmi intr or system hanging in rhel4u6 adma.

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: Kuan Luo wrote: Hi, robert One customer reported that their system received a nmi interrupt after issuing dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null on a defective disk in rhel4u6. I tested it and found that my system hung both in rhel4u6(2.6.9-67) and 2.6.24-rc7. The patch can work

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:07:45 + Jamie Lokier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SYNC_FILE_RANGE_WRITE scans all pages in the range, looking for dirty pages which aren't already queued for write-out. It marks those with a write-out flag, and starts write I/Os at some unspecified time in the near

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + unsigned long flags; + + local_irq_save(flags); hm, couldnt we attach the irq disabling to some spinlock, in a natural way? Explicit flags fiddling is a PITA once we do things like threaded irq handlers, -rt, etc.

Re: 2.6.24.2: 4KSTACKS + pcdrw + dm + mount - stack overflow: ide-cd related? dm-related?

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 26-02-08 12:37:17, Jiri Kosina wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: + name = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); + fname = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL); + + if (!name || !fname) { + *err = -ENOMEM; + return

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :( Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have to hack each filesystem to support barriers. It seems far easier to make

Re: [BUG] using smp_processor_id() in preemptible as suspending

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:24:11 +0800 Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know whom I should mail to, could you cc the proper guy? Thanks. [ 118.331674] acpi LNXSYSTM:00: suspend [ 118.331674] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... [ 118.331674] CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain. [

Re: [linux-pm] [demo patch/RFC] sleepy linux

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:26:53 +0100 Pavel Machek wrote: Hi Pavel, Is this limited to UP and only one disk? [comments below] Sleepy linux support, demo version, but it works on my thinkpad x60 ;-). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/Documentation/power/sleepy.txt

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: What's the NUMA topology? 4 nodes. I'm not sure if it is really NUMA related, but the same kernel runs that test as expected on a non-NUMA 2x2 box. What tasks are running, and at what priorities? 40 pthreads, created with default parameters

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jeff Garzik wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :( Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have to hack each filesystem to support barriers. It

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 26 February 2008 15:28:10 +, Jamie Lokier wrote: One interesting aspect of this comes with COW filesystems like btrfs or logfs. Writing out data pages is not sufficient, because those will get lost unless their referencing metadata is written as well. So either we have to

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
One may say _GPL is a strong indication that all users are automatically a derivative works, but it's only that - indication. It doesn't mean they are really derivative works and it doesn't mean a module not using any _GPL exports isn't a derivative. Actually I think the _GPL exports are

Re: 2.6.25-rc1 xen pvops regression

2008-02-26 Thread Mark McLoughlin
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:25 +, Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:58 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: Which it is on real hardware, because although it's not *reserved* (type 2), it is certainly not made available as *normal memory* (type 1). If Xen maps this as type 1 then I

Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature ver 0.2

2008-02-26 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Feb 26, 2008 08:39 -0800, Eric Sandeen wrote: Takashi Sato wrote: o Elevate XFS ioctl numbers (XFS_IOC_FREEZE and XFS_IOC_THAW) to the VFS As Andreas Dilger and Christoph Hellwig advised me, I have elevated them to include/linux/fs.h as below. #define FIFREEZE

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-26 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:42:00PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: It looks like a mutex, it acts like a mutex, but it isn't a mutex, it's a trap for the unwary. Weird. I was annoyed by it before; now I see a fellow developer actually getting into that trap. I'd say, rename DECLARE_MUTEX to

Re: vmlinux.lds cleanup

2008-02-26 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Sam Ravnborg - Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:33:07PM +0100] | On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:58:00PM +0300, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | Hi Sam, | | you know I've just take a look on different architectures and I suddenly | realized that I even can't test my changes I'm bringnin in. For example - |

Re: [RFC] ext3 freeze feature ver 0.2

2008-02-26 Thread Eric Sandeen
Takashi Sato wrote: o Elevate XFS ioctl numbers (XFS_IOC_FREEZE and XFS_IOC_THAW) to the VFS As Andreas Dilger and Christoph Hellwig advised me, I have elevated them to include/linux/fs.h as below. #define FIFREEZE_IOWR('X', 119, int)   #define FITHAW _IOWR('X',

[demo patch/RFC] sleepy linux

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
Sleepy linux support, demo version, but it works on my thinkpad x60 ;-). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff --git a/Documentation/power/sleepy.txt b/Documentation/power/sleepy.txt new file mode 100644 index 000..a9caf05 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/power/sleepy.txt @@

Re: 2.6.24.2-rt2

2008-02-26 Thread Jan Kiszka
Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Jan Kiszka wrote: What's the NUMA topology? 4 nodes. I'm not sure if it is really NUMA related, but the same kernel runs that test as expected on a non-NUMA 2x2 box. What tasks are running, and at what priorities? 40 pthreads, created with

Re: [RFC] mmiotrace full patch, preview 1

2008-02-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Hey, Pekka, A couple of little things I noticed... +static int post_kmmio_handler(unsigned long condition, struct pt_regs *regs) +{ + int ret = 0; + struct kmmio_probe *probe; + struct kmmio_fault_page *faultpage; + struct kmmio_context *ctx = get_cpu_var(kmmio_ctx); + +

Re: [2.6.25 patch] drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: fix 64bit division

2008-02-26 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-26 17:34]: MODPOST 759 modules ERROR: __divdi3 [drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.ko] undefined! Fix below. Tested-by: Martin Michlmayr [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Martin Michlmayr http://www.cyrius.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: 2.6.24.2: 4KSTACKS + pcdrw + dm + mount - stack overflow: ide-cd related? dm-related?

2008-02-26 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 06:10:34 Jiri Kosina wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Jan Kara wrote: Yes, exactly two of them. One is non-trivial to get rid of - it's used for encoding of filename before we write it, Why can't we do just UDF: Optimize stack usage Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Re: Linux 2.6.22.19

2008-02-26 Thread Oliver Pinter
Thank for your work in this serie or tree. On 2/26/08, Greg KH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 99c5e87..27acaf4 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 22 -EXTRAVERSION = .18 +EXTRAVERSION = .19 NAME

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:04:51PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Actually I think the _GPL exports are really harmful - somebody distributing a binary module may claim he/she doesn't violate the GPL because the module uses only non-GPL exports. OTOH GPL symbols give They can claim that

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: remove wrong setting about CONSTANT_TSC for intel cpu

2008-02-26 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:33 PM, H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yinghai Lu wrote: which is the same. set_cpu_cap() is indeed the cleaner form to do this so your patch is correct as a cleanup. set_cpu_cap is right == set_bit(X86_FEATURE_CONSTANT_TSC, c-x86_capability);

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jamie Lokier
Jörn Engel wrote: On Tue, 26 February 2008 15:28:10 +, Jamie Lokier wrote: One interesting aspect of this comes with COW filesystems like btrfs or logfs. Writing out data pages is not sufficient, because those will get lost unless their referencing metadata is written as well.

Re: [PATCH] x86: add the debugfs interface for the sysprof tool

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:02:23 +0100 Ingo Molnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anton - who has used oprofile to analyse and tune databases, JVMs, compilers and operating systems. Maybe I've been missing out on the killer app for all this time!!! it's OK if you use it full time and if

linux v2.6.22.20-op1-rc1

2008-02-26 Thread Oliver Pinter
linux v2.6.22.20-op1-rc1 stable review patch what is this tree? it is my long term supported kernel, when i have time for it, i backported the most important fixes. http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6.22.y-op.git rc -- Makefile | 2 +- arch/x86_64/mm/pageattr.c | 2 +- include/linux/page-flags.h | 4

Re: boot_delay broken ?

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:09:48 +0800 Dave Young wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:59:31PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Dave Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Randy Dunlap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:14:36

Re: [patch 6/6] mempolicy: update NUMA memory policy documentation

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Jackson
+ MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES: This flag specifies that the nodemask passed + by the user should remain in the same context as it is for the + current task or VMA's set of accessible nodes after the memory + policy has been defined. + + Without this flag (and without

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 26 February 2008 17:29:13 +, Jamie Lokier wrote: You're right. Though, doesn't normal page writeback enqueue the COW metadata changes? If not, how do they get written in a timely fashion? It does. But this is not sufficient to guarantee that the pages in question have been

Re: 2.6.25-rc1/2 CD/DVD burning broken

2008-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:08:55PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 08:38:22PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:

h8300 drivers/serial/sh-sci.c compile error

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
Commit e108b2ca2349f510ce7d7f910eda89f71d710d84 broke the compilation of drivers/serial/sh-sci.c on h8300: -- snip -- ... CC drivers/serial/sh-sci.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/git/linux-2.6/drivers/serial/sh-sci.c:57:21: error: asm/sci.h: No such file or directory ... make[3]: ***

Re: Linux 2.6.22.19

2008-02-26 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:26:05 +0100 Oliver Pinter wrote: Thank for your work in this serie or tree. Please edit your replies so that you don't send a 40 KB message that is actually only one line. --- ~Randy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: [patch 5/6] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES flag

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Jackson
David, Perhaps I missed it, but could you elaborate on what sort of testing these patches for MPOL_F_RELATIVE_NODES and MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES have received? The main reason I didn't push my version of these patches in December was I figured it would take a week or three of obsessive-compulsive

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually I think the _GPL exports are really harmful - somebody distributing a binary module may claim he/she doesn't violate the GPL because the module uses only non-GPL exports. OTOH GPL symbols give They can claim that anyway. The can claim to be alien

Re: arcmsr areca-1660 - strange behaviour under heavy load

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:35:31 +0100 (CET) Nikola Ciprich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote: Hi Andrew, thanks a lot for reply, I'm attaching requested information. please let me know if You need more information/testing, whatever. I'll be glad to help.

Re: IDE cdrom problem with PLEXTOR DVDR PX-608AL

2008-02-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:32:41PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote: Hi Brad, Hello Boris, Bart, On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:45 AM, Borislav Petkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:57:06PM +1000, Brad Rosser wrote: ... it would suggest the option 'hda=noprobe' was entered

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Andrew is trying to get s2ram to work on Fedora: Please try s2ram, there's good chance it will just work. configure: error: Required libx86 was not found apt-get install libx86-dev?

Re: [2.6 patch] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:28:47PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch moves the cris defconfigs to arch/cris/configs/ where they belong. As a side effect they can now directly be used through e.g. make ARCH=cris artpec_3_defconfig The default defconfig is set through

Re: Performance problems with 3ware 9500S-4LP and 2.6.25-rc3

2008-02-26 Thread Bernd Schubert
Hello Andre, On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:43:14 Andre Noll wrote: Hi we are experiencing massive performance problems with two of our Linux servers that contain 3ware controllers on a Tyan mainboard and a couple of 1T disks. During the daily cron job that uses rsync to sync a 500G file

Re: Proposal for proper durable fsync() and fdatasync()

2008-02-26 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jamie Lokier wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Nick Piggin wrote: Anyway, the idea of making fsync/fdatasync etc. safe by default is a good idea IMO, and is a bad bug that we don't do that :( Agreed... it's also disappointing that [unless I'm mistaken] you have to hack each filesystem to support

Re: [patch 3/6] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-26 Thread Paul Jackson
return do_mbind(start, len, mode, mode_flags, nodes, flags); The intermingling of 'flags', 'mode' and 'mode_flags' to refer to the low bits, the high bits or all the bits of the flags field is handled fairly carefully in your patch, but can still be a bit difficult to keep track of which

Re: [PATCH 00/28] Swap over NFS -v16

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:50:42 +0100 Peter Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 17:03 +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Saturday February 23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the NFS and net people's take on all of this? Well I'm only vaguely an NFS person, barely a net

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-26 12:46:13, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:11:17AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! Andrew is trying to get s2ram to work on Fedora: Please try s2ram, there's good chance it will just work. configure: error: Required libx86 was not found

Re: [2.6 patch v2] cris: proper defconfig setup

2008-02-26 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:47:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch moves the cris defconfigs to arch/cris/configs/ where they belong. As a side effect they can now be used directly through e.g. make ARCH=cris artpec_3_defconfig The default defconfig is set through

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-26 08:03:43, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline void +prepare_adaptive_wait(struct rt_mutex *lock, struct adaptive_waiter *adaptive) ... +#define

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-26 13:10:01, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit several years ago (hal/pm-utils) then, yes. I must have been on

-next build logs

2008-02-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Stephen, the allmodconfig builds at http://kisskb.ellerman.id.au/kisskb/branch/9/ seem to lack a few drivers even though they are properly enabled in the respective config. Is it simply because everything is rebuilt on top of a previous build? Do you mail only errors to maintainers or also

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Cox
From what I've seen its helped make binary module abusers more cautious. Those not using _GPL exports? In general. To be honest there is very little binary only stuff left now -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit several years ago (hal/pm-utils) then, yes. I must have been on different summit... I believe it is bad to tie s2ram to

Re: [(RT RFC) PATCH v2 5/9] adaptive real-time lock support

2008-02-26 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:06 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue 2008-02-26 08:03:43, Gregory Haskins wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 5:03 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +static inline void

Re: [2.6.25-rc2-mm1] Oops in __kmalloc

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:18:55 +0100 Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, while booting up a notebook on 32 bit, this oopses appeared on the console after ext3 fsck: http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/sklad/mem_oops/ It's 2.6.25-rc2-mm1, I can't find similar reports, is this known or

Re: epoll and shared fd's

2008-02-26 Thread Bodo Eggert
Michael Kerrisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) I did a s/internal kernel handle/open file description/ since that is the POSIX term for the internal handle. b) It seems to me that you text doesn't quite make the point explicit enough. I've tried to rewrite it; could you please check:

Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] Linux 2.6.25-rc3 - various unexported functions () on powerpc

2008-02-26 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi, The 2.6.25-rc3 kernel build fails on powerpc with allyesconfig config option, the .config has been attached. ... Builds fine here. Local problem (e.g. disk full) on your machine? cu Adrian Hi

RE: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-26 Thread David Schwartz
David Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know who told you that or why, but it's obvious nonsense, Correct. Exports should be marked GPL if and only if they cannot be used except in a derivative work. If it is possible to use them without taking sufficient protectable

Re: broken suspend in .2.6.25-rc3 on T61p (was Re: new regression in 2.6.25-rc3: no keyboard/lid acpi events on thinkpad T61p)

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Jones
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:16:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: On Tue 2008-02-26 13:10:01, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 06:59:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: if by 'custom' you mean the solution everyone agreed to work toward at the power management summit several

Re: 2.6.24-git: kmap_atomic() WARN_ON()

2008-02-26 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:32:24 -0500 Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: + unsigned long flags; + + local_irq_save(flags); hm, couldnt we attach the irq disabling to some spinlock, in a natural way? Explicit flags

Re: [BUILD_FAILURE] Linux 2.6.25-rc3 - various unexported functions () on powerpc

2008-02-26 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:48:29PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:59:08PM +0530, Kamalesh Babulal wrote: Hi, The 2.6.25-rc3 kernel build fails on powerpc with allyesconfig config option, the .config has been attached. ... Builds

[PATCH 0/2] (was Re: [ofa-general] fmr pool free_list empty)

2008-02-26 Thread Pete Wyckoff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:02 -0800: Ugh. [pw wrote:] Looking at the FMR dirty list unmapping code in ib_fmr_batch_release(), there is a section that pulls all the dirty entries onto a list that it will later unmap and put back on the free list. But it also

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