Re: [PATCH review 3/6] userns: Recommend use of memory control groups.

2013-01-27 Thread Lord Glauber Costa of Sealand
On 01/28/2013 11:37 AM, Lord Glauber Costa of Sealand wrote: > On 01/26/2013 06:22 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> In the help text describing user namespaces recommend use of memory >> control groups. In many cases memory control groups are the only >> mechanism there is to limit how much

[PATCH V2] ARM: davinci: da850: add RTC DT entries

2013-01-27 Thread Mrugesh Katepallewar
Add RTC DT entries in da850 dts file. Signed-off-by: Mrugesh Katepallewar --- Applies on top of v3.8-rc4 of linus tree. This patch is depending on "ARM: davinci: da850: add interrupt-parent property in soc node" https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2044101/ Tested on da850-evm device. Test

Re: [PATCH v3 14/71] ARC: Low level IRQ/Trap/Exception Handling

2013-01-27 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Al, On Thursday 24 January 2013 04:35 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta > Cc: Al Viro > --- > arch/arc/include/asm/entry.h | 495 > arch/arc/kernel/entry.S | 571 > ++ > 2 files changed,

Re: [PATCH v5 7/8] fat (exportfs): rebuild directory-inode if fat_dget() fails

2013-01-27 Thread Namjae Jeon
2013/1/26, OGAWA Hirofumi : > Namjae Jeon writes: > >> 2013/1/20, OGAWA Hirofumi : >>> Namjae Jeon writes: >>> We rewrite patch as your suggestion using dummy inode. Would please you review below patch code ? >>> >>> Looks like good as initial. Clean and shorter. >>> >>> Next is, we

Re: [PATCH v3 22/71] ARC: [Review] Prevent incorrect syscall restarts

2013-01-27 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Al, On Thursday 24 January 2013 04:20 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Per Al Viro's "signals for dummies" https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/6/366 > there are 3 golden rules for (not) restarting syscalls: > > " What we need to guarantee is > * restarts do not happen on signals caught in interrupts

Re: [PATCH v3 32/71] ARC: [DeviceTree] Basic support

2013-01-27 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Rob, On Thursday 24 January 2013 04:20 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > This is minimal infrastructure needed for devicetree work. > It uses an a sample "skeleton" devicetree - embedded in kernel image - > to print the board, manufacturer by parsing the top-level "compatible" > string. > > As of now

Re: [PATCH] pci-sysfs: replace mutex_lock with mutex_trylock to avoid potential deadlock situation

2013-01-27 Thread Jiang Liu
Hi all, I have worked out a draft patch set to serialize hotplug operations, but encountered some obstacles when dealing with PCI root buses. I will try to rebase the patch set onto "PCI: Iterate pci host bridge instead of pci root bus" from Yinghai. And also need to fix bugs reported by

Re: [PATCH review 3/6] userns: Recommend use of memory control groups.

2013-01-27 Thread Lord Glauber Costa of Sealand
On 01/26/2013 06:22 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > In the help text describing user namespaces recommend use of memory > control groups. In many cases memory control groups are the only > mechanism there is to limit how much memory a user who can create > user namespaces can use. > >

Re: [PATCH v3 58/71] ARC: UAPI Disintegrate arch/arc/include/asm

2013-01-27 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi David, On Thursday 24 January 2013 04:20 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > 1. ./genfilelist.pl arch/arc/include/asm/ > > 2. Create arch/arc/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild as follows > > +# UAPI Header export list > +include include/uapi/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm > > 3. ./disintegrate-one.pl

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 15:17 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > On 01/28/2013 02:49 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:19 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > >> On 01/27/2013 06:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > >>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:41:40AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > Just rerun some

Re: [PATCH v2] mm: clean up soft_offline_page()

2013-01-27 Thread Xishi Qiu
On 2013/1/26 13:02, Naoya Horiguchi wrote: > Currently soft_offline_page() is hard to maintain because it has many > return points and goto statements. All of this mess come from get_any_page(). > This function should only get page refcount as the name implies, but it does > some page isolating

RE: [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: OMAP2+: dpll: round rate to closest value

2013-01-27 Thread Paul Walmsley
Hi On Fri, 25 Jan 2013, Mohammed, Afzal wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 13:48:11, Paul Walmsley wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Afzal Mohammed wrote: > > > > Currently round rate function would return proper rate iff requested > > > rate exactly matches the PLL lockable rate. This causes

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 07:42 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Back to original 1ms sleep, 8ms work, turning NUMA box into a single > node 10 core box with numactl. (aim7 in one 10 core node.. so spread, no delta.) Benchmark Version Machine Run Date AIM Multiuser Benchmark - Suite VII

Re: [v3 2/2] ARM: tegra: Skip scu_enable(scu_base) if not Cortex A9

2013-01-27 Thread Hiroshi Doyu
Hi Russell, On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 18:04:46 +0100 Olof Johansson wrote: > Since Russell had comments on it earlier, I'd like him to give a nod > that he's happy with it too. Is this ok for you? The original patch is: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-January/143552.html

Re: [RESEND PATCH v5 1/4] zram: Fix deadlock bug in partial write

2013-01-27 Thread Pekka Enberg
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Minchan Kim wrote: > Now zram allocates new page with GFP_KERNEL in zram I/O path > if IO is partial. Unfortunately, It may cuase deadlock with s/cuase/cause/g > reclaim path so this patch solves the problem. It'd be nice to know about the problem in more

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Alex Shi
On 01/28/2013 02:49 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:19 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >> On 01/27/2013 06:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:41:40AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: Just rerun some benchmarks: kbuild, specjbb2005, oltp, tbench, aim9,

Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow the unprivileged users to mount mqueue fs

2013-01-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Gao feng writes: > On 2013/01/28 11:43, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Gao feng writes: >> >>> This patch allow the unprivileged user to mount mqueuefs in >>> user ns. >>> >>> If two userns share the same ipcns,the files in mqueue fs >>> should be seen in both these two userns. >>> >>> If the

Re: [PATCH v3 00/44] Meta Linux Kernel Port

2013-01-27 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Arnd / Stephen, On Saturday 26 January 2013 05:55 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2013, James Hogan wrote: >> Hi Arnd, >> >> On 10/01/13 15:30, James Hogan wrote: >>> This patchset adds core architecture support to Linux for Imagination's >>> Meta ATP (Meta 1) and HTP (Meta 2)

Re: [net-next RFC] pktgen: don't wait for the device who doesn't free skb immediately after sent

2013-01-27 Thread Jason Wang
On Monday, December 03, 2012 08:01:11 AM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:45:46 +0800 > > Jason Wang wrote: > > On Tuesday, November 27, 2012 08:49:19 AM Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:45:13 +0800 > > > > > > Jason Wang wrote: > > > > On 11/27/2012 01:37

Re: [PATCH net-next 2/3] virtio_net: multiqueue support

2013-01-27 Thread Jason Wang
On Tuesday, December 04, 2012 03:24:22 PM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > I found some bugs, see below. > Also some style nitpicking, this is not mandatory to address. Thanks for the reviewing. > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:07:57PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > This addes multiqueue support to

Re: [PATCH net-next 3/3] virtio-net: change the number of queues through ethtool

2013-01-27 Thread Jason Wang
On Tuesday, December 04, 2012 03:49:59 PM Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 07:07:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > This patch implement the ethtool_{set|get}_channels method of ethool to > > allow user to change the number of queues dymaically when the device is > > running.

RE: [PATCH] ARM: davinci: da850: add RTC driver DT entries

2013-01-27 Thread Katepallewar, Mrugesh
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 16:52:18, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > On 1/25/2013 4:34 PM, Katepallewar, Mrugesh wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 16:04:22, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > >> On 1/25/2013 11:43 AM, Mrugesh Katepallewar wrote: > >>> Add RTC DT entries in da850 dts file. > >>> > >>> Signed-off-by:

Re: [PATCH] x86/apic: check FADT settings after enable x2apic

2013-01-27 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Wang, Song-Bo (Stoney) wrote: > Hi Yinghai, hpa and others, > > Would you please review the patch on detecting x2apic FADT settings? > > We meet a BIOS system which works on x2apic physical mode by setting the bit > ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL in FADT table. > And

Re: [PATCH -v4 0/5] x86,smp: make ticket spinlock proportional backoff w/ auto tuning

2013-01-27 Thread Raghavendra K T
On 01/26/2013 12:35 AM, Rik van Riel wrote: Many spinlocks are embedded in data structures; having many CPUs pounce on the cache line the lock is in will slow down the lock holder, and can cause system performance to fall off a cliff. The paper "Non-scalable locks are dangerous" is a good

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:19 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > On 01/27/2013 06:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:41:40AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > >> Just rerun some benchmarks: kbuild, specjbb2005, oltp, tbench, aim9, > >> hackbench, fileio-cfq of sysbench, dbench, aiostress,

Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow the unprivileged users to mount mqueue fs

2013-01-27 Thread Gao feng
On 2013/01/28 11:43, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Gao feng writes: > >> This patch allow the unprivileged user to mount mqueuefs in >> user ns. >> >> If two userns share the same ipcns,the files in mqueue fs >> should be seen in both these two userns. >> >> If the userns has its own ipcns,it has

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 07:15 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:51 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > > On 01/28/2013 01:17 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 16:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > >> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:25 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > > >>> On

Linus GIT 3.8.0-rc5: INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected -- ((fb_notifier_list).rwsem){.+.+.+}, at: [] __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x49/0x80

2013-01-27 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Daniel, At the bottom of this message you will find dmesg output showing this problem from the current Linus GIT tree. Here is the test of the message you wrote about this (http://marc.info/?l=dri-devel=135905755124554=2): -- Patches for the know issues around

Re: [PATCH 6/11] ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly

2013-01-27 Thread Simon Jeons
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 18:01 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale > nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something > that people will often want to do, but it would be lame to demand a reboot > when they're

Re: [PATCH v3 02/71] ARC: Build system: Makefiles, Kconfig, Linker script

2013-01-27 Thread Vineet Gupta
Hi Sam, On Thursday 24 January 2013 04:20 PM, Vineet Gupta wrote: > Arnd in his review pointed out that arch Kconfig organisation has several > deficiencies: > > * Build time entries for things which can be runtime extracted from DT > (e.g. SDRAM size, core clk frequency..) > * Not

Re: [PATCH] Subtract min_free_kbytes from dirtyable memory

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 08:53:24PM +1100, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote: > Dear Minchan, > > > So what's the effect for user? > > ... > > It seems you saw old kernel. > > ... > > Current kernel includes ... > > So I think we don't need this patch. > > As I understand now, my patch is "right"

Re: Tux3 Report: Initial fsck has landed

2013-01-27 Thread David Lang
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Daniel Phillips wrote: Compared to Ext2/3/4, Tux3 has a big disadvantage in terms of fsck: it does not confine inode table blocks to fixed regions of the volume. Tux3 may store any metadata block anywhere, and tends to stir things around to new locations during normal

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Mon, 2013-01-28 at 13:51 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > On 01/28/2013 01:17 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 16:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:25 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > >>> On 01/27/2013 06:35 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27,

Re: Tux3 Report: Initial fsck has landed

2013-01-27 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:02 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Daniel Phillips wrote: > The thing that jumps out at me with this is the question of how you will > avoid the 'filesystem image in a file' disaster that reiserfs had (where > it's fsck could mix up metadata chunks from the

Re: One of these things (CONFIG_HZ) is not like the others..

2013-01-27 Thread Santosh Shilimkar
On Tuesday 22 January 2013 08:35 PM, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: On Tuesday 22 January 2013 08:21 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 03:44:03PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: Sorry for not being clear enough. On OMAP, 32KHz is the only clock which is always running(even

[GIT] Networking

2013-01-27 Thread David Miller
Much more accumulated than I would have liked due to an unexpected bout with a nasty flu. 1) AH and ESP input don't set ECN field correctly because the transport head of the SKB isn't set correctly, fix from Li RongQing. 2) If netfilter conntrack zones are disabled, we can return an

[PATCH V3 1/3] mtd: add new fields to nand_flash_dev{}

2013-01-27 Thread Huang Shijie
As time goes on, we begin to meet the situation that we can not get enough information from some nand chips's id data. Take some Toshiba's nand chips for example. I have 4 Toshiba's nand chips in my hand: TC58NVG2S0F, TC58NVG3S0F, TC58NVG5D2, TC58NVG6D2 When we read these chips'

[PATCH V3 3/3] mtd: add the new detection method for the unparsable nand chips

2013-01-27 Thread Huang Shijie
Add the new detection method find_nand_type_by_fullid() for the unparsable nand chips. The new detection method is called firstly before all the other detection methods. Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie --- drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c | 33 - 1 files changed, 32

[PATCH V3 0/3] mtd: use the full-id as the keyword

2013-01-27 Thread Huang Shijie
From: Huang Shijie I ever submitted a patch to use the full-id as the keyword for some unparsable nand chips. This is the second tries. As time goes on, we begin to meet the situation that we can not get enough information from some nand chips's id data. Take some Toshiba's nand chips for

[PATCH V3 2/3] mtd: add a new table for the unparsable nand chips

2013-01-27 Thread Huang Shijie
We have 4 Toshiba nand chips which can not be parsed out by the id data. Add a new table for the unparsable nand chips. It makes mess if we add these entries to the nand_flash_ids table. The entries in the nand_flash_ids stands for a class of nand chips. But the unparsable nand chips are just

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Alex Shi
On 01/28/2013 01:17 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 16:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:25 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >>> On 01/27/2013 06:35 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:36:25AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > With aim7

[PATCH] perf: Add the rcu_read_lock to protect the list_for_each_entry_rcu.

2013-01-27 Thread Jun Chen
The list_for_each_entry_rcu should be guarded by rcu_read_lock().This patch add rcu_read_lock to protect the list_for_each_entry_rcu. Signed-off-by: Chen Jun --- kernel/events/core.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c

Re: [PATCH 0/4] mfd: palma: add RTC and GPIO support

2013-01-27 Thread Laxman Dewangan
On Monday 28 January 2013 02:58 AM, Samuel Ortiz wrote: Hi Laxman, On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 02:15:43PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: On Sunday 27 January 2013 05:58 AM, Samuel Ortiz wrote: Hi Laxman, On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:16:56PM +0530, Laxman Dewangan wrote: This series add the RTC and

Re: Doubts about listen backlog and tcp_max_syn_backlog

2013-01-27 Thread Vijay Subramanian
> +{ "ListenDrops", N_("%u SYNs to LISTEN sockets dropped"), opt_number }, > > (see the file debian/patches/CVS-20081003-statistics.c_sync.patch > in the net-tools src) > > i.e., the netstat pkg is printing the value of the TCPEXT MIB counter > that's counting TCPExtListenDrops. > >

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Alex Shi
On 01/27/2013 06:40 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:41:40AM +0800, Alex Shi wrote: >> Just rerun some benchmarks: kbuild, specjbb2005, oltp, tbench, aim9, >> hackbench, fileio-cfq of sysbench, dbench, aiostress, multhreads >> loopback netperf. on my core2, nhm, wsm, snb,

RE: [PATCH 2/6] ARM: davinci: da850: add DT node for I2C0

2013-01-27 Thread Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 16:20:13, Nori, Sekhar wrote: > On 1/24/2013 5:05 PM, Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish wrote: > > Add I2C0 device tree node information to da850-evm. > > Also, add I2C0 pin muxing information in da850-evm. > > > > Signed-off-by: Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish > > --- > >

Re: [patch v4 0/18] sched: simplified fork, release load avg and power awareness scheduling

2013-01-27 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 16:51 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 21:25 +0800, Alex Shi wrote: > > On 01/27/2013 06:35 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 05:36:25AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > >> With aim7 compute on 4 node 40 core box, I see stable

RE: [PATCH] x86/apic: check FADT settings after enable x2apic

2013-01-27 Thread Wang, Song-Bo (Stoney)
Hi Yinghai, hpa and others, Would you please review the patch on detecting x2apic FADT settings? We meet a BIOS system which works on x2apic physical mode by setting the bit ACPI_FADT_APIC_PHYSICAL in FADT table. And for those systems with all cpuid < 255, the spec requires BIOS's default mode

RE: [PATCH 5/6] ARM: regulator: add tps6507x device tree data

2013-01-27 Thread Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 10:42:08, Mark Brown wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 06:29:49AM +, Vishwanathrao Badarkhe, Manish > wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 17:30:51, Mark Brown wrote: > > > I too doubt that whether it should be in architecture specific folder, > > > My code is in

[PATCH Resend Resend] smp:Fix use un-initialized cpumask_ipi

2013-01-27 Thread Wang YanQing
c7b798525b50256c8084215a139fa40b0114bfcc [smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race] use the un-initialized variable cpumask_ipi when enable CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing --- I am sorry for miss it first. kernel/smp.c | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff

Re: Linux 3.0.61

2013-01-27 Thread Greg KH
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3359fcf..2d64957 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ VERSION = 3 PATCHLEVEL = 0 -SUBLEVEL = 60 +SUBLEVEL = 61 EXTRAVERSION = NAME = Sneaky Weasel diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/traps.h index

Linux 3.0.61

2013-01-27 Thread Greg KH
I'm announcing the release of the 3.0.61 kernel. All users of the 3.0 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.0.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.0.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:

Re: Linux 3.4.28

2013-01-27 Thread Greg KH
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index f139ce7..8ccebba 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ VERSION = 3 PATCHLEVEL = 4 -SUBLEVEL = 27 +SUBLEVEL = 28 EXTRAVERSION = NAME = Saber-toothed Squirrel diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c index

Linux 3.4.28

2013-01-27 Thread Greg KH
I'm announcing the release of the 3.4.28 kernel. All users of the 3.4 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.4.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.4.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:

Linux 3.7.5

2013-01-27 Thread Greg KH
I'm announcing the release of the 3.7.5 kernel. All users of the 3.7 kernel series must upgrade. The updated 3.7.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-3.7.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser:

[PATCH Resend] smp:Fix use un-initialized cpumask_ipi

2013-01-27 Thread Wang YanQing
c7b798525b50256c8084215a139fa40b0114bfcc [smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race] use the un-initialized variable cpumask_ipi when enable CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing --- I am sorry for miss it first. kernel/smp.c | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff

Re: [ 11/15] ahci: Add identifiers for ASM106x devices

2013-01-27 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 05:00:48PM -0500, Abdallah Chatila wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 01:45:21PM -0700, Jerry Snitselaar wrote: > > > > There is a whitespace error in this patch: > > > > Applying: ahci: Add identifiers for ASM106x devices > > /root/linux/linux/.git/rebase-apply/patch:12:

Re: [PATCH 4/6] cpufreq: Add a get_current_driver helper

2013-01-27 Thread Viresh Kumar
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > From: Borislav Petkov > > Add a helper function to return cpufreq_driver->name. > > Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov > --- > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c | 14 ++ > include/linux/cpufreq.h | 1 + > 2 files changed, 15

Re: [PATCH 3/3] i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel Avoton DeviceIDs

2013-01-27 Thread Wolfram Sang
> @@ -166,6 +167,7 @@ > #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_5_3400_SERIES_SMBUS 0x3b30 > #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_LYNXPOINT_SMBUS 0x8c22 > #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_LYNXPOINT_LP_SMBUS 0x9c22 > +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_INTEL_AVOTON_SMBUS 0x1f3c This seems to be sorted, please stick

[tip:x86/efi] x86, build: Dynamically find entry points in compressed startup code

2013-01-27 Thread tip-bot for David Woodhouse
Commit-ID: 99f857db8857aff691c51302f93648263ed07eb1 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/99f857db8857aff691c51302f93648263ed07eb1 Author: David Woodhouse AuthorDate: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:31:59 + Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:19:37 -0800 x86, build:

Re: [PATCHv2 6/9] zsmalloc: promote to lib/

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 01:01:16PM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:24:37PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > > This patch promotes the slab-based zsmalloc memory allocator > > from the staging tree to lib/ > > > > zswap depends on this allocator for storing compressed RAM pages

[tip:x86/efi] x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM handing in EFI boot stub, in 32-bit mode

2013-01-27 Thread tip-bot for David Woodhouse
Commit-ID: b607e2126705ca28ecf21aa051172882bbdaae8a Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/b607e2126705ca28ecf21aa051172882bbdaae8a Author: David Woodhouse AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:09:49 + Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:19:37 -0800 x86, efi: Fix PCI ROM

[tip:x86/efi] x86, efi: Fix 32-bit EFI handover protocol entry point

2013-01-27 Thread tip-bot for David Woodhouse
Commit-ID: f791620fa7517e1045742c475a7f005db9a634b8 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/f791620fa7517e1045742c475a7f005db9a634b8 Author: David Woodhouse AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:01:50 + Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:19:37 -0800 x86, efi: Fix 32-bit

[tip:x86/efi] x86, efi: Fix display detection in EFI boot stub

2013-01-27 Thread tip-bot for David Woodhouse
Commit-ID: 70a479cbe80296d3113e65cc2f713a5101061daf Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/70a479cbe80296d3113e65cc2f713a5101061daf Author: David Woodhouse AuthorDate: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:52:16 + Committer: H. Peter Anvin CommitDate: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:19:37 -0800 x86, efi: Fix display

Re: [PATCHv2 7/9] mm: break up swap_writepage() for frontswap backends

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 02:24:38PM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > swap_writepage() is currently where frontswap hooks into the swap > write path to capture pages with the frontswap_store() function. > However, if a frontswap backend wants to "resume" the writeback of > a page to the swap device, it

Re: [PATCH 6/11] ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly

2013-01-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 18:01 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Switching merge_across_nodes after running KSM is liable to oops on stale > > nodes still left over from the previous stable tree. It's not something > > Since this patch solve the problem, so

Re: [PATCH 6/11] ksm: remove old stable nodes more thoroughly

2013-01-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 15:05 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > > > > How can this happen? We only permit switching merge_across_nodes when > > > > pages_shared is 0, and usually set run 2 to force that beforehand,

[PATCH 2/6] audit: flatten kauditd_thread wait queue code

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs The wait queue control code in kauditd_thread() was nested deeper than necessary. The function has been flattened for better legibility. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs --- This is a code clean up in preparation to add a multicast netlink socket to kaudit for

[PATCH 3/6] audit: move kaudit thread start from auditd registration to kaudit init

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs The kauditd_thread() task was started only after the auditd userspace daemon registers itself with kaudit. This was fine when only auditd consumed messages from the kaudit netlink unicast socket. With the addition of a multicast group to that socket it is more

Re: [PATCH 0/4] staging: zsmalloc: various cleanups/improvments

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
Hi Seth, On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:46:14AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > These patches are the first 4 patches of the zswap patchset I > sent out previously. Some recent commits to zsmalloc and > zcache in staging-next forced a rebase. While I was at it, Nitin > (zsmalloc maintainer) requested

[PATCH 5/6] audit: add restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs Add a netlink multicast socket with one group to kaudit for "best-effort" delivery to read-only userspace clients such as systemd, in addition to the existing bidirectional unicast auditd userspace client. Currently, auditd is intended to use the CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL and

[PATCH 6/6] audit: send multicast messages only if there are listeners

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs Test first to see if there are any userspace multicast listeners bound to the socket before starting the multicast send work. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs --- kernel/audit.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c

[PATCH 1/6] audit: refactor hold queue flush

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs The hold queue flush code is an autonomous chunk of code that can be refactored, removed from kauditd_thread() into flush_hold_queue() and flattenned for better legibility. Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs --- This is a code clean up in preparation to add a multicast

[PATCH 4/6] netlink: add send and receive capability requirement and capability flags

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs Currently netlink socket permissions are controlled by the NL_CFG_F_NONROOT_{RECV,SEND} flags in the kernel socket configuration or by the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability of the client. The former allows non-root users access to the socket. The latter allows all network admin

[PATCH 0/6] audit: add restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket

2013-01-27 Thread Richard Guy Briggs
From: Richard Guy Briggs Hi, This is a patch set Eric Paris and I have been working on to add a restricted capability read-only netlink multicast socket to kaudit to enable userspace clients such as systemd to consume audit logs, in addition to the bidirectional auditd userspace client.

Re: [PATCH 7/11] ksm: make KSM page migration possible

2013-01-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 15:12 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > > > > > > Could you explain why need check page->mapping twice after get page? > > > > Once for the !locked case, which should not return page if mapping

Re: [PATCH 8/11] ksm: make !merge_across_nodes migration safe

2013-01-27 Thread Simon Jeons
On Fri, 2013-01-25 at 18:05 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > The new KSM NUMA merge_across_nodes knob introduces a problem, when it's > set to non-default 0: if a KSM page is migrated to a different NUMA node, > how do we migrate its stable node to the right tree? And what if that > collides with an

Re: [PATCH 4/4] staging: zsmalloc: make CLASS_DELTA relative to PAGE_SIZE

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:46:18AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > Right now ZS_SIZE_CLASS_DELTA is hardcoded to be 16. This > creates 254 classes for systems with 4k pages. However, on > PPC64 with 64k pages, it creates 4095 classes which is far > too many. > > This patch makes

Re: [PATCH] userns: Allow the unprivileged users to mount mqueue fs

2013-01-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Gao feng writes: > This patch allow the unprivileged user to mount mqueuefs in > user ns. > > If two userns share the same ipcns,the files in mqueue fs > should be seen in both these two userns. > > If the userns has its own ipcns,it has its own mqueue fs too. > ipcns has already done this job

Re: [PATCH 1/1] mfd: wm8994: Use devm_regulator_bulk_get API

2013-01-27 Thread Sachin Kamat
On 27 January 2013 05:52, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > Hi Sachin, > > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 09:13:20AM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote: >> Hi Samuel, >> >> On 8 January 2013 16:06, Mark Brown >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:01:22PM +0530, Sachin Kamat wrote: >> >> devm_regulator_bulk_get is

Re: [PATCH 3/4] staging: zsmalloc: add page alloc/free callbacks

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:46 AM, Seth Jennings wrote: > This patch allows users of zsmalloc to register the > allocation and free routines used by zsmalloc to obtain > more pages for the memory pool. This allows the user > more control over zsmalloc pool policy and behavior. > > If the user does

Re: [PATCH 2/4] staging: zsmalloc: remove unused pool name

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:46:16AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > zs_create_pool() currently takes a name argument which is > never used in any useful way. > > This patch removes it. > > Acked-by: Nitin Gupta > Signed-off-by: Seth Jennnings Acked-by: Minchan Kim -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim

Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: zsmalloc: add gfp flags to zs_create_pool

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
Hi Seth, On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:46:15AM -0600, Seth Jennings wrote: > zs_create_pool() currently takes a gfp flags argument > that is used when growing the memory pool. However > it is not used in allocating the metadata for the pool > itself. That is currently hardcoded to GFP_KERNEL. > >

[PATCH V2 1/2] thermal: sysfs: Add a new sysfs node emul_temp for thermal emulation

2013-01-27 Thread Amit Daniel Kachhap
This patch adds support to set the emulated temperature method in thermal zone (sensor). After setting this feature thermal zone may report this temperature and not the actual temperature. The emulation implementation may be based on sensor capability through platform specific handler or pure

Re: bzImage 2.12

2013-01-27 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Thanks. Yinghai Lu wrote: >On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:39 AM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> I'm planning to sort it out... I'll let you know if I run out of >bandwidth. >> >> Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM, H. Peter Anvin >wrote: I think we can probably do that,

Panic during interrupt handling while terminating hostapd

2013-01-27 Thread Mihai Moldovan
Hi, I've found yet another problem with (at least) 3.7.4 and 3.8-rc4. When terminating hostapd via SIGINT, this bug and panic came up: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at

Re: [PATCH 5/11] ksm: get_ksm_page locked

2013-01-27 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 14:08 -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Simon Jeons wrote: > > > > > > Why the parameter lock passed from stable_tree_search/insert is true, > > > but remove_rmap_item_from_tree is false? > > > > The other way

Re: [PATCH 1/2] thermal: sysfs: Add a new sysfs node emul_temp

2013-01-27 Thread amit kachhap
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Zhang Rui wrote: > On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:30 -0800, amit kachhap wrote: >> Hi Rui, >> >> Thanks for the review comments, >> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:33 PM, Zhang Rui wrote: >> > Hi, Amit, >> > >> > On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 16:08 -0800, Amit Daniel Kachhap wrote:

[PATCH] smp:Fix use un-initialized cpumask_ipi

2013-01-27 Thread Wang YanQing
c7b798525b50256c8084215a139fa40b0114bfcc [smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask race] use the un-initialized variable cpumask_ipi when enable CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing --- I am sorry for miss it, I just think it when I was lying on the bed last night. :)

[PATCH V2 2/2] thermal: exynos: Use the framework for temperature emulation support

2013-01-27 Thread Amit Daniel Kachhap
This removes the driver specific sysfs support of the temperature emulation and uses the newly added core thermal framework for thermal emulation. A platform specific handler is added to support this. Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap Acked-by: Kukjin Kim --- Changes in V2: * Added config

Re: [PATCH] vhost-net: fall back to vmalloc if high-order allocation fails

2013-01-27 Thread David Miller
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:04:11 +0200 > Maybe we should try and reduce our memory usage, > I will look into this. As has been pointed out, 32K of the size is from those iovecs in the queues. The size of this structure is frankly offensive, and even if you add some

[PATCH] userns: Allow the unprivileged users to mount mqueue fs

2013-01-27 Thread Gao feng
This patch allow the unprivileged user to mount mqueuefs in user ns. If two userns share the same ipcns,the files in mqueue fs should be seen in both these two userns. If the userns has its own ipcns,it has its own mqueue fs too. ipcns has already done this job well. Signed-off-by: Gao feng

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Fix warnings on code comments

2013-01-27 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:56:45 -0800 > So will you be fine with cleanup patches which go through and > convert all the existing code comments to the desired format? Sure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCHv2 1/9] staging: zsmalloc: add gfp flags to zs_create_pool

2013-01-27 Thread Minchan Kim
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 07:56:29AM -0800, Dan Magenheimer wrote: > > From: Seth Jennings [mailto:sjenn...@linux.vnet.ibm.com] > > Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 1/9] staging: zsmalloc: add gfp flags to > > zs_create_pool > > > > On 01/24/2013 07:33 PM, Minchan Kim wrote: > > > Hi Seth, frontswap guys > >

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Fix warnings on code comments

2013-01-27 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 18:59 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Jeff Kirsher > Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:35:39 -0800 > > > Produces warnings on code comments which follow the Linux coding style > > guide. While the desired code comment style for networking my differ > > from the rest of the

Re: Doubts about listen backlog and tcp_max_syn_backlog

2013-01-27 Thread Nivedita Singhvi
On 01/25/2013 02:05 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:12:46PM -0800, Nivedita SInghvi wrote: > I was just kind of quoting the name given by netstat: "SYNs to LISTEN > sockets dropped" (for kernel 3.0, I noticed newer kernels don't have > this stat anymore, or

Re: Doubts about listen backlog and tcp_max_syn_backlog

2013-01-27 Thread Nivedita Singhvi
On 01/25/2013 02:05 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:12:46PM -0800, Nivedita SInghvi wrote: > I was just kind of quoting the name given by netstat: "SYNs to LISTEN > sockets dropped" (for kernel 3.0, I noticed newer kernels don't have > this stat anymore, or

Re: [patch] NTB: fix pointer math issues

2013-01-27 Thread Jon Mason
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:26:05PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > ->remote_rx_info and ->rx_info are struct ntb_rx_info pointers. If we > add sizeof(struct ntb_rx_info) then it goes too far. Good catch, I'll add it to me pending patch queue. Thanks, Jon > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter > ---

Re: [PATCH] arch: avr32: add dummy syscalls

2013-01-27 Thread HÃ¥vard Skinnemoen
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Matthias Brugger wrote: > This patch adds dummy syscalls so that compiling > for this architecture does not provoke warnings when > checksyscalls.sh is called. Nice, but... > --- a/arch/avr32/kernel/syscall_table.S > +++ b/arch/avr32/kernel/syscall_table.S > @@

Re: 3.8.0-rc4+ - Oops on removing WinTV-HVR-1400 expresscard TV Tuner

2013-01-27 Thread Yijing Wang
Hi Chris, Sorry for the delay reply. It seems like my reply last night was missed. >From the sysinfo you provide, there are no pcie port devices under >/sys/bus/pci_express/devices. Maybe because there are some problems with _OSC in your laptop, so pcie port driver won't create pcie port

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