Re: [PATCH] maintainers: drop Chris Wright from pvops

2017-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
uergen Gross writes: > >> Mails to chr...@sous-sol.org are not deliverable since several months. >> Drop him as PARAVIRT_OPS maintainer. >> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Acked-by: Chris Wright ;) thanks, -chris >> --- >> MAINTAINERS | 1 - >>

Re: WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Guenter Roeck (li...@roeck-us.net) wrote: > On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:00:54PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Guenter Roeck (li...@roeck-us.net) wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > > > One thing I've seen is the BIO

Re: WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard

2013-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Guenter Roeck (li...@roeck-us.net) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > One thing I've seen is the BIOS zeroing the base register address when > > VT-d is disabled in BIOS. So, Guenter, a "fix" may be simply enabling > >

Re: WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Guenter Roeck (li...@roeck-us.net) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 04:22:52PM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Guenter Roeck (li...@roeck-us.net) wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:05:39PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > [+cc Joerg, David, iommu list]

Re: WARNING: at drivers/iommu/dmar.c:484 warn_invalid_dmar with Intel Motherboard

2013-07-09 Thread Chris Wright
* Guenter Roeck (li...@roeck-us.net) wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 03:05:39PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > [+cc Joerg, David, iommu list] > > > > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > > I started seeing this problem after updating the BIOS trying fix another > > > issue,

[PATCH] debugfs: make __create_file static

2012-08-09 Thread Chris Wright
It's only used locally, no need to pollute global namespace. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright --- fs/debugfs/inode.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index 4733eab..2c9fafb 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++

Re: {2.6.22.y} CVE-2007-6434

2008-02-04 Thread Chris Wright
* Oliver Pinter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > mainline: ecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5 > > --->8--- > commit ecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5 > Author: Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue Dec 4 23:45:31 2007 -0800 > > VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk > >

Re: [PATCH 1/10] add missing parameter for lookup_address

2008-01-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > lookup_address() receives two parameters, but efi_64.c call > is passing only one. It's actually preventing the tree from compiling > > Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Good catch, I know I don't test with CONFIG

[PATCH] x86: refactor ioport unification

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Wright
Refactor ioport unification to pull out common code. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Kevin Winchester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PR

[PATCH] x86: fix ioport unification on 32-bit [was: Re: hwclock failure in x86.git]

2008-01-11 Thread Chris Wright
on top of Miguel's (can respin to standalone if that's better). Tested (on both 32 and 64-bit) with simple: #include #include main() { if (iopl(3) == 0) asm ("cli\nsti\n"::); } thanks, -chris -- From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Chris Wright wrote: > > Yes, paravirt ops have a well-specified calling convention (register > > based). There was a cleanup that Andi did that caused the problem > > because it removed all the "f

Re: [RFC PATCH 01/11] Add basic support for gcc profiler instrumentation

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hmm, I know paravirt-ops had an issue with mcount in the RT tree. I can't > remember the exact issues, but it did have something to do with the way > parameters were passed in. > > Chris, do you remember what the issues were? Yes, paravirt ops have a

Re: [PATCH] audit: clear thread flag for new children

2007-10-26 Thread Chris Wright
> forked from a parent created when audit was enabled to not take the fastest > syscall path thru entry.S > > Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Yeah, I think that's the right thing to do. Doesn't have an audit_context anyway. Acked-by: Chris Wright

Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface)

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do other people want to stand up and be "LSM maintainers" in the sense > that they also end up being informed members who can also stand up for new > modules and help merge them, rather than just push the existing one(s)? > Chris? Casey? Crispin? St

Re: Linux Security *Module* Framework (Was: LSM conversion to static interface)

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > And don't give me the old "LKML is a tough crowd" feldercarb. > Security modules have been much worse. Innovation, even in > security, is a good thing and treating people harshly, even > "for their own good", is an impediment to innovation. I agree th

Re: LSM conversion to static interface [revert patch]

2007-10-23 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > Yes, and I think we can still improve performance although I can't see > > anyway to help out the modular case, so I guess it will have to incur > > the hit that's always been there. >

Re: LSM conversion to static interface [revert patch]

2007-10-23 Thread Chris Wright
* Jan Engelhardt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Oct 22 2007 22:16, Chris Wright wrote: > >Yes, and I think we can still improve performance although I can't see > >anyway to help out the modular case, so I guess it will have to incur > >the hit that's always be

Re: LSM conversion to static interface [revert patch]

2007-10-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Arjan van de Ven ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:57:06 +1000 (EST) > James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > > >I'd like to note that I asked people who were actually affected, > > > >and had examples of their real-wor

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] capabilities: implement 64-bit capabilities

2007-10-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Quoting Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > * Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I guess now that I've written this out, it seems pretty clear > > > that capget64() and capget64() are the way to go.

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] capabilities: implement 64-bit capabilities

2007-10-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I guess now that I've written this out, it seems pretty clear > that capget64() and capget64() are the way to go. Any objections? How is capget64() different from capget() that supports 2 different header->versions (I thought that was the whole point

Re: [stable] [PATCH] 2.6.22.6 fix kernel panic on corrupted reiserfs directory

2007-09-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Oliver Pinter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > it is Lepton's patch. > Namesys boys, this patch is OK? > Greg, I neither do find this patch in Linus's tree. The point is, if it's not important enough to go into Linus' tree, than it isn't important enough to be in the -stable tree. So please get thi

Re: Linux 2.6.22.7

2007-09-21 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 3067f6a..12edea0 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 22 -EXTRAVERSION = .6 +EXTRAVERSION = .7 NAME = Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman! # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32entry.S b/arch

Linux 2.6.22.7

2007-09-21 Thread Chris Wright
tions(+), 8 deletions(-) Summary of changes from v2.6.22.6 to v2.6.22.7 == Andi Kleen (1): x86_64: Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path. Chris Wright (1): Linux 2.6.22.7 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
* James Courtier-Dutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok, so I need to get a new CPU like the Intel Core Duo that has VT > features? I have an old Pentium 4 at the moment, without any VT features. Depends on your goals. You can certainly give a paravirt Xen guest[1] physical hardware without any V

Re: [PATCH] Add I/O hypercalls for i386 paravirt

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
* James Courtier-Dutton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If one could directly expose a device to the guest, this feature could > be extremely useful for me. > Is it possible? How would it manage to handle the DMA bus mastering? Yes it's possible (Xen supports pci pass through). Without an IOMMU (lik

Re: [Tech-board-discuss] Re: Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board Elections

2007-08-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Dave Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have a reservation about voting for any of the above. > Normally during any process involving votes, there exists some sort > of "why you should vote for me" type statement. Does such a thing > exist for this process ? Last year each nominee made a stat

Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue

2007-08-19 Thread Chris Wright
tree should be working fine right now with d34fda4a84c18402640a1a2342d6e6d9829e6db7 committed, and can be further refined with the patch below that's just waiting on some further testing. thanks, -chris -- Subject: [PATCH] x86: skip paravirt patching when appropriate From: Chris Wright &

[PATCH] x86: skip paravirt patching when appropriate

2007-08-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Now that I understand the problem, I do have a very simple (slightly > overkill) fix for paravirt patching. This can be cleaned up to avoid > the copies when they aren't needed, but that will take a little more > auditing of the vari

Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue

2007-08-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Chris Wright wrote: > > > > > > Check the latest git head. Does it still break? > > > > Yeah, this is the latest git. The broken commit is Rusty's patch which, > > after Linus rever

Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue

2007-08-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This patch breaks Xen booting. > > Check the latest git head. Does it still break? Yeah, this is the latest git. The broken commit is Rusty's patch which, after Linus reverted the write-protected remap changes, is no longer necessary. AFAICT patchin

Re: [PATCH] [5/12] x86_64: Make patching more robust, fix paravirt issue

2007-08-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This patch breaks Xen booting. I get infinite recursive faults during > patching when this patch is present. If I boot with > "noreplace-paravirt" it works OK, and it works as expected if I back > this patch out. I haven't tracked down the exact

Re: [stable] [PATCH] UML - Add a .note.SuSE section

2007-08-16 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Dike ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [ This is both 2.6.24 and -stable material ] > > SuSE seems to require that binaries have a .note.SuSE section. > Without it, UML segfaults if any parameters are passed on the command > line. Huh!? Why do we need a SuSE section? thanks, -chris - To unsubs

[PATCH take2] Use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK if poll() is interrupted by a signal

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Oleg Nesterov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 08/03, Chris Wright wrote: > > > > +long do_restart_poll(struct restart_block *restart_block) > > +{ > > + struct pollfd __user *ufds = (struct pollfd __user*)restart_block->arg0; > > + int nfds = restart_bloc

Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Only caveat, is that it has to be done before smp gets in the game, and > with interrupts disabled. (which makes the function in vsmp.c not eligible). > > My current option is to force VSMP to use PARAVIRT, as said before, and > then fill

Re: [PATCH 3/25][V3] irq_flags / halt routines

2007-08-15 Thread Chris Wright
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As alternatives what we have now, we can either keep the paravirt_ops as > it is now for the native case, just hooking the vsmp functions in place > of the normal one, (there are just three ops anyway), refill the > paravirt_ops entirely i

Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:55:36 -0700 Chris Wright wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > +F: arch/i386/xen/ > > > +F: drivers/*/xen-*front.c > > > +F: drivers/xen/ > >

Re: [PATCH] [545/2many] MAINTAINERS - XEN HYPERVISOR INTERFACE

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index e4e1cc3..8395aba 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -5153,6 +5153,11 @@ M: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PATCH] [365/2many] MAINTAINERS - PARAVIRT_OPS INTERFACE

2007-08-13 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Add file pattern to MAINTAINER entry > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index 2166416..44768ce 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -3519,6 +3519,9 @@ M: [EMAIL PROTEC

[PATCH] Use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK if poll() is interrupted by a signal (was: Re: [PATCH] Use ERESTARTNOHAND if poll() is interrupted by a signal)

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Wright
s, -chris -- Subject: [PATCH] Use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK if poll() is interrupted by a signal From: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Lomesh reported poll returning EINTR during suspend/resume cycle. This is caused by the STOP/CONT cycle that the freezer uses, generating a pending signal for what

Re: [PATCH] Use ERESTARTNOHAND if poll() is interrupted by a signal

2007-07-31 Thread Chris Wright
* Oleg Nesterov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I am not sure. This means we restart sys_poll() with the same timeout > > if there is no pending signal. I think we need ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK > > logic. > > Forgot to mention, sys_select() can use ERESTARTNOHAND because it > modifies "struct timeval

Re: [2.6.23-rc1 REGRESSION] CPU hotplug totally broken on HPC nx6325 (x86_64)

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Chris Wright wrote: > > This also fixes paravirt patching which was broken when text_poke() > > tried to patch the various pv ops in lookup_address. > > Hmm. What is "this"? The revert? Yes

Re: [2.6.23-rc1 REGRESSION] CPU hotplug totally broken on HPC nx6325 (x86_64)

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On my Turion64-based HPC nx6325 with the 2.6.23-rc1 x86_64 kernel doing > > > > # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online > > > > causes the system to crash in a spectacular fashion (call traces g

Re: [PATCH] Use ERESTARTNOHAND if poll() is interrupted by a signal

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:05:05 +0200 Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > poll() returns -EINTR if a signal is pending. > > EINTR is a bad choice: it means that poll returns to user space if the > > task is stopped by SIGSTOP/SIGCONT or by the fre

Re: [PATCH] Use ERESTARTNOHAND if poll() is interrupted by a signal

2007-07-30 Thread Chris Wright
* Manfred Spraul ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > poll() returns -EINTR if a signal is pending. > EINTR is a bad choice: it means that poll returns to user space if the > task is stopped by SIGSTOP/SIGCONT or by the freezer. > select() and ppoll() both use ERESTARTNOHAND, this avoids a return to > user

Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

2007-07-27 Thread Chris Wright
* Pavel Machek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I believe there's still a lot that can be merged, and I'm responsible > for some of it. Parts of suspend code should be shared, yet they are > in differently named files in differently named directories. > > Ok, I guess I should fix it, arch/x86 or not.

Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86

2007-07-21 Thread Chris Wright
* Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Can we see some stats on: > > How many files were auto-merged? > How many files got 32.c and 64.c extensions? > How many existed only in one arch? It's mostly about file movement first. Kbuild |8 +- Mak

Re: [PATCH] Use descriptor's functions instead of inline assembly

2007-07-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Glauber de Oliveira Costa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > This patch provides a new set of functions for managing the descriptor > tables that can be used instead of putting the raw assembly in .c files. Looks alright, some cleanups below > Remodeling of store_tr() suggested by Frederik Deweerdt.

Re: [PATCH 2/3] i386: use x86_64's desc_def.h

2007-07-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Rusty Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 09:27 +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 09:19 -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote: > > > > +#define GET_CONTENTS(desc) (((desc)->raw32.b >> 10) & 3) > > > > +#define GET_WRITABLE(desc) (((desc)->raw32.b >> 9) &

Re: [PATCH 3/3] i386: Replace struct Xgt_desc_struct with struct desc_ptr

2007-07-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Rusty Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Remove i386's Xgt_desc_struct definition and use desc_def.h's desc_ptr. plus this is needed now Index: linus-2.6/drivers/lguest/lg.h === --- linus-2.6.orig/drivers/lguest/lg.h +++ linus-2

Re: [PATCH try #3] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-07-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Actually, given that when lsm was being introduced, lsm seemed to > improve performance overall, have you taken any measurements to show > that this is actually the case? Of course it makes sense that it would, > but witjout measurements we do not kno

Re: [PATCH] Fix leaks on /proc/{*/sched,sched_debug,timer_list,timer_stats}

2007-07-17 Thread Chris Wright
* Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sorry, but I can't be bothered splitting it up. Greg, Chris: please just > apply the bits which apply and drop the other bits if that's OK. Yup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: Linux 2.6.22.1

2007-07-13 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > In that case, it's almost certainly that that tree isn't doing the proper > "git update-server-info" when people push to it. Yup, should be fixed now. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.22.1

2007-07-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Nish Aravamudan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 7/12/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is a tree that Chris did, and I didn't realize we were maintaining > > it as the "official" stable tree, that is why it is not mentioned in the > > release notes :) > > Fair enough -- it's just a

Re: [stable] generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ok by me, although I suspect a lot of the cases where the hpet one > was needed got resolved with the PCI HPET resource fix But it's still > safer to check. > > However I don't think patches should go into stable before they > hit Linus' tree. Agreed, we

Re: [stable] generic clockevents/ (hr)time(r) patches was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrew, > > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 16:57 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > They all look pretty innocuous to me. > > > > Could you please take a second look, decide if any of them should also be > > in 2.6.22.x and let me know? > > i386-hpet-check-if-t

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The equivalent to the powerpc way would be essentially to report i386 > into the x86-64 code base and leave the really old hardware only > in arch/i386. I've considered doing it, but it would be an awful > lot of work and to tempt distributions to actually

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The HPET change, which is the larger part of the conversion set simply > because we now share the code with i386, might be split out by disabling > HPET in the first step, doing the PIT / APIC conversion and then the > HPET one in a separate step. The

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > For example, we can make sure that the code in question that actually > touches the hardware stays exactly the same, and then just move the > interfaces around - and basically guarantee that _zero_ hardware-specific > issues pop up when you switch ov

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrew - how do you feel about keeping this in the -mm tree until Linus, > Andi, Ingo, and Thomas get on the same page (which may be around the 2.6.24 > merge window, by my guesstimate)? Well, that's supposed to be Andi's tree and aggregated by Andr

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:16:38 +0200, Andi Kleen said: > (Note - I'm just a usually-confused crash test dummy here...) > > > Well I spent a lot of time making the x86-64 timing code work > > well on a variety of machines; working around a wide variety

Re: x86 status was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If that isn't possible it needs very careful review which just hasn't > > happened yet. But I'm not convinced even step by step is not possible > > here. > > There is no step by step thing. You convert an arch to clock events or > you convert it not

Re: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: clear caps cleanup

2007-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
> +static inline void bprm_clear_caps(struct linux_binprm *bprm) > +{ > + cap_clear (bprm->cap_inheritable); > + cap_clear (bprm->cap_permitted); > + cap_clear (bprm->cap_effective); While there, can you clean that bit up a touch? cap_clear(bprm->cap_inheritable); cap_

Re: [PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Zachary Amsden wrote: > >I'd rather keep it, even with bitrot - it was non-trivial to get > >correct, and found many surprises in the code; most notably, it can > >detect > > > >1) PTE writes to pages not declared as page tables > >2) Failure to

[PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code

2007-07-06 Thread Chris Wright
t (already has !CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES dependency, dunno if VMI has the same limitation). It definitely should not have a misleading Kconfig name. I'd nuke it all rather than #if 0. thanks, -chris -- Subject: [PATCH] VMI: remove CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGE_TYPE and associated bitrotted code Fro

Re: 2.6.21.5 june 30th to july 1st date hang?

2007-07-04 Thread Chris Wright
* Uli Luckas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday, 3. July 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > On 07/03/2007 03:28 PM, Chris Friesen wrote: > > > Arne Georg Gleditsch wrote: > > >> An interesting exercise might be to > > >> code up a small program to call adjtimex with timex.status |= STA_INS, > > >>

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] security: add hook inode_post_removexattr

2007-06-27 Thread Chris Wright
* Hawk Xu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Add hook inode_post_removexattr for updating inode security field after > successful removexattr operation. That is an insufficient explanation of why it's needed, who is using it, etc. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: [PATCH try #2] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-26 Thread Chris Wright
* Crispin Cowan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > and simple LSMs that can be > unloaded safely can permit it. there are none, and making the above possible is prohibitively expensive. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Serge E. Hallyn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Sigh, as much as I would *like* to stay out of this (I don't > use modules at all on any system where I can avoid it), won't > it make development - and especially testing - of new lsms > much more painful and therefore less likely? Dev, hopefully not

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Just hoping to avoid a change collision. If I have to deal > with this today it's easy, if it doesn't show up anywhere > until 2.6.28 I'm breezing, but if it all hits in two weeks I > have some scrambling and yet another delay to deal with. Not > your

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* Casey Schaufler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So, for planning purposes, when ought I expect to have to start > dealing with this? What is your specific concern or use case? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2007, Chris Wright wrote: > > > * James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > -module_param_named(disable, capability_disable, int, 0); > > > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "To disable capabil

Re: [PATCH][RFC] security: Convert LSM into a static interface

2007-06-24 Thread Chris Wright
* James Morris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -module_param_named(disable, capability_disable, int, 0); > -MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable, "To disable capabilities module set disable = 1"); > + > +static int __init capability_disable_setup(char *str) > +{ > + capability_disable = simple_strtol(str, NUL

Re: [AppArmor 39/45] AppArmor: Profile loading and manipulation, pathname matching

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Mason ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm sure people there will have a different versions of events. The > one part that was discussed was if pathname based security was > useful, and a number of the people in the room (outside of > novell) said it was. Now, it could be that nobody wanted

Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Steven Rostedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Chris, thanks a hell of a lot for looking into this!!! > > -rt doesn't do much with paravirt, but since both -rt and lguest are two > things I love to play with, it was really bothering me that they were > not getting along. It was bugging me too, now

Re: [PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
* Ingo Molnar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Current -rt is broken when compiling with CONFIG_PARAVIRT and > > CONFIG_MCOUNT both enabled. Because CONFIG_MCOUNT disables > > CONFIG_REGPARM, the calling convention must once

[PATCH -rt] CONFIG_PARAVIRT and CONFIG_MCOUNT don't play well together

2007-06-22 Thread Chris Wright
debugging. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Patch against patch-2.6.21.5-rt17 arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c | 98 ++-- 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c b/arch/i386/kernel/para

Re: [PATCH] bonding: Fix use after free in unregister path

2007-06-20 Thread Chris Wright
* Jeff Garzik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Jay Vosburgh wrote: > > The following patch (based on a patch from Stephen Hemminger > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) removes use after free conditions in > >the unregister path for the bonding master. Without this patch, an > >operation of the form "echo -bon

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/HOWTO: remove stale git URL

2007-06-19 Thread Chris Wright
* Stefan Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > + Other kernel trees can be found listed at http://kernel.org/git and in Should be http://git.kernel.org/ these days - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-18 Thread Chris Wright
* Nish Aravamudan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6-stable.git;a=summary > shows 2.6.21.1 as the last 2.6.21.Y release. Is that intentional? Updated, thanks. -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: OProfile issues

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Stephane Eranian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * allocate_msrs() allocates two tables per CPU. One for the >counters, the other for the eventsel registers. But then >nmi_setup() copies the cpu_msrs[0] into cpu_msrs[] of all >other cpus. This operation overrides the cpu_msrs[].counters

Re: Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Rankin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Shouldn't this patch from Tejun be applied to 2.6.21.x as well as 2.6.20.x? > > Tejun Heo (2): > ... > driver-core: don't free devt_attr till the device is released It is in both. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer accessbefore C3 arbiter shutdown

2007-06-12 Thread Chris Wright
* Pallipadi, Venkatesh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * Thomas Gleixner (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I fixed this against -mm already. I don't think that it is relevant for > > stable. The issue was found with Venkis hpet force enable patches on a > > ICH4 system. I doubt that any of thos

Re: [stable] [PATCH] ACPI: Move timer broadcast and pmtimer access before C3 arbiter shutdown

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
A. Steinberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: rebase against Len's changes in -mm] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c |9 + 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions

Re: [stable] [PATCH] INPUT: Sanitize PIT locking in pcspkr

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The PC-speaker code has a quite creative method to serialize access to > the PIT: It uses a local lock. > > On i386 and x86_64 the access to the PIT is serialized by a lock in the > architecture code. The separate locking in the PC-speaker code ignore

Re: [BUG] via c3/2.6.20 -- ps/2 keyboard doesn't work with console

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
* Paul Albrecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, i8042.noaux works. Here's the dmesg output: > > Linux version 2.6.21.4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3) #1 Does 2.6.21.5 work w/out noaux on command line? thanks -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

Linux 2.6.21.5

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
olreg Auke Kok (1): e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice Björn Steinbrink (1): timer statistics: fix race Chris Wright (2): x86: fix oprofile double free Linux 2.6.21.5 Daniel Drake (2): ALSA: usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam zd1211rw

Re: Linux 2.6.20.14

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a87a7d1..710c004 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 20 -EXTRAVERSION = .13 +EXTRAVERSION = .14 NAME = Homicidal Dwarf Hamster # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-iop13xx/pci.c b/arch/arm/m

Linux 2.6.20.14

2007-06-11 Thread Chris Wright
: fix mod_timer() interval ntfs_init_locked_inode(): fix array indexing Andy Green (1): kbuild: fixdep segfault on pathological string-o-death Chris Wright (1): Linux 2.6.20.14 Dan Williams (1): iop13xx: fix i/o address translation Daniel Drake (1): ALSA: usb-

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roll-up patch available at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.21.5-rc1.{gz,bz2} Roll-up updated to fix broken aacraid patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Greg KH ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:47:29AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote: > > * Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Maybe a mailing list for stable-commits could be added, like mm-commits? > > > > I was thinking the same thing.

Re: [stable] [patch 37/54] SCSI: aacraid: Correct saplatformsupport. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3SMPkernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
liver platform function pointer. The enclosed patch, unmodified as tested by Rainer, solves the problem. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: backport to 2.6.2

Re: [stable] [patch 37/54] SCSI: aacraid: Correct sa platformsupport. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMPkernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Salyzyn, Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Yes, split the patch into the two pieces for 2.6.21.1/2.6.21.4 Sorry, didn't parse. Are you suggesting to use the patch I included (which simply drops the ->adapter_restart init), or the original patch plus Mark Havercamp's patch to add ->adapter_resta

Re: [patch 34/54] Fix roundup_pow_of_two(1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Theodore Tso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > If this doesn't fix a user-visiable bug, should we be including it in > the stable patch series? (Assuming that it doesn't, I wouldn't, but I > tend to be more conservative about what I would include in a stable > production release.) Rolf, despite simp

Re: [stable] [patch 00/54] 2.6.21-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chuck Ebbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Maybe a mailing list for stable-commits could be added, like mm-commits? I was thinking the same thing. thanks, -chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [stable] [patch 37/54] SCSI: aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
the problem. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: backport to 2.6.21.4] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid

Re: [stable] [patch 00/32] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Chris Wright ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roll-up patch available at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.20.14-rc1.{gz,bz2} Roll-up updated to fix broken patch. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.

Re: [patch 29/32] NET: Fix race condition about network device name allocation.

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
s. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [chrisw: backport to 2.6.20] Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/core/dev.c | 10 ++ net/core/net-sysfs.c |8 +++- 2 files chan

Re: [patch 00/32] 2.6.20-stable review

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
* Fortier,Vincent [Montreal] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have encoutered a bug using fixdep when compiling the Apani VPN > contivity client v3.3 (v3.5 seems fine). The bug started happening with > the release of the 2948 build of FC6 kernel (corresponding to a post > 2.6.20.7) and caused fixdep

[patch 16/54] Input: i8042 - fix AUX port detection with some chips

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- X-Git-Url: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux%2Fkernel%2Fgit%2Ftorvalds%2Flinu

[patch 03/54] NOHZ: Rate limit the local softirq pending warning output

2007-06-08 Thread Chris Wright
til we found the root cause of that problem. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/time/tick-sched

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