Re: [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix dpram allocation and non-console uarts

2005-08-21 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:42:36PM -0700, Nish Aravamudan wrote: > On 8/8/05, Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (A believe Marcelo would like to see this in 2.6.13, but I'll let him > > fight over that ;) > > > > * Makes dpram allocations work > > * Makes non-console UART work on both

Re: [PATCH 2.4] (5/5) I2C updates for 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 05:17:16PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Five log messages lack their trailing new line in i2c-core. Jean, All of these seem to be cleanups/cosmetic enhancements rather than real bugfixes, except the ML address update. As you know, we've been trying to reduce the scope of

Re: kernel 2.4.27-10: isofs driver ignore some parameters with mount

2005-08-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi folks, On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 05:29:36PM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:44:17AM +0300, Alexander Pytlev wrote: > > Hello Debian, > > > > Kernel 2.4.27-10 > > With mount isofs filesystem, any mount parameters after > > iocharset=,map=,session= are ignored. > > > > Sample: >

Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement

2005-08-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Rik, First of all, this is very nice! The code is amazingly easy to read. Now the usual ranting: You change the rate of active list scanning, which I suppose won't change the current reclaiming behaviour much (at least not on the "stress system to death" tests which most folks use to test pa

Re: [RFC 1/3] non-resident page tracking

2005-08-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:15:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:25 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hi Rik, > > > > Two hopefully useful comments: > > > > i) ARC and its variants requires additional information about page > > r

Re: [RFC 1/3] non-resident page tracking

2005-08-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Rik, Two hopefully useful comments: i) ARC and its variants requires additional information about page replacement (namely whether the page has been reclaimed from the L1 or L2 lists). How costly would it be to add this information to the hash table? ii) From my reading of the patch, the pr

Linux 2.4.32-pre3

2005-08-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Marowsky-Bree: fix oops when starting md multipath 2.4 kernel Linus Torvalds: PATCH: Fix outstanding gzip/zlib security issues Marcelo Tosatti: Change VERSION to v2.4.32-pre3 Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.4 Patrick McHardy: [NETFILTER]: Use correct byteorder in ICMP NAT

Re: Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:02:30PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Here goes another -pre, after a long period. > > Breaks Toshiba laptop: hard lockup --> what is on screen is same a

Linux 2.4.32-pre2

2005-07-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
/__refile_inode) SMP races Marcelo Tosatti: Change VERSION to 2.4.32-pre2 Merge with rsync://rsync.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.4.git Revert [NETLINK]: Fix two socket hashing bugs. Neil Horman: [IPVS]: Close race conditions on ip_vs_conn_tab list modification Pete Zaitcev: usb: printer

Re: [PATCH 2.4.31 1/1] scsi/megaraid2: add 64-bit application support

2005-07-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Seokmann, On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:32:08AM -0400, Ju, Seokmann wrote: > This patch contains accumulated changes over the time. > > Description of the changes. > ### Version 2.10.10.1 > Thu Jan 27 15:59:59 EDT 2005 - Seokmann Ju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1.There was a bug in the 'megadev_ioc

CP-Miner: A Tool for Finding Copy-paste and Related Bugs in Operating System Code

2005-07-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
FYI, CP-Miner has binary-only version has been released for academic use. http://opera.cs.uiuc.edu/Projects/ARTS/CP-Miner.htm By Zhenmin Li, Shan Lu, Suvda Myagmar and Yuanyuan Zhou Published in Proceedings of the Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI'04), Dec. 200

Re: Instruction Tracing for Linux

2005-07-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:11:03PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "Adnan Khaleel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm a hardware designer and I'm interested in collecting dynamic execution > > traces in Linux. I've looked at several trace toolkits available for Linux > > current

Re: ASPLOV miss ratio porting to planet labs kernel

2005-07-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:28:09PM -0500, Sizhao Yang wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if someone could help me with this. I'm porting an > ASPLOV paper miss ratio curve from 2.4.20 2.6.11.6 and eventually to > Planet Labs kernel. It's a novel idea for memory management. In > porting I at r

Linux 2.4.32-pre1

2005-07-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the first -pre of v2.4.32. It contains a small amount of fixes, most notably x86_64 security updates. Check for canonical addresses in ptrace (CAN-2005-1762) Fix canonical checking for segment registers in ptrace (CAN-2005-0756) Fix buffer overflow in 32bit execve on x86-64/ia64

Re: setitimer expire too early (Kernel 2.4)

2005-07-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:56:59AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 02:14:42PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >Hi Olivier, > > > > > >On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 07:52:12PM +0200, Olivier Croquette wr

Re: [PATCH] rename rw_verify_area() to rw_access_ok()

2005-04-20 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:50:35PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > verify_area() will soon be dead and gone, replaced by access_ok(), thus > the function named rw_verify_area() is badly named and should be renamed. > This patch renames rw_verify_area to rw_access_ok which seems more > appropriate (i

Re: [RFC 1 of 9] patches to add diskdump functionality to block layer

2005-04-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:14:06PM -0500, Miller, Mike (OS Dev) wrote: > > From: Christoph Hellwig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > This looks like a patch for Linux 2.4. Such major changes for the > > 2.4 tree don't make sense anymore, especially for > > functionality not even in Linux 2.6. >

Re: [RFC 1 of 9] patches to add diskdump functionality to block layer

2005-04-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:42:26PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This looks like a patch for Linux 2.4. Such major changes for the > 2.4 tree don't make sense anymore, especially for functionality not > even in Linux 2.6. Agreed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Germano, can you give this patch a try before merging, please. On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:45:31PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > >Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. > >The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround > >on 2.6.10 and later kerne

Re: [patch] MAINTAINERS: remove obsolete ACP/MWAVE MODEM entry

2005-04-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Adrian, ./drivers/char/mwave/Makefile also references Paul's email address, at least in v2.4. Applied, thanks. On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:15:45AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Both maintainer email addresses are bouncing and the web address is no > longer valid. > > Seems to be a good time to r

Re: 2.4.30: pwc pwc_isoc_handler() called with status -84

2005-04-05 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Gabor, This seems to be a USB specific problem and my USB knowledge is null. CCing Pete. On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:59:57PM +0200, Gabor Z. Papp wrote: > I have a Philips 750 webcam camera, equipped with a > Sony CCD sensor + TDA878. > > It was working fine with 2.4.29 and earlier kernels,

Re: ChangeLog-2.4.30

2005-04-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
The files are there now, as they should. [EMAIL PROTECTED] marcelo]$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.30.ta

Re: Oops with "linux-2.4.29"

2005-04-04 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Steffen, On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 03:24:49PM +0200, Steffen Moser wrote: > Hi all, > > one of our file servers (SuSE Linux 7.2, running "linux-2.4.29") > oopsed some days ago - here is the bug report: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > Kernel "linux-2.4.29" oopses irregularly. T

linux-2.4.30 released

2005-04-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
final: - 2.4.30-rc4 was released as 2.4.30 with no changes. Summary of changes from v2.4.30-rc3 to v2.4.30-rc4 Herbert Xu: o [NETLINK] Fix bogus mc_list deletion Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050226095914|25750

Linux 2.4.30-rc4

2005-03-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Herbert Xu: o [NETLINK] Fix bogus mc_list deletion Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050226095914|25750 o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-rc4 Willy Tarreau: o Keith Owens: modutils >= 2.4.14 is required for MODVERSIONS+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() combination - To unsubscr

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems (ext3 gurus : please check)

2005-03-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 02:06:39PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday March 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Attached is the backout patch, for convenience. > > Thanks. I had another look, and think I may be able to see the > problem. If I'm right, it is a problem with this patch. > > >

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc3 md/ext3 problems

2005-03-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 10:10:34AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday March 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 10:34:05AM +0300, [Ville Herva] wrote: > > > > > > I just upgraded from linux-2.4.21 + vserser 0.17 to 2.4.30rc3 + vserver > > > 1.2.10. The box has been running s

Linux 2.4.30-rc3

2005-03-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes -rc3. A nasty typo happened while merging v2.6 load_elf_library() DoS fix, which could leap to oopses. Summary of changes from v2.4.30-rc2 to v2.4.30-rc3 Marcelo Tosatti: o Andreas Arens: Fix deadly mismerge of binfmt_elf DoS fix

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc2 - fix for CAN-2005-0794: Potential DOS in load_elf_library

2005-03-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 01:14:01PM +0100, Andreas Arens wrote: > Hi Marcelo, Herbert, > > I'm just reading the patch so don't know of any hidden side-effects which > might cure it, but this clearly looks like a possibly deadlocking typo in > fs/binfmt_elf.c to me: > > > >- while (elf_phdata

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc2

2005-03-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Mar 26, 2005 at 12:44:53PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 12:22 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Marcelo, > > > > here's a patch from Dave Jones, which is already in 2.6 and which I've > > used in my local tree for 6 months now. It removes a useless NULL check > > in

Linux 2.4.30-rc2

2005-03-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
check Linus Torvalds: o isofs: Handle corupted rock-ridge info slightly better o isofs: more "corrupted iso image" error cases Marcel Holtmann: o CAN-2005-0750: Fix af_bluetooth range checking bug, discovered by Ilja van Sprundel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Marcelo Tosatti: o C

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SGI 932676 link_path_walk refcount problem allows umount of active filesystem

2005-03-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:24:37PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote: > G'day, > > The attached patch fixes a bug in the VFS code which causes > "Busy inodes after unmount" and a subsequent oops. Applied, thanks. > > Greg. > -- > Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group. > I don'

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

2005-03-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:30:13AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:13 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. > > drivers/pci/pci.ids is laggin

Re: [PATCH] Fix sign checks in copy_from_read_buf() in 2.4

2005-03-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Horms, On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 04:49:35PM +0900, Horms wrote: > Applologies if this is already pending, but the signdness fix for > copy_from_read_buf() in 2.6 seems to be needed for 2.4 as well. > > This relates to the bugs reported in this document > http://www.guninski.com/where_do_you_wa

Linux 2.4.30-rc1

2005-03-18 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
ngeli: o Write throttling should not take free highmem into account Chris Wedgwood: o early boot code references check_acpi_pci() Linus Torvalds: o Workaround possible pty line discipline race Marcelo Tosatti: o Andrea Arcangeli: get_user_pages() shall not grab PG_reserved pages o

Re: softdog.c kernel 2.4.29

2005-03-16 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jacques On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 09:50:27AM +0200, Jacques Basson wrote: > Hi > > There is a bug in the softdog.c (v 0.05) in the 2.4 kernel series > (certainly in 2.4.29 and there are no references to it in the latest > Changelog) that won't reboot the machine if /dev/watchdog is closed > une

Re: Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.28-pre2/xfree-drm/via_drv.o

2005-03-16 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 04:21:12PM +0100, Martin MOKREJ? wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 16:03 +0100, Martin MOKREJ?? wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> does anyone still use 2.4 series kernel? ;) > > >># make dep; make bzImage; make modules > >>[cut] > >># make modules_install > >>[

[PATCH] Enable gcc warnings for vsprintf/vsnprintf with "format" attribute

2005-03-13 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Applied to v2.4 - v2.6 wants the same change. Against v2.6-BK. From: Solar Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Enables gcc warnings for the case when arguments to vsprintf/vsnprintf function don't match the format string. This helps catch programming errors. --- a/include/linux/kernel.h.orig 2

Re: 2.4 fix for write throttling on x86 >1G

2005-03-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:53:09PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Hello Marcelo, > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:04:13PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Out of curiosity, that was SuSE not mainline ? > > yep. > > > Do we really want to limit dirty cach

Re: 2.4 fix for write throttling on x86 >1G

2005-03-11 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Andrea! On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:10:35AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Hello Marcelo, > > I've got a fix for you on 2.4. I got reports of stalls with heavy writes > on 2.4. Out of curiosity, that was SuSE not mainline ? > There was a mistake in nr_free_buffer_pages. That function is >

Re: Linux 2.4.30-pre3

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
tar breaking and the versions ? Here is the relevant information. Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 23:17:19 +0200 (EET) From: Kai Makisara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Mark Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,

Linux 2.4.30-pre3

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
n xlat_func fails o tulip: make tulip_stop_rxtx() wait for DMA to fully stop Marcelo Tosatti: o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20041125155150|65356 o Allow lseek on SCSI tapes o Allow lseek on osst to keep tar --verify happy o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-pre3 o Early ACPI PCI qu

Re: [RFC] -stable, how it's going to work.

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
> > - Security patches will be accepted into the -stable tree directly from > >the security kernel team, and not go through the normal review cycle. > >Contact the kernel security team for more details on this procedure. > > This also sounds like a bad rule. How come the security team ha

Re: Linux 2.6.11.2

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Greg, The st/ide-tape/osst llseek changes havent been applied for what reason? And what about the rest of fixups which Andrew sent you? I suppose they didnt pass the -stable criteria. Can you share your thoughts with the rest of us? On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 12:39:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote

Re: make menuconfig creates erronous config for 386

2005-03-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:15:19PM +0100, Gustav Lidberg wrote: > Hi > > There is a bug in "make menuconfig". If one chooses 386 or 486 for cpu > type, CONFIG_X86_TSC=y is set in .config. This creates a kernel that is > unbootable on 386. Testing shows that it worked in 2.4.19, but is broken

Re: [PATCH][2.4.30-pre2] fix undefined behaviour in cistpl.c

2005-03-07 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 04:17:18PM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > Compiling drivers/pcmcia/cistpl.c with gcc-4.0 generates this warning: > > cistpl.c: In function 'read_cis_mem': > cistpl.c:143: warning: 'sys' is used uninitialized in this function > > Note 'is' not 'may be'. And there is inde

Re: [RFQ] Rules for accepting patches into the linux-releases tree

2005-03-06 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:21:46PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Anything else anyone can think of? Any objections to any of these? > I based them off of Linus's original list. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > > -- > > Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and what ones are not, into > the "linu

[thomas_cj_chang@wistron.com.tw: Kernel 2.4.28 can't boot into OS without noapic]

2005-03-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Thomas, I'm forwarding your message to Mikael and Len, who have knowledge on the IOAPIC infrastructure. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:37:03 +0800 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Kernel 2.4.28 can't boot into OS without no

Re: [request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:31:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do you have any objections to merging FUSE in mainline kernel? > > I was planning on sending FUSE into Linus in a week or two. That and > cpusets are the notable features whic

Re: v2.4 megaraid2 update Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:26:06AM -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: > Hello Marcelo, Hi Sreenivas, Damn, now I apologize for taking so long to answer... > As per our offline conversation, I have verified the update that went into > 2.4.30-pre2. > I confirm that all changes are correct. I have

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:17:19PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
n Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:08:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:03, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly d

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: > Hi > > Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. > > Thanks > > Mark > > Detail > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > SCSI tape drive is refusing to rewind after backup to allow verify and > causing

Re: [BUG] 2.4.27 - 2.4.29 tar: /dev/nst0: Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seekg

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
John L. Males > Willowdale, Ontario > Canada > 02 March 2005 (06:28 -) 06:44 > 01 March 2005 (14:05 - 20:45) > > > ** Reply Seperator ** > > On (Tue) 2005-03-01 11:22:24 -0300 > Marcelo Tosatti wrote in Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: &quo

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:53:07PM +0100, Thomas Graf wrote: > * jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2005-02-28 08:40 > > > > netlink broadcast or a wrapper around it. > > Why even bother doing the check with netlink_has_listeners()? > > To implement the master enable/disable switch they want. The messages

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-28 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
I'm net ignorant, so just hit me with a cluebat if thats appropriate. On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 07:10:58AM -0500, jamal wrote: > > Havent seen the beginnings of this thread. But whatever you are trying > to do seems to suggest some complexity that you are trying to > workaround. What was wrong wit

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:20:40AM +0900, KaiGai Kohei wrote: > Hi, > > >>Kaigai Kohei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>In my understanding, what Andrew Morton said is "If target functionality > >>>can > >>>implement in user space only, then we should not modify the kernel-tree". > >> > >>for

Re: pty_chars_in_buffer NULL pointer (kernel oops)

2005-02-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
(resending since first message didnt seem to go through) Hi, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:56:53AM +0200, nuclearcat wrote: > Is discussed at > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/12508/thread > bug fixed in 2.4.x tree? Cause seems i have downloaded 2.4.29, and it > is not fixed (still

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-02-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 09:28:39PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Kaigai Kohei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In my understanding, what Andrew Morton said is "If target functionality can > > implement in user space only, then we should not modify the kernel-tree". > > fork, exec and exit upcal

Re: [PATCH] fix units/partition count in sd.c (2.4.x)

2005-02-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:23:53AM -0500, Luben Tuikov wrote: > Hi, > > This patch fixes the nr_real count in sd.c, which is also used > in genhd.c to print out the partitions/units. The problem is that > nr_real is decremented on detach, the genhd's nr_sects is > cleared but the entry is still t

Re: pty_chars_in_buffer NULL pointer (kernel oops)

2005-02-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:56:53AM +0200, nuclearcat wrote: > Is discussed at > http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/1/message/12508/thread > bug fixed in 2.4.x tree? Cause seems i have downloaded 2.4.29, and it > is not fixed (still my kernel on vpn server crashing almost at start), > i ha

Re: 2.4.29: Zombies not detected or removed

2005-02-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:32:33PM +0100, Schwarz wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > since 2.4.29 we discovered a strange behaviour. > > Severall tasks are no longer detected as destroyed. > means, these tasks have ended but arn't removed from > the processlist. > > An example from today: > > [EMA

Re: [PATCH] Reserve only needed regions for PC timers on i386 and x86_64

2005-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 02:06:18PM +0100, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: > >On Llu, 2005-02-07 at 09:29, Charles-Edouard Ruault wrote: > >>- Why is the generic timer using this address ? isn't it reserving a too > >>wide portion of IO ports ? Should it be modified for this board

Linux 2.4.30-pre2

2005-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the second pre of v2.4.30. It contains a bunch of important networking fixes, most noticeably the brlocks rework. Plus USB fixes, megaraid2 driver update, JFS update, amongst others. Read the changelog for detailed information Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre1 to v2.4.30-pre2

v2.4 megaraid2 update Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

2005-02-23 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, As the megaraid2 maintainers dont seem to care about v2.4 mainline at all, completly ignoring my requests to fix the NMI oopser bug for several months, I'm applying the RHEL3 update + inline reordering, which should do it. At this point I'm quite sure they wont answer this message eithe

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:54:26PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. > > > The kernel i

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. > > The kernel interface that we are proposing is the following: > > > > page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes,

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:23:42PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > > > >>>>>>Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, > >>>

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Bart, On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:28:04AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > [ This mail is just to explain why I don't like iswraid, > > > I don't care if it gets merged that much... ] > > > > > > another BTW: this driver adds another incompatibility between > > > 2.4.x and 2.6.x

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:04:09PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:05:13 +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 14:35:23 -0500, Bill Davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > On

Linux 2.4.30-pre1

2005-02-10 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
tp://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3319 Luca Tettamanti: o Fix MSF overflow in ide-cd with multisession DVDs Marcelo Tosatti: o Karsten Keil: Eicon Diva PCI 2.02 bugfix o Cset exclude: [EMAIL PROTECTED]|ChangeSet|20050119161632|63236 o Ake Sandgren: Fix RLIMIT_RSS madvise calcu

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:47:28PM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, > 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a > system lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and > without

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 11:30:05AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > >On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > > > > > >>Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, > >>2.4.29 with hi

Re: 2.6.10-ac12 + kernbench == oom-killer: (OSDL)

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:57:07PM -0800, cliff white wrote: > > Running 2.6.10-ac10 on the STP 1-CPU machines, we don't seem to be able to > complete > a kernbench run without hitting the OOM-killer. ( kernbench is multiple > kernel compiles, > of course ) Machine is 800 mhz PIII with 1GB memor

Re: 2.4.x kernel BUG at filemap.c:81

2005-02-09 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:15:03AM -0500, Todd Shetter wrote: > Running slackware 10 and 10.1, with kernels 2.4.26, 2.4.27, 2.4.28, > 2.4.29 with highmem 4GB, and highmem i/o support enabled, I get a system > lockup. This happens in both X and console. Happens with and without my > Nvidia driver

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 08:09:04PM -0500, kernel wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:41, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people > > > to upgrade, I guess... > > > > Faster, cleaner, way more elegant, hand

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:45:31PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:41:46PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > There need to be some unique features in 2.6.X to force people > > > to upgrade, I guess... > &

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 01:51:12PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 04:01:16PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Hi Jean, > > > > I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that "Wireless > > Extension v17

Re: [PATCH 2.4] SIOCSIFNAME wildcard support (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jean, On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:14:36AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > I did not receive any feedback on this e-mail, so I assume it > was lost on the way. Would you mind pushing that in 2.4.x ? > Thanks... As an ignorant person I have no problems with it.

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Wireless Extension v17 (resend)

2005-02-08 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Jean, I'm very ignorant about wireless but it doesnt appear to me that "Wireless Extension v17" is a critical feature. It seems more appropriate to declare it as 2.6 functionality ? Cheers On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:16:37AM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Hi Marcelo, > > I

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "iswraid" (ICHxR ataraid sub-driver) for 2.4.29

2005-02-07 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 03:49:33PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > I consider it not a new feature, but a missing feature, since otherwise > > user data cannot be accessed in the RAID setups. > > the same is true for all new hardware drivers and hardware support > patches. And for new DRM (

Re: [2.4 patch] fix for memory corruption from /proc/kcore access

2005-02-03 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Ernie, On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 09:19:54PM -0500, Ernie Petrides wrote: > Hi, Marcelo. A fairly nasty memory corruption potential exists when > /proc/kcore is accessed and there are at least 62 vmalloc'd areas. > > The problem is that get_kcore_size() does not properly account for > the elf_p

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:05:14AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Sounds very interesting idea to me. Guess it depends on whether the cost of > > DMA write for memory zeroing, which is memory architecture/DMA engine > >

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Helping prezoring with reduced fragmentation allocation

2005-02-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Andrew, What are your thoughts about inclusion of Mel's allocator work on -mm ? On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:31:36AM +, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > > > > Would it not be better to zero the global 2^MAX_O

Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

2005-02-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 12:15:24PM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 12:29 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Adds management of ZEROED and NOT_ZEROED pages and a background daemon > > called scrubd. scrubd is disabled by default but can be enabled > > by writing an order numbe

Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

2005-01-31 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:00:22AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > cc: Andrey Melnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Marcello, Andrey > > I believe this patch is wrong. > First, it prevent nothing: NMI watchdog is a signal that you wait too > long with disabled interrup

Re: 2.4.29, e100 and a WOL packet causes keventd going mad

2005-01-31 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 08:23:47PM -0800, Bukie Mabayoje wrote: > > Scott Feldman wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 09:18, David Härdeman wrote: > > > I experience the same problems as reported by Michael Gernoth when > > > sending a WOL-packet to computer with a e100 NIC which is already > > >

Re: SCSI aic7xxx driver: Initialization Failure over a kdump reboot

2005-01-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:27:26PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 13:27 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:38:32AM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:53:27PM -0500, Lukasz Kosewski wrote: > &g

Re: SCSI aic7xxx driver: Initialization Failure over a kdump reboot

2005-01-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:38:32AM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:53:27PM -0500, Lukasz Kosewski wrote: > > I have an idea of something I might do for 2.6.11, but I doubt anyone > > will actually agree with it. Say we keep a counter of how many times > > interrupt x has

Re: 2.4.29, e100 and a WOL packet causes keventd going mad

2005-01-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 05:48:11PM +0100, Michael Gernoth wrote: > Hi, > > we have about 70 P4 uniprocessor machines (some with Hyperthreading > capable CPUs) running linux 2.4.29, which are woken up on the weekdays > by sending a WOL packet to them. The machines all have a E100 nic with > WOL ena

Re: [PATCH 2.4] lcd: fix memory leak in lcd_ioctl()

2005-01-29 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Applied both, thanks James. On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 06:25:09PM -0600, James Nelson wrote: > This patch fixes a memory leak in the FLASH_Burn ioctl for the Cobalt LCD > interface driver. > > Signed-off-by: James Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: Bug in 2.4.26 in mm/filemap.c when using RLIMIT_RSS

2005-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 03:09:40PM +, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:38:49AM +0100, Ake wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:49:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: Bug in 2.4.26 in mm/filemap.c when using RLIMIT_RSS

2005-01-27 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 07:38:49AM +0100, Ake wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:49:04PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > There is also a misinformative comment in fs/proc/array.c > > in proc_pid_stat where it says > > > mm ? mm->rss : 0, /* you might want to

Re: Bug in 2.4.26 in mm/filemap.c when using RLIMIT_RSS

2005-01-26 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 12:07:50PM +0100, Ake wrote: > Use of rlim[RLIMIT_RSS] in mm/filemap.c is wrong. > It is passed down to kernel as a number of bytes but is being used as a > number of pages. > > There is also a misinformative comment in fs/proc/array.c > in proc_pid_stat where it says > mm

Re: 8xx 2.6.10-rc3 console_init()->con_init()->__alloc_bootmem() caus es "Oops: kernel access of bad area"

2005-01-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:30:49AM -0500, Povolotsky, Alexander wrote: > I booting kernel on 8xx 2.6.10-rc3 > while trying to debug non-working console, > I moved console_init() call way down in __init start_kernel() > and put indefinite while loop right after it - > is it legtimate thing to do ?

Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

2005-01-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 10:47:24AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > Marcello, Andrey > > I believe this patch is wrong. > First, it prevent nothing: NMI watchdog is a signal that you wait too > long with disabled interrupts. Your controller was not answered too > long, obviously it is a hardware is

Re: Configure mangles hex values

2005-01-25 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Nick, Curiosity: What was the reason for stripping the leading 0x? On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 02:41:56PM -0800, Nick Pollitt wrote: > Sorry about previous message. > > The hex function in scripts/Configure strips the leading 0x from hex values. > The 0x needs to be there in autoconf.h, and

Re: sata_vsc problem.... Please help me.

2005-01-24 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 04:09:08PM -0600, David Sims wrote: > Hi, > > With kernel 2.6.10 on Intel (Dell Powervault 745N) When I insert the > sata_vsc module via 'modprobe sata_vsc' from the command line, the module > immediately recognizes the controller card and then enumerates the > attach

Re: 2.6.10-as1 / 2.4 security-only patchset?

2005-01-24 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 07:10:11PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:37:28AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm announcing a new kernel tree; -as. The goal of this tree is to form > > a stable base for vendors/distributors to use for their kernels. In > > o

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