On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong?
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0200 RIP:
> [] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69
At this point, the most likely candidate is a memory corrupt
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:21, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:11:32PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > You are missing one point here. The MPI specifications that have
> > > been out there for decades do not require the process use a library
> >
On Tuesday 26 February 2008 18:59, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:26:50 + Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > > (It would be nicer if sync_file_range()
> > > took a vector of ranges for better elevator scheduling, but let's
> > > ignore that :-)
>
On Thursday 21 February 2008 21:58, Robin Holt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:20:02PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > So why can't you export a device from your xpmem driver, which
> > > > can be mmap()ed to give out "anonymous" memory pages
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 09:01, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:47:11PM +0300, wrote:
> > > Are you reproducing it simply by running the
> > > ftest03 binary directly from the shell? How many times between oopses?
> > > It is multi-process but no threads, so races should
On Friday 22 February 2008 09:26, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 19:00 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Some oprofile results obtained while using tbench on a 2x2 cpu machine
> > were very surprising.
> >
> > For example, loopback_xmit() function was using high number of cpu
> > cycles
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 23:52, Balbir Singh wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Document huge memory/cache overhead of memory controller in Kconfig
> >
> > I was a little surprised that 2.6.25-rc* increased struct page for the
> > memory controller. At least on many x86-64 machines it will not fi
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:03:24PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> If there's agreement that the VM should alter its locking from
> spinlock to mutex for its own good, then Christoph's
> one-config-option-fits-all becomes a lot more appealing (replacing RCU
> with a mutex in the mmu notifier list
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:39:42AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Given Nick's comments I ported my version of the mmu notifiers to
> latest mainline. There are no known bugs AFIK and it's obviously safe
> (nothing is allowed to schedule inside rcu_read_lock taken by
> mmu_notifier() with my patc
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:09:41AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:11:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Sorry, I realise I still didn't get this through my head yet (and also
> > have not seen your patch recently). So I don't know exact
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:40:50PM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:11:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:43:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > &
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 20:00, Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:51:45PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:12, Robin Holt wrote:
> > > For XPMEM, we do not currently allow file backed
> > > mapping pages from being export
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:12, Robin Holt wrote:
> For XPMEM, we do not currently allow file backed
> mapping pages from being exported so we should never reach this condition.
> It has been an issue since day 1. We have operated with that assumption
> for 6 years and have not had issues wit
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:00, Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:08:49AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Also, how to you resolve the case where you are not allowed to sleep?
> > >
On Friday 15 February 2008 17:49, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> These special additional callbacks are required because XPmem (and likely
> other mechanisms) do use their own rmap (multiple processes on a series
> of remote Linux instances may be accessing the memory of a process).
> F.e. XPmem may ha
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:43:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > anything when changing the pte to be _more_ permissive, and I don't
>
> Note that in my patch the invalidate_pages in mprotect can be
>
On Friday 15 February 2008 17:49, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The invalidation of address ranges in a mm_struct needs to be
> performed when pages are removed or permissions etc change.
>
> If invalidate_range_begin() is called with locks held then we
> pass a flag into invalidate_range() to indicat
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:27:25AM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > understand the need for invalidate_begin/invalidate_end pairs at all.
> >
> > The need of the pairs is crystal clear to me: range_begin is needed
> > for GRU _b
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:43:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > are rather similar. However I have tried to make a point of minimising the
> > impact the the core mm/. I don't see why we need to invalidate
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 20:57, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:46:46PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I think it was just a simple context switch benchmark, but not lmbench
> > (which I found to be a bit too variable). But it was a long time ago...
>
>
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 20:25, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > I actually once measured context switching performance in the scheduler,
> > and removing the unlikely hint for testing RT tasks IIRC gave about 5%
> > per
On Friday 15 February 2008 17:49, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The invalidation of address ranges in a mm_struct needs to be
> performed when pages are removed or permissions etc change.
>
> If invalidate_range_begin() is called with locks held then we
> pass a flag into invalidate_range() to indicat
On Sunday 17 February 2008 06:22, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(*pte));
> > > entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pte);
> > > + mmu_notifier(invalidate_page, mm, address);
> >
> > I j
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/char/mmu_notifier_skel.c
===
--- /dev/null
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/char/mmu_notifier_skel.c
@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#include
+#
Well I started reviewing the mmu notifier code, but it is kind of hard to
know what you're talking about just by reading through code and not trying
your suggestions for yourself...
So I implemented mmu notifiers slightly differently. Andrea's mmu notifiers
are rather similar. However I have tried
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 16:44, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> background
>
> current VM implementation doesn't has limit of # of parallel reclaim.
> when heavy workload, it bring to 2 bad things
> - heavy lock contention
> - unnecessary swap out
>
> abount
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 10:03, Dmitry Adamushko wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> [ description ]
>
> Subject: kthread: add a memory barrier to kthread_stop()
>
> 'kthread' threads do a check in the following order:
> - set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> - kthread_should_stop();
>
> and set_current_stat
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 16:58, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:33:53PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Note in particular the last predictors; assuming branch ending
> > > with goto, including call, causing early function return or
> > > retur
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 13:40, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:33:53 +1100
>
> Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually one thing I don't like about gcc is that I think it still
> > emits cmovs for likely/unlikely branches, which
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:04:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > [ 4057.31] Pid: 7035, comm: ftest03 Not tainted
> > > 2.6.24-25f666300625d894ebe04bac2b4b3aadb907c861 #2 [ 4057.31] RIP:
> > > 0010:[] []
> > > iov_iter_advan
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 01:39, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > you have more faith in the authors knowledge of how his code actually
> > behaves than I think is warranted :)
>
> iirc there was a mm patch some time ago to keep track of the actual
> unlikely
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 02:33:17PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > and that scrapping the remote
> > softirq trigger stuff is sanest.
>
> I actually liked Nick's queued smp_function_call_single() patch. So even
> if it was not used for block I would still l
On Saturday 16 February 2008 08:56, Török Edwin wrote:
> Hi Arjan,
>
> LatencyTOP says that sync_page is 'Writing a page to disk', however
> I see that even when no writes are involved, such as during a
> readdir, lseek, etc.
> Naming it a write is misleading, as no program is running that is
> doi
On Saturday 16 February 2008 14:37, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:49:02 -0800 Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Two callbacks to remove individual pages as done in rmap code
> >
> > invalidate_page()
> >
> > Called from the inner loop of rmap walks to invalidate
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:24:03 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > BTW is it really true that the buffer can never be locked by
> > anything else at this point?
>
> It has been for the past five o
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 20:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:26:27 +0100 Bart Dopheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:05:45PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > :)On Wednesday 13 February 2008 08:50, Alan Cox wrote:
> > :)&g
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 17:06, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > But don't let me dissuade you from making these good improvements
> > to Linux as well :) Just that it isn't really going to be hard-rt
> > in general.
>
> Actually that'
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 04:27, Raúl Porcel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a Compaq AlphaServer ES40 and since 2.6.23 it won't boot. I'm
> attaching the console log and the kernel config.
>
> Need to say that with a DEC Xp1000 it works fine, although they're
> different machines, of course.
> With .22
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 11:17, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > It's a trivial dumb module which does nothing but loads and unloads.
> > I redid ftest03 later without any suspicious activity and it oopsed the
> >
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 14:32, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:41:21 +1100
> >
> >> stop machine is used for more than just module loading and unloading.
> &
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 00:10, Eugene Teo wrote:
> Sorry for the repeated emails. Kindly ignore the previous resend. Please
> review this instead. Thanks. I have tested this.
If it is causing this much problems, can you split the cleanups into
their own patches.
> [PATCH 2/2] mm: various c
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 08:50, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Feb 12 19:55:08 butterfly kernel: hde: dma timeout error: status=0xd0 {
> > Busy } Feb 12 19:55:08 butterfly kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown
>
> Your drive stopped responding.
>
> > Feb 12 19:55:08 butterfly kernel: hde: DMA disabled
On Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:27, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:04:30PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:00:31 +0300
> >
> > Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This happened during LTP. FWIW, modprobe/rmmod trivial empty module
> > > toge
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 15:10, Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Rusty - Stop machine.
>After doing a bunch of testing last three days I actually downgraded
> stop machine changes from [highly experimental] to simply [experimental].
> Pleas see this thread for more info:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 14:16, Robert Hancock wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> >> Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
> >>
> >> So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor tr
On Tuesday 12 February 2008 10:17, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()
>
> So I spent a while pounding my head against my monitor trying to figure
> out the vmsplice() vulnerability - how could a failure to check for
> *read* access turn into a root exploit? It turn
On Monday 11 February 2008 11:35, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and
> warning reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas as well as
> with a client users can install to auto-submit oopses.
> Below is a top 10 list of the oopses/backtraces
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:56:09PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Nick Piggin wrote:
> >>>Maybe cpus these days have so much store bandwith that doing
> >>>things like the above is OK, but I doubt it :-)
> >>on modern x86 cpus the memset may even be fast
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 07:09:07AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> David Miller wrote:
> >From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:42:56 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >>Can we please just stop doing these one-by-one assignments, and just do
> >>something like
> >>
> >>memset(r
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:24:22AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > And if you don't?
> > >
> &
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > And if you don't?
>
> Well if you don't ask for anything, you wont get anything :-)
> As I mentioned, the patch is a playing ground for trying various setups.
>
On Friday 08 February 2008 18:29, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Nick Piggin a écrit :
> > On Friday 08 February 2008 13:13, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> >> are available in the git repository at:
> >>
> >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm.git
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:47:47AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here's a variant using kernel threads only, the nasty arch bits ar
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:14:19AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:09:59AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > You get better behaviour in the slab and page allocators and locality
> > and cache hotness of memory. For example, I guess in a filesystem /
>
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's a variant using kernel threads only, the nasty arch bits are then
> not needed. Works for me, no performance testing (that's a hint for Alan
> to try and queue up some testing for this variant as well :-)
Well this stuff
On Friday 08 February 2008 13:13, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> are available in the git repository at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm.git slub-linus
>
> (includes the cmpxchg_local fastpath since the cmpxchg_local work
> by Matheiu is in now, and the non atomic unloc
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 11:32, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Ok. But the approach is just not so good. If you _really_ need something
> > like that and it is a win over the regular non-atomic unlock, then you
> > just have to impl
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 10:47, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > erk, sorry, I misremembered. I was about to merge all the patches we
> > > weren't going to merge. oops.
> >
> > While you're there, can you
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 09:30, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:28:45 -0800
>
> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > root (1):
> > > SLUB: Do not upset lockdep
> >
> > err, what? I though I was going to merge these:
> >
> > slub-move-count_partial.patch
> > slub-ren
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:49, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 06:47 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 16:03, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > > I've hit sa
On Monday 04 February 2008 08:21, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> I've got a machine with a 4 disk SATA raid10 configuration using md.
> The entire disk is loop-AES encrypted, but that shouldn't matter
> here.
>
> Once a month, Debian runs:
>
> /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet
>
> and
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:12:44AM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:21:28PM -0700, Suresh B wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Just had another way we might do this. Migrate the completions out to
&g
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:40:20PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:14:45PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > David Chinner wrote:
> > >Hi Nick,
> > >
> > >When Matthew was describing this work at an LCA presentation (not
> > >sure whether you were at that presentation or n
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:53:02PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Feb 3, 2008 11:52 AM, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +asmlinkage void smp_call_function_fast_interrupt(void)
> > +{
>
> [snip]
>
> > + while (!list_
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 06:21:28PM -0700, Suresh B wrote:
>
> Second experiment which we did was migrating the IO submission to the
> IO completion cpu. Instead of submitting the IO on the same cpu where the
> request arrived, in this experiment the IO submission gets migrated to the
> cpu that i
On Saturday 02 February 2008 20:51, Denis Cheng wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, but already patched in -mm.
> ---
> drivers/uio/uio.c | 19 ---
> 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/uio/uio.c b/drivers/uio/u
s used by a lot of drivers, and doesn't cost much to
> maintain.
> Who: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well the in-kernel callers have not all been converted yet. I have
actually done the work, but it needs testing and merging by maintainers.
Getting it done during this me
On Friday 01 February 2008 21:31, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 01 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > I think the right solution is to remove swap_io_context() and fix the io
> > context referencing in as-iosched.c instead.
>
> IOW, the below. I don't know why Nick originally wanted to swap io
> contex
On Friday 01 February 2008 09:45, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On ma, 2008-01-28 at 12:46 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > > > On Tuesday 22 Janu
Sorry, way behind on email here. I'll get through it slowly...
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:03:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:01:14 +0100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > After running SetPageUptodate, preceeding s
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:24:54AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 02:33 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > <-- snip -->
> > >
> > > ...
> > > CC arch/s390/kernel/asm-offsets.s
> > > In file included from
> > > /hom
but the work is done so I guess I should send it along.
The minix filesystem uses bkl to protect access to metadata. Switch
to a per-superblock mutex.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6/fs/minix/bitmap.c
=
On Sunday 27 January 2008 01:27, Pascal Terjan wrote:
> Nick Piggin yahoo.com.au> writes:
> > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > I just succeeded to reproduce the problem with this patch. Does this
> > > smell like an XFS problem?
>
On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> > > &
On Sunday 27 January 2008 17:03, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:03:25 +0800 Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > - if (!page->mapping)
> > + if (!page->mapping) {
> > + if (!PageAnon(page) && PagePrivate(page))
> > + try_to_release_page(
On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> On di, 2008-01-22 at 16:25 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> > > &
On Saturday 26 January 2008 02:03, Asbjørn Sannes wrote:
> Asbjørn Sannes wrote:
> > Nick Piggin wrote:
> >> On Friday 25 January 2008 22:32, Asbjorn Sannes wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am experiencing unpredictable results with the following
On Friday 25 January 2008 22:32, Asbjorn Sannes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am experiencing unpredictable results with the following test
> without other processes running (exception is udev, I believe):
> cd /usr/src/test
> tar -jxf ../linux-2.6.22.12
> cp ../working-config linux-2.6.22.12/.config
> cd lin
On Friday 25 January 2008 19:15, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Actually, another thought: permitting (and handling) spurious faults for
> kernel mappings conflicts with NMI handling, i.e. great care would be
> needed to ensure the NMI path cannot touch any such mapping. So
> even the present Xen/Linux Dom0
On Thursday 24 January 2008 02:48, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Thu 24-01-08 02:05:16, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 January 2008 00:30, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > On Wed 23-01-08 12:00:02, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 04:10,
On Friday 25 January 2008 14:09, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 14:03 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 17:22, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > Anonymous page might have fs-private metadata, the page is truncated.
> > > As the page hasn'
it is OK by me.
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Wednesday 23 January 2008 17:22, Shaohua Li wrote:
> Anonymous page might have fs-private metadata, the page is truncated. As
> the page hasn't mapping, page migration refuse to migrate the page. It
> appears the page is only freed in page reclaim and if zone watermark is
> low, the page is neve
On Friday 25 January 2008 06:21, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> > There's perhaps an opportunity to do this lazy TLB trick in the mmap
> > path as well, where RW mappings are initially mapped as RO so we can
> > catch processes dirtying them and then switched to RW. If the mappi
4.o memset_64.o copy_user_64.o rwlock_64.o copy_user_nocache_64.o gup.o
Index: linux-2.6/arch/x86/lib/gup.c
===
--- /dev/null
+++ linux-2.6/arch/x86/lib/gup.c
@@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
+/*
+ * Lockless fast_gup for x86
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 20
On Thursday 24 January 2008 11:54, Stefan Richter wrote:
> fw_device.node_id and fw_device.generation are accessed without mutexes.
> We have to ensure that all readers will get to see node_id updates
> before generation updates.
>
> An earlier incarnation of this patch fixes an inability to recogn
On Thursday 24 January 2008 04:05, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Anton Salikhmetov wrote:
> > +
> > + if (pte_dirty(*pte) && pte_write(*pte)) {
>
> Not correct.
>
> You still need to check "pte_present()" before you can test any other
> bits. For a non-present pte, none of
On Thursday 24 January 2008 00:30, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 23-01-08 12:00:02, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 04:10, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > as I got no answer for a week, I'm resending this fix for races in
> &g
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 09:44, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: x86: test case for the RODATA config option
>
> This patch adds a test module for the DEBUG_RODATA config
> option to make sure change_page_attr() did indeed make
> "const" data read
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 21:37, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Well I've twice tried to submit a patch to print stacks for running
> > tasks as well, but nobody seems interested. It would at least give a
> > chance to see somethi
On Wednesday 23 January 2008 04:10, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as I got no answer for a week, I'm resending this fix for races in
> private_list handling. Andrew, do you like them more than the previous
> version?
FWIW, I reviewed this, and it looks OK although I think some comments
would be in
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 16:03, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:05 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> > > reader starts using
dit of all filesystems and at least
some would need reworking. That's great you're interested, I'm eagerly awaiting
your patches.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/highmem.h
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On Tuesday 22 January 2008 12:13, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:14, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Nick Piggin (5):
> > mm: fix PageUptodate memory ordering bug
>
> This should actually be named differently. It should be
> called
>
> x86: don'
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:14, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Nick Piggin (5):
> mm: fix PageUptodate memory ordering bug
This should actually be named differently. It should be
called
x86: don't unconditionally enable expensive SMP ppro workaround
I actually had a more complete
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 02:22, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> static inline cycle_t
> -clocksource_get_cycles(struct clocksource *cs, cycle_t now)
> +clocksource_get_basecycles(struct clocksource *cs)
> {
> - cycle_t offset = (now - cs->cycle_last) & cs->m
On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> reader starts using 100% of CPU time after some time. When this happens,
> kill -9 does not work, and strace just hangs when trying to attach to
> the process. The same wit
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:39:23PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:02:17 + Byron Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > In arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:setup_ramdisk(), rd_size is set from the
> > > boot tags.
On Friday 18 January 2008 17:33, stephane eranian wrote:
> Nick,
> > It is arch specific. If an architecture wants interrupts on during
> > context switch, or runqueue unlocked, then they set it (btw
> > INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW also implies UNLOCKED_CTXSW).
>
> Yes , I noticed that. I am only interest
On Friday 18 January 2008 00:24, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> [ At the very least CC'ing the scheduler maintainer would be
> helpful :-) ]
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 16:29 -0800, stephane eranian wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > As suggested by people on this list, I have changed perfmon2 to use
> > the high re
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