Re: Disabling in-memory write cache for x86-64 in Linux II

2013-11-19 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/30/2013 07:01:52 AM, Mel Gorman wrote: We talked about this a few months ago but I still suspect that we will have to bite the bullet and tune based on do not dirty more data than it takes N seconds to writeback using per-bdi writeback estimations. It's just not that trivial to

Re: Updating 00-INDEX in Documentation/*

2013-11-14 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/28/2013 08:05:11 AM, Henrik Austad wrote: Hi Rob, Jiri Hacking away at python shows me that of the 254 subfolders 57 has outdated 00-INDEX, either with missing files, or files that has been removed. (see list below) I'm a bit behind on my email just now. (Started a new job last

Re: Updating 00-INDEX in Documentation/*

2013-11-14 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/28/2013 08:05:11 AM, Henrik Austad wrote: Hi Rob, Jiri Hacking away at python shows me that of the 254 subfolders 57 has outdated 00-INDEX, either with missing files, or files that has been removed. (see list below) I'm a bit behind on my email just now. (Started a new job last

Re: [PATCH] Adding Documentation/module-signing.txt file

2013-11-11 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/05/2013 09:31:58 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 11/05/13 14:54, Rob Landley wrote: > On 10/24/2013 07:08:33 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Solner wrote: >> > This patch adds the Documentation/module-signing.txt file that is >> &g

Re: [PATCH] Adding Documentation/module-signing.txt file

2013-11-11 Thread Rob Landley
On 11/05/2013 09:31:58 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote: On 11/05/13 14:54, Rob Landley wrote: On 10/24/2013 07:08:33 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Solner sol...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: This patch adds the Documentation/module-signing.txt file that is missing

Re: [PATCH trace-cmd 4/5] Documentation: Add kernelshark.1.txt

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 02:14:33 PM, Seth Forshee wrote: Add a man page for kernelshark. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee --- Documentation/kernelshark.1.txt | 46 + 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/kernelshark.1.txt diff --git

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 04:08:30 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > > Discussion at Kernel Summit made it clear that the presence or absence > > of specific Kconfig symbols are not

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ABI: Document the non-ABI status of Kconfig and symbols

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 04:08:30 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:57:11AM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Josh Triplett j...@joshtriplett.org wrote: Discussion at Kernel Summit made it clear that the presence or absence of specific Kconfig

Re: [PATCH trace-cmd 4/5] Documentation: Add kernelshark.1.txt

2013-11-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 02:14:33 PM, Seth Forshee wrote: Add a man page for kernelshark. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee seth.fors...@canonical.com --- Documentation/kernelshark.1.txt | 46 + 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644

Re: [PATCH] Adding Documentation/module-signing.txt file

2013-11-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 07:08:33 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Solner wrote: > This patch adds the Documentation/module-signing.txt file that is > missing. There is a link to Documentation/module-signing.txt file > in init/Kconfig that references this file. > >

Re: [PATCH] Adding Documentation/module-signing.txt file

2013-11-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/24/2013 07:08:33 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 6:35 PM, James Solner sol...@alcatel-lucent.com wrote: This patch adds the Documentation/module-signing.txt file that is missing. There is a link to Documentation/module-signing.txt file in init/Kconfig that references

Re: Transcend's "one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time"

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/15/2013 01:42:56 AM, Rogelio Serrano wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: You have a piece of code under the GPL and the majority of the copyright holders say they will not enforce it. Thats virtually public domain code. Thats why i stopped contributing to the linux

Re: Transcend's one of the most cavalier GPL violations in a long time

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/15/2013 01:42:56 AM, Rogelio Serrano wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Pavel Machek pa...@ucw.cz wrote: You have a piece of code under the GPL and the majority of the copyright holders say they will not enforce it. Thats virtually public domain code. Thats why i stopped contributing

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/08/2013 03:03:03 AM, Karel Zak wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:42:44PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > Oh, attached is a dumb "zapchroot" script I've been using for years to > unlink all mount points under a given directory, taking advantage of the > fact that mount

Re: [PATCH] Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/07/2013 09:14:10 PM, Phillip Lougher wrote: The decompressor interface and code was written from the point of view of single-threaded operation. In doing so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it difficult

Re: [PATCH] Squashfs: Refactor decompressor interface and code

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/07/2013 09:14:10 PM, Phillip Lougher wrote: The decompressor interface and code was written from the point of view of single-threaded operation. In doing so it mixed a lot of single-threaded implementation specific aspects into the decompressor code and elsewhere which makes it difficult

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/08/2013 03:03:03 AM, Karel Zak wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:42:44PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: Oh, attached is a dumb zapchroot script I've been using for years to unlink all mount points under a given directory, taking advantage of the fact that mount points are appended

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address

2013-10-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/06/2013 02:01:52 AM, Joe Perches wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 23:27 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 11:43 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL

Re: [RFC] extending splice for copy offloading

2013-10-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/26/2013 01:06:41 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:34 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Zach Brown wrote: >> >> A client-side copy will be slower, but I guess it does

Re: [RFC] extending splice for copy offloading

2013-10-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/26/2013 01:06:41 PM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 5:34 PM, J. Bruce Fields bfie...@fieldses.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:58:05AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Zach Brown z...@redhat.com wrote: A client-side copy will be

Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Check for the FSF mailing address

2013-10-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/06/2013 02:01:52 AM, Joe Perches wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 23:27 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 11:51:48AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: On Sat, 2013-10-05 at 11:43 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:24:51 PM, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:17:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > > > A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken so that > > you can trivially brea

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:22:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > So learn this pattern: every time you use chroot, add a simple > > chdir("/"); > > immediately after the chroot call. .. btw, also make sure that you close all non-essential file

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:19:15 PM, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:07:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken > so that you can trivially break out of a chroot via: > > chdir("/"); > mkdir("sub&q

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:17:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > > A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken so that > you can trivially break out of a chroot via: What drugs are you on? Enough caffeine to count as

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/04/2013 07:03:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Linus Torvalds writes: > On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> After thinking about it removing the restrictions on mount points >> appears safe, because it is just plain dumb to have a mount point >> in a

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/04/2013 05:41:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: This patchset is an attempt to address two problems: 1) Not all modifications to the filesystems happen through the vfs and since the vfs can not cope with a mount point being unlinked or renamed filesystems whose modifications that do

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/04/2013 05:41:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: This patchset is an attempt to address two problems: 1) Not all modifications to the filesystems happen through the vfs and since the vfs can not cope with a mount point being unlinked or renamed filesystems whose modifications that do

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/04/2013 07:03:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org writes: On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman ebied...@xmission.com wrote: After thinking about it removing the restrictions on mount points appears safe, because it is just plain

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:17:55 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken so that you can trivially break out of a chroot via: What drugs are you on? Enough caffeine to count

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:19:15 PM, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 06:07:42PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken so that you can trivially break out of a chroot via: chdir(/); mkdir(sub); chroot(sub); chdir

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:22:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Linus Torvalds torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote: So learn this pattern: every time you use chroot, add a simple chdir(/); immediately after the chroot call. .. btw, also make sure that you close all

Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] vfs: Detach mounts on unlink.

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/05/2013 06:24:51 PM, Al Viro wrote: On Sat, Oct 05, 2013 at 04:17:55PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Rob Landley r...@landley.net wrote: A todo item I've had _forever_ is fixing chroot() to not be broken so that you can trivially break out

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: "kerneli" typo in description for "Serpent cipher algorithm" Bug #60848

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/02/2013 01:34:30 PM, Kevin Mulvey wrote: sorry, for possible repost but I think my last email got blocked due to html. It read: do you want me to make another patch that does not touch the url? It looks like the crypto directory has been merged since forever, so the old website is

Status of "kernel crypto services" patch? Re: [PATCH] Documentation: "kerneli" typo in description for "Serpent cipher algorithm" Bug #60848

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/02/2013 01:22:22 PM, Jussi Kivilinna wrote: On 02.10.2013 21:12, Rob Landley wrote: > On 10/02/2013 11:10:37 AM, Kevin Mulvey wrote: >> change kerneli to kernel as well as kerneli.org to kernel.org >> >> Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey > > There's a bug number

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: "kerneli" typo in description for "Serpent cipher algorithm" Bug #60848

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/02/2013 11:10:37 AM, Kevin Mulvey wrote: change kerneli to kernel as well as kerneli.org to kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey There's a bug number for this? Acked, queued. (Although I'm not sure the value of pointing to www.kernel.org for this.) Thanks, Rob -- To

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kerneli typo in description for Serpent cipher algorithm Bug #60848

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/02/2013 11:10:37 AM, Kevin Mulvey wrote: change kerneli to kernel as well as kerneli.org to kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey ke...@kevinmulvey.net There's a bug number for this? Acked, queued. (Although I'm not sure the value of pointing to www.kernel.org for this.) Thanks,

Status of kernel crypto services patch? Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kerneli typo in description for Serpent cipher algorithm Bug #60848

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/02/2013 01:22:22 PM, Jussi Kivilinna wrote: On 02.10.2013 21:12, Rob Landley wrote: On 10/02/2013 11:10:37 AM, Kevin Mulvey wrote: change kerneli to kernel as well as kerneli.org to kernel.org Signed-off-by: Kevin Mulvey ke...@kevinmulvey.net There's a bug number for this? Acked

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: kerneli typo in description for Serpent cipher algorithm Bug #60848

2013-10-02 Thread Rob Landley
On 10/02/2013 01:34:30 PM, Kevin Mulvey wrote: sorry, for possible repost but I think my last email got blocked due to html. It read: do you want me to make another patch that does not touch the url? It looks like the crypto directory has been merged since forever, so the old website is

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 03:49:07 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Russell King - ARM Linux writes: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: >> On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >>> It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for >>

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 11:13:17 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: > On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer > > instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. >

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley writes: > On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer >> instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. > > Meanin

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 10:52:44 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley r...@landley.net writes: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. Meaning I play whack-a-mole

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 11:13:17 AM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: I'd strongly suggest you make your binutils compatible with newer instruction syntax instead of making the kernel more complex. Meaning I play whack

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-26 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/25/2013 03:49:07 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Russell King - ARM Linux li...@arm.linux.org.uk writes: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:23:06AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: It could be as simple as making gas accept an extra argument for instructions

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 02:41:54 PM, P J P wrote: Hello Andrew, Thank you so much for reviewing these patches. +-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It's a bit confusing whether all this appiles to initrd, to initramfs | or to both. Can you please clarify all this and be sure that

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: > On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > Now, if you feel strongly about this, we _could_ introduce a > > CONFIG_OLD_BINUTILS and give everyone their cake - but it will

Re: Copy on write hard links?

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 01:36:56 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi, Is there such a thing? In the kernel's vfs layer? No, although some filesystems (ala btrfs) do things like that with snapshots. In userspace? Breaking hardlinks when updating a file is fairly normal, that's why they distinguish between

Re: Copy on write hard links?

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 01:36:56 PM, Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi, Is there such a thing? In the kernel's vfs layer? No, although some filesystems (ala btrfs) do things like that with snapshots. In userspace? Breaking hardlinks when updating a file is fairly normal, that's why they distinguish between

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 09:07:57 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Rob Landley wrote: On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: Now, if you feel strongly about this, we _could_ introduce a CONFIG_OLD_BINUTILS and give everyone their cake - but it will be fragile

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Export initial ramdisk compression config

2013-09-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 02:41:54 PM, P J P wrote: Hello Andrew, Thank you so much for reviewing these patches. +-- On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote --+ | It's a bit confusing whether all this appiles to initrd, to initramfs | or to both. Can you please clarify all this and be sure that

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:23:48PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > What value is there in requiring the new toolchain? From what I could > see of the commits it was micro-optimizations around memory barriers. > > *shrug*

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 07:11:38 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley writes: > On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that >> requires binutils 2.22. > > Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 07:11:38 AM, Måns Rullgård wrote: Rob Landley r...@landley.net writes: On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-24 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/24/2013 04:48:00 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 04:23:48PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: What value is there in requiring the new toolchain? From what I could see of the commits it was micro-optimizations around memory barriers. *shrug* I can revert

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. I'm sorry, it occurs to me I should have been more explicit: HH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! Rob-- To

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). Binutils 2.12->2.22

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P wrote: > Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an > initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly > compressed initial ramdisk image. Because - $ make install

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 02:36:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt. Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger Acked-by: Rob Landley And added it as patch #33 to my documentation todo heap. Now the merge window's worked

Re: Linux 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/16/2013 05:08:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: So it's been two weeks, and the merge window for 3.12 is now closed. The git trees have been updated, the tar-balls and patches should be out too, and here's my "short mergelog" for the merge window: it's kind of like "git shortlog", except it

Re: Linux 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/16/2013 05:08:11 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: So it's been two weeks, and the merge window for 3.12 is now closed. The git trees have been updated, the tar-balls and patches should be out too, and here's my short mergelog for the merge window: it's kind of like git shortlog, except it names

Re: [PATCH] Documentation: Update x86_64/boot-options.txt

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 02:36:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt. Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger rich...@nod.at Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net And added it as patch #33 to my documentation todo heap

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Fix NULL pointer dereference while loading initramfs

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 02:41:10 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 14:33:53 +0530 (IST) P J P ppan...@redhat.com wrote: Make menuconfig allows one to choose compression format of an initial ramdisk image. But this choice does not result in duly compressed initial ramdisk image. Because -

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. Um, my toolchain is using the last gplv2 snapshot of binutils out of git, which is just past 2.17 and can build armv7 (but not armv8). Binutils 2.12-2.22 is

Re: new binutils needed for arm in 3.12-rc1

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/23/2013 06:59:17 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: During 3.12-rc, Will Deacon introduced code into arch/arm that requires binutils 2.22. I'm sorry, it occurs to me I should have been more explicit: HH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! Rob-- To

Re: Why does test_bit() take a volatile addr?

2013-09-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/15/2013 11:08:35 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: Predates git, does anyone remember the rationale? Depends which git: http://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/ :) Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: Why does test_bit() take a volatile addr?

2013-09-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/15/2013 11:08:35 PM, Rusty Russell wrote: Predates git, does anyone remember the rationale? Depends which git: http://landley.net/kdocs/fullhist/ :) Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More

Re: [RFC] extending splice for copy offloading

2013-09-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/11/2013 04:17:23 PM, Eric Wong wrote: Zach Brown wrote: > Towards the end of that thread Eric Wong asked why we didn't just > extend splice. I immediately replied with some dumb dismissive > answer. Once I sat down and looked at it, though, it does make a > lot of sense. So good job,

Re: [RFC] extending splice for copy offloading

2013-09-16 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/11/2013 04:17:23 PM, Eric Wong wrote: Zach Brown z...@redhat.com wrote: Towards the end of that thread Eric Wong asked why we didn't just extend splice. I immediately replied with some dumb dismissive answer. Once I sat down and looked at it, though, it does make a lot of sense. So

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: Doesn't make listnewconfig replacing yes "" | make oldconfig ?

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Landley
ed to push it upstream circa 2006 and I've just maintained it locally ever since... Acked-by: Rob Landley I'll sit on this for a bit to see if the kbulid guys apply it first, and if not forward it through the trivial tree. Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] README: Alternative configuration commands does not mention make listnewconfig

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/11/2013 07:39:19 PM, Regid Ichira wrote: Applied to the tip of linux.git, VERSION = 3 PATCHLEVEL = 11 SUBLEVEL = 0 Signed-off-by: Regid Ichira --- README | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index a24ec89..f10c16f 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH] README: Alternative configuration commands does not mention make listnewconfig

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/11/2013 07:39:19 PM, Regid Ichira wrote: Applied to the tip of linux.git, VERSION = 3 PATCHLEVEL = 11 SUBLEVEL = 0 Signed-off-by: Regid Ichira regi...@nt1.in --- README | 4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README b/README index a24ec89..f10c16f

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt: Doesn't make listnewconfig replacing yes | make oldconfig ?

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Landley
2006 and I've just maintained it locally ever since... Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net I'll sit on this for a bit to see if the kbulid guys apply it first, and if not forward it through the trivial tree. Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus.

2013-09-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/05/2013 03:07:37 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: I am not sure how to call this kernel option but we need something like that. I see drivers and the kernel spawning processes on the nohz cores. The name kthread is not really catching the purpose. Can't you just use the CPU affinity of

Re: [RFC] Restrict kernel spawning of threads to a specified set of cpus.

2013-09-10 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/05/2013 03:07:37 PM, Christoph Lameter wrote: I am not sure how to call this kernel option but we need something like that. I see drivers and the kernel spawning processes on the nohz cores. The name kthread is not really catching the purpose. Can't you just use the CPU affinity of

Re: [PATCH] doc: fix some typos in documentation

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/05/2013 07:26:22 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote: Fix some typos in Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt/email-clients.txt/io-mapping.txt Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu --- Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt|4 ++-- Documentation/email-clients.txt |2 +- Documentation/io-mapping.txt|2 +- 3 files

Re: [PATCH] doc: fix some typos in documentation

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/05/2013 07:26:22 AM, Xishi Qiu wrote: Fix some typos in Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt/email-clients.txt/io-mapping.txt Signed-off-by: Xishi Qiu qiuxi...@huawei.com --- Documentation/IRQ-domain.txt|4 ++-- Documentation/email-clients.txt |2 +- Documentation/io-mapping.txt

Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: Update script to find more "Return:" sections

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/03/2013 07:34:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote: Many kernel-doc return description sections headers use variants of the "Return:" section prefix. (some or maybe even most of these aren't in kernel-doc sections, but many are) $ git grep -E -i "^\s*\*\s*return[s]?:"| \ cut -f2- -d":" | awk

Re: [PATCH] kernel-doc: Update script to find more Return: sections

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 09/03/2013 07:34:28 PM, Joe Perches wrote: Many kernel-doc return description sections headers use variants of the Return: section prefix. (some or maybe even most of these aren't in kernel-doc sections, but many are) $ git grep -E -i ^\s*\*\s*return[s]?:| \ cut -f2- -d: | awk '{print $1

Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull

Re: [PATCH] Remove support for score architecture

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/30/2013 09:00:35 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: The web site associated with the score architecture in MAINTAINERS is non-functional and available for sale. The last Ack from one of the maintainers was in December 2012. The main maintainer's last commit was in 2011. The last maintainer pull

Re: Acceptance of proprietary kernel modules

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/30/2013 09:35:18 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: Hi, over the last months I've reviewed lot's of Linux based products, mostly networking related devices like firewalls, WiFi access points, DSL routers, IPMI, etc... The vast majority of them had proprietary kernel modules loaded. I'm not

Re: Acceptance of proprietary kernel modules

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/30/2013 09:35:18 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: Hi, over the last months I've reviewed lot's of Linux based products, mostly networking related devices like firewalls, WiFi access points, DSL routers, IPMI, etc... The vast majority of them had proprietary kernel modules loaded. I'm not

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers: fix a error that mistakes a CPU notion in Section Transitivity

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/27/2013 05:34:22 AM, larmbr wrote: The memory-barriers document may has a error in Section TRANSITIVITY. For transitivity, see a example below, given that * CPU 2's load from X follows CPU 1's store to X, and CPU 2's load from Y preceds CPU 3's store to Y. I'd prefer somebody with a

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/memory-barriers: fix a error that mistakes a CPU notion in Section Transitivity

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/27/2013 05:34:22 AM, larmbr wrote: The memory-barriers document may has a error in Section TRANSITIVITY. For transitivity, see a example below, given that * CPU 2's load from X follows CPU 1's store to X, and CPU 2's load from Y preceds CPU 3's store to Y. I'd prefer somebody with a

Re: [PATCH V13 4/4] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Landley
Landley Looks like documentation to me: Acked-by: Rob Landley Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FA

Re: [PATCH V13 4/4] Documentation/kvm : Add documentation on Hypercalls and features used for PV spinlock

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Landley
Landley r...@landley.net Looks like documentation to me: Acked-by: Rob Landley r...@landley.net Rob-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation

2013-08-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 04:49:31 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote: The sample missed the moving of the header files into the events subdirectory. I've also extended it based on the existing headers, and mentioned the tiny but important role of CREATE_TRACE_POINTS. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss ---

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation

2013-08-25 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 04:49:31 PM, Zoltan Kiss wrote: The sample missed the moving of the header files into the events subdirectory. I've also extended it based on the existing headers, and mentioned the tiny but important role of CREATE_TRACE_POINTS. Signed-off-by: Zoltan Kiss

Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 03:55:20 PM, David Daney wrote: On 08/22/2013 01:41 PM, Rob Landley wrote: On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. >> > These archi

Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >> > The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. >> > These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH. >> > Do really need that behavior? >> >> This

Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg s...@ravnborg.org wrote: The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. These architectures magically select a cross compiler if ARCH != SUBARCH. Do really need that behavior?

Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/22/2013 03:55:20 PM, David Daney wrote: On 08/22/2013 01:41 PM, Rob Landley wrote: On 08/22/2013 07:58:26 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:51 PM, Sam Ravnborg s...@ravnborg.org wrote: The series touches also m68k, sh, mips and unicore32. These architectures

Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/21/2013 07:07:33 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter. > It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML > build system what the real architecture is.

Re: [PATCH v3 trivial 0/7] Miscellaneous Trivialities

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/20/2013 10:32:02 PM, Michael Witten wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:19:37 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > Hence asking if we really needed > three separate commits to accomplish something that didn't actually > need to be done in the first place.) > ... > Actually my objecti

Re: [PATCH v3 trivial 0/7] Miscellaneous Trivialities

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/20/2013 10:32:02 PM, Michael Witten wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:19:37 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: Hence asking if we really needed three separate commits to accomplish something that didn't actually need to be done in the first place.) ... Actually my objection is that it's not worth

Re: [RFC] Get rid of SUBARCH

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/21/2013 07:07:33 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Richard Weinberger rich...@nod.at wrote: This series is an attempt to remove the SUBARCH make parameter. It as introduced at the times of Linux 2.5 for UML to tell the UML build system what the real

Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths?

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/20/2013 07:22:36 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 19:10 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > The important question is does he want to handle patches that you're > flipping out about not going in before the next merge window because > they are SO IMPORTANT that the trivial

Re: [PATCH v3 trivial 0/7] Miscellaneous Trivialities

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/20/2013 05:27:53 PM, Michael Witten wrote: On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:20:02 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 08/20/2013 11:02:42 AM, Michael Witten wrote: >> I've been sitting on some trivial patches for a while, and I'd just >> like to get them out of the way. >>

Re: rfc: trivial patches and slow deaths?

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Landley
On 08/20/2013 05:11:18 PM, Joe Perches wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 16:49 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > On 08/20/2013 03:14:10 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:02 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > > On 08/19/2013 04:27:17 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > > > &g

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