[PATCH] Dump filtering supports x86_64 sparsemem(Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1)

2007-10-25 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi, This patch adds the symbol "init_level4_pgt" to the vmcoreinfo data so that makedumpfile (dump filtering command) supports x86_64 sparsemem kernel of linux-2.6.24. makedumpfile creates a small dumpfile by excluding unnecessary pages for the analysis. It checks attributes in page structures

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-25 Thread edz_mania
-- Linus Torvalds wrote : This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It's humongous. Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional smaller ones, and the occasional ones that top 6M, but this one is *eleven* megs. I'd blame the x86 renames (and the watc

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
On 2.6.24-rc1-gc9927c2b BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 3d15b925 In last git, I see the following BUGs in various programs. It seems reproducible, but sometime I've hard lookup on poweroff. ciao cate vivi: open called (minor=0) vivi: close called (mino

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 02:12:18PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > The Makefile stuff is trivial to merge. > > yes. But even Makefile merging can be surprisingly nontrivial at times: > we had bugs in earlier versions of the unification due to link ordering > and silent init section dependencies in

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:04:51AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:19:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, > > > > Btw, can we please finis up th

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:04:51AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:19:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, > > Btw, can we please finis up this merge a little more before we freeze > 2.6.24? The

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1, x86 arch code quality, unifications

2007-10-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:19:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, > > Btw, can we please finis up this merge a little more before we freeze > 2.6.24? The way we currently

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Oct 24 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > build failed on my pc: > > > > arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1b192): In function > > `smp_send_nmi_allbutself': > > : undefined reference to `genapic' > > please send us the .config you are us

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:19:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > In short, we just had an unusually large amount of not just x86 merges, Btw, can we please finis up this merge a little more before we freeze 2.6.24? The way we currently have leftovers of arch/i386/ and arch/x86_64/ is quite a ni

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just for fun, I'd really encourage git users to just try the > > git shortlog v2.6.23.. > > thing, it really is quite impressive. what is also impressive is: $ git shortlog v2.6.23.. | grep \):$ | wc -l 756 756 individual contributor

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Dave Young
On 10/24/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > build failed on my pc: > > > > arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1b192): In function > > `smp_send_nmi_allbutself': > > : undefined reference to `genapic' > > please send us the .config yo

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-24 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > build failed on my pc: > > arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1b192): In function > `smp_send_nmi_allbutself': > : undefined reference to `genapic' please send us the .config you are using. Chances are that the patch below will fix the build brea

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Young
Hi, build failed on my pc: arch/x86/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x1b192): In function `smp_send_nmi_allbutself': : undefined reference to `genapic' Regards dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-23 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 09:19:16PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Just for fun, I'd really encourage git users to just try the > > git shortlog v2.6.23.. > > thing, it really is quite impressive. Impressive, indeed! At least it's a great testimonial for GIT and the workflow it permits, bu

Linux v2.6.24-rc1

2007-10-23 Thread Linus Torvalds
This may count as one of the biggest -rc releases ever. It's humongous. Usually the compressed -rc1 diffs are in the 3-5MB range, with occasional smaller ones, and the occasional ones that top 6M, but this one is *eleven* megs. I'd blame the x86 renames (and the watchdog ones), but the thing i