[patch] clean up pt_regs accesses

2005-01-15 Thread David Mosberger
This patch replaces the idiom: func (args..., long stack) { struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *) &stack; with the more commonly used: func (args..., struct pt_regs regs) { The latter didn't used to work with the very earliest kernels and compilers (anybody r

Re: [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix timer SMP bootup race

2005-01-15 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:34:54PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > I shortly considered redoing the boot process, but then it looked > > too risky to me. > > > > e.g. I guess on x86-64 it wouldn't be that difficult, just a bit of work, > > but on i386 with all the weird hardware it could be quit

Re: propolice support for linux

2005-01-15 Thread Han Boetes
Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > Last nitpicks, I swear: *g* Would we have created the perfect code ;-) > Han Boetes wrote: > > +panic("propolice detects %x at function %s.\n", damaged, func); > > You don't need the "\n" at the end - panic() already includes a > newline Most panic() messages don't

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-01-15 Thread Mike Galbraith
At 07:14 PM 1/14/2005 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 05:31 PM 1/13/2005 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote: >>Yes. However, my tests have so far shown a need for "actual FIFO as >>long as the task behaves itself." > > I for one wonder why that appears to be so. Wh

Re: 2.6.10 dies when X tries to initialize PCI radeon 9200 SE

2005-01-15 Thread Dave Airlie
> I have an apg card and it happens on that one as well. How can I turn > off drm -- just not load the dri module? > don't load the drm kernel module or make sure CONFIG_DRM is set to n.. Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Some things I'd like to see (as I am currently using the KIO equivalent) implemented as FUSE fs: - "fish", virtual file access over ssh This is already available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse You need to dowload fuse-2.2-pre3 and sshfs-1.0. It should work on any kernel including

patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread Matthias Lang
Hi, The linux implementation of setitimer() doesn't behave quite as expected. I found several problems: 1. POSIX says that negative times should cause setitimer() to return -1 and set errno to EINVAL. In linux, the call succeeds. 2. POSIX says that time values with usec >= 100 shou

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
Sorry about the missing quotes. It should read: You wrote: > Some things I'd like to see (as I am currently using the KIO > equivalent) implemented as FUSE fs: > - "fish", virtual file access over ssh This is already available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse You need to dowload f

Re: swapspace layout improvements advocacy

2005-01-15 Thread Pasi Savolainen
* Barry K. Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 02:55:27PM +0100, Tim Schmielau wrote: >> 2.6 seems in due need of such a patch. >> >> I recently found out that 2.6 kernels degrade horribly when going into >> swap. On my dual PIII-850 with as little as 256 mb ram, I can easily >

Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread Andrew Morton
Matthias Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The linux implementation of setitimer() doesn't behave quite as > expected. I found several problems: > >1. POSIX says that negative times should cause setitimer() to > return -1 and set errno to EINVAL. In linux, the call succeeds. > >

Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread William Lee Irwin III
Matthias Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The linux implementation of setitimer() doesn't behave quite as >> expected. I found several problems: >>1. POSIX says that negative times should cause setitimer() to >> return -1 and set errno to EINVAL. In linux, the call succeeds. >>2.

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Hi Karim, On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 20:14 -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Gee Thomas, I guess you really want to take this one until the last > man is standing. Feel free to use the ad-hominem tone if it suits > you. Don't hold it against me though if I don't bite :) No personal offence was intended.

Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 01:36 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > Matthias Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The linux implementation of setitimer() doesn't behave quite as > >> expected. I found several problems: > >>1. POSIX says that negative times should cause setitimer() to > >>

Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 01:36 -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> We can easily do a "rolling upgrade" by adding new versions of the >> system calls, giving glibc and apps grace periods to adjust to them, >> and nuking the old versions in a few years. On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:58:45AM +0100, Arj

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Steffen Moser
Hi! * On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 09:17 PM (-0200), Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Steffen, > > Please try this: > > [...] I've just applied the patch which fixed the problem. :-) Thank you very much for your great work! Bye, Steffen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

[ANNOUNCE] vSecurity LSM (under development)

2005-01-15 Thread Lorenzo Hernández García-Hierro
Hi, I've been reading the last thread where my TPE was mentioned, also about the other security-related issues, work models, etc... I'm just curious about what's the opinion of kernel hackers on the possibility of including an optional suite of security enhancements in the mainline, such as grSec

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

2005-01-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 20:25 -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > You have previously demonstrated that you do not understand the > implementation you are criticizing. You keep repeating the size > of the patch like a mantra, yet when pressed for actual bits of > code that need

Re: How to hang 2.6.9 using serial port and FB console

2005-01-15 Thread Russell King
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 04:21:07PM +, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > However it is not sending breaks, but rather various characters. As the kernel > seems to be set internally for echo cahracters going into the computer on the > transmit line again, and the characters are echoed by the infrared receiv

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-01-15 Thread Marco Cipullo
Same problem with me. I also have a laptop and I also have the same problem started in the same period. Below my logs and config: Bye Marco kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.11-rc1 kernel: Loaded 23459 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.11-rc1. kernel: Symbols matchkernel version 2.6.11. ke

Accessing runqueue from device driver

2005-01-15 Thread Dinesh Ahuja
Hi All, I am visulaizing a one of the use of char device driver. I need to write a char device which will prompt me by printing on my pseudo terminal if there is any zombie element in a runqueue on a specific processor. Is it possible to keep a track on runqueue through a function defined in a c

VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug

2005-01-15 Thread Udo van den Heuvel
Hello, On my firewall (VIA EPIA CL-6000 with VIA Rhine network chips running FC3 and custom kernels) I see messages like: Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, entry 0x4 length 0 status 0600! Jan 13 19:35:46 epia kernel: eth1: Oversized Ethernet

Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack

2005-01-15 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, [iso-8859-4] Jüri Põldre wrote: My question is: Does the kernel handle the interface state/routing tables modifications due to link changing automatically Not completely. The biggest problem is that kernel does not remove its "connected" or "subnet" route while link is down.

2.6.11-rc1 died if acpi ebabled

2005-01-15 Thread Mikhail Kshevetskiy
after upgrade from 2.6.10 to 2.6.11-rc1 my computer hang during boot. Before the death it write: ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] BIOS reported IRQ 0, using IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [ALKA] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0f.1[A] -> GSI 11 (level,low) -> IRQ 11

Re: Breakage with raid in 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 [Regression in mm]

2005-01-15 Thread Sander
Randy.Dunlap wrote (ao): > Reuben Farrelly wrote: > >At 12:58 a.m. 15/01/2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > >>Reuben Farrelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Something seems to have broken with 2.6.11-rc1-mm1, which worked ok > >>with > >>> 2.6.10-mm3. > >>> > >>> NET: Registered protocol fam

Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack

2005-01-15 Thread Amir Guindehi
Hi, My question is: Does the kernel handle the interface state/routing tables modifications due to link changing automatically Not completely. The biggest problem is that kernel does not remove its "connected" or "subnet" route while link is down. This means that even though kernel knows link i

Re: ARP routing issue

2005-01-15 Thread Jan De Luyck
On Friday 14 January 2005 23:47, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > That arp is perfectly OK. > The routing table will cause the icmp echo packet to go from 10.216.0.xx > to 10.0.24.xx via the 10.0.24.x network. > The icmp echo response will return via the 10.0.22.x network back to the > 10.216.0.xx ne

Re: lspci != scanpci !?

2005-01-15 Thread Martin Mares
Hello! > Now the scanpci command shows the M7101 BUT lspci and /proc/pci, > /proc/bus/pci, /sys/bus/pci NOT. What can I do? Is there anything like a > "update_pci" command? What does `lspci -vv -M' and `lspci -vv -M -H1' print? (Please Cc to me, I usually read LKML in large batches.)

Re: [PATCH 1/2] CryptoAPI: prepare for processing multiple buffers at a time

2005-01-15 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 17:40 +0100, Michal Ludvig wrote: > > Is there any connection to Evgeniy Polyakov's acrypto work? It appears, > > that there are two project for one objective. Would be nice to see both > > parties pulling on one string. > > These projects do not compete at all. Evgeniy's wo

[RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

2005-01-15 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 15:22 -0800, Tim Bird wrote: > but not 1) supporting infrastructure for timestamping, managing event > data, etc., and 2) a static list of generally useful tracepoints. Both points are well taken. Thats the essential minimum what instrumentation needs. I'd like to see th

Really annoying bug in the mouse driver

2005-01-15 Thread Victor Hahn
Hello, sorry if this mail goes to the wrong address or if I'm not providing the right information, but I'm just a regular user, not a hacker. There is a really annoying bug in PS/2 mouse driver (this is psmouse.c I think). From time to time, the mouse is just going "crazy", just moving uncontro

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 waiting-10s-before-mounting-root-....

2005-01-15 Thread Daniel Kirsten
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Re: Notice again (automatic reply (back on 17 January 2005))

2005-01-15 Thread Neetu Lamba
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[PATCH 1/6] cifs: copy_to_user and copy_from_user fixes

2005-01-15 Thread Pekka Enberg
Check return value for copy_to_user() and copy_from_user(). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- cifssmb.c | 37 ++--- file.c|6 +- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) Index: linux/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c

[PATCH 2/6] cifs: remove dead code

2005-01-15 Thread Pekka Enberg
This patch removes commented out code. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- asn1.c| 122 -- cifsencrypt.c |5 -- cifsfs.c | 25 --- cifssmb.c | 48 +- connect.c | 25

[PATCH 4/6] cifs: remove spurious casts

2005-01-15 Thread Pekka Enberg
Remove spurious void pointer casts. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- cifsfs.c|9 - dir.c |6 ++ file.c | 32 +--- misc.c | 17 - readdir.c |6 +++--- transport.c |5 ++--- 6 files

[PATCH 3/6] cifs: enum conversion

2005-01-15 Thread Pekka Enberg
Convert #defines to proper enums and remove duplicate symbols. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- asn1.c| 72 +++-- cifspdu.h | 798 -- 2 files changed, 464 insertions(+), 406 deletions(-) Index: 2.6/fs/cifs/asn

[patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-00

2005-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ The two dozen split out latency patches (including PREEMPT_BKL) that were in -mm are in BK now, so i've rebased the -RT patchset to 2.6.11-rc1. I

[PATCH 6/6] cifs: convert schedule_timeout to msleep and ssleep

2005-01-15 Thread Pekka Enberg
This patch converts cifs code to use msleep() and ssleep() instead of schedule_timeout(). Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- cifsfs.c |9 - connect.c | 25 + 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) Index: 2.6/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c ==

[PATCH 5/6] cifs: reduce deep nesting

2005-01-15 Thread Pekka Enberg
This patch converts deep if statement nesting to use gotos in few places. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- cifsfs.c | 51 +++ connect.c | 44 2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 44

Re: Possible GPL Violation of Linux in Amstrad's E3 Videophone.

2005-01-15 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:48:52PM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 04:59:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > If anyone has a copy of the emailer source btw (or gets one for review > > so has a download option ;)) then it would be nice to stick it up for > > ftp for all. > No o

2.6.11-rc1: local_irq_disable() in main.c:rest_init() hangs ADB driver

2005-01-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
2.6.11-rc1 causes the powermac ADB driver, which controls the keyboard and mouse on pre-USB powermacs, to hang during bootup. The last kernel message seen is: adb: starting probe task... and then the machine hangs hard. 2.6.10 did not have this problem. The problem appears to be caused by the lo

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jack O'Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I reran with just 5 processes reniced from -10 to -5. On my > system they were: events, khelper, kblockd, aio and reiserfs. In > addition, I reniced loop0 from -20 to -5. > One major problem: this `nice --20' hack affects every thread, not > just

Sundance irq problem

2005-01-15 Thread J.W. Hoogervorst
Hello, I am experiencing a problem with my DLink DFE-580TX 4 port adapter (in a machine with some more network interfaces - see below). The moment I load the sundance driver on any 2.6 kernel and send a single packet out, I get about 80 interrupts per second. This even happens with init=/bin/bash

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi Adrian! On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:20:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:55:55PM +0100, Steffen Moser wrote: > > >... > > - fsa01 (problem occurs): > >... > > | modutils 2.4.5 > >... > > - gateway (no problem): > >... > > | modutils 2.4

Re: [PATCH] [request for inclusion] Realtime LSM

2005-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jack O'Quin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- kernel/sched.c~ Fri Dec 24 15:35:24 2004 > +++ kernel/sched.cWed Jan 12 23:48:49 2005 > @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ > #define MAX_BONUS(MAX_USER_PRIO * PRIO_BONUS_RATIO / 100) > #define INTERACTIVE_DELTA 2 > #define MAX_SLEEP_AVG

Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

2005-01-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Friday 14 January 2005 23:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: > Linux 2.6.8.1 A "vmstat 1" output during high load would be nice... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordo

Re: [PATCH] PPC64 had _raw_read_trylock already

2005-01-15 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo presumably didn't notice that ppc64 already had a functional > _raw_read_trylock when he added the #define to use the generic > version. This just removes the #define so we use the ppc64-specific > version again. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerr

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-00

2005-01-15 Thread K.R. Foley
Ingo Molnar wrote: i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ The two dozen split out latency patches (including PREEMPT_BKL) that were in -mm are in BK now, so i've rebased the -RT patchset

[PATCH 2.6] I2C: Allow it87 pwm reconfiguration

2005-01-15 Thread Jean Delvare
Quoting myself: > As soon as you will have confirmed that everything worked as expected, > Jonas and I will provide a patch adding a pwm polarity reconfiguration > module parameter for you to test. This should give you access to the > PWM features of your it87 chip again, but in a safe way for a c

[PATCH] Re: IBM-ACPI broken in 2.6.10

2005-01-15 Thread Jim Radford
> The ibm-acpi module included in 2.6.10 doesn't appear to parse > parameters correctly. This seems to be due to a patch from Rusty > Russell [1] which attempted to fix up the parameter parsing. > What's the right way of fixing this? I'm not sure about the "right" way, but this is what I came up

Re: lspci != scanpci !?

2005-01-15 Thread Enrico Bartky
Here are the outputs. Without H1 there is no 7101 device; with H1 there is a 7101 device. Enrico - Original Message - From: "Martin Mares" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Enrico Bartky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 1:35 PM Subject: Re: lspci != scanpci !? > Hello!

Re: Adding a new system call from a module in 2.6

2005-01-15 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Fri, 2005-01-14 16:12:38 -0500, linux-os <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Avishay Traeger wrote: > >Now that the sys_call_table is no longer exported, what would be the > >best way to add a new system call from a module in 2.6? I have only Actual

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-15 Thread Simone Piunno
On Friday 14 January 2005 15:40, Jean Delvare wrote: > Kernel 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 is just out, which does contain the latest updates > to the it87 driver. I would like you to test them. What you should see: > 1* When loading the it87 driver, the fans should not change speeds. confirmed. > 2* In the l

[PATCH] sunrpc: clarify the source of some messages

2005-01-15 Thread Sean Neakums
Sometimes cl_protname is "portmap", which can make it seem as if the userspace portmapper is complaining, when in fact it is sunrpc that is complaining. The second hunk also adds a missing printk level. Against 2.6.11-rc1. diff -urN --exclude '*~' S11-rc1/net/sunrpc/clnt.c S11-rc1~sunrpc/net/su

Re: 2.6.10-mm2: it87 sensor driver stops CPU fan

2005-01-15 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Simone, > > 2* In the logs, you should see an information line with the chip > > type, address and revision. > > 3* Still in the logs, you should see a warning about your BIOS being > > broken and PWM being disabled as a consequence. > > Confirmed, but it looks like there's a missing linefeed

Re: usb key oddities with 2.6.10-ac9

2005-01-15 Thread Jack Howarth
Sami, I don't believe that additional change to initscripts could be the cause because Fedora Core 2 doesn't support udev. Only Fedora Core 3 implements that feature and there are reports of the same problem occuring under it with 6.5.10. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-users&m=11056

kswapd (& clock?) problems in 2.6.10

2005-01-15 Thread aeriksson
Since installing 2.6.10 kswapd has decided to loop wildly on two occations. Both occations happened after starting a big compiles. Checking vmstat, I noticed a steady stream of io/bi figures ranging between 2-5K (which is about what I can get out of this box during normal operation), but no swap i

Satelco EasyWatch DVB-T PCMCIA card

2005-01-15 Thread Michal Semler
Hi guys, can anybody around tell me something about this card? I bought it, but none DVB driver works with it and under windows it doesn't work with included drivers too... :03:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Unknown device 0432:0001 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWIN

Re: [PATCH 2.6] I2C: Allow it87 pwm reconfiguration

2005-01-15 Thread Simone Piunno
On Saturday 15 January 2005 16:30, Jean Delvare wrote: > Simone, feel free to test this (on top of 2.6.11-rc1-mm1 for example). I've been unable to apply your patch cleanly on top of 2.6.11-rc1-mm1, but eventually I've managed to apply it manually. I can confirm it works as expected. Without p

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-01-15 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Saturday 15 January 2005 06:05 am, Marco Cipullo wrote: > Same problem with me. I also have a laptop and I also have the same problem > started in the same period. > ... > # > # Input I/O drivers > # > # CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set > CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y > CONFIG_SERIO=y > CONFIG_SERIO_I8042

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-01-15 Thread marco
Dmitry Torokhov ha scritto: On Saturday 15 January 2005 06:05 am, Marco Cipullo wrote: Same problem with me. I also have a laptop and I also have the same problem started in the same period. ... # # Input I/O drivers # # CONFIG_GAMEPORT is not set CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y CONFIG_SERIO=y CONFIG_SER

Re: sparse warning, or why does jifies_to_msecs() return an int?

2005-01-15 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, David Mosberger wrote: > > How about something along the lines of the attached? The test in > msecs_to_jiffies is non-sensical for HZ>=1000 Hmm.. I don't think your patch is wrong per se, but I do think it's a bit too subtle. I'd almost rather make "jiffies_to_msecs()" ju

Linux 2.4.29-rc3

2005-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, Here goes the third release candidate. This one comes out to release a bunch of pending networking fixes from David Miller: netfilter, sctp, ipvs, etc. Also changes the tty ldisc locking patches to not export a couple of API functions as GPL, because that breaks compatibility with older

Re: Screwy clock after apm suspend

2005-01-15 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:10:19 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: >> > Looking harder, in arch/i386/kernel/apm.c the system time is also >> > saved and restored in a very similar way to timer_suspend/resume. >> > Would this account for the time drift in APM mode? (sleep time being >> > accounted for twic

Re: 2.6.10 dies when X tries to initialize PCI radeon 9200 SE

2005-01-15 Thread Helge Hafting
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 08:06:09AM +1100, Dave Airlie wrote: > > on Thursday 01/13/2005 Helge Hafting([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > 2.6.10 boots fine, but is killed by the X server when it > > > tries to initialize my PCI radeon 9200 SE. This problem exists > > > in 2.6.9 too, but not in 2.6.8

Re: Poor responsiveness during disk I/O

2005-01-15 Thread Shaun Jackman
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:53:26 +0200, Jan Knutar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2005 23:57, Shaun Jackman wrote: > > Linux 2.6.8.1 > > A "vmstat 1" output during high load would be nice... Here I'm running updatedb and opening firefox, which takes about 45 seconds to open. It's r

Re: Do PS/2 ESDI users exist?

2005-01-15 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:49:09PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I wonder whether ps2esdi should be removed. > > Does the present driver work for someone? > > Have there been users in this millennium? With 2.3 or later? > > We could mark it CONF

Re: [PATCH] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator V2

2005-01-15 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:56:46PM +, Mel Gorman wrote: > > The patch is against 2.6.11-rc1 and I'm willing to stand by it's > > stability. I'm also confident it does it's job pretty well so I'd like it > > to be considered for inclusion. > > This

Can't unmount bad inode

2005-01-15 Thread Miklos Szeredi
When the root of a mount is a bad inode, it can't be unmounted. Comment above bad_follow_link is also out of sync with code. What about just removing the follow_link method from bad_inode_ops (untested patch attached)? Same problem exists on 2.4. Miklos --- linux-2.6.10/fs/bad_inode.c.orig2

Re: [RFC] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator

2005-01-15 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 11:31:46PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> I'd expect to do better with kernel/user discrimination only, having > >> address-ordering biases in opposite directions for each case. > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:42:

Re: [PATCH] cleanup virtual console <-> selection.c interface

2005-01-15 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 04:36:55AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > I should really sent out my own patches faster. :) > I have three patches which take this a bit further and removes these > macros completely and does some other small cleanups. It saves a bit more > than 3KB. I was planning to do t

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc1-V0.7.35-01

2005-01-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 January 2005 08:34, Ingo Molnar wrote: >i have released the -V0.7.35-00 Real-Time Preemption patch, which > can be downloaded from the usual place: > > http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ > By the time I got there is was 35-01 :-) I have 1 squawk and one question. The squaw

[PATCH] 0/0 Reducing fragmentation through better allocation

2005-01-15 Thread Mel Gorman
Hi, Two patches will be posted with this thread. They both aim to address the problem of external fragmentation in the buddy allocator preventing high-order allocations. The first patch is a modified buddy allocator which I believe to be very stable. The second patch is a proof-of-concept patch t

Re: [PATCH] 1/2 Reducing fragmentation through better allocation

2005-01-15 Thread Mel Gorman
Changelog since V2 o Do not to interfere with the "min" decay o Update the __GFP_BITS_SHIFT properly. Old value broke fsync and probably a lot more besides This patch divides allocations into three different types of allocations; UserReclaimable - These are userspace pages that are easily recl

[PATCH] 2/2 Satisify high-order allocations with linear scan

2005-01-15 Thread Mel Gorman
This patch must be applied on top of the modified allocator patch. The purpose of this patch is to linearly scan the address space when a high-order allocation cannot be satisfied. It takes the same parameters are try_to_free_pages() and introduced try_to_free_highorder_pages(). The concept is

Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:58:45AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > I don't see a valid reason to restrict/reject input that is accepted > now and dealt with reasonably because some standard says so (if you > design a new api, following the standard is nice of course). I don't > see "doesn't rejec

[PATCH] Fix audit control message checks

2005-01-15 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
The audit control messages are sent over netlink. Permission checks are done on the process receiving the message, which may not be the same as the process sending the message. This patch switches the netlink_send security hooks to calculate the effective capabilities based on the sender. Then a

Re: [PATCH] Avoiding fragmentation through different allocator V2

2005-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 07:18:42PM +, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:56:46PM +, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > The patch is against 2.6.11-rc1 and I'm willing to stand by it's > > > stability. I'm also confident it does it's job pr

Re: patch to fix set_itimer() behaviour in boundary cases

2005-01-15 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 11:55 -0800, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 10:58:45AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > I don't see a valid reason to restrict/reject input that is accepted > > now and dealt with reasonably because some standard says so (if you > > design a new api, foll

SATA disk dead? ATA: abnormal status 0x59 on port 0xE407

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Steffl
I got these errors when accessing SATA disk (via scsi): Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x59 host_stat 0x21 Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error } Jan 15 11:56:50 jojda kernel: ata2: error=0x40 { Uncorrectable

[PATCH][resend] Disable Sidewinder debug messages

2005-01-15 Thread Michael Marineau
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is a little pach to disable the sidewinder debug messages. Sorry for the extra clutter if you have already taken care of this. I'd like this to get this moving towards the mainline soon. signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - --

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:43:09AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > Hi Adrian! > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:20:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:55:55PM +0100, Steffen Moser wrote: > > > > >... > > > - fsa01 (problem occurs): > > >... > > > | modutils

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Jan Knutar
On Saturday 15 January 2005 22:50, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Do a grep for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in the 2.4.29-rc2 sources. I noticed this as well... > It seems for some reason people didn't scream in older 2.4 releases that > already had the same problem in several places. I always ASSUMED it was some

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc2

2005-01-15 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:50:02PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:43:09AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > Hi Adrian! > > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 06:20:50AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:55:55PM +0100, Steffen Moser wrote: > > > > > >

Re: make flock_lock_file_wait static

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 02:16:44PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > ty den 11.01.2005 Klokka 09:31 (+0100) skreiv Arjan van de Ven: >... > > If it is going to take a LOT longer though I still feel it's wrong to > > bloat *everyones* kernel with this stuff. > > > > (you may think "it's only 100 byte

slab.c use of __get_user and sparse

2005-01-15 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Andi, lkml. In slab.c around line 1450 the following code is present: list_for_each(p, &cache_chain) { kmem_cache_t *pc = list_entry(p, kmem_cache_t, next); char tmp; /* This happens when the module gets unloaded and doesn't destroy its slab cache and noone e

[2.6 patch] i386/x86_64 apic.c: make two functions static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:02:45 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [E

[2.6 patch] i386 cyrix.c: make a function static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:03:58 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] i386

[2.6 patch] i386 efi.c: make some code static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:42:04 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [2.6 patch] i386

[-mm patch] i386 crash_dump: make a function static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:39:39 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-

[2.6 patch] i386/x86_64 msr.c: make two functions static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below (already ACK'ed by H. Peter Anvin) still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 01:41:35 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <[E

Re: 2.6.10-mm3: swsusp: out of memory on resume (was: Re: Ho ho ho - Linux v2.6.10)

2005-01-15 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 14 of January 2005 18:25, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Friday, 14 of January 2005 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:09:24PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > Has this patch been ported to x86_64? Or is there a newer version of it

Re: Linux 2.4.29-rc3

2005-01-15 Thread Willy TARREAU
Hi Marcelo, On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:13:20PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Hi, > > Here goes the third release candidate. > > This one comes out to release a bunch of pending networking fixes from > David Miller: netfilter, sctp, ipvs, etc. > > Also changes the tty ldisc locking patches t

[2.6 patch] i386 mpparse.c: make MP_processor_info static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below (already ACK'ed by Andrey Panin) still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 01:41:33 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PR

[2.6 patch] i386/x86_64 io_apic.c: misc cleanups (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:45:52 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subj

[2.6 patch] i386 cpuid.c: make two functions static (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 22:37:16 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-kernel@v

[2.6 patch] i386 cpu/common.c: some cleanups (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:08:11 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

Re: Can I ask a smbfs question here?

2005-01-15 Thread Nick
/usr/sbin/smbmnt ? After I chmodded /usr/bin/smbmnt one, I got: libsmb based programs must *NOT* be setuid root. 29612: Connection to nata failed SMB connection failed I do not have /usr/sbin/smbmnt not remember which one - found its name in one of FAQs) and specified username=administ

[2.6 patch] mtrr: some cleanups (fwd)

2005-01-15 Thread Adrian Bunk
The patch forwarded below still applies and compiles against 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. Please apply. - Forwarded message from Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:05:37 +0100 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sub

skb_checksum_help panic with acenic NIC

2005-01-15 Thread David Coulson
Hello, I'm currently running 2.6.10-ac9 on a box, although I've tried a selection of 2.6.10 based kernels (2.6.10, 2.6.10-ac8, 2.6.11-rc1) and hit the same wall. The box has a Netgear GA620 Fiber NIC in it, which uses the acenic driver. After a pretty much random amount of time, the box will p

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