Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:10:44PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Alternatively we can > > remove the dst->dev == dev check in dst_dev_event and dst_ifdown > > and move that test down to the individual ifdown functions. > > I think there is a hole in this idea maybe. > > If the idea is

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 09:04:11PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > Oh I see. That would work, and it seems the simplest, and > lowest risk fix for this problem. > > Herbert, what do you think? Yes I agree. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:31:07PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote: > > Here, lo is going down. > rt->rt6i_dev = lo and rt->rt6i_idev = ethX. > I think we already see dst->dev == dev (==lo) now. > So, I doubt that fix the problem. > > The source of problem is entry (*) which still o

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:50:07PM +0900, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@ wrote: > > Which means in addrconf_notiry(), if the dev == &loopback_dev, > call addrconf_ifdown for every device like this: This should fix the reported issue. However, I'm not sure if it's a good idea to stop all IP traf

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] ide: driver updates (phase 2)

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
Oops, I accidentally put ", ," in the To: line of all the mails which contain patches, and they don't show up on the lkml. I'll post the patches again. Bartlomiej, if you got the first set of patches, please ignore them. The contents are identical, so if you've already reviewed them, you do

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] ide: driver updates (phase 2)

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
Tejun Heo wrote: Oops, I accidentally put ", ," in the To: line of all the mails which contain patches, and they don't show up on the lkml. I'll post the patches again. Bartlomiej, if you got the first set of patches, please ignore them. The contents are identical, so if you've already revie

[PATCH REPOST 2.6.11-rc2] ide: driver updates (phase 2)

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
This thread is repost of phase 2 ide driver updates. Sorry again. Hello, Bartlomiej. These are reordered/modified/(hopefully)appliable nine patches from the previous series of patches. #01 is the only new one. It kills the unused pkt_task_t in ide.h. #02/#03 are moved upward and #04 is mod

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 01/09] ide: kill unused pkt_task_t

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
01_ide_kill_pkt_task_t.patch Remove unused pkt_task_t definition from ide.h. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/include/linux/ide.h === --- linux-ide-series2-export.orig/include/l

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 02/09] ide: ide_init_drive_cmd() now defaults to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
02_ide_taskfile_init_drive_cmd.patch ide_init_drive_cmd() now initializes rq->flags to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/drivers/ide/ide-io.c === ---

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 06/09] ide: remove REQ_DRIVE_TASK handling

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
06_ide_remove_task.patch Unused REQ_DRIVE_TASK handling removed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/drivers/ide/ide-io.c === --- linux-ide-series2-export.orig/drivers/ide/ide-io.c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 09/09] ide: remove REQ_DRIVE_CMD handling

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
09_ide_remove_cmd.patch Removed unused REQ_DRIVE_CMD handling. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/drivers/ide/ide-io.c === --- linux-ide-series2-export.orig/drivers/ide/ide-io.c

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 08/09] ide: map ide_cmd_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
08_ide_taskfile_cmd_ioctl.patch ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_CMD. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/drivers/ide/ide-iops.c =

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 05/09] ide: map ide_task_ioctl() to ide_taskfile_ioctl()

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
05_ide_taskfile_task_ioctl.patch ide_task_ioctl() modified to map to ide_taskfile_ioctl(). This is the last user of REQ_DRIVE_TASK. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/drivers/ide/ide-taskfile.c =

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 03/09] ide: ide_diag_taskfile() rq initialization fix

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
03_ide_diag_taskfile_use_init_drive_cmd.patch In ide_diag_taskfile(), when initializing taskfile rq, ref_count wasn't initialized properly. Modified to use ide_init_drive_cmd(). This doesn't really change any behavior as the request isn't managed via the block la

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:46:43 +1100), Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > If we wanted to preserve the split device semantics, then we > can create a local GC list in IPv6 so that it can search based > on rt6i_idev as well as the other keys. Alternatively we can

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Herbert Xu
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:46:43PM +1100, herbert wrote: > > This doesn't work because net/core/dst.c can only search based > on dst->dev. For the split device case, dst->dev is set to > loopback_dev while rt6i_idev is set to the real device. Although I still think this is a bug, I'm now startin

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 04/09] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_TASK to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
04_ide_taskfile_flush.patch All REQ_DRIVE_TASK users except ide_task_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. 1. idedisk_issue_flush() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. This and the changes in ide_get_error_location() remove a possible race con

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 09/09] ide: remove REQ_DRIVE_CMD handling

2005-02-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> - __REQ_DRIVE_CMD, > + __REQ_DRIVE_CMD,/* obsolete, unused anymore - tj */ dito - 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/majordomo-info.html Please read

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 06/09] ide: remove REQ_DRIVE_TASK handling

2005-02-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> __REQ_DRIVE_CMD, > - __REQ_DRIVE_TASK, > + __REQ_DRIVE_TASK, /* obsolete, unused anymore - tj */ please kill it completely - 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://vg

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc2 07/09] ide: convert REQ_DRIVE_CMD to REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-02-05 Thread Tejun Heo
07_ide_taskfile_cmd.patch All in-kernel REQ_DRIVE_CMD users except for ide_cmd_ioctl() converted to use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-ide-series2-export/drivers/ide/ide-disk.c =

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Andre Tomt
Herbert Xu wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:38:13PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: It is just the first such thing I found, scanning rt6i_idev uses will easily find several others. You're right of course. I thought they were all harmless but I was obviously wrong about this one. So here is a patc

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:14:04 +0100), Andre Tomt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > This patch fixes my problems with hangs when dot1q VLAN interfaces gets > removed when loopback is down, as reported in the thread "2.6.10 > ipv6/8021q lockup on vconfig on interface remo

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / $B5HF#1QL@(B
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:48:15 +0100), Andre Tomt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says: > > Please tell me, why your lo is down... : > "ifdown -a" gets run on shutdown and reboot here, and ifdown -a in > Debian brings down loopback before any other interfaces. Okay, thanks. (I

sbp2 oops with external ieee1394 burner

2005-02-05 Thread Jason Straight
Searched and didn't find anything on archives for this, but I probably just missed it. Upgraded from 2.6.8.1 today to 2.6.10, and using my external firewire DVD-RW I get oopsed. I patched to 2.6.11-rc3 and it's still there, I can't speak for 2.6.9 at this point, I can try later if I have to nar

[PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Something like the following (untested) extension of Bodo's work could be the minimal fix for 2.6.11. As I've said though, I'd consider it a hack and prefer to do something about the locking. That could be done after 2.6.11 though. Depends how you feel. I think this is the right

Re: [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When a task is put to sleep, it is dequeued from the runqueue > while it is still running. The problem is that the runqueue > lock can be dropped and retaken in schedule() before the task > actually schedules off, and wait_task_inactive did not account >

Re: [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When a task is put to sleep, it is dequeued from the runqueue while it is still running. The problem is that the runqueue lock can be dropped and retaken in schedule() before the task actually schedules off, and wait_task_inactive did not

Re: [PATCH] fix wait_task_inactive race (was Re: Race condition in ptrace)

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When a task is put to sleep, it is dequeued from the runqueue while it is still running. The problem is that the runqueue lock can be dropped and retaken in schedule() before the task actually schedules off, and wait_ta

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > In 2.6.11-rc[23], I get problems after swsusp resume: > > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: Restarting tasks...<3>hub 3-0:1.0: > over-current change on port 1 > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: done > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: connect-deboun

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > In 2.6.11-rc[23], I get problems after swsusp resume: > > > > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: Restarting tasks...<3>hub 3-0:1.0: > > over-current change on port 1 > > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: done > > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port > > 1 disabled >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 05 February 2005 3:14 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Your logs don't indicate which host controller driver is bound to each of > > your hubs. /proc/bus/usb/devices will contain that information. Without > > it, it's hard to diagnose what happened. > > I do not think I have an

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Your logs don't indicate which host controller driver is bound to each of > > > your hubs. /proc/bus/usb/devices will contain that information. Without > > > it, it's hard to diagnose what happened. > > > > I do not think I have any hubs... no external hubs anyway. And I do > > not

Re: [linux-usb-devel] 2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > In 2.6.11-rc[23], I get problems after swsusp resume: > > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: Restarting tasks...<3>hub 3-0:1.0: > over-current change on port 1 > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: done > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: connect-deboun

2.6: USB Storage hangs machine on bootup for ~2 minutes

2005-02-05 Thread Parag Warudkar
I am running FC3 on a AMD64 laptop. The laptop has 3 USB ports. If I attach any usb-storage device (Sandisk Cruiser usb drive, iPod, Maxtor external drive etc.) the kernel hangs while booting. The hang occurs shortly after the usb-storage module is loaded. The machine does not respond to anything o

2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! In 2.6.11-rc[23], I get problems after swsusp resume: Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: Restarting tasks...<3>hub 3-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: done Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: hu

Re: 2.6.11-rc[23]: swsusp & usb regression

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > In 2.6.11-rc[23], I get problems after swsusp resume: > > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: Restarting tasks...<3>hub 3-0:1.0: > over-current change on port 1 > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: done > Feb 4 23:54:39 amd kernel: hub 3-0:1.0: connect-debounce failed, port > 1 disabled > Feb 4 23:54:3

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.37-02

2005-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while(unlikely(error == IN_WAKEUP)) { > cpu_relax(); > error = queue.status; > } > > So, what looks to be happening is that as soon as the parent wakes up > the child, the child preempts the parent, and hits th

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 21:30 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > I suspect the problem in that case is a compressed VBIOS. Some laptops > compress the VBIOS and the system BIOS into a single ROM and then > expand them at power on. Sounds like this is not happening on resume. > To get around the problem copy

Re: [patch] ns558 bug

2005-02-05 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, Andrew Morton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Belay) wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:00:54PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: > Hi, > > this patch is based on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2962 > patch from adam belay. > > It solve a oops when pnp_register_driver(&ns558_pnp_driver

Re: PATCH: SysV semaphore race vs SIGSTOP

2005-02-05 Thread Manfred Spraul
Hi Ove, As I mentioned in an earlier mail, there is a race when SIGSTOP-ing a process waiting for a SysV semaphore, where if a process holding a semaphore suspends another process waiting on the semaphore and then releases the semaphore, Your patch looks correct (for 2.4 - 2.6 uses a different ap

2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod

2005-02-05 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a écrit : ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ loading dm-mod module fails with this message : FATAL: Error inserting dm-mod (/lib/modules/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/kernel/drivers/md/dm-mod.ko): Device or resource busy The

Re: [-mm PATCH] driver model: PM type conversions in drivers/net

2005-02-05 Thread Russell King
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 08:01:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Why does this one have three arguments? Because it's a platform device driver suspend method. -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.

Re: [PATCH] PNPACPI parser fix

2005-02-05 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, matthieu castet wrote: Hi, This patch is very old (11/2004), but never get merged even if acked by Shaohua Li. As you can see in the bugzilla report (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3912), it solve parsing issue in the pnpacpi core : the pnpacpi parser supposed that are no resourc

Re: [PATCH] PPC/PPC64: Introduce CPU_HAS_FEATURE() macro

2005-02-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:20 -0600, Olof Johansson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:17:48AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Please drop the CPU_FTR_##x macro magic as it makes grepping more > > complicated. If the enum names are too long, just do s/CPU_FTR_/CPU_/g > > or something similar. Also, c

Re: question on symbol exports

2005-02-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> It turns out that to call ptep_clear_flush_dirty() on ppc64 from a > module I needed to export the following symbols: > > __flush_tlb_pending > ppc64_tlb_batch > hpte_update Any reason why you need to call that from a module ? Is the module GPL'd ? Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: [PATCH 01/04] Adding cipher mode context information to crypto_tfm

2005-02-05 Thread Fruhwirth Clemens
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:46 -0500, James Morris wrote: > This code tests ok with IPSec, and delivers some good performance > improvements. e.g. FTP transfers over transport mode AES over GigE sped > up with this patch applied on one side of the connection by 20% for send > and 15% for receive. >

Re: [patch] 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: fix swsusp with gcc 3.4

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > >... > > > Changes since 2.6.11-rc2-mm2: > > >... > > > +swsusp-do-not-use-higher-order-memory-allocations-on-suspend.patch > > > > > > swsusp fix > > >... > > > > This broke compilation with gcc 3.4: > [-- snip --] > > BTW, it requires the following bugfix, on top of the Adrian's patc

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume (was: Re: [ACPI] Samsung P35, S3, black screen (radeon))

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > We already try to do that, but it hangs on 70% of machines. See > > Documentation/power/video.txt. > > We know that all of these ROMs are run at power on so they have to > work. This implies that there must be something wrong with the > environment the ROM are being run in. Video ROMs mak

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > I do not understand how initramfs fits into picture... Plus lot of > > people (me :-) do not use initramfs... > > The final fix for this will include the video reset app on initramfs. > I already have code in the kernel for telling the primary video card > from secondary ones. When the ke

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 20:37, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > I do not understand how initramfs fits into picture... Plus lot of > > > people (me :-) do not use initramfs... > > > > The final fix for this will include the video reset app on initramfs. > > I already have code in the kernel f

Re: [PATCH] relayfs redux, part 3 II - another comment

2005-02-05 Thread Andi Kleen
Another comment on relay_write fast pathing > +static inline unsigned relay_write(struct rchan *chan, > +const void *data, > +unsigned length) > +{ > + unsigned long flags; > + struct rchan_buf *buf = relay_get_buf(chan, smp_p

Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it?

2005-02-05 Thread jerome lacoste
Took On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:18:17 -0500, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please keep me CCd > > jerome lacoste wrote: > > particular hardware (Dell Inspiron 8100)? I run Linux on 3 other > > I have this exact same laptop. It works perfectly for me with linux. > Originally started with

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-05 Thread Sean Neakums
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:16:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > I tried it two or three times, same result each time. I'll give it a >> > lash with USB disabled. >> >> Also, can you try editing arch/ppc/sysl

Re: [PATCH][i386] HPET setup, duplicate HPET_T0_CMP needed for some platforms

2005-02-05 Thread Andrew Walrond
On Friday 04 February 2005 23:41, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > + /* > + * Some systems seems to need two writes to HPET_T0_CMP, > + * to get interrupts working > + */ I think you should update this comment in light of the information from Vojtech: /* * The first write after writing TN_SETVAL

L1_CACHE

2005-02-05 Thread Axel Schmalowsky
Hey, Can anyone tell me if it is destruktive or does it cause lose of performance if I set up L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX as well as CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT to the value of 10? I've an Intel centrino processor with 1MB L1-Cache. Thanx in advance Axel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsub

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-05 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Here is a patch that exposes the IBM TrackPoint's extended properties > as well as scroll wheel emulation. > > > I would appreciate comments and suggestions to make this more acceptable. > > > Stephen > > > diff -uNr a/drivers/input/mouse/Makefile b/drivers/input/mouse/Makefile > --- a

Re: [PATCH] PPC/PPC64: Introduce CPU_HAS_FEATURE() macro

2005-02-05 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sünnavend 05 Februar 2005 02:34, Anton Blanchard wrote: > Interesting :) However we already get bug reports with the current > CONFIG_POWER4_ONLY option. I worry about adding more options that users > could get wrong unless there is a noticeable improvement in performance. > The patch that I po

Re: 3TB disk hassles

2005-02-05 Thread Neil Conway
Hi... --- Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No common x86 BIOS can understand any partition table. Booting is > done by > loading the first sector of the boot device and executing it. The > common D'oh!! Red-face here. Can't believe my brainlessness. Thanks for putting me straight - tha

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod

2005-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Laurent Riffard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a écrit : > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ > > > > loading dm-mod module fails with this message : > > FATAL: Error inserting dm-mod > (/lib/module

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! We already try to do that, but it hangs on 70% of machines. See Documentation/power/video.txt. We know that all of these ROMs are run at power on so they have to work. This implies that there must be something wrong with the environment the ROM are being run in. Video ROMs

[2.6 patch] remove drivers/char/tpqic02.c

2005-02-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
Since at about half a year, this driver was no longer selectable via Kconfig. Since it seems noone missed this driver, therefore this patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/Makefile |1 drivers/char/tpqic02.c | 2811

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Ondrej Zary
Matthew Garrett wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 21:30 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: I suspect the problem in that case is a compressed VBIOS. Some laptops compress the VBIOS and the system BIOS into a single ROM and then expand them at power on. Sounds like this is not happening on resume. To get around th

2.6.11-rc3: bttv oops [resend]

2005-02-05 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
In MythTV I switched between cards ('Y'). When I switched out of a DVB card into the analog card I got no signal. The system started responding slowly (long pauses) and after a while it locked up. Attached in the serial line log of the session, including SysRq task dump. I should say that I noticed

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-05 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 10:33:50AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ > - The bk-usb and bk-pci and bk-driver-core trees have been temporarily > dropped from -mm, for they are not healthy at present. > - After man

Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it?

2005-02-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:18:17AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > Please keep me CCd > > jerome lacoste wrote: > > particular hardware (Dell Inspiron 8100)? I run Linux on 3 other > > I have this exact same laptop. It works perfectly for me with linux. > Originally started with a 2.4 kernel and r

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3] IBM Trackpoint support

2005-02-05 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:56:07AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Friday 04 February 2005 09:45, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 09:17:33AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > > It is still a problem if driver is registered after the port has been > > > detected wich quite

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:53 +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote: > I wonder how this can work: > a motherboard with i815 chipset (integrated VGA), Video BIOS is > integrated into system BIOS > a PCI card inserted into one of the PCI slots, configured as primary in > system BIOS The issue seems to be speci

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2005-02-05 Thread site web
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Re: ext3 extended attributes refcounting wrong?

2005-02-05 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 17:19:09 +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 15:15, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > >> Plain www.kernel.org kernels always. > >Good, it's no bug then. Stephen already explained what's going on: when >a file has xattrs and you delete the file while running a kerne

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: kobject_register fails for processor on Athlon64

2005-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Friday, 4 of February 2005 19:33, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ This occurs on my box (Athlon64-based) if "processor" is directly compiled into the kernel: ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Fan [FN00] (off) kobject

Re: PROBLEM: 2.6.11-rc2 hangs on bridge shutdown (br0)

2005-02-05 Thread Matthias-Christian Ott
Matthias-Christian Ott wrote: Mirko Parthey wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:22:02PM +0100, wrote: My Debian machine hangs during shutdown, with messages like this: unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1 I narrowed it down to the command # brctl delbr br0 which

Re: Post install 2.4.29 causes many apps to seg fault.

2005-02-05 Thread Nick Warne
On Saturday 05 February 2005 02:01, Gary Smith wrote: > Quoting Nick Warne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Here is the link that explains it... what to do with many processes > > segfaulting, I don't know. RHEL support is _very_ good - give them a > > ring. > > > > http://people.redhat.com/drepper/assume

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, It looks like softlockup is not happy with suspend/resume: Feb 5 02:16:06 albercik kernel: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Feb 5 02:16:06 albercik kernel: Feb 5 02:16:06 albercik kernel: Modules linked in: snd_seq snd_seq_device usbserial parport_pc lp parport thermal processor fan bu

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod

2005-02-05 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 05.02.2005 12:26, Andrew Morton a écrit : Laurent Riffard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le 04.02.2005 19:33, Andrew Morton a écrit : > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc3/2.6.11-rc3-mm1/ > loading dm-mod module fails with this message : FATAL: Error inserting d

Re: [PATCH] PNP support for i8042 driver

2005-02-05 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:37:29PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: Hi, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:23:53PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote: Hi, this patch add PNP support for the i8042 driver in 2.6.10-rc1-mm5. Acpi is try before the pnp driver so if you

Re: [2.6 patch] add compiler-gcc4.h

2005-02-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:04:46AM +, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Matthias-Christian Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Hi! > > But maybe gcc 4 will get different later, so I think this patch makes sense. > > > > No,

[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c Remove some sparse warnings

2005-02-05 Thread Peter Hagervall
Not sure if this is the correct way of fixing this, but at least it compiles cleanly and seems to work for me. --- linux-bk/arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c 2005-02-03 18:11:54.0 +0100 +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c2005-02-05 12:47:05.0 +0100 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ #include st

Re: [2.6 patch] remove drivers/char/tpqic02.c

2005-02-05 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 12:40 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > Since at about half a year, this driver was no longer selectable via > Kconfig. What happened when you ran oldconfig with a .config that had it set? Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: [2.6 patch] remove drivers/char/tpqic02.c

2005-02-05 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:08:18PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 12:40 schrieb Adrian Bunk: > > Since at about half a year, this driver was no longer selectable via > > Kconfig. > > What happened when you ran oldconfig with a .config that had it set? CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE

Re: ext3 extended attributes refcounting wrong?

2005-02-05 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 13:39, Mikael Pettersson wrote: > [...] It does not explain why 2.6 allocated > the xattr blocks in the first place; as I wrote initially, I > have disabled the xattrs stuff: > > CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y > # CONFIG_EXT3_FS_XATTR is not set The filesystem in question must have been u

Re: L1_CACHE

2005-02-05 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 11:45:22 + Axel Schmalowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me if it is destruktive or does it cause lose of > performance if I set up > L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX as well as CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT to the value > of 10? > > I've an Intel centrino processor with 1M

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc2-V0.7.37-02

2005-02-05 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 08:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > hm - i had a fix in this area in the -V0.7 series. Then i thought this > is a performance fix only and dropped it eventually, but could you give > it a go - does it fix the deadlock? > > Ingo Yep, it worked! I tried a similar fix earl

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-05 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like softlockup is not happy with suspend/resume: Does it happen while writing out state to disk? I've attached a patch for touch_softlockup_watchdog() below - but i think what we really need is another mechanism. I'm wondering what the p

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1: softlockup and suspend/resume

2005-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 5 of February 2005 15:35, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks like softlockup is not happy with suspend/resume: > > Does it happen while writing out state to disk? No, it occurs during resume, right after the image has been restored

Re: Huge unreliability - does Linux have something to do with it?

2005-02-05 Thread Wakko Warner
Please keep me CCd Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:18:17AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > > I have this exact same laptop. It works perfectly for me with linux. > > Originally started with a 2.4 kernel and recently went to 2.6.10. The modem > > works well, the video card works w

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:53:37 +0100, Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder how this can work: > a motherboard with i815 chipset (integrated VGA), Video BIOS is > integrated into system BIOS > a PCI card inserted into one of the PCI slots, configured as primary in > system BIOS The info

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:37:40 +0100, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I do not understand how initramfs fits into picture... Plus lot of > > > people (me :-) do not use initramfs... > > > > The final fix for this will include the video reset app on initramfs. > > I already have code in t

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 08:15:35 +, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 21:30 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > I suspect the problem in that case is a compressed VBIOS. Some laptops > > compress the VBIOS and the system BIOS into a single ROM and then > > expand them at

Why is debugging under Linux such a pain

2005-02-05 Thread Otto Wyss
Sorry if this is off topic here but IMO this _has_ to be discussed in a broader audience since it probably has a rather large impact about the acceptance of Linux even if it isn't the kernel's fault. I just build the minimal sample of the wxWidgets framework and it crashed when playing around with

PNP and suspend/resumt

2005-02-05 Thread Pierre Ossman
How is suspend/resume handled with PNP devices? There are no suspend/resume functions registered for the pnp bus type. Rgds Pierre - 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

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : can't insmod dm-mod

2005-02-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 03:26:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > You've enabled CONFIG_BASE_SMALL and so the major_names[] hashtable has > just one element. device-mapper uses dynamic major allocation, the range > of which is limited to the size of the top-level major_names[] array. You > ran out

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Stefan Dösinger
Am Samstag, 5. Februar 2005 16:47 schrieb Jon Smirl: > On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 12:53:37 +0100, Ondrej Zary > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder how this can work: > > a motherboard with i815 chipset (integrated VGA), Video BIOS is > > integrated into system BIOS > > a PCI card inserted into one

2.6.11-rc3-mm1 : mount UDF CDRW stuck in D state

2005-02-05 Thread Laurent Riffard
Hello, This is kernel 2.6.11-rc3-mm1. I can't mount an UDF-formatted cdrw in packet-writing mode. Mount process gets stuck in D state. Mounting and writing this media in packet-writing mode works fine with kernel 2.6.11-rc2-mm2. Mounting and reading this media in normal mode (/dev/hdd on /vol/gra

Strange device init

2005-02-05 Thread Pierre Ossman
I'm having problem with a card reader on a laptop (Acer Aspire 1501). The device doesn't get its resources configured properly. The reader is connected to the LPC bus so there is no standardised way to configure the device. On other laptops the configuration is done via ACPI (_STA & co. in the

rtl8139 (8139too) net problem in linux 2.6.10

2005-02-05 Thread Marco Rogantini
Hello all, I have a problem with my RTL-8139C based CardBus network interface. I'm using the 8139too driver of linux-2.6.10. When outgoing traffic becomes high it is interrupted for several seconds and i get this: sort kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1: transmit timed out sort kernel: eth1: Transmit ti

Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Thanks. - 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/majordomo-info.html

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-05 Thread Jon Smirl
On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 17:48:43 +0100, Stefan Dösinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reset code of radeon card seems to be easy to reverse engineer. I have > started an attempt and I have 50-60% of my radeon M9 reset code implemented > in a 32 bit C program. I had to stop due to school reasons. The

[PATCH] tmpfs caused truncate BUG

2005-02-05 Thread Hugh Dickins
Just before removing truncate_complete_page's BUG_ON(page_mapped(page)), thought I'd recheck on a few filesystems. The shame! Easily triggered with tmpfs: not because of recent changes, but because shmem_nopage omitted the i_size_read from Andrea's careful truncate_count/i_size_read /cachelookup/

[PATCH] remove truncate mapped BUG

2005-02-05 Thread Hugh Dickins
It's time to remove truncate_complete_page's BUG_ON(page_mapped(page)): it was there to give confidence in the new vm_truncate_count mechanism. Earlier releases had no such check, and it wouldn't be at all helpful if it ever bugged up file truncation on a production system - though we don't know of

Oops on 2.6.11-rc3-mm1

2005-02-05 Thread Grant Wilson
I hit the following oops on 2.6.11-rc3-mm1. I was previously running -rc2-mm2 with no problems. Rgds, Grant Wilson Feb 5 02:43:21 tlg kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 2e16f000 RIP: Feb 5 02:43:21 tlg kernel: {copy_user_generic_c+8} Feb 5 02:43:21 tlg kernel: PGD 2f0

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