Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
Ok, there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds). So it's now _officially_ all bug-free. Linus Summa

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Dave Jones
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:50:38AM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:52:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Llu, 2005-02-28 at 19:20, Andries Brouwer wrote: > > > One such case is the mtrr code, where struct mtrr_ops has an > > > init field pointing at __init functions.

Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread Justin Schoeman
Hi, I am having a problem with memory leaking on a patched kernel. In order to pinpoint the leak, I would like to try to trace the allocation points for the memory. I have found some vague references to patches that allow the user to dump the caller address for slab allocations, but I cannot f

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-02 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:46:23AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm, after compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 it works fine. But why > > does > > it work without this option on a 32bit kernel, but not on a 64bit kernel? > > See nfs_fileid_to

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-02 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
ChangeLog: - Add parenthesis around sizeof(struct cn_msg) + CN_FORK_INFO_SIZE in the CN_FORK_MSG_SIZE macro - fork_cn_lock is declareed with DEFINE_SPINLOCK() - fork_cn_lock is defined as static and local to fork_connector() - Create a specific module cn_fork.c in drivers/c

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Aurélien Francillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11-rc5/2.6.11-rc5-mm1/ > > > > > > - Lots of tuning/balancing changes in the CPU scheduler. Mainly targetted > > at larger SMT/SMP/NUMA machines. It's

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-02 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 22:38 +0900, Kaigai Kohei wrote: > > I tested without user space listeners and the cost is negligible. I will > > test with a user space listeners and see the results. I'm going to run > > the test this week after improving the mechanism that switch on/off the > > sending of t

Re: [2.6.11-rc5-mm1 patch] reiser4 Kconfig help cleanup

2005-03-02 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adrian> The current reiser4 help texts have two disadvantages: 1. they Adrian> are more marketing speech than technical speech with some Adrian> debatable statements 2. they are too long Excellent patch, that help description has been tota

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] Custom power states for non-ACPI systems

2005-03-02 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Advertise custom sets of system power states for non-ACPI systems. > Currently, /sys/power/state shows and accepts a static set of choices > that are not necessarily meaningful on all platforms (for example, > suspend-to-disk is an option even on diskless embedded systems, and the > meaning

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So I ran the lmbench with three different kernels with the fork > connector patch I just sent. Results are attached at the end of the mail > and there are three different lines which are: > > o First line is a linux-2.6.11-rc4-mm1-cnfor

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-02 Thread Trond Myklebust
on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 09:18 (+0100) skreiv Andi Kleen: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:46:23AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hmm, after compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 it works fine. But why > > > does > > > it work without this optio

Missing 'noinline' and '__compiler_offsetof' for GCC4+

2005-03-02 Thread David Woodhouse
At some point we'll want to create 'compiler-gcc4.h' but probably not until it's going to be actually differ from 'compiler-gcc+.h'. Because they only get out of date if they're not used by anyone... --- linux-2.6.10/include/linux/compiler-gcc+.h~ 2004-12-24 21:35:39.0 + +++ linux-2.6

Re: [2.6.11-rc5-mm1 patch] reiser4 Kconfig help cleanup

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Adrian> The current reiser4 help texts have two disadvantages: 1. they > Adrian> are more marketing speech than technical speech with some > Adrian> debatable statements 2. they are too long >

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Keenan Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just compiled 2.6.11-rc5-mm1 and got undefined > symbols "match_int", "match_octal", "match_token", and "match_strdup" in > several modules. Please send me your .config file. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Justin Schoeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having a problem with memory leaking on a patched kernel. In order > to pinpoint the leak, I would like to try to trace the allocation points > for the memory. > > I have found some vague references to patches that allow the user to > dum

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-02 Thread Guillaume Thouvenin
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 01:06 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > So I ran the lmbench with three different kernels with the fork > > connector patch I just sent. Results are attached at the end of the mail > > and there are three different lines

Re: [netfilter-core] [PATCH 2.6.10 1/1] netfilter: fix crash on nat+icmp packets

2005-03-02 Thread Patrick McHardy
mukesh agrawal wrote: The cause of the crash is that udp_manip_pkt reads *pskb into iph before calling skb_ip_make_writable, and fails to update iph after the call. Since skb_ip_make_writable may delete the original skb when it makes a copy, a page fault may occur when udp_manip_pkt later derefe

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> I am having a problem with memory leaking on a patched kernel. In order > to pinpoint the leak, I would like to try to trace the allocation points > for the memory. > > I have found some vague references to patches that allow the user to > dump the caller address for slab allocations, but I

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread Baruch Even
Paul Dickson wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:02:50 +, Baruch Even wrote: Might this be related to the broken BicTCP implementations in the 2.6.6+ kernels? A fix was added around 2.6.11-rc3 or 4. Unlikely, the problem with BIC would have shown itself only at high speeds over long latency links,

Re: Missing 'noinline' and '__compiler_offsetof' for GCC4+

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:16:47AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > At some point we'll want to create 'compiler-gcc4.h' but probably not > until it's going to be actually differ from 'compiler-gcc+.h'. Because > they only get out of date if they're not used by anyone... >... The solution already

Re: [PATCH: 2.6.11-rc5] i2c chips: ds1337 RTC driver

2005-03-02 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi James, > diff -Nru a/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig b/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig > --- a/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig 2005-02-27 20:42:22 +00:00 > +++ b/drivers/i2c/chips/Kconfig 2005-02-27 20:42:22 +00:00 > @@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ > This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Vincent Vanackere
I have the exact same problem. .config is attached (this may be a debian specific problem as I'm running debian too) Regards, Vincent On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:23:31 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Keenan Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just compiled 2.6.11-rc5-mm1 and

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-02 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 01:08:56 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Yes but it seems that you've assumed that ioctl == flagged taskfile > > and fs/internal == normal taskfile which is _not_ what I aim for. > > > > I want fully-flagged taskfile handling

freezes with reiser4 in a raid1 with 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Florian Engelhardt
Hello, i´m having some trouble here with my testing server. It uses the 2.6.11-rc5-mm1 kernel, there are three hd´s in it (all reiser4), hda is the system and boot disk, hdc and hdd are in a raid 1 (via the kernel´s multiple device driver). Without the raid, the system works as expected, but when

Re: SCSI Target Mode issue...... pls help

2005-03-02 Thread Vladislav Bolkhovitin
Check SCSI target mid-level (SCST) with Qlogic target driver on http://scst.sourceforge.net. Best regards, Vlad Nauman wrote: hello all the gurus out there, i have written simple Target for SCSI device. its in very early stage. I started to handle simple commands from the INITIATOR like INQUIRY,

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > Table of known working systems: > > Model hack (or "how to do it") > -- IBM Thinkpad T20 (S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV), model 2647-44G "Just works" out of the box

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 > appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code > checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds). ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.

Re: freezes with reiser4 in a raid1 with 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Brad Campbell
Florian Engelhardt wrote: I activated the raid (/dev/md0), then mounted it, and after that i was starting nfs. I was able to mount the share on my desktop, creating direcrotys was no problem, but as soon as i was copying a file to the share, the server freezed. Creating files localy (while loged in

trouble with Dell dimension 3000 network adapter

2005-03-02 Thread Zhonghua Dai
hi, I've installed the debian(woody) on my Dell dimension 3000 computer. But I can't make the network adapter work, it's type is intel pro/100 VE network desktop adapter. I've tired such modules as eepro100, eexpress, but it doesn't work. Any suggestion or information are welcomed? Thanks in a

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-03-02 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Stefan Seyfried wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: >> Hi! > >> Table of known working systems: >> >> Model hack (or "how to do it") >> -- > > IBM Thinkpad T20 (S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV), model

Re: [BK] cvs export

2005-03-02 Thread Stelian Pop
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 05:14:19PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > A while back someone complained about the CVS exporter because it > sometimes groups a pile of BK changesets into one commit. That's true, > it does. I guess that this someone was me... > I've been running tests over the BK tree and

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 > > appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code > > checkers (like fixed init sections, and some cover

[patch] nicksched for 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Nick Piggin
I've had a few queries about this, so by "popular" demand, I've put my latest nicksched stuff here: www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/2.6.11-nicksched.gz It includes all the multiprocessor stuff that's in -mm, and also my alternate scheduler policy. Nick - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

[PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for a __copy_to_user call is missing. With friendly regards, Takis -- K.U.Leuven, Mechanical Eng., Mechatronics & Robotics Research Group http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac.be/~pissaris/ diff -pruN linux-2.6.11/drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c linux-2.6.11-pi

Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Yeatman
Hi Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. Thanks Mark Detail [1.] One line summary of the problem: SCSI tape drive is refusing to rewind after backup to allow verify and causing illegal seek error [2.] Full description of the problem/report: On backup the tape dri

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Vincent Vanackere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have the exact same problem. > .config is attached > (this may be a debian specific problem as I'm running debian too) OK, there are no vmlinux references to lib/parser.o's symbols. So it isn't getting linked in. In lib/Makefile, remove parse

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] RFC: disallow modular framebuffers

2005-03-02 Thread David Vrabel
Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Do modular framebuffers really make sense? Yes. e.g., on embedded systems you may not use the display hardware (and would therefore like to save a bit of memory) but it's convenient to have only one build of the kernel/modules. > OK, distributions like to make everything

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi, On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:10 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for > a __copy_to_user call is missing. Your patch is obviously incorrect as it doesn't free the request before it returns. Best regards, Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace

Re: x86_64: 32bit emulation problems

2005-03-02 Thread Bernd Schubert
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 10:13, Trond Myklebust wrote: > on den 02.03.2005 Klokka 09:18 (+0100) skreiv Andi Kleen: > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:46:23AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > > Bernd Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Hmm, after compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 it works

Re: 2.6.11-rc4 doubles CPU temperature

2005-03-02 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Ben, Ben Castricum wrote: For some weird reason, 2.6.11-rc4 up to the current BK tree about doubles my CPU temperature from 20 degrees Celcius to 40 while everything else is unchanged (load/processes/config). The system does seem a bit more sluggish, but that may just be a feeling. (...) I hav

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 12:10:50 +0100 Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for > a __copy_to_user call is missing. > > With friendly regards, > Takis > > -- > K.U.Leuven, Mechanical Eng., Mechatronics & Robotics Research Group > http://people.mech.kuleuven.ac

UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5?

2005-03-02 Thread Kristian Sørensen
Hi! I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, but when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 Starting system log daemon: syslogd. Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. Starting internet superserver: inetd. Starting deferred execution s

Re: RFC: disallow modular framebuffers

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Mundt
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:41:18AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Do modular framebuffers really make sense? > Yes, at least these are quite common with embedded systems, quite often without fbcon. It makes little sense to keep the driver constantly loaded if the device is not being used as a console

Re: [PATCH] A new entry for /proc

2005-03-02 Thread Mauricio Lin
Does anyone know if the place I put pte_unmap is logical and safe after several pte increments? pte = pte_offset_map(pmd, address); address &= ~PMD_MASK; end = address + size; if (end > PMD_SIZE) end = PMD_SIZE; do { pte_t pag

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:10 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for a __copy_to_user call is missing. Your patch is obviously incorrect as it doesn't free the request before it returns. Oops. Thanks for replying! Any m

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:02:03AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ok, > there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 > appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code > checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds). > > So

Re: Support for GEODE CPU's in Kernel 2.6.10.

2005-03-02 Thread David Vrabel
Kianusch Sayah Karadji wrote: > > This is a small patch for GEODE CPU support in Kernel 2.6.10. > [...] > + - "MediaGX/Geode" for Cyrix MediaGX aka Geode. How about changing this to: - "Geode/MediaGX" for the AMD (formerly National) Geode family and the Cyrix MediaGX. And simila

smartlink alsa modem problem in 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Michal Semler
Hi, I tried use snd_intel8x0m with smartlink modem, but without success: Mar 2 13:49:15 notas kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California Mar 2 13:49:15 notas kernel: PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 Mar 2 13:49:35 notas pppd[5169]: pppd 2.4.2 started by root,

Re: [BK] cvs export

2005-03-02 Thread Catalin Marinas
Hi Larry, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry McVoy) wrote: > One problem is that the set of files in patches may not be disjoint, > the same file may participate in multiple patches. I think we can handle > that in the following way, we put multiple comments, one for each patch, > so you'd see > > (L

Re: smartlink alsa modem problem in 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Michal Semler wrote: > Hi, > > I tried use snd_intel8x0m with smartlink modem, but without success: > Mar 2 13:49:37 notas kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready > [0x1][0x701300] > Mar 2 13:49:37 notas kernel: codec_write 1: semaphore is not ready for It's kno

Re: trouble with Dell dimension 3000 network adapter

2005-03-02 Thread Ganesh Venkatesan
Did you try e100? What kernel are you using? You could download the latest e100 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/. The latest version 3.3.6. ganesh. On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 18:47:56 +0800, Zhonghua Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > I've installed the debian(woody) on my Dell dimen

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Vincent Vanackere
Works fine for me now, thanks ! Vincent On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:24:14 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, there are no vmlinux references to lib/parser.o's symbols. So it isn't > getting linked in. > > In lib/Makefile, remove parser.o from the lib-y: rule and add > > obj-y +

2.6.11-ck1

2005-03-02 Thread Con Kolivas
These are patches designed to improve system responsiveness. It is configurable to any workload but the default ck* patch is aimed at the desktop and ck*-server is available with more emphasis on serverspace. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-ck1/patch-2.6.11-ck1.bz2 web: http://k

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] = (unsigned long)caller; Umm... this patch looks strange.. slab_bufctl() returns "kmem_bufctl_t *", but kmem_bufctl_t is "unsigned short". I guess that this debug patch was broken by something else... -- OGAWA

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5?

2005-03-02 Thread Christophe Lucas
Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, but > when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > Starting system log daemon: syslogd. > Starting kernel log daemon: klogd. > Star

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-02 at 08:02, Dave Jones wrote: > If there are any of them still being used out there, I'd be even > more surprised if they're running 2.6. Then again, there are > probably loonies out there running it on 386/486's. 8-) I have one here running 2.4 still. I can test a 2.6 fix for th

[patch 1/1] uml: trivial removal of Makefile var

2005-03-02 Thread blaisorblade
That var is used only once, use its value directly. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-paolo/arch/um/drivers/Makefile |4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/um/drivers/Makefile~uml-kbuild-another-trivial-clean

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Kristian Sørensen
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:45, Christophe Lucas wrote: > Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel boots, > > but when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: > > > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > Starting

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:24:14AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Vincent Vanackere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have the exact same problem. > > .config is attached > > (this may be a debian specific problem as I'm running debian too) > > OK, there are no vmlinux references to lib/parse

Re: smartlink alsa modem problem in 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 14:01:41 +0100 (CET), Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Michal Semler wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I tried use snd_intel8x0m with smartlink modem, but without success: > > > Mar 2 13:49:37 notas kernel: codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready > >

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Keenan Pepper
Oops, should have read all the messages before posting! I'll try the fix you said, I knew it'd be something like that. It's attached. BTW, is attaching things like this the preferred method? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Kristian Sørensen
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:59, Kristian Sørensen wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:45, Christophe Lucas wrote: > > Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel > > > boots, but when the shell is to be s

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
Herbert Poetzl wrote: [] BUG_ON() and friends are still broken (at least on x86) [] Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed [ cut here ] kernel BUG at :9377! ~~~ Have you tried compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y ? (Looks like CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVE

Re: [2.6.11-rc4-mm1 patch] fix buggy IEEE80211_CRYPT_* selects

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:43:04AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >+select CRYPTO > > select CRYPTO_AES > > ---help--- > > Include software based cipher suites in support of IEEE 802.11i > > (aka TGi, WPA, WPA2, WPA-PSK, etc.) for use with CCMP enabled > >

Re: [patch ide-dev 8/9] make ide_task_ioctl() use REQ_DRIVE_TASKFILE

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Lord
SATA, PATA, or anything else: if it has to cross the PCI bus, a simple readX()/writeX() can stall the CPU for the equivalent of hundreds of instructions. I agree with Jeff, it is always worth even moderately complex logic to avoid I/O. Note that an isolated write{bwl}() *may* be almost free in mo

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:28:23 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > >On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:10 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > > > > > >>In the raw1394 driver the failure handling for > >>a __copy_to_user call is missing. > >> > >> > > >

Module Vs app?

2005-03-02 Thread BZ Benny
Hi, I have an app wich run in the user space. I want to create a virtual network device for catching data under the IP layer and sending data to IP layer. I want to creaate such a second eth0. I know how we can do this with /linux/netdevice.h but how can we do that from the user space? regards b

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Christophe Lucas
Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:59, Kristian Sørensen wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 March 2005 14:45, Christophe Lucas wrote: > > > Kristian Sørensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 ker

Re: memory mapping of vmalloc

2005-03-02 Thread Prakash Bhurke
Hi Hugh, rvmallaoc is working. Very Very Thanks. Regards, Prakash --- Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Prakash Bhurke wrote: > > I am trying to map a vmalloc kernel buffer to > user > > space using remap_page_range(). In my module, this > > function returns

Re: [PATCH] raw1394 missing failure handling

2005-03-02 Thread Panagiotis Issaris
Hi, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 13:28:23 +0100, Panagiotis Issaris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops. Thanks for replying! Any more problems with the updated patch? Formatting... Opening curly brace should go on the same line with "if". Thanks. Here's my third try :-) With f

Re: [2.6.11-rc5-mm1 patch] reiser4 Kconfig help cleanup

2005-03-02 Thread Nikita Danilov
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [...] >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.11-rc5-mm1]$ grep PG_arch fs/reiser4/*.c >> fs/reiser4/page_cache.c: page_flag_name(page, PG_arch_1), >> fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:assert("v

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5?

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I've just tried usermode Linux with a 2.6.11-rc5 kernel. My kernel > boots, but when the shell is to be spawned it freezes: Can you try narrowing the problem down? Start with the 2.6.11-rcx patches to figure out what -rc broke, and then start figuring out which patch c

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc5+ sata_qstor] sata_qstor: eh_timeout fix (RESEND)

2005-03-02 Thread Mark Lord
(I think this got missed first time around, so resubmitting here) Here is an update to sata_qstor.c to enable full/proper register access during eh_timeout handling. Patch is against 2.6.11-rc5 + earlier sata_qstor cosmetic patch. Signed-off-by: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Mark Lord Real-Time

Re: Module Vs app?

2005-03-02 Thread Paulo Marques
BZ Benny wrote: Hi, I have an app wich run in the user space. I want to create a virtual network device for catching data under the IP layer and sending data to IP layer. I want to creaate such a second eth0. I know how we can do this with /linux/netdevice.h but how can we do that from the user spa

Re: [2.6.11-rc5-mm1 patch] reiser4 cleanup (PG_arch_1)

2005-03-02 Thread Vladimir Saveliev
Hello On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 12:14, Andrew Morton wrote: > Jes Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > "Adrian" == Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Adrian> The current reiser4 help texts have two disadvantages: 1. they > > Adrian> are more marketing speech than technical s

investingating kernel :Cnx error

2005-03-02 Thread bj
Hi ! I am using Red Hat 8 with kernel 2.4.20-30.8.legacy I am facing the following error some times . It hangs my computer when I am doing a make or am using x-windows . How do I go about investigating the cause of it ? Thank you for your help. Cheers, bj Feb 25 10:14:20 HOME kernel: cnx

Re: [PATCH] remove dead cyrix/centaur mtrr init code

2005-03-02 Thread Ondrej Zary
Andries Brouwer wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:52:44PM +, Alan Cox wrote: On Llu, 2005-02-28 at 19:20, Andries Brouwer wrote: One such case is the mtrr code, where struct mtrr_ops has an init field pointing at __init functions. Unless I overlook something, this case may be easy to settle, si

compilation problem of modules

2005-03-02 Thread sounak chakraborty
the code of the module that i written is as follows: #define MODULE #include #include #define MODULE_NAME "manti" struct manti { char mm[20]; }; static struct proc_dir_entry *example_dir; struct manti m1; int init_module(void) { example_dir=proc_mkdir(MODULE_NAME,NULL); if(example_dir=

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Guillaume wrote: > > I also run the lmbench and results are send in response to another > thread "A common layer for Accounting packages". When fork connector is > turned off the overhead is negligible. Good. If I read this code right: > > +static inline void fork_connector(pid_t parent, pid_

Re: investingating kernel :Cnx error

2005-03-02 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:52 +0545, bj wrote: > Hi ! > > I am using Red Hat 8 with kernel 2.4.20-30.8.legacy > > I am facing the following error some times . > > It hangs my computer when I am doing a make or am using x-windows . > > How do I go about investigating the cause of it ? > > Thank

[2.6 patch] kernel/power/pm.c: make pm_send static

2005-03-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
pm_send is deprecated and has no user except for the deprecated pm_send_all in the same file. Let's make pm_send static before someone might use it again. This patch was already ACK'ed by Pavel Machek. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 24 Feb

[Patch] gcc 4 errors out on i2c.h (2.6.11)

2005-03-02 Thread Mickey Stein
I've noticed no problems with today's new 2.6.11 in the i2c realm on gcc3.x, but the last couple of weeks of gcc 4.x cvs give this: Error msgs building i2c modules on 2.6.11 using gcc 4: In file included from drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c:29: include/linux/i2c.h:58: error: array type has in

Re: [Lse-tech] Re: A common layer for Accounting packages

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Jackson
Andrew wrote: > 5-10% slowdown on fork is expected, but > why was exec slower? Thanks for the summary, Andrew. Guillaume (or anyone else tempted to do this) - it's a good idea, when posting 100 lines of data, to summarize with a line or two of words, as Andrew did here. It is far more efficient

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 doesn't seem to carry a crypto > signature for the patch, patch-2.6.11.gz.sign It's there now (along with the ChangeLog). The signatures are automatically generated at the master site, and the mirroring out t

Re: 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
Hello, On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 09:53, Andrew Morton wrote: > AurÃlien Francillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > cvs diff Makefile > > cvs diff: cannot create read lock in repository > > `/mnt/iseran/roca/cvsroot/ldpc': No such file or directory > > cvs [diff aborted]: read l

Re: [nfsacl v2 15/16] ACL umask handling workaround in nfs client

2005-03-02 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
AurÃlien Francillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> found a bug in this patch. The delta is: Index: linux-2.6.11/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c === --- linux-2.6.11.orig/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c +++ linux-2.6.11/fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c @@ -423,6 +423,9 @@ exit:

Improving mmap() support for !MMU further

2005-03-02 Thread David Howells
Hi Linus, I'd like to improve mmap() support on !MMU still further by overloading struct backing_dev_info::memory_backed to hold flags describing what the backing device is capable of with respect to direct memory access. (*) If bdi->memory_backed is 0, then the backing device is not accessible

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc4-mm1] connector: Add a fork connector

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Jackson
In addition to worrying about performance and scaling, with accounting enabled or disabled, one should also try to minimize code clutter in key kernel files, such as fork.c For example, one might, instead of adding 40 lines os fork_connector() code to kernel/fork.c, instead add something like just

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/11] ide: task_end_request() fix

2005-03-02 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:56:18 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > If somebody implements SG_IO ioctl and SCSI command pass-through > > from libata for IDE driver (and add possibility for discrete taskfiles), we > > can > > just deprecate HDIO_DRIVE_T

Re: [BUG] 2.4.27 - 2.4.29 tar: /dev/nst0: Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seekg

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
I'm ccing Linux kernel because this bug is also present in v2.6. Andrew, Viro: tar --verify (which uses lseek) on SCSI tapes fails with: tar: /dev/nst0: Warning: Cannot seek: Illegal seek The problem was introduced by Viro's f_pos fixes which added "no_llseek" as the llseek method in st.c. J

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread venom
I wonder if switch ports are configured as 100FDX auto=off or 100HDX auto=off. from the report I saw it seems that switch ports are 100HDX auto=off instead of 100FDX auto=off. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: What happens if you just don't

Re: Network speed Linux-2.6.10

2005-03-02 Thread venom
not the e100 driver, but some switch, (e.g. some matrix) has a buggy autonegotiation. On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Ben Greear wrote: Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate on it's own? This can be a

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread John Cherry
Linux 2.6 Compile Statistics (gcc 3.4.1) Web page with links to complete details: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ Kernel bzImagebzImage bzImage modules bzImage modules (defconfig) (allno) (allyes) (allyes) (allmod) (allmod) --- --- --

Re: UserMode bug in 2.6.11-rc5? autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2

2005-03-02 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hey! Thanks - that fixed the problem! :-D Didn't you say this this setup worked with 2.6.10? That's why I didn't suggest staring at /etc/inittab. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

RE: v2.4 megaraid2 update Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

2005-03-02 Thread Bagalkote, Sreenivas
Hello Marcelo, As per our offline conversation, I have verified the update that went into 2.4.30-pre2. I confirm that all changes are correct. I have only one doubt: The driver was using sleep_on_timeout for lack of msleep. Should it start using msleep now? Vasily & Andrey, thank you for your ef

Re: [PATCH 2.6.11-rc3 01/11] ide: task_end_request() fix

2005-03-02 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 01:49:52 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, Bartlomiej. > > On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 03:30:32PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:49:22 +0900, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Taskfile DMA path is still broken.

Re: Undefined symbols in 2.6.11-rc5-mm1

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In lib/Makefile, remove parser.o from the lib-y: rule and add > > > > obj-y += parser.o > > This I didn't find. > > Is it really the intention to silently omit objects that are not > referenced or could this be changed? In some cases, yes,

Re: Tracing memory leaks (slabs) in 2.6.9+ kernels?

2005-03-02 Thread Andrew Morton
OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > + slab_bufctl(slabp)[objnr] = (unsigned long)caller; > > Umm... this patch looks strange.. > > slab_bufctl() returns "kmem_bufctl_t *", but kmem_bufctl_t is > "unsigned short". Good point.

Re: Problems with SCSI tape rewind / verify on 2.4.29

2005-03-02 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:15:42AM -, Mark Yeatman wrote: > Hi > > Never had to log a bug before, hope this is correctly done. > > Thanks > > Mark > > Detail > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > SCSI tape drive is refusing to rewind after backup to allow verify and > causing

Re: compilation problem of modules

2005-03-02 Thread Randy.Dunlap
sounak chakraborty wrote: the code of the module that i written is as follows: #define MODULE #include #include #define MODULE_NAME "manti" struct manti { char mm[20]; }; static struct proc_dir_entry *example_dir; struct manti m1; int init_module(void) { example_dir=proc_mkdir(MODULE_NAM

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