Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 04:36 +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote: > I am scheduling 2 SCHED_FIFO processes and set them affinity( process A runs > on processor 1 and process B runs on processor 2), on a HT processor.(I did > this cause I wanted to run them together).Now, in schedule() I measure the > time

Re: UPDATE: out of vmalloc space - but vmalloc parameter does not allow boot

2005-04-04 Thread Ranko Zivojnovic
Ok, I think I've figured it out so I will try and answer my own questions (the best part is at the end)... On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:36 +0300, Ranko Zivojnovic wrote: > (please do CC replies as I am still not on the list) > > As I am kind of pressured to resolve this issue, I've set up a test > en

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:32:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > The diffstat output tells the story: this is a lot of very small changes, > ie tons of small cleanups and bug fixes. With a few new drivers thrown in > for good measure. > > This is also the point where I ask people to calm down, a

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Al Viro
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:32:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This is also the point where I ask people to calm down, and not send me > anything but clear bug-fixes etc. We're definitely well into -rc land. So > keep it quiet out there, * missing include in arm/kernel/time.c - see #if

Re: [PATCH 2.4] PCI 2/2 update pci.ids (0/2)

2005-04-04 Thread Grant Coady
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:24:20 +1000, Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Marcelo, > >This patch updates pci.ids to latest snapshot, requires patch 1/2 >to compile. gzip'd due to size. Compile and run tested. > >Sign-off-by: Grant Coady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry about the borked attachmen

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-04 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:22 -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote: > Do you need to set ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT instead of just > CONFIG_ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE to have DISCONTIGMEM be the > default? or am I missing something? I don't see > ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_DEFAULT turned on by default in any of these > p

Re: Oops in i810_audio (reply to herbert)

2005-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:07:30PM +0200, SuD (Alex) wrote: > > /* Check for an AC97 1.0 soft modem (ID1) */ > codec->codec_read(codec, AC97_RESET) returned 0xd3a > ... > > /* Check for an AC97 2.x soft modem */ ... > codec->codec_read(codec, AC97_EXTENDED_MODEM_ID) returned 0x1 Interesting. C

Re: [PATCH 1/4] create mm/Kconfig for arch-independent memory options

2005-04-04 Thread Mike Kravetz
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:50:09AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: diff -puN mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig mm/Kconfig --- memhotplug/mm/Kconfig~A6-mm-Kconfig 2005-04-04 09:04:48.0 -0700 +++ memhotplug-dave/mm/Kconfig 2005-04-04 10:15:23.0 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ > +choice > + prompt "Memor

Re: Adding a field to ext2_dir_entry_2

2005-04-04 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Apr 04, 2005 18:54 -0400, Vineet Joglekar wrote: > I working with linux kernel 2.4.28. I want to add 1 more field to > ext2_dir_entry_2 - the new version of directory entry for ext2fs. > > I did add the __u32 field to the struct ext2_dir_entry_2 defined in > ext2_fs.h I also modified the EXT2_

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > o missing include in lanai.c After this patch I have ended up with linux/dma-mapping.h included twice in this file ... -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.or

Re: [patch 1/3] pnpbios eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Adam Belay
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:56:32PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > maximilian attems wrote: > >one of the last buildcheck errors on i386, > >thanks Randy again for double checking. > > > >Fix pnpbios section references: > >make dmi_system_id pnpbios_dmi_table __initdata > > > >Error: ./drivers/pnp/pnp

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > Well ... it's like this. Native means "pass through without swapping" > > and has an easy implementation on both BE and LE platforms. Logically > > io{read,write}{16,32}be would have to do byte swaps on LE platforms. > > Being lazy, I'm opposed to doing the work if there's no actual use for >

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Andres Salomon
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 14:32:52 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > The diffstat output tells the story: this is a lot of very small changes, > ie tons of small cleanups and bug fixes. With a few new drivers thrown in > for good measure. > > This is also the point where I ask people to calm down, a

scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

2005-04-04 Thread Arun Srinivas
I am scheduling 2 SCHED_FIFO processes and set them affinity( process A runs on processor 1 and process B runs on processor 2), on a HT processor.(I did this cause I wanted to run them together).Now, in schedule() I measure the timedifference between when they are scheduled. I found that when I

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 08:59 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 17:50 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > I disagree. The driver will never "know" ... > > ? the driver has to know. Look at the 53c700 to see exactly how awful > it is. This beast has byte and word registers.

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:24:19AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 02:32:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This is also the point where I ask people to calm down, and not send me > > anything but clear bug-fixes etc. We're definitely well into -rc land. So > > keep it quiet out

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:37:18AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:32:52 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > o missing include in lanai.c > > After this patch I have ended up with linux/dma-mapping.h included twice > in this file ... Argh. Lo

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:49:55AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > IOW, when sysdev.h is updated to prototype the function pointer with > pm_message_t, this'll also be solved. > > Therefore, if anything, linux/pm.h should be added to linux/sysdev.h as > the minimal patch. OK... - To unsubscribe from

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Ok, try booting with "usb-handoff i8042.nomux". If that cures yes, it cures both problems (death on reboot and ALPS), in fact. But I must have *both* params. nomux without usb-handoff causes all input devices to fail. Thanks goodness for ssh. Anyway - I'm now running a

Re: [patch 2/3] hd eliminate bad section references

2005-04-04 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:05 +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Mon, 04 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > Rusty, can you explain when __setup functions are called relative > > to in-kernel init functions? or put another way, can a __setup > > function safely call in __init function? Yes. init s

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Ashok Raj
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:46:20PM -0700, Nathan Lynch wrote: > >Hi Nigel! > >On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:14:25AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: >> >> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: >> > > Yes, exactly. Someone who understand do_exit please help clean > >

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH][RFC][3/4] IB: userspace verbs mthca changes

2005-04-04 Thread Roland Dreier
Tom> Now, you are really gonna hate me for asking you to put this Tom> in as you probably did not want to include this in the patch Tom> to lkml. Tom> So, maybe Grant was right ;-) Oh well, I didn't read the patches over carefully enough. Fortunately it was just my "for review" v

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm4] mips: update VR41xx CPU-PCI bridge support

2005-04-04 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hello Andrew, I received a comment from Mita-san. On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 00:45:24 +0900 Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch updates NEC VR4100 series CPU-PCI bridge support. > This patch already had applied to Ralf's cvs. > > + if (request_mem_region(PCIU_BASE, PCIU_SIZE, "P

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Nathan Lynch
Hi Nigel! On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:14:25AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > Yes, exactly. Someone who understand do_exit please help clean up the > > > code. I'd like to remove the idle thread, since the smpboot code will > > > create a n

Re: Adding a field to ext2_dir_entry_2

2005-04-04 Thread Vineet Joglekar
Hi Andreas, I have created another file system - copied everything from ext2, renaming it as some different file system and doing some experiments on that. Let me be more clear about what I am trying to do. In my masters project, I am encrypting inodes along with the data part of the file.

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 08:46, Nathan Lynch wrote: > Hi Nigel! > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 08:14:25AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 01:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > > > Yes, exactly. Someone who understand do_exit please help clean up the > > > > code. I'd like to

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Apr 4, 2005 6:54 PM, Jaco Kroon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Ok, try booting with "usb-handoff i8042.nomux". If that cures > > yes, it cures both problems (death on reboot and ALPS), in fact. But I > must have *both* params. nomux without usb-handoff causes all inpu

Re: [openib-general] [PATCH][RFC][3/4] IB: userspace verbs mthca changes

2005-04-04 Thread Tom Duffy
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 15:09 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > --- linux-export.orig/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_dev.h 2005-04-04 > 14:57:12.254750421 -0700 > +++ linux-export/drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_dev.h 2005-04-04 > 14:58:12.411669307 -0700 > @@ -49,14 +49,6 @@ > #define DRV_V

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Jaco Kroon
Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > A-haa.. Well, in that case we'll cheat ;) and just disable MUX mode > for your Toshiba via a DMI quirk, like we do for certain Fujitsus. If > there is no external port there is no reason to have the controller in > MUX mode. > > Could you please send me output of 'dmideco

Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:11, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Li Shaohua wrote: > > > Clean up all CPU states including its runqueue and idle thread, > > so we can use boot time code without any changes. > > Note this makes /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpux/online unworkable. > > > > #i

Re: Adding a field to ext2_dir_entry_2

2005-04-04 Thread Andreas Dilger
On Apr 04, 2005 20:08 -0400, Vineet Joglekar wrote: > I have created another file system - copied everything from ext2, > renaming it as some different file system and doing some experiments on that. > > Let me be more clear about what I am trying to do. In my masters > project, I am encrypting i

Re: Adding a field to ext2_dir_entry_2

2005-04-04 Thread Christopher Li
That design sounds bad. Anyway, I guess the error you are getting might have some thing to do with the "." and ".." entry. Your current directory need to in the same format as well. That is the price you pay for breaking the compatibility. Chris On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:08:57PM -0400, Vineet

Re: i8042 controller on Toshiba Satellite P10 notebook - patch

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 04 April 2005 19:35, Jaco Kroon wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > A-haa.. Well, in that case we'll cheat ;) and just disable MUX mode > > for your Toshiba via a DMI quirk, like we do for certain Fujitsus. If > > there is no external port there is no reason to have the controller in >

RE: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
* Chen, Kenneth W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The cache size information on ia64 is already available at the finger > tip. Here is a patch that I whipped up to set max_cache_size for ia64. Ingo Molnar wrote on Monday, April 04, 2005 4:38 AM > thanks - i've added this to my tree. > > i've attached

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Chen, Kenneth W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps, I'm not getting the latest patch? It skipped measuring > because migration cost array is non-zero (initialized to -1LL): yeah ... some mixup here. I've attached the latest. > Also, the cost calculation in measure_one() looks fishy to me

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 5/6]clean cpu state after hotremove CPU

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
Hi, On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:33, Nathan Lynch wrote: > > I'd say fix the smpboot code so that it doesn't create new idle tasks > except during boot. I'd like the the CPU hotremove case just likes the case that CPU isn't boot. A non-boot CPU hasn't a idle thread. But you may think it's not worthy d

Re: [RFC 1/6]SEP initialization rework

2005-04-04 Thread Li Shaohua
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 03:10, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Li Shaohua wrote: > > > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c |6 ++ > > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c | 10 ++ > > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyage

Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

2005-04-04 Thread Arun Srinivas
ok.My program runs for 30 sec. approx. I did #!/bin/sh cat /proc/interrupts run_test cat /proc/interrupts and I see there is quite some difference in the numbers.meaning interrupts have been processed by the respective processor when my SCHED_FIFO processes have been running on both the cpu's

Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

2005-04-04 Thread Claudio Martins
Hi, While stress testing 2.6.12-rc2 on an HP DL145 I get processes stuck in D state after some time. This machine is a dual Opteron 248 with 2GB (ECC) on one node (the other node has no RAM modules plugged in, since this board works only with pairs). I was using stress (http://weathe

Re: Touchpad does not work anymore

2005-04-04 Thread Benoit Boissinot
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:29:15PM +0200, Benoit Boissinot wrote: > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:00:42PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2005 11:43 AM, Benoit Boissinot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 11:28:05AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > On Apr 1, 2005

... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x in kernel 2.6.12-rc1-bk6

2005-04-04 Thread Bob Gill
Hi. I recently built 2.6.12-rc1-bk6. The kernel seems to be tripping over sbp2. The error messages keep right on rolling till I hit the reboot button (I let it run for more than 90 seconds last time). 2.6.11.6 builds/runs without any problems. My build scripts includes: # IEEE 1394 (FireWire) su

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
latest patch attached. Changes: - stabilized calibration even more, by using cache flushing instructions to generate a predictable working set. The cache flushing itself is not timed, it is used to create quiescent cache state. I only guessed the ia64 version - e.g. i didnt know

Re: Processes stuck on D state on Dual Opteron

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Claudio Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >While stress testing 2.6.12-rc2 on an HP DL145 I get processes stuck in D > state after some time. >This machine is a dual Opteron 248 with 2GB (ECC) on one node (the other > node has no RAM modules plugged in, since this board works only

Re: ... no drivers for IEEE1394 product 0x/0x/0x in kernel 2.6.12-rc1-bk6

2005-04-04 Thread Barry K. Nathan
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:22:56PM -0600, Bob Gill wrote: > Hi. I recently built 2.6.12-rc1-bk6. The kernel seems to be tripping > over sbp2. The error messages keep right on rolling till I hit the > reboot button (I let it run for more than 90 seconds last time). > 2.6.11.6 builds/runs without

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-04-04 Thread Esben Stien
Juergen Kreileder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://blog.blackdown.de/2005/04/03/logitech-mx1000-configuration/ This did it. I got it completely working now. Both the horizontal and the vertical cruise control is working with no problems. I'm scrolling and I can't find a single problem with th

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-04-04 Thread Esben Stien
Jeremy Nickurak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now it's just the vertical scroller issue. It's working perfectly here; just following that last link. -- Esben Stien is [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www. irc://irc./%23contact [sip|iax]: jid:b0ef@

Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-04 Thread James Morris
I got this on a dual P4 Xeon with HT. If anyone wants more information, let me know. Creating /dev Starting udev input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on isa0060/serio0. Some program, like XFree86, might be trying access hardware directly. atkbd.c: Spuriou

Re: scheduler/SCHED_FIFO behaviour

2005-04-04 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 07:46 +0530, Arun Srinivas wrote: > > So, what I want from the above code is whenever process1 or process2 is > being scheduled measure the time and print the timedifference. But, when I > run my 2 processes as SCHED_FIFO processes i get only one set of > readingsindi

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I got this on a dual P4 Xeon with HT. If anyone wants more information, > let me know. > .config, please.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: Logitech MX1000 Horizontal Scrolling

2005-04-04 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> This did it. I got it completely working now. Both the horizontal > and the vertical cruise control is working with no problems. I'm > scrolling and I can't find a single problem with the device. Using these same instructions on Debian Unstable, with my Thinkpad T42P (2373Q1U), this

ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-04 Thread Lee Revell
I can trigger latencies up to ~1.1 ms with a CVS checkout. It looks like inside ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, we spend a long time in this loop: ext3_test_allocatable (bitmap_search_next_usable_block) find_next_zero_bit (bitmap_search_next_usable_block) find_next_zero_bit (bitmap_search_next_usa

Re: Adding a field to ext2_dir_entry_2

2005-04-04 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 07:12:51PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Let me be more clear about what I am trying to do. In my masters > > project, I am encrypting inodes along with the data part of the file. Keys > > of different users are different. In the same directory, if there are > > 2 files s

help with the result of ksymoops < oops.txt

2005-04-04 Thread sns_main
ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.4.26. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.26/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume that the log

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-04 Thread James Morris
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I got this on a dual P4 Xeon with HT. If anyone wants more information, > > let me know. > > > > .config, please.. # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.12-rc2 # Mon Apr 4 16:17:49 2005 # CONFIG_X86=y CON

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can trigger latencies up to ~1.1 ms with a CVS checkout. It looks > like inside ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, we spend a long time in this > loop: > > ext3_test_allocatable (bitmap_search_next_usable_block) > find_next_zero_bit (bitmap_search_next_us

[PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2001/04/msg00145.html > > > > Can you summarize the con

[PATCH 01/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
Adding firmware_load_ihex, to load IHEX formatted firmware images. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 151 ++ include/linux/firmware.h | 26 +++ 2 files changed, 177 insertions(+) Index: linux/inclu

[PATCH 02/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
Convert the keyspan USB serial driver to use request_firmware and firmware_load_ihex. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c === --- linux.orig/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.c 2005-0

[PATCH 03/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Jan Harkes
Simple program to convert the keyspan firmware header files to IHEX formatted files that can be loaded with hotplug. This is really only needed once to convert the existing keyspan firmware headers, which is what the next patch will do. Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linu

RE: Isn't there race issue during fput() and the dentry_open()?

2005-04-04 Thread Tomita, Haruo
Hi Viro, (B (BThank you for your help and advice. (BI made the following patches referring to your advice. (BI try to debugging by using this patch. (B (BThanks again, (BHaruo (B (Bdiff -urN linux-2.6.12-rc2.orig/fs/file_table.c linux-2.6.12-rc2/fs/file_table.c (B--- linux-2.6.12-rc2.or

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Monday 04 April 2005 23:23, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-leg

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc2

2005-04-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 04 April 2005 17:32, Linus Torvalds wrote: >The diffstat output tells the story: this is a lot of very small > changes, ie tons of small cleanups and bug fixes. With a few new > drivers thrown in for good measure. > >This is also the point where I ask people to calm down, and not send > m

Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-04 Thread James Morris
Evgeniy, Please send networking patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your connector code (under drivers/connector) is now in the -mm tree and as far as I can tell, has not received any review from the network developers. Looking at it briefly, it seems quite unfinished. I'm not entirely sure what it'

Re: Netlink Connector / CBUS

2005-04-04 Thread James Morris
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, James Morris wrote: > A few questions: Also, please allow cn_add_callback() allow it to be passed a NULL callback function, so the caller doesn't pass in a dummy function and your code doesn't waste time dealing with something which isn't real. - James -- James Morris <[E

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.43-00

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Esben Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now the question is, who will fix it? Preferably the maintainers, but I > > don't know how much of a priority this is to them. I don't have the time > > now to look at this and understand enough about the code to be able to > > make a proper fix, and

Re: [PATCH 0/5] ppc RT: Realtime preempt support for PPC

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Frank Rowand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I looked at all the architectures and found that the disparity of the > type of the "lock" field in struct rwlock_t is even larger than I had > indicated in my earlier email. I am attaching a proof of concept > patch to handle this. If this looks l

Re: [PATCH 00/04] Load keyspan firmware with hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 12:23:29AM -0400, Jan Harkes wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 12:17:46PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:27:53PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Mmm, probably that 2001 discussion about the keyspan firmware, right ? > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org

[PATCH]: Fix get_compat_sigevent()

2005-04-04 Thread David S. Miller
I have no idea how a bug like this lasted so long. Anyways, obvious memset()'ing of incorrect pointer. Please apply, thanks. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = kernel/compat.c 1.46 vs edited = --- 1.46/kernel/compat.c2005-03-13 15:29:47 -08:00 +++ edited/kernel

Re: [PATCH] RCU in kernel/intermodule.c

2005-04-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:28:12 + Luca Falavigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch, compiled against version 2.6.12-rc1, implements RCU mechanism in > intermodule functions. This sounds like a pure and unmitigated insanity to me. Please tell us why in the world you wanted to do this. -- P

2.6.12-rc2: random oops on nmi_watchdog=1

2005-04-04 Thread Akinobu Mita
With nmi_watchdog=1, I got random Oopses (Unable to handle kernel paging request, not by the NMI oopser) from many processes. It is not happend with -rc1. The following change fixes this problem. but I'm not familiar with these area. If anyone wants more information, let me know. --- 2.6-rc/arc

Re: ext3 allocate-with-reservation latencies

2005-04-04 Thread Mingming Cao
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 06:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can trigger latencies up to ~1.1 ms with a CVS checkout. It looks > > like inside ext3_try_to_allocate_with_rsv, we spend a long time in this > > loop: > > We have not modify the reservation

[PATCH] biarch compiler support for i386

2005-04-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
This allows the i386 architecture to be built on a system with a biarch compiler that defaults to x86-64, merely by specifying ARCH=i386. As previously discussed, this uses the equivalent logic to the ppc port. -hpa Signed-Off-By: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.5/arch/i

Re: [PATCH scsi-misc-2.6 08/13] scsi: move request preps in other places into prep_fn()

2005-04-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, James. James Bottomley wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 14:25 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Ah.. with later requeue path consolidation patches, all requests get their sense buffer cleared during requeueing, which, IMHO, is more logical. Moving scsi_init_cmd_errh() should come after the patch. Sorry.

Hello

2005-04-04 Thread patrick Dekeledi
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[PATCH] ppc64: fix export of wrong symbol

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Mackerras
In arch/ppc64/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c, we are still exporting flush_icache_range, but that has been changed to be an inline in include/asm-ppc64/cacheflush.h which calls __flush_icache_range (defined in arch/ppc64/kernel/misc.S). This patch changes the export to __flush_icache_range, thus allowing modu

Re: [PATCH] configfs, a filesystem for userspace-driven kernel object configuration

2005-04-04 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:57:28PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > Folks, > I humbly submit configfs. With configfs, a configfs > config_item is created via an explicit userspace operation: mkdir(2). > It is destroyed via rmdir(2). The attributes appear at mkdir(2) time, > and can be read or mo

Re: Crash during boot for 2.6.12-rc2.

2005-04-04 Thread Andrew Morton
James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > n Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I got this on a dual P4 Xeon with HT. If anyone wants more information, > > > let me know. > > > > > > > .config, please.. > > # > # Automatically generated make config: don't edit > # Linux k

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs

2005-04-04 Thread Andi Kleen
Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > We already expose the SLIT table node distances (using SN2 specific > /proc files today, others are working on an arch-neutral mechanism). There is already an arch neutral mechanism in sysfs, see /sys/devices/system/node/node*/distance That should be e

crash in entry.S restore_all, 2.6.12-rc2, x86, PAGEALLOC

2005-04-04 Thread Ingo Molnar
the crashes below happen when PAGEALLOC is enabled. It's this instruction: movb OLDSS(%esp), %ah OLDSS is 0x38, esp is f4f83fc8, OLDSS(%esp) is thus f4f84000, which correctly creates the PAGEALLOC pagefault. esp is off by 4 bytes? it could be the ESP-16-bit-corruption patch causing th

Re: Re: sata_sil Mod15Write quirk workaround patch for vanilla kernel avaialble.

2005-04-04 Thread Alexander Trotsai
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: TH> Hello, John. TH> TH> John Lash wrote: TH> >On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:01:23 +0900 TH> >Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TH> > TH> > TH> >>Hello, guys. TH> >> TH> >>I generated m16w workaround patch for 2.6.11.6 (by just removing two

Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

2005-04-04 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:01:45PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Mark wrote: > > Probably all Linux binary drivers *are* compiled using GPL'd header files, > > and thus are themselves subject to the GPL. > > I doubt that there is a consensus that simply compiling something with > a GPL header neces

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: > agreed - i've changed it to domain_distance() in my tree. Good - cool - thanks. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.650.933.1373, 1.925.600.0401 - To unsubscri

Re: [patch] sched: auto-tune migration costs [was: Re: Industry db benchmark result on recent 2.6 kernels]

2005-04-04 Thread Paul Jackson
Ingo wrote: > the problem i mentioned earlier is that there is no other use Eh ... whatever. The present seems straight forward enough, with a simple sched domain tree and your auto-tune migration cost calculation bolted directly on top of that. I'd better leave the futures to those more experie

A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez
Hi, I have a problem with kswapd and I didn't find anything in the archives of the list (I hope not having missed someone). kswapd is using 100% of CPU in a suse sles8 with kernel 2.4.241. This machine has its FS under LVM and ResiserFS, except for /boot which is in ext2. Any idea? Thanks in adv

ChangeLog-2.4.30

2005-04-04 Thread Christophe Lucas
Is this normal ;-) ChangeLog-2.4.30 is not found on www.kernel.org ? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ChangeLog-2.4.30 Have a nice day, ~Christophe PS: Please CC me :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: [ACPI] Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. I'm switching suspend2 to use hotplug too. Li, I'll try adding your patches as well as Zwane's if you like (suspend2 can enter S3, S4 or S5 after writing the image). I'd love to try it on my HT desktop, and hotplug will get more testing too :> Nigel On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 12:49, Li Shaohua wr

Re: A problem with kswapd

2005-04-04 Thread Triffid Hunter
try 2.4.30 which has just been released (unchanged from 2.4.30-rc4) Jose Ángel De Bustos Pérez wrote: Hi, I have a problem with kswapd and I didn't find anything in the archives of the list (I hope not having missed someone). kswapd is using 100% of CPU in a suse sles8 with kernel 2.4.241. This mac

Re: [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm3] [1/2] kprobes += function-return

2005-04-04 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi Hien, This patch looks good to me, but I have some comments on this patch. >This patch adds function-return probes (AKA exit probes) to kprobes. > When establishing a probepoint at the entry to a function, you can also >establish a handler to be run when the function returns. >The subsequen

Re: [ACPI] Re: 2.6.12-rc1-mm4 and suspend2ram (and synaptics)

2005-04-04 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Pavel! On Mon, 04 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > I'd like to fix the problem, but first I need to know where the > problem is. If it works with minimal config, I know that it is one of > drivers you deselected. It's b44. It *was* working with b44 insmod-ed and up and running, but now as soon

Re: Oops in set_spdif_output in i810_audio

2005-04-04 Thread Herbert Xu
SuD Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * It seems to me that it detects only 1 card with 1 only codec which is > the sound card (sound works if i avoid the null pointer oops). So one of > the problems is the wrong detection. > Googling i found that jgarzik already got a patch for this > (ac97

Re: [2.6 patch] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL

2005-04-04 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:02 -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > These need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a measured > manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine. Changing > these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not- fine. > Here is my earlier p

Re: [SCSI] Driver broken in 2.6.x?

2005-04-04 Thread |TEcHNO|
As told, I tested it w/o nvidia module loaded, here's what I found: 1. It now doesn't hang on scanning for devices. 2. It now hangs on acquiring preview, logs will follow. ... Apr 3 15:54:27 techno kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 014c Apr 3 15:54:27

Re: module for controlling kprobes with /proc

2005-04-04 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi Piotr, Good way to make kprobes useful, but I have some comments. >I have programmed a universal module to register/remove kprobes handlers >by interacting with /proc with simple commands. > why /proc ? You can use a combination of SysRq key to enter a kprobe command line prompt. Initially y

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 21:40 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > Actually, ioread8be is unnecessary, but I was planning to add > ioread16/ioread32 and iowritexx be on be variants (equivalent to > _raw_readw et al.) > > After all, the driver must know the card is BE, so the routines that > make use of

Re: iomapping a big endian area

2005-04-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:27 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 20:08 -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > > > Did anyone have a preference for the API? I was thinking > > > ioread32_native, but ioread32be is fine too. > > > > I think doing foo{be,le}{8,16,32}() would be consistent w

Re: sata_sil Mod15Write quirk workaround patch for vanilla kernel avaialble.

2005-04-04 Thread Tejun Heo
Alexander Trotsai wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:51:28AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: TH> Hello, John. TH> TH> John Lash wrote: TH> >On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:01:23 +0900 TH> >Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TH> > TH> > TH> >>Hello, guys. TH> >> TH> >>I generated m16w workaround patch for 2.6.11

RE: 2.6.11, USB: High latency?

2005-04-04 Thread kus Kusche Klaus
> * kus Kusche Klaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >IRQ 7-724 0d..11us : end_8259A_irq (do_hardirq) > >IRQ 7-724 0d..11us!: enable_8259A_irq (do_hardirq) > >IRQ 7-724 0d... 832us : do_hardirq (do_irqd) > >IRQ 7-724 0d... 833us : trace_irqs_on (do_hardirq) > > >

Re: Use of C99 int types

2005-04-04 Thread Dag Arne Osvik
Herbert Xu wrote: Dag Arne Osvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... and with such name 99% will assume (at least at the first reading) that it _is_ 32bits. We have more than enough portability bugs as it is, no need to invite more by bad names. Agreed. The way I see it there are two reasona

Re: [RFC 0/6] S3 SMP support with physcial CPU hotplug

2005-04-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > The patches are against 2.6.11-rc1 with Zwane's CPU hotplug patch in -mm > > tree. > > Should I merge that thing into mainline? It seems that a few people are > needing it. Yes, it would be great. I have patch that cleans up smp/swsusp to depend on Zwane's patch, too. Its ready AFA

Re: [RFC 1/6]SEP initialization rework

2005-04-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Make SEP init per-cpu, so is hotplug safe. > > Thanks, > Shaohua > > --- > > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c |6 ++ > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c | 10 ++ > linux-2.6.11-root/arch/i386/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c |6 +

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