ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, I've been using the ondemand governor on athlon64 winchesters for a few weeks. I've just noticed that in 2.6.12 the frequency is not increasing under load, it remains at the lowest frequency. This seems to be down to something in 2.6.12-rc6, but I've seen at least one report since then that

Re: [PATCH][help?] Radeonfb acpi resume

2005-07-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Aww crap, thunderbird screwed up the white space... > > A usable version of the patch is attached, or here is a link: > http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/files/patch-radeonfb-2.6.12 Wrong indentation in acpi_vgapost; I remember there was better patch to fix this out there. Anyway, are you s

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:42 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote: > The sensor gives us two 10-bit AD values (corresponding to 0..1 volts on the > ADI chip), temperature (Celsius) and three status bits indicating: > > * lid open/closed Which bit did you find this in? I haven't tried with the lid closed.

[patch 4/12] s390: external call performance.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 4/12] s390: external call performance. From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The kernel uses the SIGP external call order code to signal other CPUs. When running with dedicated CPUs external calls don't get delivered immediately but within a fixed polling invervall. This can lead to del

[patch 9/12] s390: channel tape fixes.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 9/12] s390: channel tape fixes. From: Stefan Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tape driver fixes: - Added deferred condition handling to tape driver core. - Added ability to handle busy conditions. - Code cleanup. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat: drivers/s390/c

[patch 10/12] s390: 31 bit memory size limit.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 10/12] s390: 31 bit memory size limit. From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Limit reported memory size to 2GB if running in 31 bit mode. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat: arch/s390/kernel/head.S |7 ++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deleti

[patch 11/12] s390: cpu timer reset in machine check handler.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 11/12] s390: cpu timer reset in machine check handler. From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix wrong move direction of timer values for cpu accounting in case of a machine check that indicates a broken cpu timer. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat: arch/

segmentation fault in "top" command

2005-07-11 Thread Jose Barroca
Dear all, I'm trying to deal with a peculiar problem that came up the other day. I've searched the net, posted in newbie groups, but to no avail. So, perhaps you can lend a hand: Using a 2.6.12.12 straight from kernel.org: - I experience loss of responsiveness (mouse, keyboard, music) during r/w

Re: Swapping broken on 2.6.9? Limit Page Cache growth?

2005-07-11 Thread Jon Florence
Yes but I was having the same problems when I ran the tests on stock 2.6.10 & 2.6.11 kernels so it isnt limited to redhat only. On 7/11/05, Douglas McNaught <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Florence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I have got a box running 2.6.9-1.667smp (FC3) > > Th

Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Paul E. McKenney
Hello, Daniel, In principle, one could inspect the Linux kernel with the PREEMPT_RT patch applied, and calculate the worst-case time during which interrupts are disabled, though I have not heard of anyone actually doing this. Is this what you are getting at, or are you thinking in terms of Kristi

Re: [PATCH] Add kerneldoc reference to CodingStyle

2005-07-11 Thread randy_dunlap
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 09:32:00 +0300 (EEST) Pekka J Enberg wrote: | Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | --- | | CodingStyle |3 +++ | 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+) | | Index: 2.6/Documentation/CodingStyle | === |

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-11 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 15:26 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Llu, 2005-07-11 at 10:42, Paul Sladen wrote: > > theta = (N - 512) * 0.5 > > > > provides a surprisingly good approximation for pitch/roll values in degrees > > in the range (-90..+90) so I think the sensor can do ~= +/-2.5G . > > > > ht

[PATCH 0/27] InfiniBand core update

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
This patch series gets the Infiniband core up to date. Aside from bug fixes, the following new functionality is also introduced: MAD (Management Datagram) support for RMPP (Reliable MultiPacket Protocol) CM (Communications Manager) support User CM sup

[PATCH 1/27] Update FMR functions

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Change some functions to return void rather than an int since they are always returning 0, thus making checking return values rather pointless. Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Libor Michalek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- cor

[PATCH 2/27] Update MAD client API

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Automatically allocate a MR when registering a MAD agent. MAD clients are modified to use this updated API. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- core/agent.c | 16 +-- core/agent_priv.h |3 +-- core/mad.c| 31 +

[PATCH 3/27] Add MAD helper functions

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add new helper routines for allocating MADs for sending and formatting a send WR. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 2/27. -- core/mad.c | 76 +++

[PATCH 5/27] Change saving of user's send wr_id in MAD

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Move saving of user's send wr_id to better match layering of received response handling. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 4/27. -- mad.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff

PATCH [7/27] Fix timeout/cancelled MAD handling

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Fixes an issue processing a sent MAD after it has timed out or been canceled. The race occurs when a response MAD matches with the send request. The request could time out or be canceled after the response MAD matches with the request, but before the request completion can be processed. Signed-

[PATCH 9/27] Add ib_coalesce_recv_mad to MAD

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add implementation for ib_coalesce_recv_mad. Also, clear allocated MAD data buffer in ib_create_send_mad. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 8/27. -- core/mad.c |9 +-- include/ib_mad.h |3 +

[PATCH 11/27] Simplify calling of list_del in MAD

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Simplify calling of list_del. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 10/27. -- mad.c |3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -uprN linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/drivers/infiniband10/core/mad.c

[PATCH 12/27] Eliminate MAD cache leak associated with local completions

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Eliminate MAD cache leak associated with local completions. Also, when canceling MAD, empty local completion list as well. Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 11/27. -- mad.c |7 ++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -uprN l

[PATCH 13/27] Add ib_modify_mad API to MAD

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add new MAD layer call to modify (ib_modify_mad) the timeout of a sent MAD, and simplify cancel code. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 12/27. -- core/mad.c | 83 ++-- core/mad_pr

[PATCH 14/27] Optimize canceling a MAD

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Optimize canceling a MAD. - Eliminate searching timeout list in cancel case. - Remove duplicate calls to queue work item. - Eliminate resending a MAD before MAD is completed. Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on pat

[PATCH 17/27] A couple of IB core bug fixes

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Replace be32_to_cpup with be32_to_cpu and fix bug referencing pointer rather than value in ib_create_ah_from_wc(). Signed-off-by: Tom Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 16/27. --

[PATCH 18/27] Introduce RMPP APIs

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Introduce RMPP APIs Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 17/27. -- core/mad.c |4 + core/sa_query.c | 20 -- include/ib_mad.h | 132 ++-- include

[PATCH 19/27] Add RMPP implementation

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add RMPP implementation Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 18/27. -- Makefile |2 mad.c | 167 +-- mad_priv.h | 28 +- mad_rmpp.c | 765 +++

[PATCH 20/27] Add Service Record support to SA client

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add Service Record support to SA client Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 19/27. -- core/sa_query.c | 166 +++- include/ib_sa.h | 75 - 2 files changed, 236 insertions(+),

[PATCH 21/27] Add the header file for kernel CM (Communications Manager)

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add the header file for kernel CM (Communications Manager) Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ib_cm.h | 568 1 files changed, 568 insertions(+) diff -uprN linux-2.6.

[PATCH 23/27] User MAD ABI changes to support RMPP

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
User MAD ABI changes to support RMPP Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 22/27. -- ib_user_mad.h | 28 ++-- 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) user_mad.txt | 51 +++-- 1 files

[PATCH 24/27] Implementation for RMPP support in user MAD

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Implementation for RMPP support in user MAD Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 23/27. -- user_mad.c | 300 +++-- 1 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 106 deletions(-) diff -uprN linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/drivers/infiniba

[PATCH 26/27] Add kernel portion of user CM implementation

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Add kernel portion of user CM implementation Signed-off-by: Libor Michalek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 25/27. -- ucm.c | 1396 ++ ucm.h | 89 2 files cha

[PATCH 27/27] Hook up userspace CM to the make system

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
Hook up userspace CM to the make system Signed-off-by: Libor Michalek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hal Rosenstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch depends on patch 26/27. -- Makefile |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -uprN linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/drivers/infin

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 3/27] Add MAD helper functions

2005-07-11 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 11.07.2005 [11:30:23 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:39, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Monday 11 July 2005 17:48, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > Add new helper routines for allocating MADs for sending and formatting > > > a send WR. > > > > > -- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/driver

Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 3/27] Add MAD helper functions

2005-07-11 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 12:05, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 11.07.2005 [11:30:23 -0400], Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:39, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > On Monday 11 July 2005 17:48, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > > -- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/drivers/infiniband2/core/mad.c > > > > ++

Re: [PATCH 3/27] Add MAD helper functions

2005-07-11 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Monday 11 July 2005 19:30, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:39, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Monday 11 July 2005 17:48, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > > Add new helper routines for allocating MADs for sending and formatting > > > a send WR. > > > > > -- linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/drivers/

Re: [RFC][PATCH] i386: Per node IDT

2005-07-11 Thread Andi Kleen
> Yes you're right, i wasn't quite awake when i replied, thanks for > correcting that. You would need to allocate it using vmalloc if you wanted to put it node local, eating up precious TLB entries. Anyways, i386 NUMA is so broken anyways regarding all that that I wouldn't worry about node local

[patch 12/12] s390: use __cpcmd in vmcp_write.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 12/12] s390: use __cpcmd in vmcp_write. From: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> vmcp_write uses GPF_DMA for the memory allocation of the response buffer, so it can use the low level function __cpcmd directly, no need to call the wrapper. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL P

Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > Hello, Daniel, > > In principle, one could inspect the Linux kernel with the PREEMPT_RT patch > applied, and calculate the worst-case time during which interrupts are > disabled, though I have not heard of anyone actually doing this. Is

[patch 7/12] s390: fba dasd i/o errors.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 7/12] s390: fba dasd i/o errors. From: Horst Hummel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The FBA discipline does not use retries for failed requests. A request fails after the first unsuccessful start attempt. There are some rare conditions (e.g. CIO path recovery) in which the start of an i/o on a fba dev

Re: [PATCH] Remove preempt_disable from powernow-k8

2005-07-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >From reading the code, my understanding is that powernow-k8 uses > preempt_disable to ensure that driver->target doesn't migrate across cpus > whilst it's accessing per processor registers, however set_cpus_allowed > will provide this for us. Additionally, remove schedule() calls from >

[patch 6/12] s390: resource accessibility event handling.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 6/12] s390: resource accessibility event handling. From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> When processing resource accessibility events, continue searching for further affected subchannels if a link address is provided in the event information. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL P

Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:49:48AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:43 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Hello, Daniel, > > > > In principle, one could inspect the Linux kernel with the PREEMPT_RT patch > > applied, and calculate the worst-case time during which interrupts a

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-11 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Monday 11 July 2005 17:44, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > >Descendant must be indented at least to the level of the innermost > >compound expression in the parent. All descendants at the same level > >are indented the same. > >if (foobar(

Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread, take 2

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 10:19 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > OK, interesting point, though this would apply only to interrupt latency, > not to scheduling latency or to latency for any other system services, > right? Only for interrupt latency, that I know of. > Do you believe that the 50-us de

Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] fsnotify

2005-07-11 Thread Chris Wright
* David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What would make sense, perhaps, would be to actually merge those hooks; > not just a cosmetic amalgamation of the calling sites. Currently, each > of inotify and the audit code does its own filtering when its hooks are > triggered, and then acts upon t

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc2] PCI: Add symbol exports for pci_restore_bars

2005-07-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:19:03AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > Globalize and add EXPORT_SYMBOL for pci_restore_bars. EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() perhaps as this is a new function? thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-11 Thread Paul RIVIER
When I recieved my laptop last week, I had windows preinstalled on and before reinstalling a proper free system, I wanted to have a look to that feature, so I lauched the ibm HDAPS monitor. But to my mind precision is not really good, and when you roll your laptop twice or more the monitor forg

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc2] PCI: Add symbol exports for pci_restore_bars

2005-07-11 Thread John W. Linville
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:18:30AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:19:03AM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > Globalize and add EXPORT_SYMBOL for pci_restore_bars. > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() perhaps as this is a new function? Sure...that will please Arjan as well... :-) Patch to

[patch 2.6.13-rc2] PCI: Add GPL symbol export for pci_restore_bars

2005-07-11 Thread John W. Linville
Globalize and add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for pci_restore_bars. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Some have expressed interest in making general use of the the pci_restore_bars function. Revised to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL instead of EXPORT_SYMBOL. drivers/pci/pci.c |3 ++- 1 f

GIT problems.

2005-07-11 Thread James Simmons
I'm having trouble merging my local branch to the latest tree from linus. I event tried to grab a fresh tree from kernel.org and then create a clone from it. I did a cg-init rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git This worked with output being sent 147 byte

[patch 5/12] s390: debug data for ifcc/ccc.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 5/12] s390: debug data for ifcc/ccc. From: Cornelia Huck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix debug data in case of an interface-control or channel-control check: don't log the not yet accumulated interrupt-response-block, but the one we just received. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECT

[patch 3/12] s390: atomic64 inline functions.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 3/12] s390: atomic64 inline functions. From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The atomic64 primitives are supposed to have 64-bit parameters instead of int. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diffstat: include/asm-s390/atomic.h |8 1 files changed, 4 in

[patch 2/12] s390: find_next_{zero}_bit fixes.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 2/12] s390: find_next_{zero}_bit fixes. From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The find_next_{zero}_bit primitives on s390* should never return a bit number bigger then the bit field size. In the case of a bitfield that doesn't end on a word boundary, an offset that makes the search

Re: [patch 5/12] lsm stacking v0.2: actual stacker module

2005-07-11 Thread serue
Thanks Stephen. More comments below. This finally proves that I need to provide some documentation for each hook under stacker showing how modules are expected to interact. This hopefully will help me catch things like this. Hopefully it would also be useful to module writers in general. Quoti

[patch 1/12] s390: spin lock retry.

2005-07-11 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
[patch 1/12] s390: spin lock retry. From: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Split spin lock and r/w lock implementation into a single try which is done inline and an out of line function that repeatedly tries to get the lock before doing the cpu_relax(). Add a system control to set the numbe

2.6.13-rc2-mm1 - unknown symbol: is_broadcast_ether_addr

2005-07-11 Thread Damir Perisa
i get an unknown symbol "is_broadcast_ether_addr" from ipw2200 and ieee80211 if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b /home/damir/cvsARCH/extra/kernels/kernel26mm/pkg -r 2.6.13-rc2-mm1-ARCH; fi WARNING: /home/damir/cvsARCH/extra/kernels/kernel26mm/pkg/lib

segmentation fault in TOP command

2005-07-11 Thread Jose Barroca
Dear all, I'm trying to deal with a peculiar problem that came up the other day. I've searched the net, posted in newbie groups, but to no avail. So, perhaps you can lend a hand: Using a 2.6.12.12 straight from kernel.org: - I experience loss of responsiveness (mouse, keyboard, music) during r/w

Re: USB storage does not work with 3GB of RAM, but does with 2G of RAM

2005-07-11 Thread Oliver Weihe
Tried different settings for "Soft-/Hardware Memory Hole" in BIOS? - 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 the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/l

[PATCH 3/2] smaps say kB not KB

2005-07-11 Thread Hugh Dickins
/proc/$pid/smaps should be reporting in "kB" not "KB" (and pray that this doesn't start another kibibytes war ;) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/proc/task_mmu.c | 12 ++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- smaps2/fs/proc/task_mmu.c 2005-07-0

[PATCH] lower VM_DONTCOPY total_vm

2005-07-11 Thread Hugh Dickins
dup_mmap of a VM_DONTCOPY vma forgot to lower the child's total_vm. (But no way does this account for the recent report of total_vm seen too low.) Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/fork.c |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- 2.6.13-rc2-mm1/k

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-11 Thread Jim Crilly
On 07/11/05 07:09:46AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:01, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Jim Crilly wrote: > > > > > But in most of the changesets on the bkbits site you can go back over 2 > > > years and not see anything from namesys people. Nearly all of the fixes > > > commited

Re: Dirty page tracking patch

2005-07-11 Thread Kimball Murray
Arjan van de Ven wrote: On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:16 -0400, Kimball Murray wrote: Hello to all. On behalf of Stratus Technologies (www.stratus.com) I'd like to present a patch to the i386 kernel code that will allow developers to track dirty memory pages. Stratus uses this technique

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-11 Thread Horst von Brand
Erik Hensema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Horst von Brand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [on reiserfs4] > >> >> and _can_ do things > >> >> no other FS can > > Mostly useless things... > Depends on your point of view. If you define things to be useful > o

Real-Time Preemption Patch -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-26 failed ,to compile

2005-07-11 Thread Steven Wooding
Hi, I wonder if someone can help a newbie to the Real-Time Preemption Patch. After appling the lastest patch (-RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-26) to the 2.6.12 vanilla kernel I get the following error when compiling the patched kernel: arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c: In function 'mce_read': arch/x86_64/k

Re: [RFC][PATCH] i386: Per node IDT

2005-07-11 Thread Kenji Kaneshige
Hi, Agreed, the first version was a per cpu one simply so that i could test it on a normal SMP system. Andi seems to be of the same opinion, what do you think of the hotplug cpu case (explained in previous email)? I think we need to migrate interrupts to the other CPU in the hotplug CPU case.

Re: Dirty page tracking patch

2005-07-11 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > > >is the stratus code entirely open source/GPL ? (I assume it is since you > >EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and also use other similar stuff). If so.. could you > >post an URL to that? It's customary to do so when you post interface > >patches for review so that the users of the interfaces can be seen, a

pty_chars_in_buffer oops fix

2005-07-11 Thread Jason Baron
hi, This is a re-posting of a fix for a race condition between changing the line discipline on a pty and and a poll on the 'other' side. The reference is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111342171410005&w=2. Below is a diff against the current tree. thanks, -Jason --- linux-2

Re: [RFC] RCU and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT progress, part 2

2005-07-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > More progress on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT-compatible RCU. > > o Continued prototyping Linux-kernel implementation, still > in the CONFIG_PREEMPT environment. cool! With the debugging code removed it doesnt look all that complex. D

Re: Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Michel Bouissou wrote: > Hi Nathalie, > > Thanks for your answer and pointer. Unfortunately it doesn't help. > > The patch you mention won't apply on my kernel alone, I need first to apply > the patch from > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-11 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> Lots of people have switched from 2.4 to 2.6 (100 Hz to 1000 Hz) with no >> impact in >> stability, AFAIK. (I only remember some weird warning about HZ with debian >> woody's >> ps). >> > > Yes, that's called "progress" so no one complained. Going back is > called a "regression". People do

Re: [PATCH] audit: file system auditing based on location and name

2005-07-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:07:17AM -0500, Michael C Thompson wrote: > > > Ultimately, the part where we differ most, is the processing of > > > information in > > > fs/dcache.c to give dynamic updates in response to file system activity > > > (such > > > as attaching audit information to an audit

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-11 Thread Horst von Brand
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 09:21:42PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Hmm. So we disagree on that issue as well. I think the point of review > > is to improve code and help others conform with the existing coding > > style which is why I find it strange that

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-11 Thread Horst von Brand
Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote: [...] > > Would you please be so kind to define your criteria for things that > > "need fixing" so we could see if can reach some sort of an agreement on > > this. My list is roughly as follows: > > > > - Errone

Re: share/private/slave a subtree - define vs enum

2005-07-11 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Horst von Brand wrote: > > I don't generally disagree with that, I just think that defines are not > > part of that list. > > Covered in "bad coding style" and "hard to read code", at least. Somehow I missed the last lkml debate about where simple defines where a prob

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-11 Thread Martin J. Bligh
--On Saturday, July 09, 2005 17:25:58 -0400 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: >> | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default >> | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost? >> >> indeed, why should

Re: [PATCH] Fix JBD race in t_forget list handling

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:34, Jan Kara wrote: > attached patch should close the possible race between > journal_commit_transaction() and journal_unmap_buffer() (which adds > buffers to committing transaction's t_forget list) that could leave > some buffers on transaction's t_forget list (hen

Re: Real-Time Preemption Patch -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-26 failed ,to compile

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Walker
This may help .. Index: linux-2.6.12/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c === --- linux-2.6.12.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c 2005-06-17 19:48:29.0 + +++ linux-2.6.12/arch/x86_64/kernel/mce.c 2005-07-11 18:44:42.0 +00

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-12

2005-07-11 Thread William Weston
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 17:43 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > I've also > > > released the -51-23 patch with these changes included. Does this fix > > > priority leakage on your SMP system? > > > > > > > -51-24 right? I'll give it a spin. > > >

Re: [PATCH][help?] Radeonfb acpi resume

2005-07-11 Thread Micheal Marineau
Thanks for the reply, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > >>Aww crap, thunderbird screwed up the white space... >> >>A usable version of the patch is attached, or here is a link: >>http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/files/patch-radeonfb-2.6.12 > > > Wrong indentation in acpi_vgapost; I remember there w

[patch] add type-checking to pm_message_t

2005-07-11 Thread Pavel Machek
This adds type-checking to pm_message_t, so that people can't confuse it with int or u32. It also allows us to fix "disk yoyo" during suspend (disk spinning down/up/down). [We've tried that before; since that cpufreq problems were fixed and I've tried make allyes config and fixed resulting damage

Re: [PATCH][help?] Radeonfb acpi resume

2005-07-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >>Aww crap, thunderbird screwed up the white space... > >> > >>A usable version of the patch is attached, or here is a link: > >>http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/files/patch-radeonfb-2.6.12 > > > > > > Wrong indentation in acpi_vgapost; I remember there was better patch > > to fix this out

Re: Real-Time Preemption Patch -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-26 failed ,to compile

2005-07-11 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Monday 11 Jul 2005 19:46, Daniel Walker wrote: > This may help .. > > Unless Ingo's fixed it, x86-64 is broken at the moment anyway. I just get a segfault from init. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate

Re: serial: 8250 fails to detect Exar XR16L2551 correctly

2005-07-11 Thread Alex Williamson
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:20 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > I've redid the patch and added a check for this. Alex, could you test > this version, please. This detects the A2 ST16C255x as an XR16550, so apparently the sleep check doesn't work. I contacted Exar about these two seemingly identical

[PATCH] Add ENOSYS into sys_io_cancel

2005-07-11 Thread Wendy Cheng
Previously sent via private mail that doesn't seem to go thru - resend via office mailer. Note that other than few exceptions, most of the current filesystem and/or drivers do not have aio cancel specifically defined (kiob->ki_cancel field is mostly NULL). However, sys_io_cancel system call u

Re: [patch 5/12] lsm stacking v0.2: actual stacker module

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 12:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I can imagine a few ways of fixing this: > > 1. We simply expect that only one module use xattrs. This > is probably unacceptable, as we will want both EVM and selinux > to store xattrs. Note that these particul

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-11 Thread Hans Reiser
Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > >> It's not always >>nescesary to let the demand create the means. Give programmers >>some powerful tools and wait and see what wonderful things start >>to evolve. >> >> > >The sad truth is that if you give a random coll

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-11 Thread Hans Reiser
Jim Crilly wrote: > >I thought r3 was journaled from the beginning; the Namesys site credits >Chris with the addition of a relocated and large journal. And yes, a good >bit of the patches were from him. > Chris and I disagree about QA methodology, but I am deeply in debt to him for his contributi

Re: [PATCH] Fix race in do_get_write_access()

2005-07-11 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 17:10, Jan Kara wrote: > attached patch should fix the following race: ... > and we have sent wrong data to disk... We now clean the dirty buffer > flag under buffer lock in all cases and hence we know that whenever a buffer > is starting to be journaled we either fi

Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > PLEASE read the following article, it has the data of a guy that made a > > driver in IBM for Linux and he described the driver he made. > > http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html > > Yesterday evening, I used my time here at Debconf5 constructively! ;-) > > http:/

Re: [SOLVED ??] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 20:36, Alan Stern a écrit : > It's also possible that the UHCI controllers are generating the unwanted > interrupt requests.  You should make sure that Legacy USB Support is > turned off in your BIOS settings. My motherboard both holds USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 controllers. I do

arm: how to operate leds on zaurus?

2005-07-11 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! 2.6.12-rc5 (and newer) does not boot on sharp zaurus sl-5500. It blinks with green led, fast; what does it mean? I'd like to verify if it at least reaches .c code in setup.c. I inserted this code at begining of setup.c:674... #define locomo_writel(val,addr) ({ *(volatile u16 *)(addr) = (val);

Re: [SOLVED ??] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Alan Stern
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Michel Bouissou wrote: > Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 20:36, Alan Stern a écrit : > > It's also possible that the UHCI controllers are generating the unwanted > > interrupt requests.  You should make sure that Legacy USB Support is > > turned off in your BIOS settings. > > My mot

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using the ondemand governor on athlon64 winchesters for a few > weeks. I've just noticed that in 2.6.12 the frequency is not > increasing under load, it remains at the lowest frequency. This seems > to be down to something in 2.6.12-rc6

Re: serial: 8250 fails to detect Exar XR16L2551 correctly

2005-07-11 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:00:08PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:20 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > > > I've redid the patch and added a check for this. Alex, could you test > > this version, please. > >This detects the A2 ST16C255x as an XR16550, so apparently the sl

RE: [SOLVED ??] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Protasevich, Natalie
> Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 20:36, Alan Stern a écrit : > > It's also possible that the UHCI controllers are generating the > > unwanted interrupt requests.  You should make sure that Legacy USB > > Support is turned off in your BIOS settings. > > My motherboard both holds USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 con

Re: serial: 8250 fails to detect Exar XR16L2551 correctly

2005-07-11 Thread Alex Williamson
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 20:46 +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:00:08PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:20 +0100, David Vrabel wrote: > > > > > I've redid the patch and added a check for this. Alex, could you test > > > this version, please. > > > >

Re: [SOLVED ??] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 21:43, Alan Stern a écrit : > > > > Enable USB mouse support: YES (Well, I have one ;-) > > That's what I was talking about. BIOS support for keyboard and mouse is > called "Legacy" support, because it emulates plain old non-USB AT-type > devices. I bet if you turne

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-11 Thread Daniel Willmann
Hello, On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 15:26:57 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the quality good enough to use it DEC itsy style as an input device > for games like Marble madness ? it sure is good enough to play neverball. I have implemented an absolute input driver (aka joystick) on the ba

Re: [SOLVED ??] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-11 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Lundi 11 Juillet 2005 21:52, Protasevich, Natalie a écrit : > > Michel, it would be interesting to see if you have problems with the kernel > that doesn't have the fix posted in that bugzilla yet, but only has my > first patch. Do you mean the patch http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/gi

noapic for smp

2005-07-11 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I have a rhel4 (2.6.9-5.EL) system. The SMP kernel boot fails(rather locks up system). But when use "noapic" it boots fine. Is it that my system "APIC" is bad? Will "noapic" have performance impact (IRQ routing,etc)? My system is a Uni processor with HT enabled. with regards, Anil

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