Re: [PATCH] [42/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 618-core.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 04:21, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Have you seen Christoph's recent fixes to refrigerator? You probably > have same problems. And he wanted to move refrigerator to sched/ > and make it more generic for page migration, too... what about using > it, too? ;-). Yeah.

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-12 Thread Denis Vlasenko
> 3c. * in types > Leave space between name and * in types. > Multiple * dont need additional space between them. > > struct foo **bar; unless you declare a fuction: int* function_style_for_easy_grep(...) { ... } I like this style because I can grep for ^function_style

Re: arm: how to operate leds on zaurus?

2005-07-12 Thread Hamera Erik
> > > 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) ({ *

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-12 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:22:04PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > and stop > whining about certain non-errors (details in the patch comments). Please explain what the whining is (details were missing from the patch comments). -- Russell King Linux kernel2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linu

Mercurial SCM v0.6b released

2005-07-12 Thread Matt Mackall
Mercurial is a clean, scalable, distributed SCM designed to meet the needs of large projects like the Linux kernel. It's only been two weeks since the last release, but development has been rapid and I've gotten numerous requests to push out a new release. You can download it at: http://selenic.

Re: arm: how to operate leds on zaurus?

2005-07-12 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:50:59PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I'm afraid I do not have serial cable :-(. I'll try to get one [erik, > do you have one you don't need?], but zaurus has "little" nonstandard > connector. > > Would code above work if executed later? If done after the IO mappings are

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

2005-07-12 Thread Alexander Fieroch
Protasevich, Natalie wrote: You can also try adding the "usb-handoff" kernel parameter to your boot command line. Alexander, should you try this option? (Just in case if you haven't noticed this thread)... Hm, no. All errors still occur. :-( Regards, Alexander - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday July 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stefan Smietanowski wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > >>Ok, still haven't heard much discussion of metafs vs file-as-directory, > >>but it seems like it'd be easier in metafs. > > > > > > Why not implement it ins

Re: [NOT solved] Kernel 2.6.12 + IO-APIC + uhci_hcd = Trouble

2005-07-12 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Mardi 12 Juillet 2005 01:41, Protasevich, Natalie a écrit : > > Another thing is that you are getting large number of > interrupts on the VIA device, whereas there is no any on 2.4. Does the > chipset get enabled differently? I believe this interruption is for the sound module. The /proc/interr

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

2005-07-12 Thread Michel Bouissou
Le Mardi 12 Juillet 2005 03:54, Alan Stern a écrit : > > So the problem is circled to 2.6 kernel, uhci_hcd and UP IO-APIC. > > Don't rule out the hardware too quickly.  2.4 and 2.6 manage the UHCI > controllers in different ways. I saw ;-) > In particular, the usb-uhci driver in 2.4 does not susp

Re: [PATCH] [42/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 618-core.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Have you seen Christoph's recent fixes to refrigerator? You probably > > have same problems. And he wanted to move refrigerator to sched/ > > and make it more generic for page migration, too... what about using > > it, too? ;-). > > Yeah. I'm using them already. I must say though that

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
11.07.2005 23:55, Con Kolivas wrote/a écrit: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 05:45, Ken Moffat wrote: 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

Re: tg3 fails with x86_64 (but works with i386)

2005-07-12 Thread Frank Steiner
Frank Steiner wrote Hi, I've two 3com 3C996B-T network cards (lspci says it's a Broadcom BCM5701 chip) in Asus A8V boards with an AMD64 4000+ cpu. Booting a x86_64 version of the 2.6.12.2 kernel, the tg3 module complains tg3.c: v3.31 (June 8, 2005) tg3_test_dma() Write the buffer failed

Re: tg3 fails with x86_64 (but works with i386)

2005-07-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 10:05 +0200, Frank Steiner wrote: > Frank Steiner wrote > > > Hi, > > > > I've two 3com 3C996B-T network cards (lspci says it's > > a Broadcom BCM5701 chip) in Asus A8V boards with an > > AMD64 4000+ cpu. Booting a x86_64 version of the > > 2.6.12.2 kernel, the tg3 module co

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-12 Thread Hans Reiser
Neil Brown wrote: > > >Maybe it is worth repeating Al Viro's suggestion at this point. I >don't have a reference but the idea was basically that if you open >"/foo" and get filedescriptor N, then > /proc/self/fds/N-meta >is a directory which contains all the meta stuff for "/foo". >Then it is t

Re: SCSI DVD-RAM partitions

2005-07-12 Thread Thomas Heinz
Hi Christoph You wrote: While adding support for partitions on sr is trivial it has a huge drawback: it's chaning the dev_t space by using up device numbers for partitions, so /dev/sr0 ff will have different device numbers with that change applied. I have an old patch that's supposed to enable

MD-RAID + EVMS parallel / sequential resync issue

2005-07-12 Thread Michel Bouissou
Hi there, (The reported problem has been noticed on several machines, with different hardware, and different 2.6.x kernels, up to 2.6.12) I use EVMS with MD-RAID based storage, usually buiding several RAID-sets out of partitions from the same physical disks, for example (just an example): 1 MD

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 (git followed) unable to boot with initrd

2005-07-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Bas Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am currently unable to boot 2.6.13-rc2. I've got a working 2.6.13-rc1 > whose .config I use to compile 2.6.13-rc2. I'm attaching the failed boot > log to this message. I'm booting with the same options as 2.6.13-rc1. > > If anyone knows how to get

Re: [PATCH] [39/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 615-poweroff.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 04:18, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > @@ -0,0 +1,585 @@ > > +/* > > + * kernel/power/prepare_image.c > > + * > > + * Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > + * > > + * This file is released under the GPLv2. > > + * > > + * We need to eat memory

[patch] move name_to_dev_t prototype where it belongs

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
...this fixes warning in swsusp and removes two prototypes done "by hand". Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-good/include/linux/mount.h2005-04-27 15:04:30.0 +0200 +++ linux-struct/include/linux/mount.h 2005-07-12 10:24:53.0 +0200 @@ -74,6 +74,7 @@

Re: [PATCH] [33/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 610-encryption.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
'ello! On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 04:15, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > +/* > > + * put_extent_chain. > > + * > > + * Frees a whole chain of extents. > > + */ > > +void put_extent_chain(struct extentchain * chain) > > This probably should be extent_chain. > > > +#ifndef EXTENT_H > > +#define EXTENT

Re: [PATCH] [40/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 616-prepare_image.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 04:13, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > diff -ruNp 617-proc.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend2_core/proc.c > > 617-proc.patch-new/kernel/power/suspend2_core/proc.c > > --- 617-proc.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend2_core/proc.c1970-01-01 > > 10:00:00.0 +1000 > > +

Re: [PATCH] [28/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 605-kernel_power_suspend.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 03:58, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > diff -ruNp > > 606-all-settings.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend2_core/all_settings.c > > 606-all-settings.patch-new/kernel/power/suspend2_core/all_settings.c > > --- 606-all-settings.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend2_core/all_setting

Re: [PATCH] [35/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 611-io.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 04:12, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > + //p->pageset_size = pageset_size; > > Please don't leave commented code in. Fixed. > > +unsigned long suspend2_get_nonconflicting_pages(const int order) > > +{ > > + struct page * page; > > + unsigned long new_page; > > +

Re: Lack of Documentation about SA_RESTART...

2005-07-12 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:34:27 -0400 Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to the Single Unix Specification V3, all functions that > return EINTR are supposed to restart if a process receives a signal > where signal handler has been installed with the SA_RESTART flag. Thanks to hav

Re: Lack of Documentation about SA_RESTART...

2005-07-12 Thread Paolo Ornati
On 11 Jul 2005 20:30:20 -0700 Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Except for select() and poll(), which should always return EINTR even > when interrupted with a SA_RESTART signal. SUSV3 says this for select(): "If SA_RESTART has been set for the interrupting signal, it is implementation-

PATCH: Move scrollback out of low-level console drivers

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Young
Hello, Here is a patch that moves scrollback handling out of the low-level *con drivers and into the virtual console layer in vt.c. It's non-intrusive insofar as low-level drivers that do not take advantage of it continue to function as usual, but drivers that do want to use it (eg, vgaco

Problem while inserting pciehp (PCI Express Hot-plug) driver

2005-07-12 Thread Rajat Jain
Hi, I'm trying to use the PCI Express Hot-Plug Controller driver (pciehp.ko) with Kernel 2.6 so that I can get hot-plug events whenever I add a card to my PCI Express slot. I built the driver as a module, and am trying to load it manually using modprobe. However, when trying to insert, I'm gettin

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 (git followed) unable to boot with initrd

2005-07-12 Thread Bas Vermeulen
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 01:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Bas Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am currently unable to boot 2.6.13-rc2. I've got a working 2.6.13-rc1 > > whose .config I use to compile 2.6.13-rc2. I'm attaching the failed boot > > log to this message. I'm booting with

Re: [PATCH] [10/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 360-reset-kswapd-max-order-after-resume.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 09:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > So what is this doing, and is it breaking swsusp support? Marking at boot time pages that shouldn't be saved. I'm not sure why Pavel doesn't seem to need it. None of these changes break Pavel's code. Regards, Nigel -- Evolution. Enumerate

[patch] suspend: update documentation

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Update suspend documentation. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 8972d0ff145879e53416ac77c4cd096fd3cfe227 tree f901592e816f4cfae7383f443b21a13f67a644f8 parent a6500a8820a9b271105fe92e5d3013f7c2875b44 author <[EMAIL PROTECTED](none)> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:04:31 +0200 committe

Re: [PATCH] Apple USB Touchpad driver (new)

2005-07-12 Thread Stelian Pop
Le lundi 11 juillet 2005 à 13:21 +0200, Vojtech Pavlik a écrit : > > > This could be quite useful, too, for right and middle button taps (2 and > > > 3 fingers) - since the Macs lack these buttons. > > > > Indeed. But this can be a later improvement, let's make one finger work > > for now :) Tha

[swsusp] fix printks and cleanups

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Fix error printing in swsusp.c: add loglevels and add very usefull error information. Trivial cleanup for disk.c. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 79b675b6cc9268d178b3c0a2af2e4f944c5fdf9b tree d55af4281a8a491d2dd505604f6dc96d94e74cf3 parent 8972d0ff145879e53416ac77c4cd09

Re: Merging relayfs?

2005-07-12 Thread Baruch Even
Tom Zanussi wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > Tom Zanussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi Andrew, can you please merge relayfs? > > > > I guess so. Would you have time to prepare a list of existing and planned > > applications? > > I've also added a couple of people to the cc: l

[patch] Fix GDT loading during resume from suspend-to-RAM

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Fix GDT loading during resume from suspend-to-RAM. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 523c9470749c558e002f3041f5af620acf7f3e0c tree 92b643196cbaa89fa54ff141bc94fee8664009b3 parent 79b675b6cc9268d178b3c0a2af2e4f944c5fdf9b author <[EMAIL PROTECTED](none)> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11

2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-12 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc2/2.6.13-rc2-mm2/ (And at http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc2-mm2.gz - kenrel.org mirroring is being slow again) - MM updates - More video4linux updates - Infiniband feature work Changes since 2.6.

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-12 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 08:19:43AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:22:04PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > and stop > > whining about certain non-errors (details in the patch comments). > > Please explain what the whining is (details were missing from the > patch comments)

2.6.12.2 dies after 24 hours

2005-07-12 Thread Rob Mueller
As background, we've been using a relatively old kernel (2.6.4-mm2) on some IBM x235 machines with 6G of RAM, umem cards, and serveraid storage. These machines are under continuous heavy-ish load, load avg between about 1 and 5, with between 2500-3500 procs at all times, with several largish Rei

Re: [patch] Fix GDT loading during resume from suspend-to-RAM

2005-07-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fix GDT loading during resume from suspend-to-RAM. > This change is already in Len's acpi tree. Len, can you merge it for 2.6.13 please? > > --- > commit 523c9470749c558e002f3041f5af620acf7f3e0c > tree 92b643196cbaa89fa54ff141bc94fee8664009b3 > pare

[DVB patch 2/3] fix kobject names (no slashes)

2005-07-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
From: Julian Scheel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The / in the driver name (budget dvb /w video in) is not a valid character for device names - removed it, now it works! Same for ttusb-budget. Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Julian Scheel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-

[DVB patch 3/3] dst: printk -> dprintk

2005-07-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
From: Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - stop log spamming when running femon (printk -> dprintk) Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.13-rc2-mm1/drivers/media/dvb/b

[DVB patch 1/3] usb: fix some typos

2005-07-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
From: Patrick Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> corrected some typos. Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-dvb.c |2 +- drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/dvb-usb-init.c |6 +++--- drivers/media/

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 (git followed) unable to boot with initrd

2005-07-12 Thread Bas Vermeulen
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 01:25 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Bas Vermeulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am currently unable to boot 2.6.13-rc2. I've got a working 2.6.13-rc1 > > whose .config I use to compile 2.6.13-rc2. I'm attaching the failed boot > > log to this message. I'm booting with

[DVB patch 0/3] a few DVB bug fixes

2005-07-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi Andrew, here are a few small DVB bug fixes. Please apply. Thanks, Johannes - 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://

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

2005-07-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, very nice pictures indeed... What is the current interface > between userspace and kernel parts? This one is implemented entirely in userspace, with stdio between the io application and the 3D viewer. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To uns

Re: How do you accurately determine a process' RAM usage?

2005-07-12 Thread P
Andrew Morton wrote: OK, please let us know how it goes. It went very well. I could find no problems at all. I've updated my script to use the new method, so please merge smaps :) http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/ps_mem.py Usually the shared mem reported by /proc/$$/statm is the same as summin

Re: 2.6.12.2 dies after 24 hours

2005-07-12 Thread Lars Roland
On 7/12/05, Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As background, we've been using a relatively old kernel (2.6.4-mm2) on some > IBM x235 machines with 6G of RAM, umem cards, and serveraid storage. These > machines are under continuous heavy-ish load, load avg between about 1 and > 5, with betwee

Re: /proc/mtrr & BIOS-provided RAM map

2005-07-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 01:00:54 -0700, Sheo Shanker Prasad wrote: >(1) content of /proc/mtrr : > >reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=2048MB: write-back, count=1 >reg01: base=0x8000 (2048MB), size=1024MB: write-back, count=1 >reg02: base=0xc000 (3072MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1 >reg0

Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update

2005-07-12 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:12, David S. Miller wrote: > Please acknowledge that you understand how inappropriate > and problem causing your huge patch bomb was today to this > mailing list. > > It is nearly 8 hours later, and vger.kernel.org is still > trying mightily to spit out all of your patches

Re: [PATCH 0/29v2] InfiniBand core update

2005-07-12 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:11, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well I was asking. Do you guys think that this material is appropriate to > and safe enough for 2.6.13? We think so. > What are "user CM" and "kernel CM"? CM is the InfiniBand Communications Manager. It is (primarily) responsible for setting u

Re: [PATCH] [3/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 301-proc-acpi-sleep-activate-hook.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:47, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When the user has an initrd or initramfs, they're supposed to include > > > > echo > /proc/software_suspend/do_resume > > This is a different interface to the one in swsusp, which is unde

Re: Lack of Documentation about SA_RESTART...

2005-07-12 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:38:11 +0200 Paolo Ornati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The particular case you analized (blocking connect interrupted by a > SA_RESTART signal) is interesting... and since SUSV3 says > "but the connection request shall not be aborted, and the > connection shall be

Re: Problems with more than 8 AMD Opteron Cores per System

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I find the ondemand governor works as expected with 2.6.12 on my Athlon64 Winchester [1]; as soon as I bzip2 a file, processor freq is pinned at 1.8GHz and drops to 1GHz when idle. --- [1] $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model

Re: [PATCH] DVB: LGDT3302 QAM256 initialization fix

2005-07-12 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
Hi Michael, please do not Cc: the linux-dvb@linuxtv.org list when posting to lkml, as it is subscribers-only. You can Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead. Thanks, Johannes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majord

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-12 Thread Karsten Wiese
Hi Ingo I've refined io_apic.c a little more: - merged all ioapic data into a struct ioapic_data_struct - Allocate the ioapic cache memory from bootmem. Allocate only, what is needed ((nr of registers + 5)*sizeod(u64)). - Removed "cache overrun by reg out of bounds" check. this should never ha

Re: [PATCH] [3/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 301-proc-acpi-sleep-activate-hook.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:47, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> In general, the kernel does very little to prevent users from shooting >> themselves in the foot (or even chainsawing off their arms). We can do >> these checks in userspace rather than adding more

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

2005-07-12 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Monday 11 July 2005 19:36, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > [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 > conditi

Re: [0/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:41, Andrew Morton wrote: > Am still futzing with the ongoing pm_message_t saga here. I hope there's > no overlap with that. Perhaps I can help there. I've been preparing a patchset against the latest mm. Here's a patch with additional changes I know about. Hope it's

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-12 Thread david-b
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:19:43 +0100 > From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:22:04PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > and stop > > whining about certain non-errors (details in the patch comments). > > Please explain what the whining is (details were missing from t

Re: [PATCH] [3/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 301-proc-acpi-sleep-activate-hook.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 20:22, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 19:47, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> In general, the kernel does very little to prevent users from shooting > >> themselves in the foot (or even chainsawing off their arms)

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

2005-07-12 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
> > @@ -354,6 +354,8 @@ dasd_fba_build_cp(struct dasd_device * d > > } > > cqr->device = device; > > cqr->expires = 5 * 60 * HZ; /* 5 minutes */ > > +cqr->retries = 32; > > 2..4 maybe, but 32? This isn't tiny by any account. Are you arguing the use of the

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Eric Piel wrote: > It's a tradeoff :-) > > Ken, does this solve your problems (but that seems strange that all your > tasks are nice'd) ? > > Eric > I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and

Re: Problems with more than 8 AMD Opteron Cores per System

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Ensure your BIOS supports the stepping of the Opterons you have. Eg, if you have the Iwill H8501, BIOS v1.8 [1] covers all the current steppings. You may even encounter problems if you mix different steppings. --- [1] http://www.iwill.net/product_2s.asp?p_id=90&tp=BIOS Oliver Weihe wrote: > Hell

Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Again, why do you think you need this? > > 1. If something should be wrong with the freezer, it forms part of a > safety net that stops your data on disk being trashed. > 2. Separating out threads doing syncing from threads submitting I/O > makes the refrigerator much more reliable, even

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
Although it's not mentioned in the changelog, it seems the MTD GIT tree was dropped. I noticed this because a compile error that was fixed in -mm1 is back. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for

Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 20:57, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Again, why do you think you need this? > > > > 1. If something should be wrong with the freezer, it forms part of a > > safety net that stops your data on disk being trashed. > > > 2. Separating out threads doing syncing from th

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-12 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:25:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:19:43 +0100 > > From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 07:22:04PM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > > > and stop > > > whining about certain non-errors (details in the patch

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I find the ondemand governor works as expected with 2.6.12 on my Athlon64 Winchester [1]; as soon as I bzip2 a file, processor freq is pinned at 1.8GHz and drops to 1GHz when idle. --- [1] $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model

[ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-12 Thread Con Kolivas
Interbench - The Linux Interactivity Benchmark v0.20 http://interbench.kolivas.org direct download link: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/interbench/interbench-0.20.tar.bz2 Introduction This benchmark application is designed to benchmark interactivity in Linux. Interactivity,

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: > I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but > I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and bzip2 show up > with a niceness of 10. I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth here OK, Con was right, and I didn't initia

Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > Again, why do you think you need this? > > > > > > 1. If something should be wrong with the freezer, it forms part of a > > > safety net that stops your data on disk being trashed. > > > > > 2. Separating out threads doing syncing from threads submitting I/O > > > makes the refrigera

Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:15, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > > Again, why do you think you need this? > > > > > > > > 1. If something should be wrong with the freezer, it forms part of a > > > > safety net that stops your data on disk being trashed. > > > > > > > 2. Separating out threa

SCSI luns

2005-07-12 Thread Amrut Joshi
Hi, Currently linux scsi subsystem doesnt store the 8-byte luns which are recieved in REPORT_LUNS reply. This information is forver lost once the scan is over. In my LDD I need this information. Currently I have to snoop REPORT_LUNS reply, do scsilun_to_int for all the luns and store this mapping

Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > > > Again, why do you think you need this? > > > > > > > > > > 1. If something should be wrong with the freezer, it forms part of a > > > > > safety net that stops your data on disk being trashed. > > > > > > > > > 2. Separating out threads doing syncing from threads submitting I/O >

[patch] pm_message_t vs. u32 confusion: warnings fixed

2005-07-12 Thread Pavel Machek
Fix some more u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion. These were causing "only" warnings. I decided to remove some debug prints instead of "fixing" them; they used to print constant "3" so I do not think it was *that* usefull. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- author <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-12 Thread david-b
> > ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfffb (irq = 46) is a ST16654 > > serial8250 serial8250.0: unable to register port at index 1 (IO0 MEM0 > > IRQ47): -28 > > serial8250 serial8250.0: unable to register port at index 2 (IO0 MEM0 > > IRQ15): -28 > > Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know. >

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I find the ondemand governor works as expected with 2.6.12 on my > Athlon64 Winchester [1]; as soon as I bzip2 a file, processor freq is > pinned at 1.8GHz and drops to 1GHz when idle. > Thanks, it seems to be a niceness problem - if I run from an x

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-12 Thread Domen Puncer
On 12/07/05 10:12 +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > 3c. * in types > > Leave space between name and * in types. > > Multiple * dont need additional space between them. > > > > struct foo **bar; > > unless you declare a fuction: > > int* > function_style_for_easy_grep(...) > { >

[patch] add type-checking to pm_message_t

2005-07-12 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). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/resume.c b/drivers/base/power/resume.c --- a/

Re: tg3 fails with x86_64 (but works with i386)

2005-07-12 Thread Frank Steiner
Arjan van de Ven wrote you were using a binary kernel module but didn't mention it in your report? tsk tsk... No, for testing fglrx that was a SuSE kernel, while I was using a vanilla 2.6.12.2 kernel for debugging the tg3 module. Come on, first thing I do for debugging a problem is using an un

Re: [PATCH] [5/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 350-workthreads.patch

2005-07-12 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:25, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > OTOH: this is only critical for "niceness", not for > > > correctness. Calling sync() before suspend is simply nice thing to do, > > > but it is not required in any way. If someone is doing long dd, tough, > > > they are going to loose som

Re: 2.6.12.2 dies after 24 hours

2005-07-12 Thread Rob Mueller
> We recently tried upgrading one of the machines to the latest kernel > (2.6.12.2) and it's died after about 24 hours. It seemed to end up in > some > weird state where we could ssh into it, and some commands worked (eg > uptime) > but process list related commands (ps) would just freeze up

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Eric Piel
07/12/2005 01:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote/a écrit: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and bzip2 show up with a niceness of 10. I'm starting to feel a bit out of my depth

[patch] s390: fadvise hint values.

2005-07-12 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Hi Andrew, an ugly one. The fadvise hint values for POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED and POSIX_FADV_NOREUSE in the kernel and the glibc differ for s390-64 (and worse the values for s390-31 and s390-64 differ as well ..). The glibc always had 6 and 7 instead of 4 and 5 for these two values for s390-64. My first

Re: SCSI luns

2005-07-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 16:52 +0530, Amrut Joshi wrote: > Hi, > > Currently linux scsi subsystem doesnt store the 8-byte luns which are > recieved in REPORT_LUNS reply. This information is forver lost once > the scan is over. In my LDD I need this information. Currently I have > to snoop REPORT_LUN

Re: ondemand cpufreq ineffective in 2.6.12 ?

2005-07-12 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:49, Eric Piel wrote: > 07/12/2005 01:11 PM, Ken Moffat wrote/a écrit: > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Ken Moffat wrote: > >> I was going to say that niceness didn't affect what I was doing, but > >>I've just rerun it [ in 2.6.11.9 ] and I see that tar and bzip2 show up > >>with a ni

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-12 Thread Patrick McHardy
Denis Vlasenko wrote: text with 8-char tabs: struct s { int n; /* comment */ unsigned int u; /* comment */ }; Same text viewed with tabs set to 4-char width: struct s { int n; /* comment */ unsigned int u; /* comment */ }; Comments are not aligned anymore

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-12 Thread Patrick McHardy
Daniel Drake wrote: You'll have to forgive my lack of netfilter knowledge, I set up my firewall ages ago and haven't really touched it since :) We decided to revert the responsible change because it caused problems in other areas as well. This patch should fix your problem. [NETFILTER]: Revert

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-12 Thread David Lang
this looks very interesting, however one thing that looks odd to me in this is the thought of comparing the results for significantly different hardware. for some of the loads you really are going to be independant of the speed of the hardware (burn, compile, etc will use whatever you have) ho

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-12 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:05 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Although it's not mentioned in the changelog, it seems the MTD GIT > tree was dropped. > > I noticed this because a compile error that was fixed in -mm1 is back. What error? The MTD GIT tree is presumably absent from -mm because it was pulle

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-12 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: > this looks very interesting, however one thing that looks odd to me in > this is the thought of comparing the results for significantly different > hardware. > > for some of the loads you really are going to be independant of the speed > of the hardwar

Re: [patch 2.6.13-git] 8250 tweaks

2005-07-12 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:32:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > ttyS0 at MMIO 0xfffb (irq = 46) is a ST16654 > > > serial8250 serial8250.0: unable to register port at index 1 (IO0 MEM0 > > > IRQ47): -28 > > > serial8250 serial8250.0: unable to register port at index 2 (IO0

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

2005-07-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:38:05PM -0700, George Anzinger wrote: > I would like to interject an addition data point, and I will NOT be > subjective. The nature of the PIT is that it can _hit_ some frequencies > better than others. We have had complaints about repeating timers not > keeping goo

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:01:48PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 13:05 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Although it's not mentioned in the changelog, it seems the MTD GIT > > tree was dropped. > > > > I noticed this because a compile error that was fixed in -mm1 is back. > >

Re: 2.6.12.2 dies after 24 hours

2005-07-12 Thread Lars Roland
On 7/12/05, Rob Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the /proc/interrupts dump: > >CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 > 0: 11524000 0 0 0IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 8 0 0 0IO-APIC-edge i8042 > 5:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-12 Thread David Lang
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Con Kolivas wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: this looks very interesting, however one thing that looks odd to me in this is the thought of comparing the results for significantly different hardware. for some of the loads you really are going to be indep

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-12 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Patrick McHardy wrote: Denis Vlasenko wrote: text with 8-char tabs: struct s { int n; /* comment */ unsigned int u; /* comment */ }; Same text viewed with tabs set to 4-char width: struct s { int n; /* comment */ unsigned int u; /* c

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-12 Thread Con Kolivas
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:17, David Lang wrote: > which brings up another possible config option/test case, changing the > read/write tests to try to do X MB/sec rather then the max possible speed > (probably defaulting to max if nothing is specified) That's a good idea. I was planning on adding a co

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sysfs: fix sysfs_setattr

2005-07-12 Thread Maneesh Soni
o sysfs_dirent's s_mode field should also be updated in sysfs_setattr(), else there could be inconsistency in the two fields. s_mode is used while ->readdir so as not to bring in the inode to cache. Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc2-maneesh/fs/sysfs/inod

[PATCH 1/2] sysfs: fix sysfs_chmod_file

2005-07-12 Thread Maneesh Soni
Hi Greg, Please include this patch and the following one for sysfs. This is needed after the introduction of sysfs setattr functionality. Thanks Maneesh o sysfs_chmod_file() must update the new iattr field in sysfs_dirent else the mode change will not be persistent in case of inode evacuati

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