Re: [sched, patch] better wake-balancing, #3

2005-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > here's an updated patch. It handles one more detail: on SCHED_SMT we > > should check the idleness of siblings too. Benchmark numbers still > > look good. > > Maybe. Ken hasn't measured the effect of wake balancing in 2.6.13, > which is quite a lot

i387 floating point benchmark/test v0.11

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
/* fptst.c: i387 benchmark/test program for Linux * Build this program with optimization (-O2 may be faster than -O3) * * v0.11 should work on a wider variety of glibc versions (tested: 2.3.2, 2.3.3) * (See below...) * * Comments welcome. * Author: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */

Re: S3 resume and serial console..

2005-07-30 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:03:24AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: > Okay I'm really trying here but my PC really hates me :-) > > I've set up an i865 machine with a serial console, and on-board graphics > (also have radeon/MGA AGP..) and in an effort to try and figure out some > more about suspend /res

Re: [PATCH linux-2.6.13-rc3] SATA: rewritten sil24 driver

2005-07-30 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Jeff. I'll answer to your comments in this mail (and several questions, too) and will soon post patches fixing things in separate mails. On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:27:37PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > > Hello, Jeff. > > > > This is rewritten sil24 driver against v2.6.13

file kernel/signal.c, 2 * array subscript out of range

2005-07-30 Thread d binderman
Hello there, I just tried to compile Redhat Fedora package kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC5 with the Intel C compiler version 8.1 The compiler said kernel/signal.c(196): warning #175: subscript out of range The source code is case 4: ready = signal->sig[3] &~ blocked->sig[3]; Clearly broken

Re: isa0060/serio0 problems -WAS- Re: Asus MB and 2.6.12 Problems

2005-07-30 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
> >After downloading and compiling the latest version 2.6.12, my > >keyboard becomes unresponsive and dead following the boot process. > FWIW I have similar problem with Toshiba Portege 4000. Every second reboot keyboard is not there. It is really not there - i.e. I cannot even enter BIOS setup

[PATCH 2.6-mm] tms380tr: remove prototypes in Space.c

2005-07-30 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cleanup: remove two prototypes. --- commit 12dd61e649920ddc5164971e36ed2a6aeb300708 tree 2558f9767b0fa94b31bd6fe8de67cb17cab7e8df parent 6407300cd8c7368f6bfcaa476e4dd50ce7421ab2 author Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri, 29 Jul 2005 20:39:

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 question

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a -mm kernel doesn't compile for you, you can: > - apply a patch if it is already available But the only place I see to get patches is from the mailing list. A 'hotfixes' directory for the -mm patches on kernel.org would be nice. __ Chuck - To unsu

Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 at 22:54:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > We need a super-easy way for people to do bisection searching. First step would be to make interdiffs available as quilt patchsets. If we had this for e.g. 2.6.13-rc3 -> rc4 it would make tracking down those new bugs much easi

[PATCH 2.6-mm] tms380tr: new MCA API for madgemc.

2005-07-30 Thread Jochen Friedrich
Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Convert madgemc to new MCA API. Now that all tms380 devices have a valid struct device with dma_mask, remove dmalimit from tmsdev_init(). Kconfig: depend tms380tr and madgemc on MCA. abyss.c, proteon.c, skisa.c, tmspci.c, tms380tr.h: remove dm

Re: [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups

2005-07-30 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:46:27AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > @@ -55,20 +54,6 @@ struct ucb1x00_ts { > > static int adcsync; > > -static inline void ucb1x00_ts_evt_add(struct ucb1x00_ts *ts, u16 pressure, > u16 x, u16 y) > -{ > - input_report_abs(&ts->idev, ABS_X, x); > - input_repo

Re: [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups

2005-07-30 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:04:12AM +0100, Mark Underwood wrote: > I am in the process of porting Linux 2.6.11.5 to the > Helio PDA (MIPS R3912 based) and if I remember > correctly it is using a UCB1x00 (or Toshiba clone). > Please could you make sure your patches will work > across arch. Which UCB

Re: [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > @@ -55,20 +54,6 @@ struct ucb1x00_ts { > > > > static int adcsync; > > > > -static inline void ucb1x00_ts_evt_add(struct ucb1x00_ts *ts, u16 pressure, > > u16 x, u16 y) > > -{ > > - input_report_abs(&ts->idev, ABS_X, x); > > - input_report_abs(&ts->idev, ABS_Y, y); > > - input_

Re: [warning: ugly, FYI] battery charging support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-30 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:22:42AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I replaced sharp functions with ucb_1x00 functions this way; I hope I > did not mess it up. > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.c > b/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.c > --- a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.

Re: 2.6.13-rc4 use after free in class_device_attr_show

2005-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2.6.13-rc4 + kdb, with lots of CONFIG_DEBUG options. There is an > intermittent use after free in class_device_attr_show. Reboot with no > changes and the problem does not always recur. > ... > ip is at class_device_attr_show+0x50/0xa0 > ... > > Cal

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] sis190 driver

2005-07-30 Thread Pascal CHAPPERON
> Message du 29/07/05 00:13 > De : "Francois Romieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > Changes from previous version (20050722) [...] > o Minor round of mii/phy related changes. May crash. > > Testing reports/review/patches are always appreciated. > sis190-120 compiles, loads but does not work (sis1

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc4 1/1] pci_ids: patch for Intel ICH7R

2005-07-30 Thread Grant Coady
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:21:05 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[speaking to the audience] I wouldn't mind if someone did a pass >through pci_ids.h and removed all the constants that are not being used. > If constants are not being used, it's IMHO more appropriate to store >that

Re: [ACPI] [GIT PATCH] ACPI patches for 2.6.13

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Please pull from: > > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/to-linus/ > > Sorry to be scrambling so late in the 2.6.13 release cycle -- > we'll do better with 2.6.14. > > thanks, > -Len > > p.s. > Latest ACPI plain patch, including stuff waiting for 2.6.14 is available >

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-30 Thread Vincent Hanquez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:40:14AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >3i. if/else/do/while/for/switch > > space between if/else/do/while and following/preceeding > > statements/expressions, if any > > Why this? if(a) {} is not any worse than if (a). I would make this an option. please no, it

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Marc Ballarin
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:15:42 -0400 Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What kind of results do you get with a more realistic setup, like > running KDE or Gnome OOTB? > Here are results with KDE running. - no peripherals attached, i.e. truly mobile setup. - all modules loaded - klaptopdae

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > I was finally able to get C3 state working. It seems that my BIOS is > leaving USB controllers in an active state(?). Without any USB drivers > loaded, C3 is not possible. With drivers loaded, but no device plugged > in C3 works fine. Kernel is 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 + acpi-sbs. > > With working C3

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] sis190 driver

2005-07-30 Thread Francois Romieu
works better ? Single file patch: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050730-2.6.13-rc4-sis190-test.patch Patch-kit: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050730-2.6.13-rc4/patches Tarball: http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050730-2.6.13-rc4.tar.bz2 If it does not pass the network init, ca

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-30 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 02:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm3/ > > - There's a pretty large x86_64 update here which naughty maintainer wants > in 2.6.13. Extra testing, please. > > +x86_64-switch-to-the-interru

Re: [ACPI] S3 and sigwait (was Re: 2.6.13-rc3: swsusp works (TP 600X))

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >> One other glitch is that pdnsd (a nameserver caching daemon) has crashed > >> when the system wakes up from swsusp. It also happens when waking up > >> from S3, which was working with 2.6.11.4 although not with 2.6.13-rc3. > >> Many people have said mysql also does not suspend well. Is

Re: [PATCH] 2/6 i386 serialize-msr

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > i386 arch cleanup. Introduce the serialize macro to serialize processor > state. > Why the microcode update needs it I am not quite sure, since wrmsr() is > already > a serializing instruction, but it is a microcode update, so I will keep the > semantic the same, since this could be a tim

local_irq_enable() in __do_softirq()?

2005-07-30 Thread Peter Osterlund
Hi, The change "x86_64: Switch to the interrupt stack when running a softirq in local_bh ..." (ed6b676ca8b50e0b538e61c283d52fd04f007abf) contains this: --- a/kernel/softirq.c +++ b/kernel/softirq.c @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ restart: /* Reset the pending bitmask before enabling irqs */ loc

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] sis190 driver

2005-07-30 Thread Pascal CHAPPERON
> Message du 30/07/05 12:13 > De : "Francois Romieu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > Lars noticed that the link status is not correctly reported and suggested > a few changes. Can you check if the version below works better ? > I was precisely modifying mii_chip_table[] in sis190-120 to make it work ;

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3] sis190 driver

2005-07-30 Thread Francois Romieu
Pascal CHAPPERON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > By the way, i still can not force speed/mode/autoneg (ethtool or mii-tool); > ethtool reports correctly the changes, but autoneg is not really disabled, > and the driver falls back to 100 Full... > > Had Lars better results with autoneg off? I dou

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to do > certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and > refrigerator > to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will break > software > suspend (next patch fixes and cleans

i387 floating point benchmark/test v0.12

2005-07-30 Thread Chuck Ebbert
/* fptst.c: i387 benchmark/test program for Linux * Build this program with optimization (-O2 may be faster than -O3) * * v0.11 should work on a wider variety of glibc versions (tested: 2.3.2, 2.3.3) * (See below...) * v0.12 fixed bug in setaffinity: CPU set was empty * * Comments welco

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Introduce a todo notifier in the task_struct so that a task can be told to > > do > > certain things. Abuse the suspend hooks try_to_freeze, freezing and > > refrigerator > > to establish checkpoints where the todo list is processed. This will break > > software > > suspend (next patch

Re: [patch] ucb1x00: touchscreen cleanups

2005-07-30 Thread Mark Underwood
--- Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 09:04:12AM +0100, Mark > Underwood wrote: > > I am in the process of porting Linux 2.6.11.5 to > the > > Helio PDA (MIPS R3912 based) and if I remember > > correctly it is using a UCB1x00 (or Toshiba > clone). > > Please could y

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Ehrm, yes, I'm perfectly aware of that. Note the "for consistency" in >that sentence. If we add an extra space in front of the labels that >have an indentation level of 0, we'd better do it with the labels that >have an indentation level > 0 too. Labels at level > 0??? - To unsubscribe from

Re: Why dump_stack results different so much?

2005-07-30 Thread bert hubert
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:10:32PM -0400, Xin Zhao wrote: > Thanks. I will try. The only problem I have right now is I am using > Xenolinux instead of standard Linux kernel, I cannot see the option to > enable the frame pointer. But I will figure out how to enable that. If you ever report somethi

Re: Slowdown with randomize_va_space in 2.6.12.2

2005-07-30 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> It has the virtue of simplicity. Arjan, were you planning on anything > fancier? not for 2.6.13; this was the plan for later I was going to turn it into a bitmask for the individual randomisations signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [PATCH 2.4] Fix incorrect Asus k7m irq router detection

2005-07-30 Thread Giancarlo Formicuccia
Aleksey Gorelov wrote: > Hi Marcello, > > Here is 2.4 version of a patch submitted earlier for 2.6 by Giancarlo > Formicuccia. > yep...thanks Compiled & tested on 2.4.32-rc2. Giancarlo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug

2005-07-30 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > We need a super-easy way for people to do bisection searching. > > First step would be to make interdiffs available as quilt patchsets. > > If we had this for e.g. 2.6.13-rc3 -> rc4 it would make tracking down > those new bugs much easier. > > (Yes I know git does bisection but Andrew s

-rc4: arm broken?

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I merged -rc4 into my zaurus tree, and now zaurus will not boot. I see oops-like display, and it seems to be __call_usermodehelper / do_execve / load_script related. Anyone seen it before? Pavel -- teflon -- maybe it is a tradem

Re: [patch] Support powering sharp zaurus sl-5500 LCD up and down

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > + /* read comadj */ > > +#ifdef CONFIG_MACH_POODLE > > + comadj = 118; > > +#else > > + comadj = 128; > > +#endif > > Can you go back to the Sharp source and confirm that these values should > be hardcoded in both the poodle and collie cases please? I know the > sharpsl_param code c

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] swsusp: simpler calculation of number of pages in PBE list

2005-07-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 30 of July 2005 03:35, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Michal Schmidt wrote: > > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Friday, 29 of July 2005 21:46, Michal Schmidt wrote: > > > > > >>The function calc_nr uses an iterative algorithm to calculate the number > > >>of pages need

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] swsusp: simpler calculation of number of pages in PBE list

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > px >= n + x > > > > or > > > > (p-1)x >= n > > > > or > > > > x >= n / (p-1). > > > > The obvious solution is > > > > x = ceiling(n / (p-1)), > > > > so calc_nr should return n + ceiling(n / (p-1)), which is exactly what > > Michal's patch computes. > > Nice. :-) >

Re: [PATCH] swsusp: simpler calculation of number of pages in PBE list

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
On Pá 29-07-05 21:46:40, Michal Schmidt wrote: > The function calc_nr uses an iterative algorithm to calculate the number > of pages needed for the image and the pagedir. Exactly the same result > can be obtained with a one-line expression. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] swsusp: simpler calculation of number of pages in PBE list

2005-07-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 30 of July 2005 15:13, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > px >= n + x > > > > > > or > > > > > > (p-1)x >= n > > > > > > or > > > > > > x >= n / (p-1). > > > > > > The obvious solution is > > > > > > x = ceiling(n / (p-1)), > > > > > > so calc_nr should return n + c

[PATCH] swsusp: simpler calculation of number of pages in PBE list

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
From: Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The function calc_nr uses an iterative algorithm to calculate the number of pages needed for the image and the pagedir. Exactly the same result can be obtained with a one-line expression. Note that this was even proved correct ;-). Signed-off-by: Michal S

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-30 Thread David Weinehall
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:41:55PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >Ehrm, yes, I'm perfectly aware of that. Note the "for consistency" in > >that sentence. If we add an extra space in front of the labels that > >have an indentation level of 0, we'd better do it with the labels that > >have an i

Re: [ALSA PATCH] 1.0.9b+

2005-07-30 Thread Daniel Egger
On 29.07.2005, at 09:39, Jaroslav Kysela wrote: Note that most of lines are from new Sparc and ARM drivers. Other changes are mostly small bugfixes, cleanups and new hardware ID additions. The all changes goes through all ALSA developers (our CVS server sends us whole diffs back), so all of

Re: Average instruction length in x86-built kernel?

2005-07-30 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Karim, On Friday 29 July 2005 23:32, Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Googling around, I can find references claiming that the average > instruction length on x86 is anywhere from 2.7 to 3.5 bytes, but I > can't find anything studying Linux specifically. This is not that hard to find out yourself: Jus

Re: [PATCH] Fix NUMA node sizing in nr_free_zone_pages

2005-07-30 Thread Martin J. Bligh
>> We are iterating over all nodes in nr_free_zone_pages(). Because the >> fallback zonelists contain all nodes in the system, and we walk all >> the zonelists, we're counting memory multiple times (once for each >> node). This caused us to make a size estimate of 32GB for an 8GB >> AMD64 box,

[-mm patch] DLM must depend on IPV6 || IPV6=n

2005-07-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
If you select something, you have to ensure that the dependencies of what you are selecting are fulfilled. This patch fixes the following compile error with CONFIG_DLM=y and CONFIG_IPV6=m: <-- snip --> ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 net/built-in.o: In function `sctp_v6_err': ipv6.c:(.text+0x8cb

Re: [warning: ugly, FYI] battery charging support for sharp sl-5500

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
On So 30-07-05 10:26:56, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 08:22:42AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I replaced sharp functions with ucb_1x00 functions this way; I hope I > > did not mess it up. > > > > diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/battery-collie.c > > b/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/batt

dpm_runtime_suspend and _resume()

2005-07-30 Thread Dominik Brodowski
dpm_runtime_suspend and _resume() would be quite useful for some PCMCIA tasks. However, they are only exported in drivers/base/power/power.h. Any objection to moving it to include/linux/pm.h ? Any plans to break the functionality these functions provide? Thanks, Dominik - To unsubscribe fr

[patch] fix warning in sa1100fb.c

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Fix compile-time warning in sa1100fb.c Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 00fe4ed421624db9aae1bdcc80458d831422d9f9 tree 042157c712919bdc4006b59093181c60c2013af1 parent 785338d9bb750962ce99e672177f604853a69f97 author <[EMAIL PROTECTED](none)> Sat, 30 Jul 2005 16:35:06 +0200

Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] swsusp: simpler calculation of number of pages in PBE list

2005-07-30 Thread Alan Stern
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Saturday, 30 of July 2005 15:13, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > > px >= n + x > > > > > > > > or > > > > > > > > (p-1)x >= n > > > > > > > > or > > > > > > > > x >= n / (p-1). > > > > > > > > The obvio

Re: iptables redirect is broken on bridged setup

2005-07-30 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Friday 29 July 2005 22:37, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Denis Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:11:52 +0300 > > > Linux 2.6.12 > > > > Was running for months with this simple iptables rule: > ... > > But now I need to bridge together two eth cards in this machine, and

time-zone problem with kernel 2.6.13-rc4-git1..2

2005-07-30 Thread art
looks like new kernel move me into UTC -0hr zone from my UTC -5hr zone any clue why ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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

[PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Schau
Hello, I've attached a gzipped version of my Wireless Security Lock patch for v2.6.13-rc4. A Wireless Security Lock (WSL or weasel :-) is made up of two parts. One part is a receiver which you plug into any available USB port. The other part is a transmitter which at fixed intervals sends "ping

[2.6.13-rc4] Bug in the wireless code?

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Schau
Hello, I am sorry to annoy you all. I have problem in getting the wireless orinoco driver to work in 2.6.13-rc4. It works like a charm in 2.6.11. Doing a diff between the files for orinoco shows a lot of differences. I'll gladly assist in any way I can. /brian - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Michael Krufky
Brian Schau wrote: I've attached a gzipped version of my Wireless Security Lock patch for v2.6.13-rc4. The WSL driver touches these files: drivers/usb/Makefile(1 line) drivers/usb/input/Kconfig(10 lines) drivers/usb/input/Makefile(1 line) drivers/usb/

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Schau
Hi Michael (and others), Thanks for the info. Well, the reason why I didn't inline the patch was due to the size of it - in terms of lines. However, here it is: diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc4.orig/drivers/usb/Makefile linux-2.6.13-rc4/drivers/usb/Makefile --- linux-2.6.13-rc4.orig/drivers/us

Re: status of kernel memory debugging?

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:23:27PM +0200, Willem de Bruijn wrote: > Reading through some old LKML threads I see that there has been talk of > valgrinding a UML image, but the outcome appears inconclusive. Could someone > please update me on the status of memory debugging in the kernel, especially

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-30 Thread Khalid Aziz
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Khalid Aziz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Serial console is broken on ia64 on an HP rx2600 machine on > > 2.6.13-rc3-mm3. When kernel is booted up with "console=ttyS,...", no > > output ever appears on the console and system is hung. So

[FYI, ugly] first version of working frontlight

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I got frontlight to work, wow. Patch is extremely ugly, and I have a small problem? How do I do this properly? I need locomo_writel() to manipulate frontlight settings, but that only seems available in locomo.c. Putting frontlight support there is certainly possible, but looks ugly to me...

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > No wonder when -mm already contains: > > /* > * Check if there is a request to freeze a process > */ > static inline int freezing(struct task_struct *p) > { > return test_ti_thread_flag(p->thread_info, TIF_FREEZE); > } Yes I told you to remove

Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: > Once we have a clear description of this syntax in the record, > I anticipate raising as an issue that this syntax does not have a > single integer or string token value per file (or at most, an array > or list of comparable integer values). The current

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Brian Schau wrote: > Hi Michael (and others), > > > Thanks for the info. Well, the reason why I didn't inline the patch > was due to the size of it - in terms of lines. However, here it is: > +static void wsl_irq_in(struct urb *urb, struct pt_regs *regs) > +{ > + st

Re: 2.6.12 sound problem

2005-07-30 Thread Stephen Clark
Stephen Clark wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: (Please do reply-to-all when dealing with kernel stuff) Stephen Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Takashi Iwai wrote: At Tue, 26 Jul 2005 19:35:55 -0400, Stephen Clark wrote: Hello List, I recently upgraded m

about "SIGRT_0 (Unknown signal 32)"

2005-07-30 Thread gan_xiao_jun
Hi, I am trace the reason of a segment fault. I found it is created by a readdir loop by add fprintf before&after it. I use strace and get following information: write(3, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\275\4\0\0\0\0\0\0\f\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\275"..., 196) = 196 cl

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Schau
*Grrr* - it's the mailer (I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird). I don't know why it has chosen to fold those two lines. The section looks like: + struct usb_wsl *wsl=urb->context; + int id=0, retval; + + switch (urb->status) { + case -ECONNRESET: /brian Zwane Mwaikambo wrot

[patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01

2005-07-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
i have released the -V0.7.52-01 Real-Time Preemption patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-preempt/ this release is mainly a merge to 2.6.13-rc4. (That merge slashed ~30K off the patch, due to the continuing merge of various bits of the -RT

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > /* > > * Check if there is a request to freeze a process > > */ > > static inline int freezing(struct task_struct *p) > > { > > return test_ti_thread_flag(p->thread_info, TIF_FREEZE); > > } > > Yes I told you to remove the TIF_FREEZE patch. Okay, I took 2.6.13-rc3-mm3, removed

Re: -rc4: arm broken?

2005-07-30 Thread Russell King
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:04:06PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I merged -rc4 into my zaurus tree, and now zaurus will not boot. I see > oops-like display, and it seems to be __call_usermodehelper / > do_execve / load_script related. Anyone seen it before? I've run -rc4 on an ARM SMP system (with

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Yes I told you to remove the TIF_FREEZE patch. > > Okay, I took 2.6.13-rc3-mm3, removed TIF_FREEZE patch, and applied > your series. (This time it applied cleanly). After first suspend > machine locked hard at time it should switch back to original > c

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-07-30 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > Yes I told you to remove the TIF_FREEZE patch. > > > > Okay, I took 2.6.13-rc3-mm3, removed TIF_FREEZE patch, and applied > > your series. (This time it applied cleanly). After first suspend > > machine locked hard at time it should switch back to original > > console. On the next try,

Re: file kernel/signal.c, 2 * array subscript out of range

2005-07-30 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:17:48 + d binderman wrote: > Hello there, > > I just tried to compile Redhat Fedora package > kernel-2.6.12-1.1435_FC5 with the Intel C compiler version 8.1 > > The compiler said > > kernel/signal.c(196): warning #175: subscript out of range > > The source code is >

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

2005-07-30 Thread kylin
n the latest update of the Intel's E7520 MCH,the very NOTFIX entry caught my eye: // PCI Express Hot-Plug MSI interrupt issue Problem: During a link down state, the MCH will not send MSI interrupts to the front side bus. In general MSI messages need not be d

Re: -rc4: arm broken?

2005-07-30 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 15:04 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > I merged -rc4 into my zaurus tree, and now zaurus will not boot. I see > oops-like display, and it seems to be __call_usermodehelper / > do_execve / load_script related. Anyone seen it before? For the record -rc4 works fine on my Zaurus c760

Re: long delays (possibly infinite) in time_interpolator_get_counter

2005-07-30 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:31 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > What you are dealing with is a machine that is using ITC as a time bases. > That is a special case. The default time source for ia64 systems is a "special case"? 4 socket and smaller boxes typically do not have any other time sourc

[2.6 patch] add -Werror-implicit-function-declaration to CFLAGS

2005-07-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
Currently, using an undeclared function gives a compile warning, but it can lead to a link or even a runtime error. With -Werror-implicit-function-declaration, we are getting an immediate compile error instead. This patch also removes some unneeded spaces between two tabs in the following line

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 02:58 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc3/2.6.13-rc3-mm3/ > > > > - There's a pretty large x86_64 update here which naughty maintainer wants > > in 2.6.

[PATCH] swsusp with dm-crypt mini howto

2005-07-30 Thread Andreas Steinmetz
Pavel Machek wrote: > It looks good. Perhaps it should go into > Documentation/power/swsusp-dmcrypt.txt? Could you write you copyright > and GPL in there, sign it off, and cc: it to linux-kernel? > Pavel The attached patch contains a mi

Re: Making it easier to find which change introduced a bug

2005-07-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > > Linus, do you think we could have something like > patch-2.6.13-rc4-incremental-broken-out.tar.bz2 that could like Andrew's > be placed into patches/ in a tree? Not really. The thing is, since the git patches really _aren't_ serial, and merging

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Michael Krufky
Brian Schau wrote: *Grrr* - it's the mailer (I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird). I don't know why it has chosen to fold those two lines. I use thunderbird too... It does a good job with text file attachments, it inserts them inline correctly... Maybe try again that way? -- Michael Krufky -

2.6.12 stalls Andrew M. req this extended dmesg dump

2005-07-30 Thread jt
Andrew M. Here is the dmesg extended dump for the stall you mailed me about earlier sequence is boot params initcall_debug log_buf_len=512k at stall ALT + Sys Req + P small amout of output (8-9 lines) then ALT + Sys Req +T about 500+ lines of trace wait about 100 Seconds boot contin

Re: [PATCH] 2/6 i386 serialize-msr

2005-07-30 Thread Zachary Amsden
Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! i386 arch cleanup. Introduce the serialize macro to serialize processor state. Why the microcode update needs it I am not quite sure, since wrmsr() is already a serializing instruction, but it is a microcode update, so I will keep the semantic the same, since this c

Re: [ANNOUNCE 0/7] Open-iSCSI/Linux-iSCSI-5 High-Performance Initiator

2005-07-30 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 13:08 -0700, Alex Aizman wrote: > This is open-iscsi/linux-iscsi-5 Initiator. This submission is ready for > inclusion into mainline kernel. OK, I tried to put this into scsi-misc. FIB has taken your netlink number, so I changed it to 32 __nlm_put() has had an updated proto

Re: [git patches] 2.4.x SATA update

2005-07-30 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:46:32 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > +/** > + * ata_sg_init_one - Associate command with memory buffer > + * @qc: Command to be associated > + * @buf: Memory buffer > + * @buflen: Length of memory buffer, in bytes. > + * > + * Initialize the data-related elements of qu

Re: [patch 1/3] uml: share page bits handling between 2 and 3 level pagetables

2005-07-30 Thread Jeff Dike
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:56:53PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As obvious, a "core code nice cleanup" is not a "stability-friendly patch" so > usual care applies. These look reasonable, as they are what we discussed in Ottawa. I'll put them in my tree and see if I see any problems. I would

Re: [PATCH] 2/6 i386 serialize-msr

2005-07-30 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0, 0); - __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid" : : : "ax", "bx", "cx", "dx"); + /* see 1.07. Apprent chip bug */ + serialize_cpu(); 1.07 in which document? Also, please just spell 'apparent' correctly, saving 1 byte really just looks lazy. - To unsubs

Re: [2.6.13-rc4] Bug in the wireless code?

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Schau
Hi Denis/All, I see the error in 2.6.12 as well (I just tried it). My setup ... Zyxel ZyAir B-100 pcmcia wireless card. D-Link AccessPoint. /brian Denis Vlasenko wrote: On Saturday 30 July 2005 17:54, Brian Schau wrote: Hello, I am sorry to annoy you all. I have problem in getting th

Re: [PATCH] String conversions for memory policy

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Paul Jackson wrote: > Oh - I should have mentioned this before - if you are displaying and > parsing node lists (nodemask_t) then there are wrappers for these > bitmap routines in linux/nodemask.h: > > * int nodemask_scnprintf(buf, len, mask) Format nodemask for printing >

Re: [PATCH] 2/6 i386 serialize-msr

2005-07-30 Thread Zachary Amsden
'Apparently' I need to make some coffee :) Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: wrmsr(MSR_IA32_UCODE_REV, 0, 0); - __asm__ __volatile__ ("cpuid" : : : "ax", "bx", "cx", "dx"); + /* see 1.07. Apprent chip bug */ + serialize_cpu(); 1.07 in which document? Also, please just spell 'apparen

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:06 +0200, Marc Ballarin wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 19:15:42 -0400 > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What kind of results do you get with a more realistic setup, like > > running KDE or Gnome OOTB? > > > > Here are results with KDE running. > > - no pe

Re: [PATCH] Wireless Security Lock driver.

2005-07-30 Thread Brian Schau
I'll try it again ... - it looks ok now - sorry for the noise! diff -urN linux-2.6.13-rc4.orig/drivers/usb/Makefile linux-2.6.13-rc4/drivers/usb/Makefile --- linux-2.6.13-rc4.orig/drivers/usb/Makefile 2005-07-29 00:44:44.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13-rc4/drivers/usb/Makefile 2005-07-

Re: long delays (possibly infinite) in time_interpolator_get_counter

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:31 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > What you are dealing with is a machine that is using ITC as a time bases. > > That is a special case. > >The default time source for ia64 systems is a "special case"? 4 > socket and

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > So it looks like artsd wastes way more power DMAing a bunch of silent > pages to the sound card than HZ=1000. > > There's nothing the ALSA layer can do about this, it's a KDE bug. > > I think this is a good argument for leaving HZ at 1000 until some of >

Re: [2.6 patch] add -Werror-implicit-function-declaration to CFLAGS

2005-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Currently, using an undeclared function gives a compile warning, but it > can lead to a link or even a runtime error. > > With -Werror-implicit-function-declaration, we are getting an immediate > compile error instead. > > This patch also removes some

Re: Power consumption HZ100, HZ250, HZ1000: new numbers

2005-07-30 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 12:18 -0600, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > So it looks like artsd wastes way more power DMAing a bunch of silent > > pages to the sound card than HZ=1000. > > > > There's nothing the ALSA layer can do about this, it's a KDE bug. > > >

Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

2005-07-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Khalid Aziz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 16:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Khalid Aziz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Serial console is broken on ia64 on an HP rx2600 machine on > > > 2.6.13-rc3-mm3. When kernel is booted up with "console=ttyS,...", no > > >

[PATCH] switch fd1772.c from sleep_on to wait_event

2005-07-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
doesn't make the local irq disabling around it less buggy, but at least we replace the offender with the right kind of primitive. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acorn/block/fd1772.c ==

Re: kernel guide to space (updated)

2005-07-30 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> >Ehrm, yes, I'm perfectly aware of that. Note the "for consistency" in >> >that sentence. If we add an extra space in front of the labels that >> >have an indentation level of 0, we'd better do it with the labels that >> >have an indentation level > 0 too. >> >> Labels at level > 0??? > >A ca

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