Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Same lie like with harddrives. It's around 80, not 100. > But it depends on how you look at it. 80 for Layer3, possibly > a little more for Layer2/1. Strange, I tend to get about 95 for layer 3. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-22 Thread Phillip Susi
Denis Vlasenko wrote: What will happen if we just make open ignore O_DIRECT? ;) And then anyone who feels sad about is advised to do it like described here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2002/5/11/58 Then database and other high performance IO users will be broken. Most of Linus's rant there is

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:10:00PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > And I cannot seriosly believe that you are cappable of reading his > examples. Megabananas are a ridiculous demonstration becase of the > object beeing counted itself, but if you take stuff from real life then > I doubt that you

Re: [RFC] Asynchronous Messaging

2007-01-22 Thread Wink Saville
On 1/22/07, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is accomplished by allocating a page (or more) of memory which > is executable and mapped into every threads address space. Also, all > ISR entry points are modified to detect if the code that was interrupted > was executing within the ACE page.

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
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Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Linus may be right that perhaps one day the CPU will be so much faster > than disk that such a copy will not be measurable and then O_DIRECT > could be downgraded to O_STREAMING or an fadvise. If such a day will > come by, probably that same day Dr. Tanenbaum will be

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Neil Horman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:59:56PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > > > > the ERESTARTNOHAND thing is handled in arch specific signal code, > > In the signal handling path yes. Right. > Not always in the case of select, though. Check core_sys_select:

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > >>Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >>>All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ > >>> > >>>Björn > >>> > >>OK guys, here's a new patch to try

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3

2007-01-22 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 08:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Subject: nfs: fix congestion control > > The current NFS client congestion logic is severly broken, it marks the > backing > device congested during each nfs_writepages() call but doesn't mirror this in > nfs_writepage() which makes for

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-22 Thread Phillip Susi
Denis Vlasenko wrote: The difference is that you block exactly when you try to access data which is not there yet, not sooner (potentially much sooner). If application (e.g. database) needs to know whether data is _really_ there, it should use aio_read (or something better, something which

Re: [PATCH] select: fix sys_select to not leak ERESTARTNOHAND to userspace

2007-01-22 Thread Neil Horman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:03:53AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Neil Horman wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:59:56PM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > > > > > > the ERESTARTNOHAND thing is handled in arch specific signal code, > > > > In the signal handling path

Re: [RFC 3/6] bidi support: bidirectional request

2007-01-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 01:25 +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > - Instantiate another request_io_part in request for bidi_read. > - Define & Implement new API for accessing bidi parts. > - API to Build bidi requests and map to sglists. > - Define new end_that_request_block() function to end a complete

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-22 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Benny Halevy wrote: > Douglas Gilbert wrote: >> Boaz Harrosh wrote: >>> - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. >>> and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag >>> - Add new API to query request direction. >>> - Adjust existing API and implementation. >>> -

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:13:00 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using assembler code for performance in drivers might have been a good > idea 15 years ago when this code was written, but with today's compilers > that's unlikely to be an advantage. > > Besides this, it also hurts

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-22 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 10:05 -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote: > Perhaps the right use of DMA_BIRECTIONAL needs to be > defined. > > Could it be used with a XDWRITE(10) SCSI command > defined in sbc3r07.pdf at http://www.t10.org ? I suspect > using two scatter gather lists would be a better approach.

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 03:18:41PM +, Alan wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:13:00 +0100 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Using assembler code for performance in drivers might have been a good > > idea 15 years ago when this code was written, but with today's compilers > >

Re: [2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> > The C codepaths are essentially untested on this driver. > > Has any part of this driver ever be tested with kernel 2.6? > Or compiled with gcc 4? The C code paths have never been tested at all, the asm ones certainly worked in late 2.4, but I don't; have an ISA box any more. - To

[PATCH 1/3]: ufs: alloc metadata null page fix

2007-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
These series of patches result of UFS1 write support stress testing, like running fsx-linux, untar and build linux kernel etc We pass from ufs::get_block_t to levels below: pointer to the current page, to make possible things like reallocation of blocks on the fly, and we also uses this pointer

[PATCH 2/3] ufs: truncate negative to unsigned fix

2007-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
During ufs_trunc_direct which is subroutine of ufs::truncate, we try the first of all free parts of block and then whole blocks. But we calculate size of block's part to free in the wrong way. This may cause bad update of used blocks and fragments statistic, and you can got report that you have

[PATCH 3/3] ufs: rellocation fix

2007-01-22 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
In blocks reallocation function sometimes does not update some of buffer_head::b_blocknr, which may and cause data damage. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.20-rc5/fs/ufs/balloc.c === ---

[GIT PATCH] HID fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jiri Kosina
Hi Linus, could you please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus or master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid.git for-linus to receive bugfixes for HID code. Thanks. --- MAINTAINERS |5

revert "Fix up" of mmap_kmem

2007-01-22 Thread Hugh Dickins
Please revert 2.6.19's 99a10a60ba9bedcf5d70ef81414d3e03816afa3f (shown below) for 2.6.20. Nadia Derbey has reported that mmap of /dev/kmem no longer works with the kernel virtual address as offset, and Franck has confirmed that his patch came from a misunderstanding of what an offset means to

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-22 Thread Kevin D. Kissell
> On Jan 21 2007 00:14, Ralf Baechle wrote: > >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:42:37PM +, sathesh babu wrote: > > > >> I am trying to run Linux-2.6.18.2 ( with preemption enable) > >> kernel on FPGA board which has MIPS24KE processor runs at 12 > >> MHZ. Programmed the timer to give interrupt

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.22 17:12:40 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >On 2007.01.21 13:58:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > >>Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >>>All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ >

[PATCH - revised] Kwatch: kernel watchpoints using CPU debug registers

2007-01-22 Thread Alan Stern
From: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch (as839b) implements the Kwatch (kernel-space hardware-based watchpoints) API for the i386 architecture. The API is explained in the kerneldoc for register_kwatch() in arch/i386/kernel/kwatch.c, and there is demonstration code in

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 10:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >as opposed to the 100+ *other* definitions currently cluttering up the >tree, which this patch would allow to be deleted *immediately*. > >forget it. i can see this argument is going nowhere and that, six >months from now, some poor sucker is

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 22 2007 10:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > >> You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing >> to accept new terms? For my taste, kib and mib are even easier to >> speech, easier than {KiLoBytE} resp. {MeGaBytE} or KaaaBe / eMmmBe. > >There is too much legacy code

Re: System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19

2007-01-22 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Luigi Genoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (e-mail resent because not delivered using my other e-mail account) > > Hi, > this night a linux server 8 dual core CPU Optern 2600Mhz crashed just after > giving this message > > Jan 22 04:48:28 frey kernel: do_IRQ: 1.98 No irq handler for vector Ok.

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/rbtree.txt (updated)

2007-01-22 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 19 January 2007 5:41 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:33:25 -0500 Rob Landley wrote: > > > Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Documentation for lib/rbtree.c. > > > > -- > > > > I'm not an expert on this but I was asked to write up some

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:20:21 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 02:23:30 +0300, Samium Gromoff said: > > > > not "core-dumps" but "core files", in the lispspeak, but anyway. > > > > the reason is trivial -- if i can write programs enjoying setuid > > privileges in C, i want to

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-22 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:35:46 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > the core of the problem are the cores which are customarily > > dumped by lisps during the environment generation (or modification) stage, > > and then mapped back, every time the environment is invoked. > > > > > at the

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.22 17:57:08 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.22 17:12:40 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > On 2007.01.21 18:17:01 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > > Hmm, another miss, apparently.. Has anyone tried removing these lines > > > >from nv_host_intr in 2.6.20-rc5 sata_nv.c and see

Re: [PATCH] Remove final reference to superfluous smp_commence().

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 13:28 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Remove the last (and commented out) invocation of the obsolete > smp_commence() call. > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> thanks, Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ingo - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control -v3

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Subject: nfs: fix congestion control I am not sure if its too valuable since I have limited experience with NFS but it looks fine to me. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

[-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: >... > git-ieee1394.patch >... > git trees >... This patch contains the following cleanups: - "extern inline" -> "static inline" - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Eric D. Mudama
On 1/15/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Jens Axboe wrote: >>> I'd be surprised if the device would not obey the 7 second timeout rule >>> that seems to be set in stone and not allow more dirty in-drive cache >>> than it

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-22 Thread Rik van Riel
Theodore Tso wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:45:02AM -0500, Alan Cox wrote: Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) Understand that one

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and > K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. K is Kelvin, k is kilo- See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of

Re: i810fb fails to load

2007-01-22 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 22.01.2007 14:42 schrieb Thomas Hellström: >>> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:52:36 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> With kernel 2.6.20-rc4-mm1 and all hotfixes, i810fb fails to load on my >>> Dell Optiplex GX110. [...] >> > Can you try the attached patch to see if that fixes the

Re: Suspend to RAM generates oops and general protection fault

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > will be a device driver. Common causes of suspend/resume problems from > > the list you give below are acpi modules, bluetooth and usb. I'd also be > > consider pcmcia, drm and fuse possibilities. But again, go for unloading > > everything possible in the first instance. > > Actually,

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... > -Original Message- > From: Ralf Baechle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 8:18 AM > To: Marc St-Jean > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Here is a serial driver patch for the PMC-Sierra MSP71xx device. There are three different fixes: 1. Fix for THRE errata 2. Fix for Busy Detect on LCR write 3. Workaround for interrupt/data concurrency issue The first fix is handled cleanly using a

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:23:01PM -0800, Marc St-Jean wrote: > Index: linux_2_6/drivers/serial/8250.c > === > RCS file: linux_2_6/drivers/serial/8250.c,v retrieving revision > 1.1.1.7

[PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... -Original Message- From: Sergei Shtylyov Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 9:05 AM To: Marc St-Jean Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Hello. Marc

[PATCH -rt] make spin_unlock to slab_spin_unlock

2007-01-22 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, I hit this bug on one of my work test machines. This bug is probably what caused my laptop to crash ever so often too, but since I don't have a serial or other debug output, my laptop never showed what was wrong. Here's the call trace: [ cut here ] kernel BUG at

Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > It doesn't reduce the amount of memory available to the system. It > > just reduce the amount of memory available to the page cache. So that > > page cache is limited and the reserved memory can be allocated by the > > application. > > But the patch

Re: [PATCH -rt] make spin_unlock to slab_spin_unlock

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hit this bug on one of my work test machines. This bug is probably > what caused my laptop to crash ever so often too, but since I don't > have a serial or other debug output, my laptop never showed what was > wrong. ah, nice one! Thanks,

Re: [RPC][PATCH 2.6.20-rc5] limit total vfs page cache

2007-01-22 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Aubrey Li wrote: > assume: > min = 123pages > pagecache_reserved = 200 pages > > if( alloc_flags & ALLOC_PAGECACHE) >watermark = min + pagecache_reserved ( 323 pages) > else >watermark = min ( 123 pages) > > So if request pagecache, when free pages < 323

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Tony Foiani
> "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use Jan> k=1000 and K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem Jan> gone. The one-letter abbreviations are identical to SI prefixes, except for "K", which is

[patch] HZ-free NTP

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And here would be the follow on patch (again *untested*) for > CONFIG_NO_HZ slowing the time accumulation down to once per second. thanks John - i've applied the combined patch below to -rt. It appears to work fine for me. Ingo

Re: Linux 2.6.19.2 : Oops

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Bareil
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Since 2.6.19, I get the following Oops once a day, always with the same >> process, newspipe[1] which use a lot of CPU, threads and I/O. >> >> The kernel is patched by Grsecurity. The ext3 filesystem is on a >> software RAID device (the two disks are SATA2).

[PATCH] fix umask when noACL kernel meets extN tuned for ACLs

2007-01-22 Thread Hugh Dickins
Fix insecure default behaviour reported by Tigran Aivazian: if an ext2 or ext3 or ext4 filesystem is tuned to mount with "acl", but mounted by a kernel built without ACL support, then umask was ignored when creating inodes - though root or user has umask 022, touch creates files as 0666, and mkdir

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable ->{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize ->ultra_mask in aec62xx, pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old drivers * fix UDMA

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > In general, though, I would agree that the major number should change if there > is an incompatible change. Maybe when those incompatible features are enabled by default. Right now they're not. Nicolas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Carl Worth
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:20:06 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Also, in the same spirit of giving the release an early > exposure, here is the current draft of 1.5.0 release notes. Thanks, these are very good and really show how much great progress has gone into git recently. Congratulations to

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [PATCH] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks * use 0x00 instead of 0x80 to disable ->{ultra,mwdma,swdma}_mask * add udma_mask field to ide_pci_device_t and use it to initialize ->ultra_mask in aec62xx, pdc202xx_new and pdc202xx_old drivers * fix UDMA

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Jakub Narebski
Junio C Hamano wrote: > GIT v1.5.0 Release Notes (draft) > Would they be somewhere besides todo branch of git.git repository, like the v1.5.0 tag comment (content), or the NEWS file? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH 13/15] ide: fix UDMA/MWDMA/SWDMA masks

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:17:33 +0300 > Ugh, I'm not seeing any *actual* support for MW/SW DMA in this driver... Thats long been broken. Should be correct in the libata driver Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

[git patches] libata fixes

2007-01-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl |2 +- drivers/ata/libata-eh.c |4 drivers/ata/sata_mv.c |5

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: Hi, Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I can get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something like 16384. After I did that, the raid5 freeze. Any proccess read / write to it stucked at D state. I

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, kyle wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > Yesterday I tried to increase the value of strip_cache_size to see if I > > > can > > > get better performance or not. I increase the value from 2048 to something > > > like 16384. After I did

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread kyle
> Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change > it > at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' > time > and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Cousins
Justin Piszcz wrote: Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time and it works. Not sure where the bug

Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid

2007-01-22 Thread Liang Yang
Do we need to consider the chunk size when we adjust the value of Striped_Cache_Szie for the MD-RAID5 array? Liang - Original Message - From: "Justin Piszcz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "kyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:18 AM Subject: Re: change

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this > happens every time! > > Anything to try? Any

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2007-01-21 14:27:34, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke > > the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? > > > > Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However,

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-22 Thread Junio C Hamano
Thanks for your comments; the attached probably needs proofreading. The changes in response to the remainder of your comments are quite straightforward and I do not think needs proofreading, so I'll incorporate them and push the result out in 'todo'. diff --git a/v1.5.0.txt b/v1.5.0.txt index

Re: reiserfs4 primary contact

2007-01-22 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Monday 22 January 2007 18:48, Timothy Webster wrote: > I am curious, who is coordinating reiserfs4 bug fixes, > testing and kernel integration work at this point? > I would like to help out with auto testing the reiserfs4 builds. Thanks > Who is coordinating this work? All

Re: [patch] HZ-free NTP

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks John - i've applied the combined patch below to -rt. It appears > to work fine for me. updated patch below. (previous one was a delta in timex.h) Ingo > From: John Stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [patch] HZ-free

[patch] mtrr: fix size_or_mask and size_and_mask

2007-01-22 Thread Andreas Herrmann
mtrr: fix size_or_mask and size_and_mask This fixes two bugs in /proc/mtrr interface: o If physical address size crosses the 44 bit boundary size_or_mask is evaluated wrong. o size_and_mask limits width of physical base address for an MTRR to be less than 44 bits. Signed-off-by: Andreas

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: - "extern inline" -> "static inline" I guess that's fine, I do like how extern inline

ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Alan & Jeff, I've finally got the new ATA drivers setup and working for my main data disks, which is great. But I'm also trying to get my CDRW/DVDROM drive on the MPIIX (82371AB) chipset working. I'm running 2.6.20-rc5 currently on a Debian system, using the pata_mpiix as a module. The

Re: [RFC] How to (automatically) find the correct maintainer(s)

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 17:30:39 +0100 Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would like to come with a suggestion I have been wondering about for a > while, why not add the config-flag, used in Kconfig/Makefile in the > MAINTAINERS-file? I find that the most practical way to find out who

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the > auto-tuning routine: > . file system > . shared memory (per namespace) > . semaphore (per namespace) > . message queues (per namespace) This is the

Re: where to maintain userspace daemon for line discipline

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:36:14 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recent discussion on LKML convinced me that a line discipline > is the correct way to layer a driver over a serial interface. > This means, however, that I'll need a (trivial) userspace daemon > which will hold

Re: LEDS: S3C24XX generate name if none given

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:42:21 + Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 01:44:28PM +, Richard Purdie wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 12:26 +, Ben Dooks wrote: > > > Generate a name if none is passed to the S3C24XX GPIO LED driver. Wouldn't it be better to fix

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:23:26 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > Russell King wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > >> -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE]; > > >>

Re: Data corruption with raid5/dm-crypt/lvm/reiserfs on 2.6.19.2

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:11:58 +0100 noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm experiencing data corruption in the following setup: > > 1. mdadm --create /dev/md0 -n3 -lraid5 /dev/hda1 /dev/hdc1 /dev/hde1 > 2. cryptsetup -c aes-cbc-essiva:sha256 luksFormat /dev/md0 mykey > 3. cryptsetup -d

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc5 1/1] MM: enhance Linux swap subsystem

2007-01-22 Thread Al Boldi
yunfeng zhang wrote: > My patch is based on my new idea to Linux swap subsystem, you can find > more in Documentation/vm_pps.txt which isn't only patch illustration but > also file changelog. In brief, SwapDaemon should scan and reclaim pages on > UserSpace::vmalist other than current

Re: [PATCH -rt] whitespace cleanup for 2.6.20-rc5-rt7

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Noah Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fixes trailing whitespace and spaces before tab indents in > 2.6.20-rc5-rt7 as reported with: git-apply --whitespace=error-all thanks. Did you do the patch manually, or do you have a script for that perhaps? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this

Re: [PATCH query] arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source

2007-01-22 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Pisa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Thomas, Sascha and Ingo > > please can you find some time to review next patch > arm: i.MX/MX1 clock event source > which has been sent to you and to the ALKML at 2007-01-13. > >

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:56:50AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:23:26 + Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:31:51PM +0100, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > > > Russell King wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard

[GIT PATCH] PCI fixes for 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-22 Thread Greg KH
Here is a PCI quirk and two docmuentation updates for 2.6.20-rc5 Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6.git/ The full patches will be sent to the linux-pci mailing list, if anyone wants to see it thanks, greg k-h Documentation/pci.txt| 702

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: ... Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: ... git-ieee1394.patch ... git trees ... This patch contains the following cleanups: -

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:41:29PM -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>... > >>Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: > >>... > >> git-ieee1394.patch > >>... > >> git trees > >>... > > > > > >This patch contains the

OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread David Nicol
http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah - 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/lkml/

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Alon Bar-Lev
Hello Andrew, Can I do anything more in order to be closer to merge? Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... I submitted this several times but got almost no architecture to ACK. I just don't know how we can progress with this issue... All we wanted is to break the 256 limit

RE: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing to linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Original Message Subject: RE: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:11:04 -0800 From: Marc St-Jean To: Sergei Shtylyov CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > -Original

Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er

2007-01-22 Thread Marc St-Jean
CCing to linux-kernel as per AC's suggestion... Original Message Subject:Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git mast er Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:23:56 -0800 From: Sergei Shtylyov Organization: MontaVista Software Inc. To: Marc St-Jean CC:

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread lkml
I have to ask why the yellow snow appears to have run, bad aim? On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:21:54PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: > http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and > K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. And for 10^6 vs 2^20? > kegs perhaps? :) Hmm, Mega -> Megs, Kilo -> Kils? -- Len Sorensen - To

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-22 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +, Alan wrote: > K is Kelvin, k is kilo- K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. > See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide > and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following it. -- Len Sorensen -

Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:31:48 +0200 "Alon Bar-Lev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Andrew, > > Can I do anything more in order to be closer to merge? Avoid top-posting? ;) > Some general comments... or should I CC other people etc... > I submitted this several times but got almost no

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/firewire/: cleanups

2007-01-22 Thread Stefan Richter
>>> Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following cleanups: - "extern inline" -> "static inline" - fw-topology.c: make struct fw_node_create static Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-=== ---= =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this

[patch 2.6.20-rc5] rm pointless dmaengine exports

2007-01-22 Thread David Brownell
This removes several pointless exports from drivers/dma/dmaengine.c; the dma_async_memcpy_*() functions are inlined by so those exports are inappropriate. It also moves the existing EXPORT_SYMBOL declarations next to their functions, so it's now trivial to confirm one-to-one correspondence

Re: OT: snow tux

2007-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 January 2007 15:21, David Nicol wrote: >http://www.cymor.com/gallery/SnowPenguin/aah Cute, somebody obviously has time on their hands. I take it the colors are water colors? :) >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" > in the body of a message to

Re: ATA - pata_mpiix.c support for 82371AB chipsets?

2007-01-22 Thread Alan
> 00:07.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE > [8086:7111] (rev 01) This isn't an MPIIX, Use the ata_piix driver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

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