Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Gerdau
> > I don't want to say the values aren't useful. I simply think there is > > a high noiselevel. > > The noise is reflected in the standard deviation he has on those rows. > The average +- stdev of one overlaps the average +- stdev of the > other, For the fairness test on cfs13 this simply is wr

Re: [SMP BUG] [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 11:14 +0900, Komuro wrote: > Hi, > > > [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces > irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem. it disables irq balancing for IRQ0, but this does not affect any other interrupts. It is almost irrelevant as the PIT/HPET timer interrupt (irq

Re: [2.6.22-rc1-mm1] vaio laptop (SZ72B) immediately resumes after STR

2007-05-20 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:47:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007 15:14:08 +0900 Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:04:13AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2007 15:48:29 +0900 Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrot

Re: [PATCH 1/9] readahead: introduce PG_readahead

2007-05-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Fengguang Wu wrote: > The reuse code would look like the attached one. > It still needs more testing, and would fail if Christoph reuses > PG_reclaim in higher order pagecache in the future. Do not worry about that. All higher order pagecache patchsets remove that sharing bec

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-20 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > Code: 0f ob eb fe 48 8b 1b 48 8b 0x 0f 18 08 48 81 fb 60 cb 51 80 > RIP [...] slab_sysfs_init+0x49/0x98 > RSP [...] > kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! sysfs? If you build without CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG then SLUB will not use sysf

[PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support 2.6.22-rc2-v1

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
I'm pleased to announce an updated version of the x86_64 highres/dyntick support patches against 2.6.22-rc2: http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc1/linux-2.6.22-rc2-x86_64-highres-v1.patch Broken out version is available here: http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc1/linux-2.6.22-

Re: Sched - graphic smoothness under load - cfs-v13 sd-0.48

2007-05-20 Thread Ray Lee
On 5/19/07, Michael Gerdau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to say the values aren't useful. I simply think there is > > a high noiselevel. > > The noise is reflected in the standard deviation he has on those rows. > The average +- stdev of one overlaps the average +- stdev of the > o

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-20 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, 19 May 2007 11:15:01 -0700 William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Much the same holds for the atomic_t's; 32 + PAGE_SHIFT is >> 44 bits or more, about as much as is possible, and one reference per >> page per page is not even feasible. Full-length atomic_t's are just >> not ne

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-20 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > > Code: 0f ob eb fe 48 8b 1b 48 8b 0x 0f 18 08 48 81 fb 60 cb 51 80 > > RIP [...] slab_sysfs_init+0x49/0x98 > > RSP [...] > > kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > > sysfs? If

[PATCH] Extract common MODULE_INFO content into new moduleinfo.h.

2007-05-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Extract the common MODULE_INFO content found in both module.h and moduleparam.h into a new header file moduleinfo.h, which at least makes it possible for source files to someday stop including the content from moduleparam.h when they don't need it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTE

[PATCH] Fix duplicated entry in Documentation/HOWTO

2007-05-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
Commit 3f271008 introduced this section to Linus tree, but a later commit 722385f7 accepted almost the identical patch via Greg's tree, both from the same author. This kills the duplicated one. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/HOWTO | 20

Re: Via C3/C7: other flags possible ?

2007-05-20 Thread Claas Langbehn
Simon Arlott schrieb: On 19/05/07 23:36, Christian Volkmann wrote: Christian Volkmann wrote: Claas asked for the NX flag for the Via C3 (?) processors in another thread. If you read the other thread properly you'd see that the BIOS has an option to enable or disable it... when enabled it sho

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Satyam Sharma wrote: > You'll learn about the "default .. if .." Kconfig idiom after you try > this, I have seen these in the rest of the patch which I didn't quote. However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select". You can interchange them, but not remove them, unless there wasn't a

Re: [PATCH] drivers/ata: Add the SW NCQ support to sata_nv for MCP51/MCP55/MCP61

2007-05-20 Thread Zoltan Boszormenyi
Hi, Jeff Garzik írta: Alan Cox wrote: That shouldn't be a problem, libata default DMA mask is 32 bits (which isn't overridden with this controller) and so the block layer will bounce any data being read/written above that point with IOMMU or swiotlb. The comment is a bit unnecessarily scary.

Re: [PATCH 0/5] make slab gfp fair

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Ok, full reset. I care about kernel allocations only. In particular about those that have PF_MEMALLOC semantics. The thing I need is that any memory allocated below ALLOC_MIN|ALLOC_HIGH|ALLOC_HARDER is only ever used by processes that have ALLOC_NO_WATERMARKS rights; for the duration of the dis

Re: it seems at XFS bug?!

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 19 2007 22:24, Willy Tarreau wrote: >On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0200, oliver pinter wrote: >> yeah, but how produziert? > >I *think* it is the unbreakable space. \xa0 is 160, aka the NBSP. But __only__ in ISO-8859. It is an invalid UTF-8 sequence (which is why you may not even "se

Re: [PATCH] Extract common MODULE_INFO content into new moduleinfo.h.

2007-05-20 Thread David Rientjes
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > diff --git a/include/linux/moduleinfo.h b/include/linux/moduleinfo.h > new file mode 100644 > index 000..cee86a9 > --- /dev/null > +++ b/include/linux/moduleinfo.h > @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ > +#ifndef _LINUX_MODULEINFO_H > +#define _LINUX_MODULEINFO_H >

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-20 Thread William Lee Irwin III
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:15:01AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> The cache cost argument is specious. Even misaligned, smaller is >> smaller. On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:22:29AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > Of course smaller is smaller ;) Why would that make the cache cost > argument specio

[ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.2

2007-05-20 Thread Junio C Hamano
The latest feature release GIT 1.5.2 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.5.2.tar.{gz,bz2}(tarball) git-htmldocs-1.5.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted docs) git-manpages-1.5.2.tar.{gz,bz2} (prefo

Re: it seems at XFS bug?!

2007-05-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 19 2007 22:24, Willy Tarreau wrote: >>On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0200, oliver pinter wrote: >>> yeah, but how produziert? >> >>I *think* it is the unbreakable space. > > \xa0 is 160, aka the NBSP. But __only__ in ISO-8859. It is an inval

Re: it seems at XFS bug?!

2007-05-20 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:39:33AM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 19 2007 22:24, Willy Tarreau wrote: > >On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0200, oliver pinter wrote: > >> yeah, but how produziert? > > > >I *think* it is the unbreakable space. > > \xa0 is 160, aka the NBSP. But __only__

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-20 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:46:47AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:15:01AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > >> The cache cost argument is specious. Even misaligned, smaller is > >> smaller. > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:22:29AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > O

[ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline v1.00 cpu scheduler

2007-05-20 Thread Con Kolivas
The staircase deadline cpu scheduler continues to be the reference with respect to interactive fairness for many workloads especially with 3d gaming. This version is only trivially different from the version included in the -ck patchset which has been very stable. The version number has been inc

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Russell King
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig: > > > > config MOUSE_ATARI > > tristate "Atari mouse" > > depends on AT

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Russell King
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:02:35AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig: > > > > > > config

Re: [PATCH] libata: implement ata_wait_after_reset()

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Indan Zupancic wrote: >> 1. We dropped libata specific suspend/resume implementation in favor of >> sd driven one. Unfortunately, the new implementation currently can't do >> background spinup, so that's probably why you can feel the delay. We >> need to figure out how to do background spinup wit

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 5/20/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:25:24AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > On 5/20/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:06:33AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > >> > O

Re: sd_resume redundant? [was: [PATCH] libata: implement ata_wait_after_reset()]

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Indan Zupancic wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 21:04, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Yeah, if SCR registers are accessible, 0xff doesn't indicate the device >>> isn't there, so the whole skip-0xff logic probably shouldn't apply in >>> such cases, but we can also achieve pretty good result b

Re: building i386 requires s390: "driver/crypto/Kconfig" sourcing s390 arch

2007-05-20 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:47:05PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > Randy Dunlap wrote: > >if S390 > >source "arch/s390/crypto/Kconfig" > >endif > > > Why bother? Why not just move the contents of s390's crypto "Kconfig" > in place of the "source" statement. All the options in s390's Kconfig > are a

Re: it seems at XFS bug?!

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 20 2007 11:14, Andreas Schwab wrote: >Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On May 19 2007 22:24, Willy Tarreau wrote: >>>On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0200, oliver pinter wrote: yeah, but how produziert? >>> >>>I *think* it is the unbreakable space. >> >> \xa0 is 160, ak

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:40:33AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > Do we really need an exhaustive set of configuration combinations to > run through Kconfig to find possible missing symbols? Or do we need a > Kconfig lint to find them? > > If we're going to make Kconfig warn on missing symbols o

Re: [BUG] local_softirq_pending storm

2007-05-20 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:11:08PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 15:25 +0530, Anant Nitya wrote: > > > No idea. I uploaded a debug patch against 2.6.22-rc1 to > > > > > > http://www.tglx.de/private/tglx/2.6.22-rc1-hrt-debug.patch > > > > > > Can you give it a try and report

Re: [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Indan Zupancic wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 00:03, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Indan Zupancic wrote: >>> This patch seems to work with my SiI 3512, though I don't notice any >>> difference, neither a speedup, nor a slowdown. Hdparm gives the same >>> speeds (-tT), and cp -a'ing kernel sources is abysmal

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

2007-05-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:12:50PM +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Hello, > > I tried it on iMac G3. I got a bunch of warnings > and finally it failed to build. > > WARNING: "fee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol > WARNING: "ee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-

Re: [PATCH] drivers/block/z2ram: Remove TRUE/FALSE defines

2007-05-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Richard Knutsson wrote: > Remove defines of TRUE and FALSE > * not used in the file > * the file is not included somewhere else > > Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Not compile-tested (don't have

Re: [PATCH] Extract common MODULE_INFO content into new moduleinfo.h.

2007-05-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 20 May 2007, David Rientjes wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > diff --git a/include/linux/moduleinfo.h b/include/linux/moduleinfo.h > > new file mode 100644 > > index 000..cee86a9 > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/include/linux/moduleinfo.h > > @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ > > +

[PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking

2007-05-20 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Add lock contention tracking to lockdep [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/lockdep_contentions | sort -rnk 2 | head dcache_lock: 3000 0 [618] [] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x39/0x58 [17] [] sysfs_open_file+0x28/0x25a [160] [] d_instantiate+0x2a/0xad [52] [] __link_path_walk+0x270/0xde9 &inode->i_mutex:

Re: it seems at XFS bug?!

2007-05-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On May 20 2007 11:14, Andreas Schwab wrote: >>Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On May 19 2007 22:24, Willy Tarreau wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 09:50:43PM +0200, oliver pinter wrote: > yeah, but how produziert? I *think*

Re: [SMP BUG] [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem

2007-05-20 Thread Komuro
On Sat, 19 May 2007 23:03:56 -0400 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you mean userspace irqbalance daemon? Yes. I mean userspace irqbalance daemon. Best Regards Komuro > Komuro wrote: > > [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces > > irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem. >

Re: [SMP BUG] [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem

2007-05-20 Thread Komuro
On Sun, 20 May 2007 09:09:16 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mr. Thomas Gleixner, > > any idea to fix this problem? > > Which problem ? The problem is CPU1 receives 38239 interrupt-16 but CPU0 receives only 15 interrupt-16 CPU0 should receive more interrupts. C

Re: Kernel NFS lockd freezes notebook on shutdown (Linux 2.6.22-rc1 + CFS v12)

2007-05-20 Thread zilvinas
Hello Oleg, I've done some more tests and quite frankly I think this is really related to the dreaded ''fglrx.ko'' module. It seems to me that it is much easier to reproduce the problem if that damn module is loaded. It does uses workqueue. Then there is another driver ipw3945 loaded and it is

Re: [3/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > SATA/PATA > > Subject: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/305 > Submitter : Robert de Rooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Status : Unknown Doesn't look like a regression to me. Doubled timeout looks like a problem

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Trent Piepho wrote: > config ATARI_KBD_CORE > bool > default y if KEYBOARD_ATARI > default y if MOUSE_ATARI > > Basically a line "config A \n select B" is transformed into "config B \n > default y if A". It's the same number of lines, they're just in a new place. Basically you

Race free attributes in sysfs

2007-05-20 Thread Pierre Ossman
Hi Greg, I'm reworking the sysfs stuff in the MMC layer to be a bit more flexible, but there is one thing that has me baffled; how do you add attributes to an object in a race free manner when you have a dynamic set of attributes. I've looked at other parts of the kernel and they all use: 1. Add

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Russell King wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 04:22:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2007 01:05:37 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Look for example at the last one in drivers/input/mouse/Kconfig: > > > > > > config MOUSE_ATARI > > >

2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (3)

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, FYI, building the kernel with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) on my powerbook (PPC) gives: ... fs/partitions/check.c: In function 'add_partition': fs/partitions/check.c:392: warning: ignoring return value of 'kobject_add', declared with attribute warn_unused_result fs/

Re: [5/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions

2007-05-20 Thread Herbert Xu
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Looks more like the IPV6 SNMP6 OOPS, I saw and fixed with: > > commit 5632c5152aa621885d87ea0b8fdd5a6bb9f69c6f > Author: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat Apr 28 21:16:39 2007 -0700 > >[IPV6]: Track device renames in snmp6. >

Re: signals logged / [RFC] log out-of-virtual-memory events

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> I do not see such on i386, so why for x86_64? > >>>So that you know that one of your programs crashed. That's a feature. > >>This feature could be handy for i386 too. > >Since 2.6.18.2 I use this patch. With 2.6.21.1 it still applies altough > >with a small offsets. Works like a charm. > > >

2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (4)

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, FYI, building the kernel with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) on my powerbook (PPC) gives: ... drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c: In function 'radeonfb_pci_register': drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c:2326: warning: ignoring return value of 'sysfs_create_bin_file', declare

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Trent Piepho wrote: > > config ATARI_KBD_CORE > > bool > > default y if KEYBOARD_ATARI > > default y if MOUSE_ATARI > > > > Basically a line "config A \n select B" is transformed into "config B \n > > default y if A". It's the same number of

2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (5)

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, FYI, building the kernel with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) on my powerbook (PPC) gives: ... WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:.got2 from dt_string_start (offset 0x8) WARNING: arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in.o - Section

Who is currently usb.ids maintainer?

2007-05-20 Thread CIJOML
Hi guys, can anybody help me find current usb.ids maintainer? David Brownell is not responding and latest official version is 5 mounths old. I could take ownership if nobody takes care. Thanks for reply Michal - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, FYI, building the kernel modules with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) on my powerbook (PPC) gives: ... fs/udf/balloc.c: In function 'udf_table_new_block': fs/udf/balloc.c:747: warning: 'goal_eloc.logicalBlockNum' may be used uninitialized in this function fs/udf/super.

Re: [PATCH] ubi: kill homegrown endian macros

2007-05-20 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 14:24 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > >> It's not the compiler who decides -- struct layout is > >> dictated by the ABI you're compiling for. > > > > This is true in the case of externally-visible stuff. I think the > > compiler is permitted to violate the ABI for purely un

Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
1. Please apply timing-debug.patch on 2.6.22rc1-git5 or later and report the log with timestamp as before. Let's see why the timeout has doubled. 2. Does the attached disable-dev_init_params.patch fix your problem? -- tejun diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c inde

2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (1)

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, FYI, building 2.6.22-rc2 with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) on my powerbook (PPC) gives: ... arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c: In function 'pcibios_assign_resources': arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c:562: warning: ignoring return value of 'pci_assign_resource', declared with

2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (2)

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi, FYI, building 2.6.22-rc2 with gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) on my powerbook (PPC) gives: ... kernel/time/ntp.c: In function 'do_adjtimex': kernel/time/ntp.c:307: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast kernel/time/ntp.c:310: warning: comparison of

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: > You'll learn about the "default .. if .." Kconfig idiom after you try > this, I have seen these in the rest of the patch which I didn't quote. However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select". You can inte

Re: [RFC] LZO1X de/compression support

2007-05-20 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: I'm certainly missing something but what are the advantages of this code (over current gzip etc.), and what will be using it? Richard's patchset added it to the crypto library and wired it into the JFFS2 file system. We recently started using LZO in a userland UDP pro

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Trent Piepho wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Basically you replace >> >> A... depends on B >> >> by >> >> B... serves A >> >> The latter variant is a pain to maintain. Dependencies change over >> time, therefore we should note the dependency always at the dependent

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select". You can >> interchange them, but not remove them, unless there wasn't a dependency >> to begin with. > > They _can_ be removed, with absolutely no build fa

Re: no DRQ after issuing MULTWRITE_EXT AND PCI: Bus #0b (-#0e) is hidden behind transparent bridge #0a (-#0a) (try 'pci=assign-busses')

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Tjenarvi Tjenarvi wrote: > These dmesg if not as Tejun said, Which he said should only libata > drivers used to get more information. Frankly, I don't know which one I > have to take off in kernel configuration to comply this. I guess the > libata is in: > > Device Drivers ---> > SCSI device s

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> However you fix it --- don't remove "depends on" or "select". You can >> interchange them, but not remove them, unless there wasn't a dependency >> to begin with.

[PATCH] wistron_btns: reduce polling frequency (to save power)

2007-05-20 Thread Éric Piel
Hello, I'm usually not a fashion victim, but I felt into the trap this time: I've launched powertop. As I noticed that wistron_btns was part of the topers (10 wake-up's per seconds), here is a patch that should reduce the problem. The driver now polls the hardware only twice per second. Actu

Re: [PATCH] UDF: check for allocated memory for inode data

2007-05-20 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
[Christoph Hellwig - Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:56:00PM +0100] | On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:52:57PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: | > I've that documants even printed ;) Actually they are _very-very_ big | > indeed. I don't know may be just try to bring this code into Linux | > codying style? | | Tha

Re: 2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (3)

2007-05-20 Thread WANG Cong
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:11:13PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: >Hi, > >FYI, building the kernel with >gcc (GCC) 4.1.3 20070514 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-7) >on my powerbook (PPC) gives: > >... >fs/partitions/check.c: In function 'add_partition': >fs/partitions/check.c:392: warning: ignoring r

something strange in libata-core.c for kernel 2.6.22-rc3

2007-05-20 Thread l . genoni
Mybe I am wrong, but if you are detecting 40-wire cable to set them to DMA/33, why the check includes also 80-wire cables configuring them to DMA/33 too? With this patch my nvidia4 IDE controllers detects correctly and configure correctly DMA/100 for my HD and DMA/33 for my DVD (the first us

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Saturday, 19 May 2007 07:17, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It's out there, both patches/tarballs and git trees are updated (although > mirroring might still be ongoing) > > Various random fixes all over - the shortlog (appended) is fairly > readable. The most notable ones are probably more

Re: radeonfb and X800 cards

2007-05-20 Thread Jimmy Jazz
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : >> This is what I'm using here, it's still the same old patch (Solomon's >> plus my stuff). I think I can coordinate with [EMAIL PROTECTED] to >> create an incremental patch to fix radeonfb on his hardware (provided >> that this mega-patch is suitable as baseline th

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sunday 20 May 2007 06:10:16 Eric Dumazet wrote: > Christoph Lameter a écrit : > > On Sat, 19 May 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > > >> However, there are numerous optimizations and features made possible > >> with flag bits, which might as could be made cheap by padding struct > >> page u

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA > drives > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it > completely unresponsive. I can't even move the mouse pointer when it's > running, I can

Re: Via C3: other flags possible ?

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
> C7 Esther: > Hmm, I expect the NX-Bit should be detected from linux during the > boot. The NX function bit seems to be at the same place where it's > located for other CPU. > Unfortunately I have no C7 hardware and I am too much a beginner > in kernel programming to prepare this "dry". > > May

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Satyam Sharma wrote: > I was only answering your *completely misplaced and > incorrect* original comment against the patch where you claimed > that the patch was "totally wrong" because of the way it removed > the "select" ... etc ... I believe I have explained why I labeled it as totally wrong.

Re: Via C3/C7: other flags possible ?

2007-05-20 Thread Christian Volkmann
Bit 20 in edx is set if NX is available for C7: eax in: 0x8001, eax = ebx = ecx = edx = 0010 ( from your posting "This kernel requires the following..." ) The official VIA Eden datasheet seems to be NDA. I have not found any official download link on the pages:

Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions with patches

2007-05-20 Thread Luca Tettamanti
Il Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:06:42AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski ha scritto: > Hi all, > > Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc2 > with patches available. > > Cryptography > > Subject: cryptomgr oops > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/14/283 > Submitter : Luca Tettamant

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2: make -j makes it unresponsive

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:01, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Running 'make -j' kernel compilation on my test box (Athlon64 X2, 2 SATA > > drives > > with 6 software RAID1 ext3 and reiserfs partitions, 2 GB of RAM) makes it > > completely unresponsiv

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-20 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/20/07, Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > > Code: 0f ob eb fe 48 8b 1b 48 8b 0x 0f 18 08 48 81 fb 60 cb 51 80 > > RIP [...] slab_sysfs_init+0x49/0x98 > > RSP [...] > > ker

Re: [PATCH] libata: implement ata_wait_after_reset()

2007-05-20 Thread Indan Zupancic
Hello Tejun, Thanks for your answers. On Sun, May 20, 2007 11:50, Tejun Heo wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: >>> 1. We dropped libata specific suspend/resume implementation in favor of >>> sd driven one. Unfortunately, the new implementation currently can't do >>> background spinup, so that's prob

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-20 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > > > > Code: 0f ob eb fe 48 8b 1b 48 8b 0x 0f 18 08 48 81 fb 60 cb 51 80 > > > RIP [...] slab_sysfs_init+0x49/0x98 > > > RSP [...] > >

Re: [PROBLEM] 2.6.22-rc2 panics on x86-64 with slub

2007-05-20 Thread Srihari Vijayaraghavan
--- Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/20/07, Srihari Vijayaraghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Srihari Vijayaraghavan wrote: > > > > > > > Code: 0f ob eb fe 48 8b 1b 48 8b 0x 0f 18 08 48 81 fb 60 cb 51 8

Re: [PATCH] sata_sil: Greatly improve DMA support

2007-05-20 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Sun, May 20, 2007 12:19, Tejun Heo wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: >> On Sun, May 20, 2007 00:03, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Indan Zupancic wrote: This patch seems to work with my SiI 3512, though I don't notice any difference, neither a speedup, nor a slowdown. Hdparm gives the same s

Re: [SMP BUG] [clockevents: i386 drivers patch] introduces irqbalance-does-not-work-properly problem

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 19:48 +0900, Komuro wrote: > The problem is CPU1 receives 38239 interrupt-16 > but CPU0 receives only 15 interrupt-16 > CPU0 should receive more interrupts. > >CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 85 0 IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 06

Re: [BUG] local_softirq_pending storm

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 12:18 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > > I work out a more complex debug patch and pester you to test once I'm > > done. > > I've also tons of 'NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 08' that disappear with > nohz=off. But I'm still running 2.6.21. Are there any patches that should > fix

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Satyam Sharma wrote: > I was only answering your *completely misplaced and > incorrect* original comment against the patch where you claimed > that the patch was "totally wrong" because of the way it removed > the "select" ... etc ... I belie

Re: [realtime kernel 2.6.21-rt2 and up] Extremely slow bootup for x86_64

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 14:25 +0200, Maarten Maathuis wrote: > When i try to boot a kernel higher than 2.6.21-rt1, it boots very > slowly. It takes minutes to even detect two cdrom players. I noticed > in the changelog: > > - x86/64 high-res timers and dynticks update (Thomas Gleixner) > > I includ

Re: sd_resume redundant? [was: [PATCH] libata: implement ata_wait_after_reset()]

2007-05-20 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Sun, May 20, 2007 11:54, Tejun Heo wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: >> On Sat, May 19, 2007 21:04, Tejun Heo wrote: >>> Tejun Heo wrote: Yeah, if SCR registers are accessible, 0xff doesn't indicate the device isn't there, so the whole skip-0xff logic probably shouldn't apply in such

Re: [3/5] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions

2007-05-20 Thread Alan Cox
> > Subject: pata_via appears to incorrectly detects 40-pin cable > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/17/273 > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8142 > > Submitter : Francis Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Status : Unknown > > Not really a regression. Ala

[PATCH] i2o: destroy event queue only when drv->event is set

2007-05-20 Thread Akinobu Mita
i2o_driver_register() initalizes event queue for driver only when drv->event is set. So similarly the event queue should be destroyed only when drv->event is set in the error path. Otherwise destroy_workqueue() will called with NULL. Cc: Markus Lidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita

[PATCH] i2o: fix notifiers when max_drivers is configured

2007-05-20 Thread Akinobu Mita
Maxinum number of I2O drivers which could be registered is configurable by max_drivers module parameter. But the module parameter is ignored and default value (I2O_MAX_DRIVERS = 8) is used in the loops to notify all registered drivers. Cc: Markus Lidel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Akinobu M

[PATCH] Fix "fs: convert core functions to zero_user_page"

2007-05-20 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
The bug introduced by 01f2705daf5a36208e69d7cf95db9c330f843af6. It misses to convert the first argument, it should be "new_page". This became the cause of fatfs corruption. Cc: Nate Diller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/buffer.c |2 +- 1 file c

[PATCH] power: Fix sizeof(PAGE_SIZE) typo

2007-05-20 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
Fix sizeof(PAGE_SIZE) typo. It should be just PAGE_SIZE for zeroing the swsusp_header. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/power/swap.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN kernel/power/swa

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Satyam Sharma wrote: > On 5/20/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> config A >> bool-or-tristate "option A" >> depends on !PLATFORM_X || HELPER_N_ON_PLATFORM_X > > ??? I didn't get this entry, "A is available if N is there or if it's a platform other than X." That wou

Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image

2007-05-20 Thread Uwe Bugla
Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2007 08:58 schrieben Sie: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Al Viro wrote: > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:16:59PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > > > Ken? Ball's in your court. As the patch isn't providing a killer > > > feature for 2.6.22, I'd suggest just reverting it for now until the > > > i

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rt2] PowerPC: decrementer clockevent driver

2007-05-20 Thread Matt Sealey
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:43 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > >> In terms of clocksources, gettimeofday() would have to switch to another >> clocksource if the decrementer started to act that way .. That's why it >> is possible to register more than one clocksource, to

[PATCH] fat: gcc 4.3 warning fix

2007-05-20 Thread OGAWA Hirofumi
This patch fixes the following warnings. fs/fat/dir.c: In function 'fat_parse_long': include/linux/msdos_fs.h:294: warning: array subscript is above array bounds include/linux/msdos_fs.h:295: warning: array subscript is above array bounds include/linux/msdos_fs.h:295: warning: array subscript is

Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code

2007-05-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > > > Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but > > not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in > > 32 bit mode. > > Is this conversion just unnecessary or actually harmful on ppc64 and other

Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image

2007-05-20 Thread Ray Lee
On 5/19/07, Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:16:59PM -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > Ken? Ball's in your court. As the patch isn't providing a killer > feature for 2.6.22, I'd suggest just reverting it for now until the > issues are ironed out. Hold it. The real question he

Re: bug in 2.6.22-rc2: loop mount limited to one single iso image

2007-05-20 Thread Ray Lee
On 5/20/07, Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My question / proposal for now would be: Could anybody of you please be kind enough and write / provide me a counter patch supplying me: a. a compilable 2.6.22-rc2 kernel b. a loop device that can mount up to 8 iso-images If you revert all thre

Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: >>> Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but >>> not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in >>> 32 bit mode. >> Is this conversion just unnecessary or actually harmful

Re: 2.6.22-rc1-mm1

2007-05-20 Thread Kumar Gala
On May 20, 2007, at 5:21 AM, Sam Ravnborg wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:12:50PM +0200, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: Hello, I tried it on iMac G3. I got a bunch of warnings and finally it failed to build. WARNING: "fee_restarts" [arch/powerpc/kernel/built-in] is COMMON symbol WARNIN

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