Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code

2007-05-20 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > maybe we should change > > /* argument to RAW1394_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER ioctl */ > struct raw1394_cycle_timer { > /* contents of Isochronous Cycle Timer register, >   as in OHCI 1.1 clause 5.13 (also with non-OHCI hosts) */ > __

Re: 2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (3)

2007-05-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 20 May 2007 the mental interface of WANG Cong told: > 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.

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

2007-05-20 Thread Kay Sievers
On 5/20/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 > >

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: >> maybe we should change ... >> struct raw1394_cycle_timer { ... >> before a libraw1394 with get-cycle-timer support is released. > > Yes, if you still have the chance to change this without breaking > users, that would be ideal.

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

2007-05-20 Thread Segher Boessenkool
In fact, while it's never worded explicitely in the spec, it's always been strongly in the "spirit" of the architecture that the timebase and decrementer have a constant frequency. The architecture mentions varying time base frequencies, and how to deal with this, actually. It makes no recommen

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

2007-05-20 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: > On 5/20/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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

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

2007-05-20 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Sunday 20 May 2007, Ray Lee wrote: > 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 > > >

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

2007-05-20 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:21:11 +0200 Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.

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, Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/20/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

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

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, Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 20 May 2007, Ray Lee wrote: > The when part is what looks to make it racy. I'm guessing that we're > relying on udev to create those loop nodes. If so, I think any scheme > that creates more on demand would give transient mount err

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

2007-05-20 Thread Kay Sievers
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 09:10 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > On 5/20/07, Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/20/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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 yo

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

2007-05-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sunday 20 May 2007, Kay Sievers wrote: >> >> Until the tools can request dynamic loop device allocation from the >> kernel before they want to use the device, you can create as many as >> needed "static" loop* nodes in /lib/udev/devices/, which wil

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

2007-05-20 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
omparison under the same conditions. One odd thing i noticed, with 2.6.21-cfs-v13 the gnome's time applet in the bar skipped some minutes (e.g. 16:23 -> 16:25) several times. The data is available on: http://www.debianPT.org/~elmig/pool/kernel/20070520/ How did you get your data?

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 18:16 schrieben Sie: > On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 09:10 -0700, Ray Lee wrote: > > On 5/20/07, Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5/20/07, Ray Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 5/19/07, Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:1

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: > i can do that as long as there's no way that those changes can (even > theoretically) make a difference in the build. in order to make sure > this patch didn't break anything, i went with a straight cut-and-paste > of the content to go into the new m

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

2007-05-20 Thread Ray Lee
at the same time. (At minimum: the scheduler, cpu, and video card.) One odd thing i noticed, with 2.6.21-cfs-v13 the gnome's time applet in the bar skipped some minutes (e.g. 16:23 -> 16:25) several times. The data is available on: http://www.debianPT.org/~elmig/pool/kernel/20070520/ Ho

Re: STRANGE ERROR

2007-05-20 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 16:34 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007 00:30:55 +0200 "Sasa Ostrouska" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I tried today to upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21.1 and i got the same > > error during the boot time. > > Here is the dmesg of the 2.

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

2007-05-20 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
n't compare absolute values on different test setups. One odd thing i noticed, with 2.6.21-cfs-v13 the gnome's time applet in the bar skipped some minutes (e.g. 16:23 -> 16:25) several times. The data is available on: http://www.debianPT.org/~elmig/pool/kernel/20070520/ How did yo

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

2007-05-20 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:37:13PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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

Re: [PATCH] libata: implement ata_wait_after_reset()

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Indan Zupancic wrote: >> The change was made primarily to make libata spin down disks properly on >> power down and hibernate. I don't like the added delay either but it's >> better than shortening the lifespan of harddisks. > > Ah, it fixes that "weird noise on shutdown" problem? Fair enough. Y

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-20 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:08:54AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > If we add 8 bytes to struct page on 64-bit machines, it becomes 64 bytes, > which is quite a nice number for cache purposes. We had those hardware alignment for many data structures where they were only wasting memory (i.e. vmas). The

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: > > > i can do that as long as there's no way that those changes can > > (even theoretically) make a difference in the build. in order to > > make sure this patch didn't break anything, i went with a straigh

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

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
Indan Zupancic wrote: >> Can you try to measure with sd_resume in place? > > [2.173366] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Starting disk > [2.475422] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310) > [5.478403] ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310) > [5.481928] ata1.00: ata_hpa_resiz

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

2007-05-20 Thread Robert Hancock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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/3

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

2007-05-20 Thread Ray Lee
On 5/20/07, Miguel Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't look like you were running his glitch1 script which starts > several in glxgears parallel. Were you, or were you just running one? No i'm not, i'm running only one instance of glxgears inside the GNOME's environment. Then no

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: > When WITHOUT ATA/ATAPi/MFM/RLL support, but I couldn't boot it, I got > kernel panic. Here is the last 10 lines messages: > > VFS : Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) > No kernel modules found for Linux.2.6.22-rc1 > VFS: Cannot open root device "301" or unknown-block (3,1)

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

2007-05-20 Thread Tejun Heo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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 a

Re: Review status (Re: [PATCH] LogFS take three)

2007-05-20 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 07:10:19PM +0200, Jörn Engel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:03:11 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > > > Is logfs 32bit fs or 674bit, since although you use 64bit values for > > offsets, area management and strange converstions like described below > >

Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

2007-05-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:23:45 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > In collaboration with the FB guys, we've been working on enhancing the > kernel's graphics subsystem in an attempt to bring some sanity to the > Linux graphics world and avoid the situation we have now where several > kernel and userspace d

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

2007-05-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Indan Zupancic wrote: Everything seems to work fine without sd_resume(), so why is it needed? Because not all disks spin up without being told to do so and like it or not spinning disks up on resume is the default behavior. As I wrote in the other reply, it would be worthwhile to make it config

kconfig - scan all Kconfig files

2007-05-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
I did a quick hack so kconfig could scan all Kconfig files in the kernel tree. By scanning all Kconfig files we gain the following: -> kconfig can report when a depends on refer to an undefined symbol -> kconfig can report when a select refer to an undefined symbol Later we can push a lot of comm

Re: Increased ipw2200 power usage with dynticks

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
Björn Steinbrink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ok, it seems that ipw2200 is just a trigger for the problem here. AFAICT > the cause of the worse C state usage is that after ipw2200 has woken the > cpu, acpi_processor_idle() chooses C2 (due to dma? bm? I have no > idea...) as the prefered sleep s

Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking

2007-05-20 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/0x

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:09:10PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: >... > Since you mention "select": My opinion about the "select" dialect of > "depends on" is that the UIs should be improved and "select" should be > removed from the Kconfig language. What do we "select"? Typically we > "select" a

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:52:14AM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: > 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: > > > >> O

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

2007-05-20 Thread Kevin Bowling
On 5/20/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: [BUG] local_softirq_pending storm

2007-05-20 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:52:21PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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 > > noh

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

2007-05-20 Thread David Brownell
On Saturday 19 May 2007, Mattia Dongili 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]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 12:22:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Fri, 18 May 2007 16:1

first little problem with private futexes

2007-05-20 Thread Ulrich Drepper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a first little issue with private futex I came across. But a real bug but a hole. When we use clone() with CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID possible waiters are woken upon termination of the thread. This operation uses FUTEX_WAKE so far. But it in almos

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

2007-05-20 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:45:03 -0600 Robert Hancock wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: > >>> Everything seems to work fine without sd_resume(), so why is it needed? > >> Because not all disks spin up without being told to do so and like it or > >> not spinning disks up on resume is the default behavior.

Re: first little problem with private futexes

2007-05-20 Thread Eric Dumazet
Ulrich Drepper a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a first little issue with private futex I came across. But a real bug but a hole. When we use clone() with CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID possible waiters are woken upon termination of the thread. This operation uses FUTEX_WA

Re: first little problem with private futexes

2007-05-20 Thread Ulrich Drepper
On 5/20/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. do nothing, always use the shared futexes. Not very attractive IMO Why do you find this non attractive ? How is it performance critical ? You should know better than any other that the problem is not that the problem itself is the onl

[PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
In order to eventually break the interdependency between the module.h and moduleparam.h header files, factor out the common MODULE_INFO content into a new header file. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- this patch doesn't actually start cleaning up the mess related to mod

Re: [RFC] Orphaning MMC host drivers

2007-05-20 Thread Russell King
On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:38:49PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > I've reached the point where I've grown tired of trying to figure out > who has hardware for what. I intend to commit the following in a few > days so if you care about the quality of the drivers it's time to step > up to the plate.

Re: first little problem with private futexes

2007-05-20 Thread Eric Dumazet
Ulrich Drepper a écrit : On 5/20/07, Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. do nothing, always use the shared futexes. Not very attractive IMO Why do you find this non attractive ? How is it performance critical ? You should know better than any other that the problem is not that the

Re: [PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > In order to eventually break the interdependency between the module.h > and moduleparam.h header files, factor out the common MODULE_INFO > content into a new header file. The moduleinfo.h file looks redundant at first look. Wh

Re: [RFC] Orphaning MMC host drivers

2007-05-20 Thread Pierre Ossman
Russell King wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:38:49PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: >> I've reached the point where I've grown tired of trying to figure out >> who has hardware for what. I intend to commit the following in a few >> days so if you care about the quality of the drivers it's time to

Re: [PATCH] signalfd: retrieve multiple signals with one read() call

2007-05-20 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sat, 19 May 2007, Davi Arnaut wrote: > Hi, > > Gathering signals in bulk enables server applications to drain a signal > queue (almost full of realtime signals) more efficiently by reducing the > syscall and file look-up overhead. > > Very similar to the sigtimedwait4() call described by Niel

Re: [RFC] Orphaning MMC host drivers

2007-05-20 Thread Russell King
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:16:44PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Russell King wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:38:49PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > >> I've reached the point where I've grown tired of trying to figure out > >> who has hardware for what. I intend to commit the following in a fe

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

2007-05-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 05/20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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

[PATCH] i386, x86-64: show that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend on SMP

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It's not sufficiently documented that CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is required for suspend/hibernation on SMP. Point out the non-obvious. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/Kconfig

Re: [PATCH] libata: implement ata_wait_after_reset()

2007-05-20 Thread Indan Zupancic
Hello Tejun, On Sun, May 20, 2007 19:09, Tejun Heo wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: >> Don't controllers support spread spin up of disks, to avoid the peak load? >> I think I saw something about that in the SiI 3512 spec I downloaded. So >> maybe something like a special spin up method which can be

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

2007-05-20 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Sun, May 20, 2007 19:17, Tejun Heo wrote: > Indan Zupancic wrote: >> So over all it takes half a second longer to detect the disk, but >> because everything waits on it, it takes more than three seconds >> longer to resume. > > Eeeek. Extra three secs doesn't sound too hot. :-( Hey, without y

Re: [PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > In order to eventually break the interdependency between the module.h > > and moduleparam.h header files, factor out the common MODULE_INFO > > content into a new header file. > > T

Re: Freezeable workqueues [Was: 2.6.22-rc1: Broken suspend on SMP with tifm]

2007-05-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 05/15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, 14 May 2007 23:48, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > So, in the long term, should we change this only user, or we think we > > better fix > > freezeable wqs again? > > Long term, I'd like to have freezable workqueues, so that people don't have to > us

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

2007-05-20 Thread Michael Mauch
Uwe Bugla wrote: > Andrey's path however (i. e. copying his attached version of loop.c into the > 2.6.22-rc2 kernel tree) led to: > > a. an incompilable kernel > b. endless messages trying to compile loop.c going like this (just a part of > them - not complete anyway!): > > drivers/block/loop.

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > > >> Iterating upwards and downwards the dependency graph is the duty of > >> "make snafuconfig", not of the maintainers. > > ...multi-level dependencies are no problem for it. > > There is nothing wrong with > > A... depends on B > > B... de

Re: [PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > In order to eventually break the interdependency between the module.h > > and moduleparam.h header files, factor out the common MODULE_INFO > > content into a new header file. > > T

setting all 3 file times

2007-05-20 Thread Albert Cahalan
Why can we still not do this? It's a stupid restriction. Security isn't a reason; we have SE Linux policy and auditing to take care of any issues. Heck, SE Linux policy could even deny this feature for the truly paranoid. Writing to /dev/* to update timestamps is surely a worse security situatio

Re: [PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:51:18PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > In order to eventually break the interdependency between the module.h > > > and moduleparam.h header file

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
Trent Piepho wrote: > config A > bool "A" > > config B > bool "B" > depends on A > > config C > bool "C" > select B > > In this case, it's possible to turn C on and A off. B will be on, even > though it depends on A and A is off. > > The kconfig docs say that "B..

Re: [PATCH 2.6.21-rc4] ieee1394: fix oops on "modprobe -r ohci1394" after network class_device conversion

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Richter
> I wrote on 2007-03-21: >> On 20 Mar, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:43:22PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: SET_MODULE_OWNER(dev); +#if 0 + /* FIXME - Is this the correct parent device anyway? */ SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, &host->device); +#endif ... >>> If so

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Trent Piepho
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Trent Piepho wrote: > > config A > > bool "A" > > > > config B > > bool "B" > > depends on A > > > > config C > > bool "C" > > select B > > > > In this case, it's possible to turn C on and A off. B will be on, even > > though it depe

Re: Freezeable workqueues [Was: 2.6.22-rc1: Broken suspend on SMP with tifm]

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:54, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 05/15, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Monday, 14 May 2007 23:48, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > > > So, in the long term, should we change this only user, or we think we > > > better fix > > > freezeable wqs again? > > > > Long term, I'd

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

2007-05-20 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 20 2007 18:12, Folkert van Heusden wrote: >> > >> > + if (unlikely(sig == SIGQUIT || sig == SIGILL || sig == SIGTRAP || >> > + sig == SIGABRT || sig == SIGBUS || sig == SIGFPE || >> > + sig == SIGSEGV || sig == SIGXCPU || sig == SIGXFSZ || >> > + sig == SIGSYS || sig =

Re: [PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:06:40PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > In order to eventually break the interdependency between the module.h > > > and moduleparam.h header file

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

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> >> > > >> > +if (unlikely(sig == SIGQUIT || sig == SIGILL || sig == SIGTRAP > >> > || > >> > +sig == SIGABRT || sig == SIGBUS || sig == SIGFPE || > >> > +sig == SIGSEGV || sig == SIGXCPU || sig == SIGXFSZ || > >> > +sig == SIGSYS || sig == SIGSTK

Re: Freezeable workqueues [Was: 2.6.22-rc1: Broken suspend on SMP with tifm]

2007-05-20 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 05/20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:54, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > I am a bit afraid of too many yes/no options for the freezer, a couple of > > naive > > questions. > > > > 1. Can't we make all wqs freezable? I still can't see the reason to have > > both > >f

[PATCH] Detach sched.h from mm.h

2007-05-20 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock() mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why. This patch a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h b) makes c

Re: libata and legacy ide pcmcia failure

2007-05-20 Thread Robert de Rooy
Thanks for looking into this! I tried the patches on 2.6.22rc1-git5. The second patch unfortunately did not resolve the issue, although it seems to get a bit further. Here are the logs. ** 2.6.22rc1-git5 + timing-debug.patch May 20 22:40:49 localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into

Re: [PATCH] Factor out common MODULE_INFO content from module*.h files.

2007-05-20 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 20 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 04:06:40PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 20 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 03:06:15PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > > > In order to eventually break the interdependency bet

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

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
> + switch(sig) { > + case SIGQUIT: > + case SIGILL: > + case SIGTRAP: > + case SIGABRT: > + case SIGBUS: > + case SIGFPE: > + case SIGSEGV: > + case SIGXCPU: > + case SIGXFSZ: > + case SIGSYS: > + case SIGSTKFLT: Unconditional? That's defini

Re: [patch 01/10] SLUB: add support for kmem_cache_ops

2007-05-20 Thread Pekka Enberg
Christoph Lameter wrote: Yeah earlier versions did this but then I have to do a patch that changes all destructors and all kmem_cache_create calls in the kernel. Yes, please ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

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

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > + switch(sig) { > > + case SIGQUIT: > > + case SIGILL: > > + case SIGTRAP: > > + case SIGABRT: > > + case SIGBUS: > > + case SIGFPE: > > + case SIGSEGV: > > + case SIGXCPU: > > + case SIGXFSZ: > > + case SIGSYS: > > + case SIGSTKFLT: > > Unconditional? That's def

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

2007-05-20 Thread Folkert van Heusden
> > > + switch(sig) { > > > + case SIGQUIT: > > > + case SIGILL: > > > + case SIGTRAP: > > > + case SIGABRT: > > > + case SIGBUS: > > > + case SIGFPE: > > > + case SIGSEGV: > > > + case SIGXCPU: > > > + case SIGXFSZ: > > > + case SIGSYS: > > > + case SIGSTKFLT: > > Unconditional? That's defi

[PATCH 1/3] Char: isicom, cleanup locking

2007-05-20 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, cleanup locking don't spin processor when not needed (use sleep instead of delay). Don't release the lock when needed in next iteration -- this actually fixes a bug -- missing braces Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit af05316f4ba7503ae531f3afdb5264c10e3b8e2c tree 2f

[PATCH 2/3] Char: isicom, del_timer at exit

2007-05-20 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, del_timer at exit Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 017f1314b3de8cf20bfff7df0d3d55e6498de104 tree 938fec328f3b24588575540771f65c8fadeaf961 parent af05316f4ba7503ae531f3afdb5264c10e3b8e2c author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 20 May 2007 21:43:42 +0200 committer

[PATCH 3/3] Char: isicom, proper variables types

2007-05-20 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, proper variables types irq is int, base is unsigned long Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 2c1fb6b2f7c17ab752e56220a0b7e84fbe6d3448 tree 1b4ceff6aacaae2ad1548c2efa202d7d0c3d92ba parent 017f1314b3de8cf20bfff7df0d3d55e6498de104 author Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

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

2007-05-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> So.. if we get enough clocksources into the tree, can any of those > parts of the code be reworked to use clocksources/clockevents and > hrtimers quickly and easily? I noticed the patch just posted does > some of it.. but not as much as Ben just mentioned. Well, some of these are expected to be

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

2007-05-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:20:36PM +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > + switch(sig) { > > > + case SIGQUIT: > > > + case SIGILL: > > > + case SIGTRAP: > > > + case SIGABRT: > > > + case SIGBUS: > > > + case SIGFPE: > > > + case SIGSEGV: > > > + case SIGXCPU: > > > + case SIGXFSZ: > > > +

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

2007-05-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 18:02 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > In fact, while it's never worded explicitely in the spec, it's always > > been strongly in the "spirit" of the architecture that the timebase and > > decrementer have a constant frequency. > > The architecture mentions varying time b

Re: [BUG] local_softirq_pending storm

2007-05-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 02:53 +0530, Anant Nitya wrote: > > 1 == TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, so we know that ksoftirqd was not woken up. At > > least it is not a scheduler problem. > > > > I work out a more complex debug patch and pester you to test once I'm > > done. > No problem :) You asked for it :) Pl

Re: Freezeable workqueues [Was: 2.6.22-rc1: Broken suspend on SMP with tifm]

2007-05-20 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 20 May 2007 23:06, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 05/20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > On Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:54, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > > > > > I am a bit afraid of too many yes/no options for the freezer, a couple of > > > naive > > > questions. > > > > > > 1. Can't we make all w

Re: 2.6.22-rc2 built on ppc (2)

2007-05-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 20 May 2007 13:08:15 +0200 Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: compar

Re: Linux 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-20 Thread Mike Houston
On Fri, 18 May 2007 22:17:14 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Hemminger (7): > [TCP] slow start: Make comments and code logic clearer. > *** sky2: remove Gigabyte 88e8056 restriction *** > sky2: PHY register settings > sky2: keep track of rec

Re: Who is currently usb.ids maintainer?

2007-05-20 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 20 May 2007, CIJOML wrote: > 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. Official maintainer is afaik still Vojtech. -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubscribe

Re: Who is currently usb.ids maintainer?

2007-05-20 Thread Stefan Schweizer
CIJOML wrote: > 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 farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ - To unsubscri

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

2007-05-20 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Sun, 20 May 2007 23:20:36 +0200, Folkert van Heusden wrote: > > > + switch(sig) { > > > + case SIGQUIT: > > > + case SIGILL: > > > + case SIGTRAP: > > > + case SIGABRT: > > > + case SIGBUS: > > > + case SIGFPE: > > > + case SIGSEGV: > > > + case SIGXCPU: > > > + case SIGXFSZ: > > > + case

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

2007-05-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Randy Dunlap wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007 11:45:03 -0600 Robert Hancock wrote: Indan Zupancic wrote: Everything seems to work fine without sd_resume(), so why is it needed? Because not all disks spin up without being told to do so and like it or not spinning disks up on resume is the default be

Re: Badness at include/linux/slub_def.h

2007-05-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 23:10 +0100, Christian Kujau wrote: > hi there, > > yet another[0] badness, again from this very iBook running vanilla > 2.6.22-rc1-git8: Just another kmalloc(0)... report this one to the DRI folks, it's not powerpc specific. Cheers, Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list:

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

2007-05-20 Thread Robert Hancock
Tejun Heo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

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

2007-05-20 Thread Jeff Dike
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:24:22AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > But I think your list is far too long anyways. > > > > So, which ones would you like to have removed then? > > SIGFPE at least and the accounting signals are dubious too. SIGQUIT can > be also relatively common. And SIGSEGV and SI

Badness at include/linux/slub_def.h

2007-05-20 Thread Christian Kujau
hi there, yet another[0] badness, again from this very iBook running vanilla 2.6.22-rc1-git8: [41653.487050] Badness at include/linux/slub_def.h:77 [41653.487060] Call Trace: [41653.487068] [ecafbcb0] [c0008d00] show_stack+0x3c/0x194 (unreliable) [41653.487097] [ecafbce0] [c01426d4] report_bug

Re: [rfc] increase struct page size?!

2007-05-20 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:53:20AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:42:10PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > > Sooner rather than later, don't we need those 8 bytes to expand from > > atomic_t to atomic64_t _count and _mapcount? Not that we really need > > all 64 bits o

Re: Use of SIGXFSZ outside of soft limits

2007-05-20 Thread Micah Cowan
Micah Cowan wrote: > Alan Cox wrote: >>> [XSI] [Option Start] If the request would cause the file size to >>> exceed the soft file size limit for the process and there is no room >>> for any bytes to be written, the request shall fail and the >>> implementation shall generate the SIGXFSZ signal for

Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

2007-05-20 Thread Jesse Barnes
On Sunday, May 20, 2007, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:23:45 -0700, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > In collaboration with the FB guys, we've been working on enhancing the > > kernel's graphics subsystem in an attempt to bring some sanity to the > > Linux graphics world and avoid the situation w

Re: RFC: kconfig select warnings bogus?

2007-05-20 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 19 May 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > We see a lot of these lately: > GEN /home/bor/build/linux-2.6.22/Makefile > scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig > drivers/macintosh/Kconfig:116:warning: 'select' used by config symbol > 'PMAC_APM_EMU' refers to undefined symbol 'SYS_SUPP

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

2007-05-20 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:38:04AM -0700, David Brownell wrote: > On Saturday 19 May 2007, Mattia Dongili 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]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, May 18

Re: [RFC] enhancing the kernel's graphics subsystem

2007-05-20 Thread Jon Smirl
On 5/20/07, Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With the interfaces implemented here, a userspace application can create a multiseat environment either with a single graphics card with multiple outputs or multiple cards. It could do this by creating several frame buffer objects and associati

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