Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-07-09 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb Kunai, Takashi: > (b)printk hashes and (c)Format strings. (a) seems difficult to get > supports from kernel developers and (c) lacks uniqueness of each > message. Though (b) also lacks uniqueness, adding component id and/or We have generators for hash functions that

Re: KVM-AMD OOPS

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Sasa Ostrouska wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# modprobe kvm-amd >> int3: [1] PREEMPT SMP >> CPU 1 >> Modules linked in: kvm_amd snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss >> snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss >> nls_iso8859_1 ntfs nls_base usb_storag

Re: KVM-AMD OOPS

2007-07-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
Jeremy Fitzhardinge napsal(a): > Sasa Ostrouska wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# modprobe kvm-amd >> int3: [1] PREEMPT SMP >> CPU 1 >> Modules linked in: kvm_amd snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss >> snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss >> nls_iso8859_1 ntfs nls_base usb_st

Re: [PATCH 17/20] SMP: Implement on_cpu()

2007-07-09 Thread Andi Kleen
> Well, smp_call_function_single() is arch specific whereas on_cpu() is Yes, but the few instances should be relatively easy to fix. > generic code. Perhaps rename smp_call_function_single() to > __smp_call_function_single() and on_cpu() to smp_call_function_single()? The low level function che

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1

2007-07-09 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Joel Becker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:01:07AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> And the 10% where it doesn't work it is a real pain to figure what goes >> wrong due to the completely unreadable Makefiles generated by autotools. >> After all they are not Makefiles, they are shellscripts embe

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Tejun Heo
[cc'ing linux-ide and Bartlomiej.] Rodney Gordon II wrote: > Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in > awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in > another "heads up".. > > 2.6.22 hang: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/itelock.jpg > lspci -vv

[PATCH 0/4] misc patches

2007-07-09 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
This are some random patches I've lying around here. They are not related to each other 1) Use kcalloc() in drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c 2) Initialize filp->private_data only once in em28xx_v4l2_open 3) [Doc] Fix typos in fs/sysfs/file.c 4) [Doc] Document pci_iomap() Eike signature.asc Descr

[PATCH 1/4] Use kcalloc() in drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c

2007-07-09 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit cc4a7b5dfee25083a6a5741b5b640ae2a1d3aa12 tree a4763216a61fa1501bf9b5dbb60f8860d1620b99 parent dcd9673a1ca36cb084de58f443edf42fd64b186b author Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:36:24 +0200 committer Rolf Eike Beer <[E

[PATCH 2/4] Initialize filp->private_data only once in em28xx_v4l2_open

2007-07-09 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Some lines later filp->private_data is initialized to dev again. Since there are some checks that might fail in the mean time keep the later version. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 7103e0b114b01a16d7c1ea71914d5069d974167d tree 6b976d7ce4e872b32805d7df73dd13b5349d439f

[PATCH 3/4][Doc] Fix typos in fs/sysfs/file.c

2007-07-09 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 966fef8404d59056d8524bf94d7dff790fe1fa82 tree 1adc274bc9b8e7e420db0b0023c8b70bd294e84e parent 0cbdc367b144a95709852c642a069ed652989520 author Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 21 May 2007 22:55:30 +0200 committer Rolf Eike Beer <[E

[PATCH 4/4][Doc] Document pci_iomap()

2007-07-09 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
This useful interface is hardly mentioned anywhere in the in-tree documentation. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 2cb2450818804edcbcb1486a4df0db06e5d49969 tree 2c53fbd2e0be832767446a8684561200b437a695 parent 288a3f1fd00365669ed9ad725b15ff67004cee0a author Rolf Eike Bee

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

2007-07-09 Thread Nick Piggin
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm() This patch uses an mmu_gather for copying page tables instead of flush_tlb_mm(). This allows archs like ppc32 with hash table to avoid walking the page tables a second time to invalidate hash entries, and to only f

Re: [-mm PATCH 1/8] Memory controller resource counters (v2)

2007-07-09 Thread Pavel Emelianov
Dave Hansen wrote: > On Thu, 2007-07-05 at 22:20 -0700, Balbir Singh wrote: >> +/* >> + * the core object. the container that wishes to account for some >> + * resource may include this counter into its structures and use >> + * the helpers described beyond >> + */ > > I'm going to nitpick a bit h

about XMON of 2.6 Linux kernel

2007-07-09 Thread gshan
Hi All, I have 2 questions on XMON of 2.6 kernel. Any answers are appreciated! 1) Any engineer is still developing for XMON and who is the maintainer? 2) When I issued command "ls", XMON told me there are no sysmap or sysmap_size. Do you know how to include the sysmap? mon> ls : No sysmap or

[PATCH][RFC] Make profiling uniformly non-menu and non-EXPERIMENTAL.

2007-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- the current layout of profiling configuration is a bit of a mess, so this patch tries to make things uniform across all architectures. 1) it's pointless having some arches define profiling as a separate menu while others don't, so remove

[PATCH] KCONFIG: Make "Instrumentation support" non-EXPERIMENTAL.

2007-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
It makes more sense to make instrumentation support experimental on a case-by-case basis. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/Kconfig|1 - arch/ia64/Kconfig|1 - arch/powerpc/Kconfig |1 - arch/sparc/Kconfig |1 - arch/sparc64/Kconfig |

[PATCH] fs: 9p/conv.c error path fix

2007-07-09 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, When buf_check_overflow() returns != 0 we will hit kfree(ERR_PTR(err)) and it will not be happy about it. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fs/9p/conv.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -U 4 -pr linux-2.6.22-rc6-mm1-a/fs/9p/conv.c linux-2.6.22-rc

Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA AICA sound on SEGA Dreamcast - fix behaviour in poor resource conditions

2007-07-09 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 6 Jul 2007 21:42:27 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > > On 06/07/07, Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 06/07/07, Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I guess you shoud call del_timer() there at least. Otherwise the > > > timer handler (aica_period_elapsed()) might

Re: Understanding I/O behaviour

2007-07-09 Thread Martin Knoblauch
--- Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/07/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 05/07/07, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > > I'd suspect you can't get both at 100%. > > > > I'd guess you are probably using a 100Hz no-preempt kernel. Have >

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-09 Thread mikie
2007/7/6, Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Fri, July 6, 2007 16:20, Duncan Sands wrote: > On Friday 6 July 2007 14:54:18 mikie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I experience some problems with the speedtch.c module, especially in >> regards to its firmware loader. >> I am not quite sure if this module is

Re: [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-09 Thread Shaohua Li
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:58 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote: > The only fly in the ointment is that it crashes quite soon. Haven't > figured > out why yet, but comments on the general direction would be welcome. Attached patch seems help in my test. prepare_task_switch is called with irq disabled. > -st

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

2007-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 17:39 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Would it be better off to start off with a new API for this? The > mmu gather I think is traditionally entirely for dealing with > page removal... It would be weird because the new API would mostly duplicate this one, and we would end up wit

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:47 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. Think of a printer > > > daemon, for example. It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > > problems merely because

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > Another issue that's been a problem forever with suspend is the > > synchronous request_firmware interface. Lots of drivers do that in > > resume() which will generally not work. >

Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version

2007-07-09 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:05:32AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > * Rodolfo Giometti (Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:14:50 +0200) > * Organization: GNU/Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Systems and Courses > > > +.PHONY : all depend dep > > + > > +all : .depend $(TARGETS) > > + > > +.depend depend dep : > > + $(

Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

2007-07-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
Hello, * Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-06 16:58]: > > Redhat has a makedumpinfo util which they intend to use as slim > kernel-version-independent utility on kdump rootfs in order to > save /proc/vmcore in a compact manner. I think you mean makedumpfile, don't you? > A patch that I am

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:47 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run.  Think of a printer > > > > daemon, for example.  It shouldn't h

2.6.22: dvb header files break compilation on x86-64

2007-07-09 Thread Gert Vervoort
Some of the linux/dvb header files include libc header files and break compilation on x86-64 in compat_ioctl.c: CC fs/timerfd.o CC fs/eventfd.o CC fs/compat.o CC fs/compat_ioctl.o In file included from fs/compat_ioctl.c:111: include/linux/dvb/audio.h:27:20: error: s

Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
> It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late > in the release cycle so simple patches win. > > Besides none of the "NAK"s were particularly inspired in my opinion; > there were no clear technical objections broug

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

2007-07-09 Thread Nick Piggin
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 17:39 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: Would it be better off to start off with a new API for this? The mmu gather I think is traditionally entirely for dealing with page removal... It would be weird because the new API would mostly duplicate thi

Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway)

2007-07-09 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> Please have a look at the documentation update at the bottom of this patch: > > http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/hibernation_and_suspend/2.6.22-rc7/patches/15-freezer-make-kernel-threads-nonfreezable-by-default.patch > > It says what the freezer is for in the first place. :-) Thanks, good description

PXA2xx keyboard driver fix

2007-07-09 Thread Mike Rapoport
The PXA2xx keyboard driver does not compile with 2.6.22 The following patch fixes it Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keyboard.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/pxa27x_keyboard.c b/dr

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 11:23 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Suspension is to be transparent. Apart from a jump in the system clock > user space must not notice, thus returning errors due to suspension is > not an option. Who says ? If I'm talking to a USB printer, it will notice the USB bus being s

Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway)

2007-07-09 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb Miklos Szeredi: > In that case the "we need suspend to be invisible to userspace" as a > reason to use the freezer would also be moot, since if you don't > schedule userspace after offlining the CPUs, it can't notice this. After? Can you do the offlining atomically?

Re: [PATCH 17/20] SMP: Implement on_cpu()

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Andi Kleen wrote: Well, smp_call_function_single() is arch specific whereas on_cpu() is Yes, but the few instances should be relatively easy to fix. generic code. Perhaps rename smp_call_function_single() to __smp_call_function_single() and on_cpu() to smp_call_function_single()?

Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

2007-07-09 Thread Andi Kleen
> > It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix > > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late > > in the release cycle so simple patches win. > > Your patch got into Linus' tree in the middle of the merge window... Even in the middle of the merge window i

Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

2007-07-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 09 July 2007 11:32:23 Alan Cox wrote: > > It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix > > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late > > in the release cycle so simple patches win. > > > > Besides none of the "NAK"s were particularly inspired in my

Re: malicious filesystems (was Re: [linux-pm] Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway)

2007-07-09 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > In that case the "we need suspend to be invisible to userspace" as a > > reason to use the freezer would also be moot, since if you don't > > schedule userspace after offlining the CPUs, it can't notice this. > > After? Can you do the offlining atomically? Don't know. Wait for all CPUs to re

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:23:24 -0500 Rodney Gordon II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in > awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in > another "heads up".. > > 2.6.22 hang: http://spherevision.org/sync/visual/ite

Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:46:46 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > >>> Reverting is safe since it simply re-establishes the 2.6.21 status quo. > >>> > >> Well, not really. It breaks any non-GPL module when CONFIG_PARAVIRT is > >> enabled, even though t

Re: [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Shaohua Li wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:58 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote: The only fly in the ointment is that it crashes quite soon. Haven't figured out why yet, but comments on the general direction would be welcome. Attached patch seems help in my test. prepare_task_switch is called wi

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

2007-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:29 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > They could just #define one to the other though, there are only a > small > number of them. Is there a downside to not making them distinct? i386 > for example probably would just keep doing a tlb flush for fork and > not > want to worry about

Re: Moving MD/LVM from PPC to x86

2007-07-09 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This suggests that the superblock is currently the correct byteorder > for the current host. You use >mdadm --examine --metadata=0.swap /dev/sda1 > when you have moved a devices from one host to different host with the > opposite endian-ness (e.g. big

Re: [2.6.22-rc7] khubd NULL deref oops...

2007-07-09 Thread Jiri Kosina
linux-usb-devel should be CCed on this On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > When plugging in a USB 2 mass-storage device which I've been seeing > problems with, I caught a khubd oops [1]. Kernel is 2.6.22-rc7 on ia32 > built with Ubuntu's 2.6.22 .config. > > Let me know if you need more

Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0200 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix > > > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late > > > in the release cycle so simple patches win. > > > > Your patch got into Linus

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run.  Think of a printer > > > daemon, for example.  It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to sleep. > > > > Why not ? Printer is offline when machine is asleep..

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 12:02 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > > But I'm not sure it's a good idea in the long run. Think of a printer > > > > daemon, for example. It shouldn't have to experience unexpected I/O > > > > problems merely because someone has decided to put the system to slee

2.6.22-ck1

2007-07-09 Thread Con Kolivas
2.6.22-ck1 is the last ever -ck release. So long, and thanks for all the fish This patchset is designed to improve system responsiveness and interactivity. It is configurable to any workload but the default -ck patch is aimed at the desktop and -cks is available with more emphasis on serverspa

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
Are the shortlogs useful - yes .. they catch what appear to be mistakes Specifically: What happened to the aacraid ioctl security fix ? Did someone decide it wasn't needed or did it get lost somewhere on the way ? While this looks scary the only obvious exploit cases are where the user can open

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

2007-07-09 Thread Nick Piggin
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:29 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: They could just #define one to the other though, there are only a small number of them. Is there a downside to not making them distinct? i386 for example probably would just keep doing a tlb flush for fork and n

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

2007-07-09 Thread Nick Piggin
Nick Piggin wrote: Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:29 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: They could just #define one to the other though, there are only a small number of them. Is there a downside to not making them distinct? i386 for example probably would just keep doing a tlb

Re: [PATCH][RFC] kvm-scheduler integration

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: Shaohua Li wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:58 +0800, Avi Kivity wrote: The only fly in the ointment is that it crashes quite soon. Haven't figured out why yet, but comments on the general direction would be welcome. Attached patch seems help in my test. prepare_task_s

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, On Jul 8 2007 16:52, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >So this is also a heads-up that I'm considering skipping the ChangeLog >files in the future - the full release ones are so big as to not be very >easily readable (the full ChangeLog from 2.6.21 is ove ra hundred thousand >lines, and weighs in at

Re: Please revert 21564fd2a3deb48200b595332f9ed4c9f311f2a7

2007-07-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 09 July 2007 12:06:05 Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 11:39:25 +0200 > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > It will be solved differently longer term, but short term the fix > > > > was still needed. There are limits on what can be done late > > > > in the release c

Re: [2.6 patch] include/asm-mips/processor.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

2007-07-09 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:03:30AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > "extern inline" will have different semantics with gcc 4.3, > and "static inline" is correct here. The idea was to have a linker error in case gcc should deciede for some reason not to inline this function which as I understand will c

Re: [PATCH] fixup binutils printing from scripts/ver_linux

2007-07-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 9 2007 04:39, Gabriel C wrote: >> >> NAK. It starts reporting here empty binutils field. >> FWIW, >> >> $ ld -v >> GNU ld version 2.16.1 >> > > Well the format changed so now we have : > > $ ld -v > GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.0.16.20070511 Adding to the collection: 12:39 ichi:~

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-09 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Mon, July 9, 2007 10:49, mikie wrote: > 2007/7/6, Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, July 6, 2007 16:20, Duncan Sands wrote: >> > On Friday 6 July 2007 14:54:18 mikie wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I experience some problems with the speedtch.c module, especially in >> >> regards to it

Makefiles for GNU make (Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version)

2007-07-09 Thread Oleg Verych
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:05:32AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > > * Rodolfo Giometti (Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:14:50 +0200) > > * Organization: GNU/Linux Device Drivers, Embedded Systems and Courses > > > > > +.PHONY : all depend dep >

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-09 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi, > On my system the /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug points to /sbin/hotplug. > I copied your script to /sbin/hotplug and also added simple logging, > so I can see whenever the script is being started. It turns out that > the script is not started at all by the kernel... did you turn hotplug on in you

Re: [PATCH] mmc: at91_mci: fix hanging and rework to match flowcharts

2007-07-09 Thread Pierre Ossman
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:32:00 +0200 Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicolas Ferre wrote: > > Fixes hanging using multi block operations (seen during CMD25). > > Follows closely the datasheet flowcharts. > > > > This piece of code handles better big file writing. I had to take > > care o

Re: Makefiles for GNU make (Re: [PATCH] LinuxPPS (with new syscalls API) - new version)

2007-07-09 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 12:56:11PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:16:43AM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:05:32AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > * Rodolfo Giometti (Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:14:50 +0200) > > > * Organization: GNU/Linux Device Drivers

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-09 Thread Pekka Enberg
Hi Nick, On 7/9/07, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SLOB contains several significant O(1) and also O(n) memory savings that are so far impossible-by-design for SLUB. They are: slab external fragmentation is significantly reduced; kmalloc internal fragmentation is significantly reduced; o

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-09 Thread mikie
2007/7/9, Duncan Sands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, > On my system the /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug points to /sbin/hotplug. > I copied your script to /sbin/hotplug and also added simple logging, > so I can see whenever the script is being started. It turns out that > the script is not started at all by

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the >>> elevator. Originall

Re: understanding firmware loader for speedtouch (kernel 2.6.21.5)

2007-07-09 Thread mikie
2007/7/9, Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, July 9, 2007 10:49, mikie wrote: > 2007/7/6, Indan Zupancic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Fri, July 6, 2007 16:20, Duncan Sands wrote: >> > On Friday 6 July 2007 14:54:18 mikie wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I experience some problems with the spee

Re: [patch 09/10] Remove the SLOB allocator for 2.6.23

2007-07-09 Thread Nick Piggin
Pekka Enberg wrote: Hi Nick, On 7/9/07, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SLOB contains several significant O(1) and also O(n) memory savings that are so far impossible-by-design for SLUB. They are: slab external fragmentation is significantly reduced; kmalloc internal fragmentation is si

Re: speed trends in pata world.

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; The drive speeds seem to be going the wrong way. Its an nforce2 equipt mobo, and I have 3 drives currently in this box. Running 2.6.22-rc6-cfs-v18 + the ftdi_sio.c patch. hda, the primary on cable 0, is running at around 28MB/Sec. Its a 200GB WD about 2 yea

Re: Big sized packets have been dropped strangly

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
gshan wrote: Hey Guys, I got a strange problem recently but no ideas, so to post the question here. We have a FPGA what finish ATM AAL5 to ethernet frame, and CPU receives IP packets from it. The interface based on the FPGA (called sar0) has been bound with several IP addresses. When the MTU

Re: RAID performance is not too well....

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Rogier Wolff wrote: Hi, I have an application that creates some 228 thousand files, spread over about 4000 directories. Total is not more than 1.3Gb. (I'm not sure, and I don't care if it's 10% or 90% of that number) Anyway, I've loaded all of the 1.3Gb into the cache (the machine has 8Gb of

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Michael Tokarev wrote: Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Michael Tokarev wrote: Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just re-ran the test with noop (hence the long delay with the answer) - changing linux elevator changes almost nothing

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Michael Tokarev wrote: >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the >>> elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just >>> re-ran

Re: [2.6 patch] the overdue eepro100 removal

2007-07-09 Thread Bill Davidsen
Please do not make unnecessary kernel changes which require changes in our systems. Kok, Auke wrote: Bill Davidsen wrote: Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the overdue removal of the eepro100 driver. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The hardware supported by this driver i

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Rodney Gordon II
On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 10:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 20:23:24 -0500 > Rodney Gordon II <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have been quite busy, and I regret I haven't tried a rc kernel in > > awhile, but, this bug has gone un-fixed still.. Thought I'd throw in > > another "heads

Re: cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly

2007-07-09 Thread DervishD
Hi Stefan :) * Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > > I don't know if cdparanoia should be fixed, but certainly the > > warning could be issued only if CONFIG_SCSI_VERBOSE is set. This way you > > will have the message if something goes wrong and you want more info, > > but in case

Any way to update DMI tables programatically

2007-07-09 Thread Hemanth
Is there any API/function in Redhat Linux to update specific entries in the DMI table ? Either a driver and app combination ? Any existing features in the Linux kernel to do this ? Any existing tools ? (execuses If I posted here wrongly, but I am sure people out there would help me)

Re: [PATCH 17/20] SMP: Implement on_cpu()

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: Andi Kleen wrote: Well, smp_call_function_single() is arch specific whereas on_cpu() is Yes, but the few instances should be relatively easy to fix. generic code. Perhaps rename smp_call_function_single() to __smp_call_function_single() and on_cpu() to smp_call_fun

Re: cdparanoia not setting count and/or reply_len properly

2007-07-09 Thread DervishD
Hi Douglas :) * Douglas Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > >> I don't know if cdparanoia should be fixed, but certainly the > >> warning could be issued only if CONFIG_SCSI_VERBOSE is set. This way you > >> will have the message if something goes wrong and you want more info, > >> but i

Re: panics with 16port Promise Supertrack EX Controller

2007-07-09 Thread Flavio Curti
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:20:51AM +0200, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 09/07/07, Flavio Curti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jul 8 00:19:13 dorade.cyberlink.ch EFLAGS: 00210046 > (2.6.22-rc7-dorade #1) > Is this a regression? I also tried 2.6.21.5, which showed the same problem. So I doubt it's

technically, profile/oprofile Kconfig stuff is set up incorrectly

2007-07-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
as a short follow up to my previous patches, it might be worth pointing out that profiling in general is defined improperly WRT Kconfig, since *general* profiling is defined inside the more specific Kconfig files for *oprofiling*: $ ls arch/*/oprofile/Kconfig that makes no sense, as it lea

Re: [PATCH][RESEND] PIE randomization

2007-07-09 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > I believe BAD_ADDR macro was changes from ((unsigned long)(x) >= > TASK_SIZE) (which is the right test for invalid user addresses, stronger > check than >= PAGE_MASK) to >= PAGE_MASK only because of the one check > of the return value of load_elf_inter

Re: [patch -rss] Make RSS accounting display more user friendly

2007-07-09 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2028-02-27 at 02:39 -0500, Balbir Singh wrote: > I am not a CLUI expert, but rounding off bytes will something that > the administrators will probably complain about. Since we manage > the controller memory in pages, it might be the easiest unit to use. > The output is totally different ma

Re: [PATCH] fixup binutils printing from scripts/ver_linux

2007-07-09 Thread Gabriel C
Jan Engelhardt wrote: On Jul 9 2007 04:39, Gabriel C wrote: NAK. It starts reporting here empty binutils field. FWIW, $ ld -v GNU ld version 2.16.1 Well the format changed so now we have : $ ld -v GNU ld (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.17.50.0.16.20070511 Adding to the collection:

drop it ?(Re: [PATCH] fixup binutils printing from scripts/ver_linux)

2007-07-09 Thread olecom
* Jan Engelhardt "Mon, 9 Jul 2007 12:41:54 +0200 (CEST)" > > On Jul 9 2007 04:39, Gabriel C wrote: >>> >>> NAK. It starts reporting here empty binutils field. >>> FWIW, >>> >>> $ ld -v >>> GNU ld version 2.16.1 >>> >> >> Well the format changed so now we have : >> >> $ ld -v >> GNU ld (Linux/GNU

[PATCH] leds: Convert from struct class_device to struct device

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Purdie
Convert the LEDs class from struct class_device to struct device since class_device is scheduled for removal. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [I've applied this patch to the LEDs for-mm branch for testing but will work in any feedback] drivers/leds/led-class.c | 49

Re: [2.6 patch] include/asm-mips/processor.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

2007-07-09 Thread Franck Bui-Huu
Hi, On 7/9/07, Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:03:30AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > "extern inline" will have different semantics with gcc 4.3, > and "static inline" is correct here. The idea was to have a linker error in case gcc should deciede for some reaso

Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

2007-07-09 Thread Dan Aloni
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:21:54AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hello, > > * Dan Aloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-07-06 16:58]: > > > > Redhat has a makedumpinfo util which they intend to use as slim > > kernel-version-independent utility on kdump rootfs in order to > > save /proc/vmcore in a co

[PATCH] backlight: Convert from struct class_device to struct device

2007-07-09 Thread Richard Purdie
Convert the backlight and LCD classes from struct class_device to struct device since class_device is scheduled for removal. One nasty API break is the backlight power attribute has had to be renamed to bl_power and the LCD power attribute has had to be renamed to lcd_power since the original name

Re: [PATCH] fixup binutils printing from scripts/ver_linux

2007-07-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 9 2007 13:39, Gabriel C wrote: > > Uhh :) Ok here an ugly one : > > $ ld -v | sed 's/.*version//;s/.*Binutils)//'|awk '{print $1}'|tr -d ' ' > 2.17.50.0.16.20070511 > > $ echo 'GNU ld version 2.17.50.0.5 20060927 (SUSE Linux)' | sed > 's/.*version//;s/.*Binutils)//'|awk '{print $1}'|tr -d '

Re: Linux 2.6.22 released

2007-07-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jul 9 2007 12:30, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >The rc-to-rc shortlog is usually helpful. That way, I can see whether a >particular fix that I am interested in/involved with has already been >merged - or not and its needs some reminder. And the 2.6.x -> 2.6.y-rc1 >shortlog for seeing whether patches

Re: [PATCH] Remove process freezer from suspend to RAM pathway

2007-07-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 9 July 2007 11:14, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt: > > > Another issue that's been a problem forever with suspend is the > > > synchronous request_firmware interface. Lots

Re: SMART problems in 2.6.22

2007-07-09 Thread David Greaves
Hi Bruce From some of the earlier threads that I missed (below) I have the impression that the problem may be a very simple one, namely that starting with 2.6.22 one needs to run a command to enable SMART when a box is first booted -- the kernel no longer does this as part of the init/setup of

Re: [PATCH 0/16] Pid namespaces

2007-07-09 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:01:59PM +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote: > This is "submition for inclusion" of hierarchical, not kconfig > configurable, zero overheaded ;) pid namespaces. > > The overall idea is the following: > > The namespace are organized as a tree - once a task is cloned > with CLON

Re: KVM-AMD OOPS

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Avi Kivity wrote: Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Sasa Ostrouska wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# modprobe kvm-amd int3: [1] PREEMPT SMP CPU 1 Modules linked in: kvm_amd snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss nls_iso8859_1 ntfs nls_base

Re: [BUG] IT8212 libata driver *still* hard-freezes system on boot on 2.6.22 final.

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > It would be useful to know if a kernel built with no DMA support for the > > IT8212 behaved as that might give us a clue about what is choking. If you > > look in drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c:it821x_init_one you'll see a pair of > > lines that say > > > > mwdma = 0x1f, > > udma_mask = 0x7

Re: Any way to update DMI tables programatically

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 04:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Hemanth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any API/function in Redhat Linux to update > specific entries in the DMI table ? Either a driver > and app combination ? Any existing features in the > Linux kernel to do this ? Any existing tools ? > (execuses I

Re: KVM-AMD OOPS

2007-07-09 Thread Sasa Ostrouska
Please post your .config. Here is my config: # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit # Linux kernel version: 2.6.21.5 # Thu Jun 21 21:34:48 2007 # CONFIG_X86_64=y CONFIG_64BIT=y CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME_VSYSCALL=y CONFIG_ZONE_DMA32=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_SU

Re: KVM-AMD OOPS

2007-07-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Sasa Ostrouska wrote: On 7/9/07, Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please post your .config. Here is my config: [config config config] # # Virtualization # CONFIG_KVM=y CONFIG_KVM_INTEL=m CONFIG_KVM_AMD=m Ah, kvm is built in but the arch modules aren't. Anybody know how to disallo

Re: [2.6 patch] include/asm-mips/processor.h: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

2007-07-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:27:55AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:03:30AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > "extern inline" will have different semantics with gcc 4.3, > > and "static inline" is correct here. > > The idea was to have a linker error in case gcc should decied

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 04 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 10:19 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > > > elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > > > re-ran the test with noop (hence the long dela

Re: Some NCQ numbers...

2007-07-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 04 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jul 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Michael Tokarev wrote: > >>> Well. It looks like the results does not depend on the > >>> elevator. Originally I tried with deadline, and just > >>> re-ran the tes

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