Re: [RFC] kobject and kset core changes and cleanups

2007-11-06 Thread Stephane Eranian
Andrew, Greg, On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:11:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:57:58 -0700 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So, I go on vacation for a week or so and come back to an overflowing > > inbox. Instead of trying to wade through all of that, I decide to >

Re: [PATCH 1/2] slub: fix leakage

2007-11-06 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, Jeff Chua wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 2:45 AM, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 1. We can avoid going back to the page allocator for awhile since we will > > find the almost free slab if the current slab is exhausted. > > Does this impact SLAB as well? No, it's

Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup

2007-11-06 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:23:07PM +, David wrote: > I've been testing rc1 for a week or so, and about 25% of the time I'm > seeing Firefox and Thunderbird getting stuck in 'D' state as they startup. > > I've attached the output of Sysrq-T to this mail... system is a > dual-core AMD64, and fil

Re: [RFC] kobject and kset core changes and cleanups

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:57:58 -0700 Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I go on vacation for a week or so and come back to an overflowing > inbox. Instead of trying to wade through all of that, I decide to > finish up the work Kay and I had started on cleaning up the kset core > code. fs/ocfs

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 08:21:04AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:48PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > Can we avoid string parsers in the kernel? > > > > > > > Ok, Could someone suggest a better idea pl

Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86: unification of cfufreq/Kconfig

2007-11-06 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > + depends on X86_32 && X86_ELAN > >---help--- > > This adds the CPUFreq driver for AMD Elan SC520 processor. > > X86_ELAN should depend on X86_32 rather than adding this everywhere. ... > >bool > >depends on X86_POWERNOW_K7 && ACPI_PROCESSOR > >depends on !(X86_PO

Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup

2007-11-06 Thread Fengguang Wu
[added CC list] On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:00:06PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:23:07PM +, David wrote: > > I've been testing rc1 for a week or so, and about 25% of the time I'm > > seeing Firefox and Thunderbird getting stuck in 'D' state as they startup. > > > > I

Odd Ooops jbd ??

2007-11-06 Thread Gregory Nietsky
here is a error i keep bumping into with 2.6.24-rc1 (git11) the trigger is a ISDN call from one port to another (loopback cable) within asterisk i have not been able to replicate it in any other way the error may be in the ISDN what i cant understand is why it would affect the fs. shortly aft

[Patch2/2] fix wrong proc cpuinfo on x64

2007-11-06 Thread Zou Nan hai
in 2.6.24-rc1 kernel, The /proc/cpuinfo display is wrong. Another issue is that it will display bogus cpus with wrong information if the kernel is compiled with a big CONFIG_NR_CPU. That is because before a cpu in cpu_present_map is up, c->cpu_index of that cpu is 0. thus the cpu_online(c->cpu_i

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Nov 06, 2007, at 01:33:05, Adrian Bunk wrote: Can you limit this to 7bit ASCII and use isascii() somewhere? Otherwise I'd expect funny things to happen when you e.g. use isspace() on the UTF-8 encoded character à. Actually, you don't need to. You tell them it expects UTF-8 encoded stri

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Stop sillyname renames and unmounts from racing

2007-11-06 Thread Benny Halevy
On Nov. 06, 2007, 7:06 +0200, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 07:09:25 -0400 Steve Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The following patch stops NFS sillyname renames and umounts from racing. > > (appropriate cc's added) > >> I have a test script does the follo

Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

2007-11-06 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >> Having access to the same IPCs in different pid namespaces won't work. >> Having access to the same filesystem in different IPC namespaces won't work. >> Having access to the same UID namespace in

Re: [2.6 patch] kill drivers/nubus/nubus_syms.c

2007-11-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > EXPORT_SYMBOL's belong to the actual code. > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if you add a #include to drivers/nubus/proc.c. I fixed it myself and added your 7 patches to my queue. Gr{oetje,

Re: [PATCH 11/16] CRIS architecture: Correct compile errors

2007-11-06 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 10:33 +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote: > Add include file with prototype for mtdram_init_device from > drivers/mtd/devices/mtdram.c. > Used by axisflashmap.c to boot from ram. > > Signed-off-by: Jesper Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > mtdram.h | 10 ++ > 1 file

Oom-killer error.

2007-11-06 Thread Jim van Wel
Hi there, I have a strange problem with like 10-15 servers right now. We have here all HP DL380-G5 servers with kernel 2.6.22.6. System all works normall. But after a uptime of like 15 a 25 days, we get these messages, and the servers is just crashed. [1791648.015312] exim4 invoked oom-killer: gf

Re: [linux-usb-devel] fixing usb-midi device support

2007-11-06 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Dienstag 06 November 2007 schrieb David Griffith: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007 10:20:24 -0700 (PDT) David Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Vitaliy Ivanov wrote: > > > > Lots of cc's added. > > > > > > David, > > > > >

Re: [PATCH 16/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-some-ioctls

2007-11-06 Thread Jan Kara
> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 16:08:47 -0700 > Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Some ioctl()s can cause writes to the filesystem. Take these, and make them > > use mnt_want/drop_write() instead. > > > > We need to pass the filp one layer deeper in XFS, but somebody _just_ pulled > > it out i

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:26:12AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Nov 06, 2007, at 01:33:05, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> Can you limit this to 7bit ASCII and use isascii() somewhere? >> >> Otherwise I'd expect funny things to happen when you e.g. use isspace() on >> the UTF-8 encoded character à. > > A

lib: Move bitmap.o from lib-y to obj-y.

2007-11-06 Thread Paul Mundt
mac80211 has a reference to __bitmap_empty() via bitmap_empty(). In lib/bitmap.c this is flagged with an EXPORT_SYMBOL(), but this is ultimately ineffective due to bitmap.o being linked in lib-y, resulting in: ERROR: "__bitmap_empty" [net/mac80211/mac80211.ko] undefined! Moving bitmap.o to obj-y

Re: [2.6 patch] avr32: remove UID16 option

2007-11-06 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:06:12 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > avr32 already sees the option from init/Kconfig. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Indeed. Applied, thanks. Håvard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH] NFS: Stop sillyname renames and unmounts from racing

2007-11-06 Thread Alexander Viro
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:24:50AM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > It'd be very nice if the silly renamed inodes (with silly_count > 1) were > moved > to a different list in the first pass, under the inode_lock, and then waited > on > until silly_count <= 1 in a second pass only on the filtered lis

problem in follow_hugetlb_page on ppc64 architecture with get_user_pages

2007-11-06 Thread Christoph Raisch
Hello, if get_user_pages is used on a hugetlb vma, and there was no previous write to the pages, follow_hugetlb_page will call ret = hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, vaddr, 0), although the page should be used for write access in get_user_pages. We currently see this when testing Infiniband on ppc64 with e

Re: [PATCH] PCMCIA: prevent auto insert during resume.

2007-11-06 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:37:41PM +, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:24:15PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Fri 2007-10-26 19:18:57, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 06:00:31PM +0

Slab/Slub growing above 2.6.20.15 (may be...)

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On Nov 6, 2007 3:58 PM, Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > running Oracle. It only happens with lots of activities. > > It would help everybody if you could get more info on this. Ok, I'll try to log down the activities when it happens again. > Give 2.6.24-rc2 a try when it appears, if y

Re: [PATCH] PCMCIA: prevent auto insert during resume.

2007-11-06 Thread Rodolfo Giometti
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:56:29PM +, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:37:41PM +, Russell King wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 07:24:15PM +, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > On Fri 2007-10-26 19:18:57,

Re: pktcdvd oops

2007-11-06 Thread Tejun Heo
[Greg cc'd] Peter Osterlund wrote: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> Hi Peter, >> >> You don't seem to have a bugzilla account, so could not reassign to you. >> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9294 > > Problem is repeatable on my computer. It dies in __module_get() on t

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1260.967796] for sector 7629696, rmw=0 rcw=0 [ 1260.969314] handling stripe 7629696, state=0x14 cnt=1, pd_idx=2 ops=0:0:0 [ 1260.980606] check 5: state 0x6 toread read write f800ffcffcc0 written [ 126

Re: device struct bloat

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:49 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:57:14AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > Hmm, the problem seems to be stuff like: > > > > add usb driver to pci > > scan pci devices > > add usb host controller device > > scan usb devices > > a

Re: writeout stalls in current -git

2007-11-06 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:22:10PM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > [ 547.20] mm/page-writeback.c 676 wb_kupdate: pdflush(285) 58858 > > global 12829 72 0 wc __ tw 0 sk 0 > [ 550.48] mm/page-writeback.c 676 wb_kupdate: pdflush(285) 57834 > > global 12017 62 0 wc __ tw 0 sk 0 > [ 552.7100

Re: [PATCH 16/27] r-o-bind-mounts-elevate-write-count-for-some-ioctls

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 10:01:02 +0100 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why there's no modification for reiserfs? I fixed that in the base patch while repairing some rejects. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH 11/16] CRIS architecture: Correct compile errors

2007-11-06 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 08:40:43AM +, David Woodhouse wrote: > You don't need #ifdef __KERNEL__ on a file which isn't exported to > userspace. Having removed that, I've applied it to my tree. Ok, thanks, I'll do the same change in our internal CVS. > dwmw2 /^JN - Jesper Nilsson --

Re: [PATCH] KJ: Make i8259_64 more _32-like

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:29:57 -0500 Paul Jimenez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch mainly hinges around two includes and their ramifications: > > #includewhich provides cached_{slave,master}_mask > #include which provides PIC_{MASTER,SLAVE}_{IMR,CMD} > > Adding these two

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:56:43AM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I personally think string parsers are *much* better than the alternatives > > (which basically boil down to nasty binary interfaces) > Me too. > > > Binary structures and ioctl's are *much* worse. They ar

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen

2007-11-06 Thread Bruce Allen
All these are caused by smartd. Updating should fix the problem. Okay, but there is no newer smartd than what I'm using. (5.37) Bruce? Original thread can be read from... http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/588972 The fixes were added in smartmontools CVS, but there hasn't been a r

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Optimize zone allocator synchronization

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Snook
Don Porter wrote: From: Donald E. Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the bulk page allocation/free routines in mm/page_alloc.c, the zone lock is held across all iterations. For certain parallel workloads, I have found that releasing and reacquiring the lock for each iteration yields better performan

Module init call vs symbols exporting race?

2007-11-06 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Hi. I looked at the sys_init_module() and found that the ->init callback for the module is called without the module_mutex held and *after* the module's symbols are exported. Doesn't this create the race when loading two modules in parallel? Like this. Consider the first module to be (without any

Re: [linux-usb-devel] device struct bloat

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:38 -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Monday 05 November 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > --- linux-2.6-2.orig/drivers/spi/spi.c > > +++ linux-2.6-2/drivers/spi/spi.c > > It'd be quicker to end up in the right hands if you had > split this big and random patch according to subsyste

Re: 2.6.34-rc1 eat my photo SD card :-(

2007-11-06 Thread Romano Giannetti
Hi, I have some more data. I really start to think that the mmc layer is busted. I repeated a dd of the device, unmounted, five or six times in a row, and look: (0)rukbat:~/software/toshiba/lk2624-rc1-mmc2% sudo dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1c count=128 | od -h 128+0 records in 128+0 records out 128

Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression

2007-11-06 Thread Tejun Heo
Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:05:48 +0900 > Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alan Cox wrote: Maybe we could set a limit here. If the ATAPI device keeps DRQ=1 and exceeds the limit, we consider it as HSM violation and have EH handle it. >>> On a DMA transfer its basica

Re: writeout stalls in current -git

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 15:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Subject: mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems > > > > > > We allow violation of bdi limits if there is a lot of room on the > > > system. Once we hit half the total limit we start enforcing bdi limits > > > and bdi ramp-up s

[PATCH] init: Introduce rootdir bootparm to select which dir to sys_chroot

2007-11-06 Thread Al Boldi
This patch introduces a rootdir kernel boot parameter, which specifies the path to the kernel sys_chroot boot dir. This is useful for systems that have more than one distribution installed on the same fs/partition. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S

Re: [PATCH 01/10] x86: unification of cfufreq/Kconfig

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:13:39AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > +depends on X86_32 && X86_ELAN > > > ---help--- > > >This adds the CPUFreq driver for AMD Elan SC520 processor. > > > > X86_ELAN should depend on X86_32 rather than adding this everywhere. > > ...

Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Delete now-unreferenced i2c-yosemite.h header file.

2007-11-06 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:55:12AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Given that the corresponding source file i2c-yosemite.c file was > removed in commit daa4a68f901c4d6491baa1a01f5c869a553c3f6c, and that > no one else includes this file, it seems safe to delete it. Thanks, queue for 2.6.25. Ra

Re: 2.6.34-rc1 eat my photo SD card :-(

2007-11-06 Thread Romano Giannetti
(Nick re-added to the Cc: list; sorry, I dropped you without noticing) On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 10:58 +0100, Romano Giannetti wrote: > Hi, > > I have some more data. I really start to think that the mmc layer is > busted. I repeated a dd of the device, unmounted, five or six times in a > row, and

Re: [PATCH 16/31] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS from using iget() and read_inode() [try #5]

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:35:14 +0100 David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stop the FreeVXFS filesystem from using iget() and read_inode(). Replace > vxfs_read_inode() with vxfs_iget(), and call that instead of iget(). > vxfs_iget() then uses iget_locked() directly and returns a proper error c

Re: a list of non-existent but included include/linux header files

2007-11-06 Thread Jesper Nilsson
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:31:39PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > === Missing: include/linux/mtd/mtdram.h === > arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/axisflashmap.c:#include > arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/axisflashmap.c:#include The above headerfile should be in the queue for inclusion. > Robert P. J. Day

mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz uploaded

2007-11-06 Thread akpm
The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz It contains the following patches against 2.6.24-rc1: origin.patch ecryptfs-cast-page-index-to-loff_t-instead-of-off_t.patch fix-oop

2.6.24-rc1-git15 Kernel build fails on powerpc - Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'

2007-11-06 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Hi, The build fails on the power6 machine while compiling 2.6.24-rc1-git15 kernel, with randconfig, CHK include/linux/compile.h AS arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S: Assembler messages: arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S:138: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `ds

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git15 Kernel build fails on powerpc - Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'

2007-11-06 Thread Balbir Singh
On Nov 6, 2007 4:04 PM, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The build fails on the power6 machine while compiling 2.6.24-rc1-git15 kernel, > with randconfig, > > CHK include/linux/compile.h > AS arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o > arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S: Assemb

Re: [PATCH 1/1] V4L: stk11xx, add a new webcam driver

2007-11-06 Thread Jiri Slaby
Andrew Morton napsal(a): > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:09:02 -0700 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> stk11xx, add a new webcam driver >> >> Adds support for stk1125, stk1135 and stkdcnew webcam built-in some >> notebooks. > > Seem that something in git-dvb (or mainline) broke this driver: >

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Cox
> The documentations says: > "Smack labels cannot contain unprintable characters or the "/" (slash) > character." > > What you propose might contain unprintable characters, and it might even > be invalid UTF-8. Just like filenames then. I haven't noticed the vfs explode as a result Alan - To

Re: [PATCH 16/31] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS from using iget() and read_inode() [try #5]

2007-11-06 Thread David Howells
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not completely trivial - the ino_t -> unsigned long conversion needs to be > propagated fairly widely in there. I'll just make it unsigned long. That's what iget() took as the inode number parameter type, so it can't behave any differently as a first gu

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git15 Kernel build fails on powerpc - Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:54:46 +0100 > > > > > CHK include/linux/compile.h > > > AS arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S: Assembler messages: > > > arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S:138: Error: Unrecognized opco

Re: [PATCH 16/31] IGET: Stop FreeVXFS from using iget() and read_inode() [try #5]

2007-11-06 Thread David Howells
David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not completely trivial - the ino_t -> unsigned long conversion needs to be > > propagated fairly widely in there. > > I'll just make it unsigned long. That's what iget() took as the inode number > parameter type, so it can't behave any differently as

Re: Odd Ooops jbd ??

2007-11-06 Thread Jan Kara
> here is a error i keep bumping into with 2.6.24-rc1 (git11) > > the trigger is a ISDN call from one port to another (loopback cable) > within asterisk i have not been able to replicate it in any other way > the error may be in the ISDN > what i cant understand is why it would affect the fs. >

Re: Future of Linux 2.6.22.y series

2007-11-06 Thread Jan Kara
> For the last release, I stated that I thought the 2.6.22.12 release > would be the last one in the 2.6.22.y series. Since then, I've received > a number of other patches that would be nice to have in the .22.y tree. > > So, for a while, I'll keep the 2.6.22.y tree open, doing new releases > eve

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git15 Kernel build fails on powerpc - Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'

2007-11-06 Thread Johannes Berg
> > CHK include/linux/compile.h > > AS arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o > > arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S: Assembler messages: > > arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S:138: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `dssall' > > make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o] Error 1 > > make: *** [arch

Re: Massive slowdown when re-querying large nfs dir

2007-11-06 Thread Al Boldi
Al Boldi wrote: > There is a massive (3-18x) slowdown when re-querying a large nfs dir (2k+ > entries) using a simple ls -l. > > On 2.6.23 client and server running userland rpc.nfs.V2: > first try: time -p ls -l <2k+ entry dir> in ~2.5sec > more tries: time -p ls -l <2k+ entry dir> in ~8sec > >

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1265.899068] check 4: state 0x6 toread read write f800fdd4e360 written [ 1265.941328] check 3: state 0x1 toread read wri

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hi, On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:56:51AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:26:12AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Nov 06, 2007, at 01:33:05, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> Can you limit this to 7bit ASCII and use isascii() somewhere? > >> > >> Otherwise I'd expect funny things to ha

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1265.899068] check 4: state 0x6 toread read write f800fdd4e360 written [ 1265.941328] check

Re: Future of Linux 2.6.22.y series

2007-11-06 Thread Christian Borntraeger
Am Dienstag, 6. November 2007 schrieb Jan Kara: > In that case you might be interested in picking up the attached fix :) > I don't know if you already didn't get it... --- [PATCH] rd: fix data corruption on memory pressure --- The patch is currently in mm but not yet upstream. As soon as it is

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1265.899068] check 4: state 0x6 toread read write f800fdd4e360 written [ 1265.941328] check 3: state 0x1 toread read 00

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:56:51AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:26:12AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > > On Nov 06, 2007, at 01:33:05, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >> Can you limit this to 7bit ASCII

UML defconfig building failed again

2007-11-06 Thread WANG Cong
Hi, Jeff! I used today's linus-tree and defconfig to compile uml, but it failed. Error messages are things like: In file included from include/asm/processor-generic.h:13, from include/asm/processor.h:77, from include/asm/thread_info.h:11, from

Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup

2007-11-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:46 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:23:07 + David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've been testing rc1 for a week or so, and about 25% of the time I'm > > seeing Firefox and Thunderbird getting stuck in 'D' state as they startup. > > > > I've

Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

2007-11-06 Thread BERTRAND Joël
Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Tue, 6 Nov 2007, BERTRAND Joël wrote: Done. Here is obtained ouput : [ 1265.899068] check 4: state 0x6 toread read write f800fdd4e360 written

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:56:51AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:26:12AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > > > On Nov 06, 2007, at 01:33:0

[PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

2007-11-06 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own schedule. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedul

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Adrian Bunk wrote: > You have a "\?" pattern which is defined as "1 byte character other > than '/'". Don't worry. The "\?" pattern is for temporary files with /tmp/prefixXX pattern. /tmp/prefixXX is represented as /tmp/prefix\?\?\?\?\?\? in TOMOYO Linux's syntax. > The user usua

[PATCH] smbfs: fix calculation of kernel_recvmsg size parameter in smb_receive

2007-11-06 Thread Jeff Layton
smb_receive calls kernel_recvmsg with a size that's the minimum of the amount of buffer space in the kvec passed in or req->rq_rlen (which represents the length of the response). This does not take into account any response data that was read in an earlier pass through smb_receive. If the first pa

Re: Module init call vs symbols exporting race?

2007-11-06 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 20:20:58 Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Hi. > > I looked at the sys_init_module() and found that the ->init callback > for the module is called without the module_mutex held and *after* > the module's symbols are exported. Doesn't this create the race when > loading two module

Re: "Fix ATAPI transfer lengths" causes CD writing regression

2007-11-06 Thread Alan Cox
> Just to make sure I'm not misunderstanding it. So, PDC202xx will lock > up if you transfer allocation size, reset and then try to drain, but > it's okay to keep draining as part of continued PIO transfer, right? The following hang mine: PIO transfer Reset state machine

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Nov 06, 2007, at 07:23:36, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: As far as I understand the problem now, isspace() accepts the 0xa0 character which might collide with some of UTF-8 encoded

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git15 Kernel build fails on powerpc - Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'

2007-11-06 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
David Miller wrote: > From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:54:46 +0100 > >> CHK include/linux/compile.h AS arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S: Assembler messages: arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S:138: Error

Re: Policy on dual licensing?

2007-11-06 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On 04-11-2007 01:04, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:14:15PM +, Remigiusz Modrzejewski wrote: >> We've all seen the last flame war about Linux stealing BSD code. Due to >> Theo's bad wording whole discussion rolled around the question about >> legality of this, a big waste of t

[-mm patch] fix getblk_slow "integer constant is too large" warning

2007-11-06 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:33:53AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz has been uploaded to > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz > > It contains the following patches against 2.6.24-rc1:

dd/mke2fs on loopback hangs

2007-11-06 Thread Petar Bogdanovic
Hi, I experience some strange problems with my loopback-on-ext3-setup. After creating a plain `zeroed' dummy-file and doing a /dev/loop/0 on it, every dd or mke2fs hangs while doing certain write()s. Here are the steps just in order to show, how simple the setup is: 1) create a dummy file

Re: Truecrypt in kernel ?

2007-11-06 Thread Clemens Koller
Michal Schmidt schrieb: > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:42:39 -0500 > "Zurk Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> just wondering why the truecrypt module isnt in the mainline kernel ? >> its the only cross platform encrypted disk solution out there and it >> should be less of a chore to use it in linux...is

Re: Truecrypt in kernel ?

2007-11-06 Thread Zurk Tech
aka author is being an idiot. *sigh* -z- On 11/6/07, Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Two reasons: > The author hasn't sent patches. > It looks to me the license is incompatible with the GPLv2. > > Michal > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz uploaded - build fails on powerpc

2007-11-06 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > powerpc-move-_rtc_time-routines-under-config_adb_cuda.patch CC net/9p/error.o arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/time.c:168: error: implicit declaration of function ‘from_rtc_time’ arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/time.c:225: error: implicit declaration of function

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Re: [PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

2007-11-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 03:23:50PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of > interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info > hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own > schedule. It's just a trivial h

Re: [PATCH]bluetooth rfcomm_dev refcount bug fix

2007-11-06 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Dave, > I'm afraid to be considered as spam ;) > > (Due to timezone offset, I have to mail again and cann't wait for your > reply, sorry for the annoying) I am in a different timezone every other week. So nevermind ;) > I think the rfcomm_dev_put could be seperated from the rfcomm_dev_put, >

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > On Nov 06, 2007, at 07:23:36, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: >> On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: As far as I understand the problem now, isspace() ac

Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM.

2007-11-06 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:00:41PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Hello. > > I found that accessing namespace_sem from security_inode_create() > causes lockdep warning when compiled with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y . Any code except VFS internals has no business using it at all and doesn't do that in ma

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-git15 Kernel build fails on powerpc - Unrecognized opcode: `dssall'

2007-11-06 Thread Balbir Singh
Kamalesh Babulal wrote: > David Miller wrote: >> From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:54:46 +0100 >> > CHK include/linux/compile.h > AS arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.o > arch/powerpc/kernel/swsusp_32.S: Assembler messages: > arch/powerpc/

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz uploaded

2007-11-06 Thread Gabriel C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz has been uploaded to > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-11-06-02-32.tar.gz > Some warnings ( still building :) ) .. arch/x86/Kconfig.i386:178:warning: 'select' used by conf

Re: [PATCH -net 2/2] Put proc_net_create() on death row

2007-11-06 Thread David Miller
From: Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:23:50 +0300 > proc_net_create() stands on the way of shrinking the number of > interfaces one can use for /proc files, namely, it uses ->get_info > hook which will be converted, deprecated and deleted on its own > schedule. > > Si

[PATCH] s390: cmm - remove unused binary sysctls

2007-11-06 Thread Heiko Carstens
From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove binary sysctls that never worked due to missing strategy functions. Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: a list of non-existent but included include/linux header files

2007-11-06 Thread Jörn Engel
On Tue, 6 November 2007 11:56:19 +0100, Jesper Nilsson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:31:39PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > === Missing: include/linux/mtd/mtdram.h === > > arch/cris/arch-v32/drivers/axisflashmap.c:#include > > arch/cris/arch-v10/drivers/axisflashmap.c:#include > > The

Re: UML defconfig building failed again

2007-11-06 Thread Al Viro
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:46:02PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: > > Hi, Jeff! > > I used today's linus-tree and defconfig to compile uml, but it failed. Error > messages are > things like: > > In file included from include/asm/processor-generic.h:13, > from include/asm/processor.h:7

Re: 2.6.23: no more free evdev devices - evdev leak?

2007-11-06 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Nov 5, 2007 10:13 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:34:44 + Soeren Sonnenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Dear all, > > (cc's added) > > > > whenever I do a suspend resume cycle the input device's numbers are > > increased until I finally run out o

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:34:46PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > On Nov 06, 2007, at 07:23:36, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > >> On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 01:34:05PM +0200, Ahmed S. Dar

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 09:27:00PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > Hello. > > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > You have a "\?" pattern which is defined as "1 byte character other > > than '/'". > Don't worry. The "\?" pattern is for temporary files with /tmp/prefixXX > pattern. > /tmp/prefixXX is repr

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:05:13PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 02:34:46PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 07:49:26AM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote: > > > On Nov 06, 2007, at 07:23:36, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > >> On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTE

[PATCH] IGET: Use ino_t consistently for vxfs_iget() and its declaration

2007-11-06 Thread David Howells
Use ino_t consistently for vxfs_iget() and its declaration, rather than using ino_t for one and unsigned long for the other. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/freevxfs/vxfs_extern.h |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/freevxfs/vxfs_e

Re: Problem with accessing namespace_sem from LSM.

2007-11-06 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Any code except VFS internals has no business using it at all and doesn't > do that in mainline either. I'd start looking for design bugs in whatever > code you have using it first. Isn't security_inode_create() a part of VFS internals? I think security_inode_cre

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Adrian Bunk wrote: > And \* is not a replacement for \?. It's quite common to have both ways > to express "one character" and to express "at least one character", and > both have their use cases and will get used if available. You can use \? to represent "one character" and \?\* to repres

Re: [PATCH] Smackv10: Smack rules grammar + their stateful parser

2007-11-06 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On 11/6/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:05:13PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > > > > Great, To summarize the discussion. Will there be a problem in > > accepting ASCII and the UTF-8 ASCII _subset_ _only_ and return > > -EINVAL for all other cases/ecnodings

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