Re: [PATCH 1/4 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v7 : kexec jump

2007-12-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This patch implements the functionality of jumping between the kexeced kernel and the original kernel. To support jumping between two kernels, before jumping to (executing) the new kernel and jumping back to the original kernel, the devices are put into quiescent state, and the state

Re: [PATCH 2/6] random: use xor for mixing

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:16PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: use xor for mixing With direct assignment, we can determine the twist table element used for mixing (the high 3 bits of the table are unique) and reverse a single step of mixing. Instead, use xor, which should also help

Re: [PATCH 1/4 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v7 : kexec jump

2007-12-08 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 9 of December 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! This patch implements the functionality of jumping between the kexeced kernel and the original kernel. To support jumping between two kernels, before jumping to (executing) the new kernel and jumping back to the original kernel,

Re: 2.6.23.9 64-bit IRQ sharing without irqbalance with p35 vs i965?

2007-12-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:44:39 -0500 (EST) Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can some please explain with almost identical kernel .config's I see this on a p965 Intel board: your bios programmed the machines differently... the p965 has the higher performing settup, but still it's

Re: 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:51:54PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: I finally got around to testing Linux 2.6.24 (2.6.24-rc4) and found that the it87 driver fails to probe and consequently, my sensors no longer work. This was fine with Linux 2.6.23.8 (the last kernel I was using) The necessary

Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 NFS crossmnt regression

2007-12-08 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Saturday 08 December 2007 01:43:28 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:51:58 -0500 Trond Myklebust [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:39 -0500, Shane wrote: On Dec 7, 2007 2:16 PM, Shane [EMAIL

Re: Allow (O=...) from file

2007-12-08 Thread Jay Cliburn
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 21:14:09 +0100 Sam Ravnborg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jay - can I ask you to try out following patch. Hello Sam, Yes, your patch works for me. Thank you very much. diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index a5252f4..7fb1a2c 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -118,9

Re: Major regression on hackbench with SLUB

2007-12-08 Thread Steven Rostedt
Ingo, Due to email problems, I never got your reply on this thread. But I saw your reply when reading this thread on lkml.org (nor did I receive Linus's first reply). Anyway, I booted 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 with the same config, and accepted the defaults to the new config options as the git version I

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ptrace_stop: remove the wrong -group_stop_count bookkeeping

2007-12-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Oleg Nesterov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ptrace_stop() decrements -group_stop_count to participate in group stop. This looks very wrong to me, the task can in fact decrement this counter twice. If the tracee returns to the user-space before other threads complete the group stop, it will

Re: [PATCH 3/6] random: do extraction before mixing

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:17PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: do extraction before mixing If an attacker manages to capture the current pool state, she can determine the last 10 bytes extracted from the pool. That's not true; we aren't just extracting data in the

Re: [PATCH 2/6] random: use xor for mixing

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 07:01:04PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:16PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: use xor for mixing With direct assignment, we can determine the twist table element used for mixing (the high 3 bits of the table are unique) and reverse a

Re: Bug: get EXT3-fs error Allocating block in system zone

2007-12-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Marco Gatti wrote: Today, I tested with different amounts of RAM: 2 GB: everything works fine 4 GB: same issue as described before with allocating block in system zone So what to do, in order to use more than 2 Gigs of RAM? Was there a dmesg out there somewhere?

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Cree
Kay Sievers wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be significant... For the bad case, in addition to udevd, ps -ef shows a sh -e

Re: [PATCH 1/4 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v7 : kexec jump

2007-12-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Rafael J. Wysocki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm not kexec hacker... but maybe this is in good enough state to be merged? It is useful on its own: kexec jump and back means we can dump system then continue running, for example... As far as I'm concerned, patches [1/4] and [2/4] can go. The

Re: entropy gathering (was Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?)

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:47 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 09:42:39PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: I remember having installed openssh on an AIX machines years ago, and being amazed by the number of sources it collected entropy from. Simple commands such as ifconfig -a,

rq_for_each_bio

2007-12-08 Thread Adrian McMenamin
I have tried to search through the mailing list and it is not entirely clear, but it looks like this has gone from the kernel: not least because my driver reports: drivers/sh/gdrom/gdrom.c:665: error: implicit declaration of function 'rq_for_each_bio' I am not arguing for a stable ABI/API, I get

Re: [PATCH 4/6] random: make backtracking attacks harder

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:38PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: make backtracking attacks harder At each extraction, we change (poolbits / 16) + 32 bits in the pool, or 96 bits in the case of the secondary pools. Thus, a brute-force backtracking attack on the pool state is less

Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by using a larger step. For our secondary pools, we'll be sure to touch both blocks with each

Re: [PATCH 6/6] random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer - split the SHA variables apart into hash and workspace - rename data to extract - wipe extract and workspace after hashing diff -r 924f9a441236 drivers/char/random.c ---

Re: [PATCH 2/6] random: use xor for mixing

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 06:40:17PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: I'm working on strengthening forward security for cases where the internals are exposed to an attacker. There are any number of situations where this can and does happen, and ensuring we don't expose ourselves to backtracking is a

Re: Please revert: PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-12-08 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 05:24:22PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 14:58 +0900, Yoichi Yuasa wrote: What I don't understand is thus why you are calling resource_to_bus on 0x1f0 which is -not- a resource value, but is already a BAR value... 0x1f0 is

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:30:53PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Theodore Tso wrote: However, as far as I am concerned, Ingo's patch, first posted to LKML here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/16/66 should be listed as fixing the above regression. Rafael,

Re: 2.6.24-rc4 hwmon it87 probe fails

2007-12-08 Thread Mike Houston
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 01:05:54 +0100 Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 09:51:54PM -0500, Mike Houston wrote: I finally got around to testing Linux 2.6.24 (2.6.24-rc4) and found that the it87 driver fails to probe and consequently, my sensors no longer work. This was

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- boot process hangs -- tty4 main process (2988) terminated with status 1

2007-12-08 Thread Miles Lane
Dec 6 21:24:28 erratic-orbits init: tty3 main process (2991) terminated with status 1 Boggle. We broke the vt driver? config, please... I sent the .config. Is there nothing else to follow up on? I have tried rebuilding about seven kernels, tweaking the options each time. All the

Re: [PATCH] ps3: mm/Kconfig fix

2007-12-08 Thread Geoff Levand
On 12/08/2007 11:30 AM, Miguel Botón wrote: sparsemem-make-sparsemem-vmemmap-selectable.patch introduces a little bug. SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP can be enabled in an architecture that doesn't support it. If the architecture supports SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP_ENABLE is enabled, so

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-08 Thread Zan Lynx
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 02:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:01:33 -0700 Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cut] Now with MM

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9482] New: kernel GPF in 2.6.24 (g09f345da)

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 16:59:30 -0600 Jon Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can confirm that 2.6.24rc4 with the (second) patch works fine. OK, thanks. We haven't heard back from Ed yet. I'll sit on this for a few more days. From: Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ed L. Cashin [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Second, this patch spreads the mixing across the pool more rapidly by using a

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:02:54 -0700 Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 02:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:01:33 -0700 Zan Lynx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43

Re: [BUG] 2.6.23-rc3 can't see sd partitions on Alpha

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Tracy
Michael Cree wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 23:05 -0600, Bob Tracy wrote: Kay Sievers wrote: Is the udev daemon (still) running while it fails? Yes, and there's something else I forgot to mention that may be significant... For the bad case, in addition to udevd, ps -ef

Re: rq_for_each_bio

2007-12-08 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday December 9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried to search through the mailing list and it is not entirely clear, but it looks like this has gone from the kernel: not least because my driver reports: drivers/sh/gdrom/gdrom.c:665: error: implicit declaration of function

sparsemem: Make SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP selectable

2007-12-08 Thread Geoff Levand
From: Geoff Levand [EMAIL PROTECTED] SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP needs to be a selectable config option to support building the kernel both with and without sparsemem vmemmap support. This selection is desirable for platforms which could be configured one way for platform specific builds and the other

Re: [PATCH 5/6] random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:00:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 20:48:20 -0500 Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: step more rapidly through the pool when adding and extracting Second, this

Re: RFC: outb 0x80 in inb_p, outb_p harmful on some modern AMD64 with MCP51 laptops

2007-12-08 Thread Rene Herman
On 08-12-07 20:25, David P. Reed wrote: In any case, my machine does not have an ISA bus. Why should it? It's a laptop! A bus is not something with expansion slots. Your machine has an ISA bus, or LPC rather, if only to hang its BIOS of. That earlier report about BIOS chips shitting

Re: [PATCH 6/6] random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:51:54PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:21:00PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: improve variable naming, clear extract buffer - split the SHA variables apart into hash and workspace - rename data to extract - wipe extract and

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-08 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 06:46:12PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:10:10AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to use /dev/urandom for a local DoS... Draining entropy in /dev/urandom means that insecure

Re: [PATCH 4/6] random: make backtracking attacks harder

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:45:50PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:38PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: make backtracking attacks harder At each extraction, we change (poolbits / 16) + 32 bits in the pool, or 96 bits in the case of the secondary pools. Thus, a

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: implement modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Adrian Bunk wrote: And thinking about it, it doesn't seem to add any problems regarding what I have in mind: If we would ever stop having any well-defined link-order for in-kernel code and express everything through initcall levels, we simply must additionally update the modules.order

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Jon Masters wrote: On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to the file before generating output files. Modules which aren't on modules.order

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Robert Hancock wrote: Matthew Garrett wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:20:01AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:12:57 +0100 Andreas Mohr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACPI Exception (exoparg2-0442): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0) is beyond end of object [20070126] ACPI

usb regression in 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-08 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings guys gals; This was sent about an hour ago to the usb-devel list also. - Just a few minutes ago I needed to make use of my scanner, an Epson 1250u. Firing up xsane, the usual select the device menu window didn't show, and it went straight to my tv card as the only input

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-08 Thread Ismail Dönmez
Sunday 09 December 2007 01:46:12 tarihinde Theodore Tso şunları yazmıştı: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 12:10:10AM +0200, Ismail Dönmez wrote: As long as /dev/random is readable for all users there's no reason to use /dev/urandom for a local DoS... Draining entropy in /dev/urandom means that

RE: usb regression in 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-08 Thread Bob Gill
Hi. Just a quick reply. Is /proc/bus/usb empty? Is there no symlink named devices (and so you can't cat devices to see what is there)? Also, (if /proc/bus/usb is empty), is /dev/bus/usb/devices not empty? (When you cat devices does it list usb devices you have plugged in?) If so, then

Re: Correct types for mod_devicetable.h (was: Re: m68k build failure)

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 22:58 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:02:19PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2007 22:22:31 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007, Pierre Ossman wrote: Yeah, that could work. Have a header with stuff like this:

Re: laptop reboots right after hibernation

2007-12-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Kjartan Maraas wrote: to., 06.12.2007 kl. 11.38 +0900, skrev Tejun Heo: Thanks. Almost there. Can you please try the attached two patches and report the boot log? Here we go again. Hmmm... Ah.. okay. Wrongly splitted patch. Can you please do it one more time? Thanks. -- tejun Index:

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Andrew Morton wrote: Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is beyond end of object Submitter: Hans de Bruin [EMAIL PROTECTED] References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320 Handled-By : Robert Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why does reading from /dev/urandom deplete entropy so much?

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 06:21 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: Wouldn't it be possible to mix the data with the pid+uid of the reading process so that even if another one tries to collect data from urandom, he cannot predict what another process will get ? BTW, I think that the tuple

Re: [RFC] swap image signature check upon resume

2007-12-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:50:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Saturday, 8 of December 2007, Borislav Petkov wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... Well, there's a patchset in the current mainline that allows you to use

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, (cc'ing Alan) Andrew Morton wrote: Subject : cd/dvd inaccessible in 2.6.24-rc2 Submitter: Will Trives [EMAIL PROTECTED] References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/9/290 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9346 Handled-By : Len Brown [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH 3/6] random: do extraction before mixing

2007-12-08 Thread Matt Mackall
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 07:35:54PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 05:20:17PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote: random: do extraction before mixing If an attacker manages to capture the current pool state, she can determine the last 10 bytes extracted from the pool.

Re: [PATCH] pci: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources

2007-12-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 17:00 -0800, Greg KH wrote: But that is how we already handle this today, in numerous places in the kernel for this very type. So, you can disagree that this is what we need to do, and if so, feel free to fix up a whole lot of files in the tree :) Heh, ok, allright,

Re: Please revert: PCI: fix IDE legacy mode resources

2007-12-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 02:12 +, Ralf Baechle wrote: So where do we stand with this? As I understand the Cobalt system controller it is not possible to address ioport addresses below 0x1000 at all on the PCI bus of the GT-64111. As such I think the best solution is a GT-64111-specific

Re: usb regression in 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-08 Thread Gabriel C
Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings guys gals; Hi , This was sent about an hour ago to the usb-devel list also. - Just a few minutes ago I needed to make use of my scanner, an Epson 1250u. Firing up xsane, the usual select the device menu window didn't show, and it went

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/08/2007 04:24 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: i'm wondering why it had no effect now diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index e0d3a4f..a46c252 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -47,15 +47,21 @@ void __init cpu_hotplug_init(void)

2.6.24-rc4-mm1: acpi reboots machine

2007-12-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
Hi Andrew, Hi Len, after booting 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 (2.6.24-rc4-190-g94545ba, otoh, boots just fine) on my asus laptop, the machine reboots after claiming that Critical temperature reached (255 C). However, the degrees number is kinda hinting at 0xff all-ones field. Will try dump_stack in

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a kmap_atomic() debugging patch which I wrote ages ago and whcih Ingo sucked into his tree. I don't _think_ this warning is present in your tree at all. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/29/157 is where it starts. I had a lenghty

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:20:01AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Does this report now win me the lucky draw, pretty please? ;) > > nah, you have to cc the acpi guys to get a prize ;) Thought so shortly, but missed it. > Andreas, please do separately report that WOL problem too.. Local

Re: git guidance

2007-12-08 Thread Al Boldi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0300, Al Boldi said: > > It probably goes without saying, that gitfs should have some basic > > configuration file to setup its transparent behaviour > > But then it's not *truly* transparent, is it? Don't mistake transparency with some

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:20:01AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:12:57 +0100 Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ACPI Exception (exoparg2-0442): AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT, Index (0) is > > beyond end of object [20070126] > > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method

Re: RocketPort Linux driver errors on module reload

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On Oct 19, 2007 12:02 AM, Nick Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: Jiri Slaby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >And the last question, when do you expect/estimate this would happen? > > Jiri, > To be honest, it would be hard to estimate at this point. I've discussed it > with one of our

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 12/08/2007 09:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Unfortunately no change here. > > could you try to revert this change: > > -int softlockup_thresh = 10; > +int softlockup_thresh = 60; > > i.e. change the value of softlockup_thresh back to 10. You should

Re: [patch 07/18] v4l: nopage

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:54 +1100 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > +static int > > +videobuf_vm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) > > { > > struct page *page; > > > > - dprintk(3,"nopage: fault @ %08lx [vma

Re: Possible EXT2 race

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 13:58 -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:15:42AM -0500, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > > > > > Dec 7 04:05:55 chaos kernel: sd 0:0:1:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Peripheral > > > device write fault > >

Re: Kernel Development & Objective-C

2007-12-08 Thread Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.
Ben Crowhurst wrote: > Loïc Grenié wrote: >> 2007/11/29, Ben Crowhurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Has Objective-C ever been considered for kernel development? >>> >>> regards, >>> BPC >>> >> I have tried it in a toy kernel. Oskit style. The code reuse is very high specially with string ops

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fabio Comolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Subject : Battery shows up twice in kpowersave > > Submitter : Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9494 > > Handled-By : Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 03:40 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Subject : leds: ledtrig-timer calls sleeping function from > invalid context > Submitter : Márton Németh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9264 > Handled-By: Richard

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 11:12:57 +0100 Andreas Mohr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:36:31AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is > > > beyond end of object > > > Submitter : Hans de Bruin <[EMAIL

Re: [patch 07/18] v4l: nopage

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 10:15:08 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:15:54 +1100 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > +static int > > > +videobuf_vm_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct vm_fault *vmf) > > >

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 10:30:39 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Subject : tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52 > > kmap_atomic_prot() > > Submitter : Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > References

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been

Quotaon livelock

2007-12-08 Thread T T
Hi lkml, Enabling FS quotas can take up to several minutes to finish and depends on other users disk activity. This makes it a livelock (as it can be finished anyway). The problem described at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9520 Yes, if we need to enable quotas once in the system

Re: Out of tree module using LSM

2007-12-08 Thread Pavel Machek
On Thu 2007-11-29 23:58:44, Andi Kleen wrote: > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > The simple case is > > open > > write cathedral and bazaar in some order > > close > > process -> label eric_t> > > > > open (eric_t) - SELinux "no" > > > > > > Anyone smart will then

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi, On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 01:36:31AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Subject : PATA scan: ACPI Exception AE_AML_PACKAGE_LIMIT... is > > beyond end of object > > Submitter : Hans de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9320 > >

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been

Re: tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52, [2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject : tipc_init(), WARNING: at arch/x86/mm/highmem_32.c:52 > kmap_atomic_prot() > Submitter : Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/29/157 >

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: undefined reference to `compat_sys_timerfd' on sparc64

2007-12-08 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
> > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > > arch/sparc64/kernel/head.o: In function `sys_call_table32': > > arch/sparc64/kernel/head.S:(.text+0x224e0): undefined reference to > > `compat_sys_timerfd' > > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > > argh, sorry, I am soo fed up with fixing that patch. > > ---

Re: [PATCH] scheduler: fix x86 regression in native_sched_clock

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 08 December 2007 11:50, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > I guess your patch is fairly complex but it should work > > I should also add that although complex, it should have a much smaller > TSC delta window in which the wrong scaling factor can

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 03:03 -0500, Jon Masters wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > > > Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. > > This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to > > the file before generating output

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 12/07/2007 06:51 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> thanks for tracking it down. Does the patch below help? > > oops, that should be the patch below. Otherwise the watchdog kernel > threads will just loop around. > > Ingo > > --- >

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 08:28 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > As I said, I don't think leaving duplicate lines in a file which will be > installed, distributed and used widely is the RTTD. For what it's worth, I changed the module processing in depmod so that it doesn't output duplicate entries. Having

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Jon Masters
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 22:55 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Kbuild now generates and installs modules.order along with modules. > This patch updates depmod such that it sorts module list according to > the file before generating output files. Modules which aren't on > modules.order are put after

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 and Very Slow PCMCIA Compact Flash

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:01:33 -0700 Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 15:22 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 23:09:43 + > > Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [cut] > > > > > Now with MM kernels 2.6.24 rc1-4 the PCMCIA adapter works again,

Re: [RFC] swap image signature check upon resume

2007-12-08 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:19:09PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: ... > > > Well, there's a patchset in the current mainline that allows you to use > > > arbitrary (sufficiently new) kernel to load the image and then restore the > > > image kernel. So, you can hibernate 2.6.24-rc3 and use

Re: git guidance

2007-12-08 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Jakub Narebski wrote: > > > Version control system is all about WORKFLOW B, where programmer > > controls when it is time to commit (and in private repository he/she > > can then rewrite history to arrive at "Perfect patch series"[*1*]); > > something

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

2007-12-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 09:28:15 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Fabio Comolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Subject : Battery shows up twice in kpowersave > > > Submitter : Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > References :

[PATCH] mm/mmap: Remove sparse-warning (NULL as 0).

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK mm/mmap.c mm/mmap.c:1623:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/mmap.c:1623:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer mm/mmap.c:1944:29: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Added by:

Re: HTC TyTN || (P4550) violates GPL?? Or maybe Qualcomm itself with MSM7200???

2007-12-08 Thread CIJOML
Dne so 8. prosince 2007 Mauricio Mauad Menegaz Filho napsal(a): > 2007/12/7, CIJOML <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi there, > > ... > > Can anybody else confirm this and contact those companies for source > > codes? > > It seems that the sources are there: > > http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/software/ >

iscsi project page changed

2007-12-08 Thread crquan
There's a merging news happened two years ago: http://www.open-iscsi.org/ Linux-iSCSI(sfnet) and Open-iSCSI projects merged!(April 11, 2005) http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel=111327337005048=2 so the information should change, and there are needs about iscsi

[PATCH] kernel/params.c: Remove sparse-warning (different signedness).

2007-12-08 Thread Richard Knutsson
Fixing: CHECK kernel/params.c kernel/params.c:329:41: warning: incorrect type in argument 8 (different signedness) kernel/params.c:329:41:expected int *num kernel/params.c:329:41:got unsigned int * Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Compile-tested on x86 with

Re: [PATCH] depmod: sort output according to modules.order

2007-12-08 Thread Alan Cox
> it doesn't output duplicate entries. Having duplicates is not the right > solution - especially modalias entries that depend entirely upon the > file layout on disk when you run depmod against a kernel. > > Thanks for the ordering patches folks - a good idea! And as it happens just what I need

Re: [PATCH] Fix lguest documentation

2007-12-08 Thread James Morris
On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Sheela wrote: > Share net is not supported , Rusty is an "idiot" . > > Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reviewed-by: James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH 1/6] indirect: use asmlinkage in i386 syscall table prototype

2007-12-08 Thread Simon Holm Thøgersen
tor, 06 12 2007 kl. 15:20 -0800, skrev Zach Brown: > call_indirect() was using the wrong calling convention for the system call > handlers. system call handlers would get mixed up arguments. > > Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > diff --git a/include/asm-x86/indirect_32.h

[PATCH] Fix lguest documentation

2007-12-08 Thread Sheela
Share net is not supported , Rusty is an "idiot" . Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt index 7885ab2..722d4e7 100644 --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.txt @@

Re: programs vanish with 2.6.22+

2007-12-08 Thread Markus
I try that, but it will take a lot of time! Markus > fre, 07 12 2007 kl. 23:52 +0100, skrev Markus: > > Well, now some windows vanished, but no additional messages were > > produced by kernel. When somebody could tell what I exactly need to > > do... would be nice. > > Or a hit, in what

Re: lockdep problem conversion semaphore->mutex (dev->sem)

2007-12-08 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 00:02 +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote: > Hello Peter, > > > > What specifically is wrong with dev->sem ? > > > > Nothing really, other than that they use semaphores to avoid lockdep :-/ > > > > I think I know how to annotate this, after Alan Stern explained all the > > use cases,

Re: [git pull] x86/hrtimer/acpi fixes

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 20:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Nope, it doesn't still getting "delay" and "xrun" messages galore. > > > > > > Attached: configuration and dmesg

Re: broken suspend (sched related) [Was: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1]

2007-12-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately no change here. could you try to revert this change: -int softlockup_thresh = 10; +int softlockup_thresh = 60; i.e. change the value of softlockup_thresh back to 10. You should be able to tweak this runtime as well, without patching the

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