Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-06 Thread Andi Kleen
> I work at a hosting company and we see these kinds of issues in the > real world fairly frequently. I would guess maybe a monthly basis. > The servers where we have seen this are typically running RHEL 4 or 5 > kernels, so I can't really speak to how recent the kernel is in this > specific term.

Re: SLUB: Support for statistics to help analyze allocator behavior

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:20:04 -0800 (PST) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The statistics provided here allow the monitoring of allocator behavior > at the cost of some (minimal) loss of performance. Counters are placed in > SLUB's per cpu data structure that is already written to by

Re: OOPS in sysctl.c

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:24:56 +0100 Holger Schurig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an embedded target (PXA255 based) where I have a nice > > running kernel 2.6.15. Today I'm trying to get 2.6.24 running > > on it. > Backtrace: [] (sysctl_head_next+0x0/0x64) from [] (proc_sys_readdir+0x360/0

Re: [PATCH] stop c_p_a corrupting the pds

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it > is currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by > removing the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual > address. > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Di

Re: [PATCH] [1/2] Move NUMAQ io handling into arch/x86/pci/numa.c

2008-02-06 Thread Andi Kleen
> > +#define XQUAD_PORTIO_BASE 0xfe40 > > There is still a definition in include/asm-x86/io_32.h . Is this > intentional? Probably not. > > > +extern void *xquad_portio;/* Where the IO area was mapped */ > > Does the extern need to be here when you've added it (minus the comment) > to ma

Re: OOM killer on idle machine

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:38:18 +0530 Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Feb 4 16:35:56 kernel: 4426 pages slab > > Feb 4 16:35:56 kernel: 360 pages pagetables > > > > Looks like quicklists again. Are you sure? Normally there will be large amounts of memory in slab when that one occurs?

Resolved (sort of): Unable to access PCMCIA with O2 Micro OZ711MP1/MS1

2008-02-06 Thread Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)
Kristoffer Ericson schrieb: "Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)" wrote: On a Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H240 a 2.6.22-3-amd64 kernel from Debian testing is in use. PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6 version 014-4 are installed. I could supply the output of lspci and lshal. Assuming debian has alot of patches

Re: T61P sound issue

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > Hmm.. sound works just fine for me on my X61s (model #7668-CTO) running > 2.6.24. I have also seen sound working flawlessly on another X61s. Maybe they changed some chipset revisions on the fly, or whatever. What does lspci -v show for your soundcard p

where is the capset kernel module?

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Chua
Latest linux git complained about this ... named: capset failed: Operation not permitted: please ensure that the capset kernel module is loaded. see insmod(8) Where is the capset kernel module? Thanks, Jeff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: locking api self-test hanging

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:43:04 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:07:44 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > With current mainline I'm getting intermittent

Re: dma error on boot with cf card

2008-02-06 Thread Marc Donner
On Tuesday 05 February 2008, you wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:52:29PM +0100, Marc Donner wrote: > > hi, > > > > i have a problem using a cf card with an ide adapter. > > using debian kernel 2.6.18-5 > > > > Adapter doesn't support DMA, but controller and CF cards do. To fix, > tell the syst

RE: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card

2008-02-06 Thread Ben Martel
Baa Baa (a Kiwi greeting :) ), I have to second Jiri on this one. The card is used as a 'WAN' technology not a 'LAN' technology platform and hence does not really fit into the 'wireless 802.11' space. I think that it should be merged in where it currently sits. ~benm -Original Message---

Re: [PATCH] power_supply: Remove capacity_level from list of sysfs attributes

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:13:36 -0200 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- > drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c |1 - > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c > b/drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c > index

Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

2008-02-06 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I got x86-64 compiled by removing the #include from > > asm-generic/tlb.h. But who knows what will break if the include is > > missing .. I'll cross compile some of the other architectures next. > > > > urgh, well, thanks for trying. I

Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 10:06:18 +0100 Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 10:46 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > I got x86-64 compiled by removing the #include from > > > asm-generic/tlb.h. But who knows what will break if the include is > > > missing .. I'll cross

Re: [BUG] Problem with recording on hda-intel (sata_sil or hda-intel bug) - HP nx6325

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 20:15:23 +0100 Grzegorz Chwesewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > Problem description: > > I have a problem with recording on HP nx6325 notebook (hda-intel with > AD1981HD > codec). Playback works fine, but after 5-10 min. of recording microphone > stops working (

Re: [patch 2/3] CONFIG_HIGHPTE vs. sub-page page tables.

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > urgh, well, thanks for trying. If there's significant risk factor > > > (or hassle) in fixing the macros then I'd suggest we not do it for > > > now - it's a separate project. > > > > I'm still at it. I does make sense to convert the damn macro

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-06 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:52:31PM -0800, Glenn Griffin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +static u32 cookie_hash(struct in6_addr *saddr, struct in6_addr *daddr, > +__be16 sport, __be16 dport, u32 count, int c) > +{ > + __u32 tmp[16 + 5 + SHA_WORKSPACE_WORDS]; This huge buffer

Re: locking api self-test hanging

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 00:34:12 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 04:43:04 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:07:44 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:02:46 -0800 Andrew Morton <[EMA

feature-removal-schedule.txt is getting out of date again

2008-02-06 Thread Robert P. J. Day
yes, i realize i'm sounding like a broken record but, once again, Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt is slipping out of date WRT items that are now slightly, if not noticeably, behind schedule for removal. rday --

Re: inotify_add_watch() returning ENOSPC in 2.6.24 [watch descriptor leak?]

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 20:49:42 -0500 "Clem Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to move a MIPS based embedded system from 2.6.16.16 to > 2.6.24. Most things seem to be working, but I'm having troubles with > inotify. The code is using inotify to detect a file written to /tmp > (tmpfs). The

loopback interfaces

2008-02-06 Thread mokhtar
Is it possible to create more than one loopback interfaces in linux? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/loopback-interfaces-tp15306345p15306345.html Sent from the linux-kernel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] x86_32: fix regression caused by trim ram according to mtrr on system with 4G more RAM

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [PATCH] x86_32: fix regression caused by trim ram according to mtrr on system > with 4G more RAM > > Pravel report: > " > The commit > > 093af8d7f0ba3c6be1485973508584ef081e9f93 > x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 > > broke my e1000

Re: ath5k failure with 2.6.24-git14

2008-02-06 Thread Andrew Morton
(cc linux-wireless) On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:57:46 +0100 Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried the current git (9ef9dc69d4167276c04590d67ee55de8380bc1ad) and > got the following error message from ath5k: > > ath5k_pci :02:00.0: registered as 'phy0' > ath5k phy0: failed to r

[PATCH] x86_32: fix regression caused by trim ram according to mtrr on system with 4G more RAM

2008-02-06 Thread Yinghai Lu
[PATCH] x86_32: fix regression caused by trim ram according to mtrr on system with 4G more RAM Pravel report: " The commit 093af8d7f0ba3c6be1485973508584ef081e9f93 x86_32: trim memory by updating e820 broke my e1000 card: on loading driver says that e1000: probe of

Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation

2008-02-06 Thread Romano Giannetti
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 09:30 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 01 Feb 2008, Len Brown wrote: > > You might check if CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m is set and you can load the "video" > > module. > > While the sony may be non-standard and not load, your thinkpad may work. [...] > > We real

Re: tg3 broken after "PCI: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources"

2008-02-06 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:49:52AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > so x86_64 will work well? > > > > the problem is that BIOS does not assign one resource for you tg3. and > > kernel pcibios_assign_to_unassign (?) try > > to assign resource to your card. > > But the kernel shouldn't t

Re: T61P sound issue

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > Takashi, if you need any other information which would help resolving > > this, please let me know. > First, make sure that you unmuted the hardware volume / mute via laptop > keyboards. If everything looks OK ("PCM" adjusted, "Headphone" and > "Speak

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-06 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Feb 5, 2008 6:50 PM, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For remotely accessing data, iSCSI+fs is quite simply more overhead than > a networked fs. With iSCSI you are doing > > local VFS -> local blkdev -> network > > whereas a networked filesystem is > > local VFS -> netwo

Re: where is the capset kernel module?

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 6, 2008 4:13 PM, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Latest linux git complained about this ... > > named: capset failed: Operation not permitted: please ensure that the > capset kernel module is loaded. see insmod(8) How this started was that with the latest git linux, I got this warni

Re: [RFT 1/1] single_chip test

2008-02-06 Thread Andreas Schwab
Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > @@ -210,12 +205,16 @@ struct ath5k_hw *ath5k_hw_attach(struct ath5k_softc > *sc, u8 mac_version) > } > > /* Identify single chip solutions */ > - if((srev <= AR5K_SREV_VER_AR5414) && > - (srev >= AR5K_SREV_VER_AR2424)) { > -

Re: [PATCH] power_supply: Remove capacity_level from list of sysfs attributes

2008-02-06 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:53:12AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:13:36 -0200 Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- > > drivers/power/power_supply_sysfs.c |1 - > > 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/driv

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-02-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 12:08:30AM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 15:53 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote: > > I don't know what the circumstances are in this case, since the > > description quoted was quite sketchy. I suggest that someone send a > > clear description of the case t

Re: [RFT 1/1] single_chip test

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/06/2008 11:48 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: + ah->ah_single_chip = !!(srev >= AR5K_SREV_VER_AR2424 && ^^ This is useless. Amended locally, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

[RFT 1/1] single_chip test

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 02/05/2008 11:57 PM, Tino Keitel wrote: > Hi, > > I tried the current git (9ef9dc69d4167276c04590d67ee55de8380bc1ad) and > got the following error message from ath5k: > > ath5k_pci :02:00.0: registered as 'phy0' > ath5k phy0: failed to resume the MAC Chip > ath5k_pci: probe of :02:00.0

Re: tg3 broken after "PCI: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources"

2008-02-06 Thread Yinghai Lu
On Feb 6, 2008 2:05 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:49:52AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > so x86_64 will work well? > > > > > > the problem is that BIOS does not assign one resource for you tg3. and > > > kernel pcibios_assign_to_unassi

Re: Resolved (sort of): Unable to access PCMCIA with O2 Micro OZ711MP1/MS1

2008-02-06 Thread Kristoffer Ericson
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:02:11 +0100 "Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kristoffer Ericson schrieb: > > "Mader, Alexander (N-MSR)" wrote: > >> On a Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H240 a 2.6.22-3-amd64 kernel from Debian > >> testing is in use. PCMCIA utilities for Linux 2.6 version 01

Re: [PATCH 6/6] udf: super.c reorganization

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 05-02-08 20:34:49, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:22:19PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > Actually, the loop below would be even more readable it you did: > > > > if (map->s_partition_num == le16_to_cpu(p->partitionNumber)) > > break; > > And do the work after we ex

Re: [PATCH 4/6] udf: convert udf_stamp_to_time and udf_time_to_stamp to use timestamps

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 05-02-08 20:21:58, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > On Sun 03-02-08 19:36:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > kernel_timestamp type was almost unused - only callers of > > > udf_stamp_to_time > > > and udf_time_to_stamp used it, so let the

Re: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-02-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 12:50 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2. > > Ndiswrapper loads and executes code with not GPLv2 compatible > licences > in a way in the kernel that might be considered similar to a GPLv2'ed > userspace program dlopen() a dynamic librar

Re: 2.6.24-mm1

2008-02-06 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi Ingo, > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/ > > > - The x86 git tree has been dropped due to runtime failure on one of my test > machines My PC display warning message at boot time. Could I help your debugging? ---

Re: 2.6.24-mm1

2008-02-06 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
> should be fixed by the commit below. (already upstream) > > Ingo Oops, sorry ;-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ

Re: 2.6.26-git0: IDE oops during boot

2008-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2008-02-06 11:53:34, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > Trying to boot 2.6.25-git0 (few days old), I get > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ..ffb0 > IP at init_irq+0x42e > > Call trace: > ide_device_add_all > ide_generic_init > kernel_init > child_rip > vgacon_cursor > kern

Re: 2.6.24-mm1

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/ > > > > > > - The x86 git tree has been dropped due to runtime failure on one of my test > > machines > > My PC display warning message at boot time.

Re: [PATCH] jbd: fix assertion failure in journal_next_log_block

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 05-02-08 13:59:05, Josef Bacik wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 12:27:31 pm Jan Kara wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Sorry for replying a bit late but I'm currently falling behind in > > maling-list reading... > > > > > The way jbd tries to determine if there is enough space left on the >

Re: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card

2008-02-06 Thread David Sterba
Hi, > > +irqreturn_t ipwireless_interrupt(int irq, void *dev_id, struct pt_regs > > *regs) +{ > > + struct ipw_hardware *hw = dev_id; > > + > > + if (hw->hw_version == HW_VERSION_1) > > + return ipwireless_handle_v1_interrupt(irq, hw); > > + else > > + return ipwireless_h

Re: RT scheduler config, suggestions and questions

2008-02-06 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 07:36 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > btw I can see "watchdog" being very useful to catch hard-RT tasks that > > exceed the deadline. > > But's it gotta be per thread. > > It is. > > > Single setting per user is not enough. Unless a use has a single RT task. > > ? Ah,

Re: where is the capset kernel module?

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Feb 6 2008 18:43, Jeff Chua wrote: >On Feb 6, 2008 4:13 PM, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Latest linux git complained about this ... >> >> named: capset failed: Operation not permitted: please ensure that the >> capset kernel module is loaded. see insmod(8) > >How this started was th

Re: [bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:38:29 +0100 > > randconfig qa on x86.git ran into the following new networking related > problem on latest -git: with the attached .config the testbox comes up > but cannot establish any TCP connections due to -ENOPROTO in > sys_co

[git patches] net driver updates

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git upstream-davem to receive the following updates: drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 49 +- drivers/net/gianfar_mii.c |4 +- drivers/net/iseries_veth.c|2

Re: where is the capset kernel module?

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Chua
On Feb 6, 2008 7:40 PM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >warning: `named' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) > Yes it is a really interesting case I have seen before, > but did not bother to investigate. > CONFIG_SECURITY=y > CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=m or y Tried, bu

Re: [git patches] net driver updates

2008-02-06 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 06:49:50 -0500 > Please pull from 'upstream-davem' branch of > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git > upstream-davem > > to receive the following updates: Pulled, thanks Jeff. -- To unsubscribe from this l

RE: ndiswrapper and GPL-only symbols redux

2008-02-06 Thread David Schwartz
Adrian Bunk wrote: > The Linux kernel is licenced under the GPLv2. > > Ndiswrapper loads and executes code with not GPLv2 compatible licences > in a way in the kernel that might be considered similar to a GPLv2'ed > userspace program dlopen() a dynamic library file with a not GPLv2 > compatib

[bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
randconfig qa on x86.git ran into the following new networking related problem on latest -git: with the attached .config the testbox comes up but cannot establish any TCP connections due to -ENOPROTO in sys_connect(). The error comes from this condition in inet_stream_connect(): /* Co

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-05 17:51:22, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: >>> The asm() for making beeps really need to be moved to a function and >>> cleaned up (redone in C using inb()/outb()) if they are to be retained at >>> all. >> >> Yes, they are. For some people they're the only tool

Re: [PATCH] sata_via.c: Remove missleading comment.

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote: Maybe for the trivial tree... sata_via.c has PATA support since: d73f30e1c9a9af14757fa5bf4014343926047156 sata_via: PATA support AFAICS so the TODO list is no longer true. --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/sata_via.c b/drivers/ata/sata_via.c index 3ef0

Re: [2.6 patch] ata_piix.c:piix_init_one() must be __devinit

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch fixes the following section mismatches: <-- snip --> ... WARNING: drivers/ata/built-in.o(.text+0x15072): Section mismatch in reference from the function piix_init_one() to the function .devinit.text:piix_init_sata_map() WARNING: drivers/ata/built-in.o(.text+0x1

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Kiszka
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:11:03 -0800 Phil Oester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 07:27:53PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>> kgdb? Not so interesting. We have many more hard problems happening at >>> user sites, not in developer hands. >> FWIW, I'm not

[git patches] libata updates

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git upstream-linus to receive the following updates: arch/arm/mach-rpc/riscpc.c|2 +- arch/blackfin/mach-bf527/boards/ezkit.c |2 +- arch/blackfi

[PATCH] beautification of debugger_active usage

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Kiszka
Just a beautification of using debugger_active for checking the debugger state. Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c |6 +++--- include/linux/kgdb.h |7 ++- kernel/kgdb.c |8 kernel/sched.c |7 +-- 4 files ch

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-06 Thread Bart Van Assche
On Feb 5, 2008 6:01 PM, Erez Zilber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Using such large values for FirstBurstLength will give you poor > performance numbers for WRITE commands (with iSER). FirstBurstLength > means how much data should you send as unsolicited data (i.e. without > RDMA). It means that yo

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 6/9] atmel_serial: Split the interrupt handler

2008-02-06 Thread michael
Hi, the serial driver works fine. The problem seems to be related to the tclib, when I use it as a clocksource. The numbers of overruns depends on the type of files too. It is possible? Regards Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v7)

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Robert Hancock wrote: This fixes some problems with ATAPI devices on nForce4 controllers in ADMA mode on systems with memory located above 4GB. We need to delay setting the 64-bit DMA mask until the PRD table and padding buffer are allocated so that they don't get allocated above 4GB and break le

Re: [bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 12:38:29 +0100 > > > > > randconfig qa on x86.git ran into the following new networking related > > problem on latest -git: with the attached .config the testbox comes up > > but cannot e

Re: cpuisol: CPU isolation extensions (take 2)

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Hounschell
Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: > With CPU isolation > it's very easy to achieve single digit usec worst case and around 200 > nsec average response times on off-the-shelf > multi- processor/core systems (vanilla kernel plus these patches) even > under exteme system load. Hi Max, could you elaborate on

Re: [PATCH -mm v4 6/9] atmel_serial: Split the interrupt handler

2008-02-06 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:29:35 +0100 michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just one question: > Receiving with hardware handshake works without PDC? I don't know...I haven't tried. These patches shouldn't change anything though. Haavard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] beautification of debugger_active usage

2008-02-06 Thread Jason Wessel
Jan Kiszka wrote: > Just a beautification of using debugger_active for checking the debugger > state. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > arch/x86/kernel/kgdb.c |6 +++--- > include/linux/kgdb.h |7 ++- > kernel/kgdb.c |8 > kernel/sched.

Re: [PATCH/HP7XX] - Add combined LCD / BL driver for platform HP Jornada 7xx handhelds

2008-02-06 Thread Roel Kluin
Roel Kluin wrote: > Kristoffer Ericson wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> Richard I've cleaned up the driver by checking with checkpatch.pl as Russell >> suggested. I would appreciate it if you could >> look through the patch again and give comments since the patch looks >> somewhat different. >> >> I ca

[ANNOUNCE] Gujin PC graphic bootloader version 2.4

2008-02-06 Thread Etienne Lorrain
Hello, A new version of the Gujin bootloader has been released, with those improvements: - fix the problem booting kernels after linux-2.6.22 - can also install the second stage inside a filesystem (contigous file, no RAID supported) by: "instboot boot.bin /boot/gujin.ebios" and remove by:

Re: [RFC][PATCH] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64

2008-02-06 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hello Tony, Thank you for review. Luck, Tony wrote: > +/* Insert a long branch code */ > +static void __kprobes set_brl_inst(void *from, void *to) > +{ > + s64 rel = ((s64) to - (s64) from) >> 4; > + bundle_t *brl; > + brl = (bundle_t *) ((u64) from & ~0xf); > + brl->quad0.template

Re: [PATCH/HP7XX] - Add combined LCD / BL driver for platform HP Jornada 7xx handhelds

2008-02-06 Thread Roel Kluin
Kristoffer Ericson wrote: > Greetings, > > Richard I've cleaned up the driver by checking with checkpatch.pl as Russell > suggested. I would appreciate it if you could > look through the patch again and give comments since the patch looks somewhat > different. > > I can add patch for Kconfig/Ma

Re: [bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:22:48 +0100 > So no, it does not fix the problem. The config i sent is a rather > generic one, it should boot on most whitebox PCs. TCP connections will > fail immediately, all the time. I suspect this got added recently with how of

2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Holvenstot
I built 2.6.24-git15 this morning and seem to have picked up a little “funny” along the way – occasionally what should be a single key stroke ends up spraying multiple characters on to my screen. By this I mean I type “w” and get “w” or whatever. This has happened a number of times wit

Re: Soft lockup 2.6.23.14-uc0

2008-02-06 Thread Doug Kehn
Hi Mikael, --- Mikael Pettersson wrote: > > Is this a new ixp4xx platform or one of the existing > ones in arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx? > The machine type (arch/arm/tools/mach-types) is ct_dfs. However, the platform is a copy of the coyote platform in arch/arm/mach-ixp4xx. > Anyway, I can think o

Re: [bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 13:22:48 +0100 > > > So no, it does not fix the problem. The config i sent is a rather > > generic one, it should boot on most whitebox PCs. TCP connections > > will fail immediately, all

Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH 4/5] KGDB-8250: refactor configuration

2008-02-06 Thread Sergei Shtylyov
Hello. Jan Kiszka wrote: Sorry, previous version was missing some __init[data] attributes which were dropped in an intermediate stage. Here comes an updated patch: <---snip---> This major refactoring of the quite complex kgdb8250 configuration does the following: - ensures that static

[PATCH -mm] module: fix __find_symbl() error checks

2008-02-06 Thread Akinobu Mita
The patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/broken-out/modules-handle-symbols-that-have-a-zero-value.patch changes the return value of __find_symbol() so that it can handle symbols that are zero and now it returns -errno for failure. But some __fin

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-02-06 Thread Jean Delvare
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:44:13 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:16:42PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > This is 2.6.24, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y: > > > > # ls -l /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0 > > total 0 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 f?v 5 18:07 device -> > > ../../../devices/pci

Re: [PATCH 3/6] udf: convert udf_stamp_to_time to return struct timespec

2008-02-06 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 05-02-08 20:12:05, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > > > > Uh, oh. I guess you somehow mangled the ordering of patches. In this > > patch you revert what you've done in the previous patch. Otherwise I agree > > with the idea of the change.

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > I built 2.6.24-git15 this morning and seem to have picked up a little > "funny" along the way - occasionally what should be a single key stroke > ends up spraying multiple characters on to my screen. By this I mean I > type "w" and get "w" o

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Hounschell
Chris Holvenstot wrote: > I built 2.6.24-git15 this morning and seem to have picked up a little > “funny” along the way – occasionally what should be a single key stroke > ends up spraying multiple characters on to my screen. > > > By this I mean I type “w” and get “w” or whatever. > >

[bisected] Re: [bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, although various other upstream breakages prevented real long > randconfig series in the past 2-3 days. I'd say it's either in this > pull from your tree: ok, i have bisected it down but the result made no sense, so i double-checked it and noti

[PATCH 0/2] brk and randomization fixes

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
Andrew, the following two patches are the outcome of the thread "brk randomization breaks columns" [1]. As brk randomization is already in Linus' tree, it's definitely 2.6.25 material, so it would probably be good if you could push them in your next bunch going to Linus, if noone has any object

[PATCH 1/2] brk: check the lower bound properly

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> brk: check the lower bound properly There is a check in sys_brk(), that tries to make sure that we do not underflow the area that is dedicated to brk heap. The check is however wrong, as it assumes that brk area starts immediately after the end of the code (

[PATCH 2/2] ASLR: add possibility for more fine-grained tweaking

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ASLR: add possibility for more fine-grained tweaking Some prehistoric binaries don't like when start of brk area is located anywhere else than just after code+bss. This patch adds possibility to configure the default behavior of address space randomization.

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-06 Thread Chris Holvenstot
Thank you for your response, Jiri - On this system I am using a PS2 Keyboard - and let me stress that it is only occasionaly that it happens - I have had 2.6.24-git15 up for about 2 hours now and have only seen it about a dozen times. I also note one other thing - although my system is lightly

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ASLR: add possibility for more fine-grained tweaking

2008-02-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ASLR: add possibility for more fine-grained tweaking > > Some prehistoric binaries don't like when start of brk area is located > anywhere else than just after code+bss. > > This patch adds possibility to configure the default behavior of > address s

Re: T61P sound issue

2008-02-06 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:11:27AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I have also seen sound working flawlessly on another X61s. Maybe they > changed some chipset revisions on the fly, or whatever. > > What does lspci -v show for your soundcard please? Attac

Re: 2.6.24-git15 Keyboard Issue?

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Chris Holvenstot wrote: > On this system I am using a PS2 Keyboard - and let me stress that it is > only occasionaly that it happens - I have had 2.6.24-git15 up for about > 2 hours now and have only seen it about a dozen times. I also note one > other thing - although my sy

Re: [bisected] Re: [bug] networking broke, ssh: connect to port 22: Protocol error

2008-02-06 Thread Stephen Smalley
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 14:35 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > yeah, although various other upstream breakages prevented real long > > randconfig series in the past 2-3 days. I'd say it's either in this > > pull from your tree: > > ok, i have bisected it

Re: T61P sound issue

2008-02-06 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I have also seen sound working flawlessly on another X61s. Maybe they > > changed some chipset revisions on the fly, or whatever. > > What does lspci -v show for your soundcard please? > Attached please find my lspci -v and dmidecode information. Thank

Re: [UPDATED v4] WM97xx touchscreen drivers

2008-02-06 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:20:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The expectation of this driver is that the battery monitor driver will > > register as the "wm97xx-battery" device and use the wm97xx_read_aux_adc() > > function exported by the wm97xx-core driver to access the ADC. Is your >

What is the limit size of tmpfs /dev/shm ?

2008-02-06 Thread Mika Lawando
Hello Kernel Users, is there a size limit for tmpfs for the /dev/shm filesystem? Normally its default size is set to 2 GB. Is it possible to create a 2 TB (Terrabyte) filesystem with tmpfs? Or is there a maximum size defined in the linux kernel? -- Best regards, Mika Lawando -- To unsubscrib

any cpu hotplug changes in 2.6.24-current-git?

2008-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Are there any recent changes in cpu hotplug? I have suspend (random) problems, nosmp seems to fix it, and last messages in the "it hangs" case are from cpu hotplug... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelma

Re: PCIE ASPM support hangs my laptop pretty often

2008-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-05 16:22:55, Kok, Auke wrote: > ?? ??? wrote: > > I've patched my kernel with the PCIe ASPM and after setting > > echo powersave > /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy > > > > I started to experience random hangs of my laptop. > > Hardware info: > >

Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-06 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:56:35AM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > i8042_platform_init(): > > > > > > +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) > > > > > > use #ifdef CONFIG_X86? > > > > > > > I considered it but above was tested and in line with the style of the

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-06 Thread Jeff Garzik
Bart Van Assche wrote: On Feb 5, 2008 6:50 PM, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For remotely accessing data, iSCSI+fs is quite simply more overhead than a networked fs. With iSCSI you are doing local VFS -> local blkdev -> network whereas a networked filesystem is local

Re: ipw3945: not only it periodically dies, it also BUG()s

2008-02-06 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2008-02-05 18:20:58, Chatre, Reinette wrote: > On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:45 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > ...I've reported this before, with full debugging. Not sure if > > anything happened. > > Could you please point me to where you have reported it before? >From [EMAIL PRO

Re: [PATCH] DS1WM: decouple host IRQ and INTR active state settings.

2008-02-06 Thread pHilipp Zabel
Hi Andrew, On Feb 6, 2008 8:26 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:21:55 +0100 "pHilipp Zabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 8, 2008 1:13 AM, Matt Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On

Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.14

2008-02-06 Thread Andy Whitcroft
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:26:47PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > Was version 0.13 NACKed? It was picked up by Andrew for -mm according to my email. I do not think there has been an -mm release since then however. This patch is relative to that version. -apw -- To unsubscribe from this list: send

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