[PATCH] unhide CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

2008-02-14 Thread Erez Zadok
Using: v2.6.25-rc1-120-ge760e71 In a normal compilation, I might this message: ... MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: modpost: Found 4 section mismatch(es). To see full details build your kernel with: 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' ... I can indeed try to re-make, passing CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ide: add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Bart. On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:55:50PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS to drivers/ide/Kconfig and use > it instead of defining IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS in . > > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/ide

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:04:41PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > >> byte of a packet is being thrown away about .1% of the time for the > >> pl2303, but I'm not sure if the FTDI driver still suffers from a similar > >> rash. I > > > >A 20 byte low spe

Re: [x86.git#mm] stack protector fixes, vmsplice exploit

2008-02-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:25:35 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > really, the best defense is to reduce the useful lifetime of any > > leaked canary, and you can't get better than syscall granularity > > without disproportional e

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Rothwell wrote: Also, more trees please ... :-) Please add the 'NEXT' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git to your list. This is a throwaway meta-branch that is rebased often. The 'master' branch of libata-dev.git always contains the base co

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeff Garzik wrote: Please add the 'NEXT' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git to your list. This is a throwaway meta-branch that is rebased often. Additional FYI: Don't be worried if "git diff master..NEXT" is empty from time to time. This condition

Re: [PATCH] unhide CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

2008-02-14 Thread Erez Zadok
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Ravnborg writes: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:54:04PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > Using: v2.6.25-rc1-120-ge760e71 > > > > In a normal compilation, I might this message: > > > > ... > > MODPOST vmlinux.o > > WARNING: modpost: Found 4 section mismatch(es). > >

Re: [PATCH] samples: build fix

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:04:04PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > * Sam Ravnborg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:27:52AM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > * Roland McGrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > > The samples/ subdirectory contains only modules. >

Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Travis
Mel Gorman wrote: > On (13/02/08 10:45), Mike Travis didst pronounce: >> Mel Gorman wrote: >>> On (03/02/08 17:16), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/ >>> bl6-13 (4-way x86_64 machine) from test.kernel.org is fai

Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

2008-02-14 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thursday 14 February 2008 01:26:59 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008 12:42:52 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > It *shouldn't* fail. > > > > > > Things should fail only when two different drivers have requested the >

[PATCH 1/2] ide: add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS to drivers/ide/Kconfig and use it instead of defining IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS in . Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ide/Kconfig |3 +++ drivers/ide/ide.c |5 + include/as

[PATCH 2/2] ide: remove CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* Use CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS instead of CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT in init_ide_data(). * Remove no longer needed CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_INIT. There should be no functional changes caused by this patch. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/id

Re: linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 01:42:10AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > To make my life easier, can I ask that the series file for any quilt trees in > the linux-next tree have a comment at the top to identify their base (either > a SHA1 or some other ref in Linus' tree). Like this: >

Re: [RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions

2008-02-14 Thread Ray Lee
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kosaki-san wrote: > > i prefer another name [!relative]. > > Any suggestions? > > I'll give the name some thought myself. > I like good names, and this is the right > time to get this one right. 'Relative map' implies

Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Respun LMB patches.

2008-02-14 Thread Becky Bruce
On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:09 PM, David Miller wrote: I've taken into consideration the various feedback, and ported the bug fix and other LMB patches posted recently in an effort to keep the patch churn by others down wrt. my moving of these files. 1) Use HAVE_LMB as suggested by Sam. 2) Fix pot

Re: [PATCH 05/11] ppc/mpc8xx: remove ppc_ide_md hooks

2008-02-14 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:36:56 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > * Initialize IDE ports in mpc8xx_ide_probe(). > > * Remove m8xx_ide_init() and ppc_ide_md hooks - no need for them > (IDE mpc8xx host driver takes care of all this setup). > > * Remove needless 'if (irq)' and 'if (data_port

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:20:32PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 12:35:37AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > > > So, comments, please. > > Could you change the Makefile to show that if we build and run this > tree, it really isn't Linus's tree? Yes, I know the -git number wil

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:55:44PM +1030, David Newall wrote: > The current 2.6 driver maintains it's own buffer. I think that's a bad > thing: usbserial already buffers writes, and the extra buffer copy seems > unnecessary, however it does solve the putchar problem. Buffered (i.e. > by the 2.6 s

Re: [PATCH] unhide CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

2008-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
> I can indeed try to re-make, passing CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y on the > command line, but I can't turn on the option in my .config. That's because > the option depends on "UNDEFINED". (Was that an attempt to "hide" the > option? Why?) The following small patch allows me to set the o

Re: [PATCH] samples: build fix

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:02:57PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote: > I don't have any axe to grind here, I just could not figure out how to get > the samples/ modules built (without resorting to make M=.../samples/foo and > clobbering my source directory). > If there is another plan, point me to its

Re: [PATCH 1/4] kmemcheck v4

2008-02-14 Thread Pekka Enberg
Vegard Nossum wrote: +DEFINE_PER_CPU(bool, kmemcheck_busy) = false; +DEFINE_PER_CPU(uint32_t, kmemcheck_addr1) = 0; +DEFINE_PER_CPU(uint32_t, kmemcheck_addr2) = 0; +DEFINE_PER_CPU(uint32_t, kmemcheck_reg_flags) = 0; + +DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, kmemcheck_num) = 0; +DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, kmemcheck_balanc

Re: [PATCH] Fix direct mapping alias regressin in ioremap v2

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 06:42:37PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fix bug noticed by Ingo of __va() wrapping on 32bit > > what you should realize is that had we applied your previous patch in a > rush, it would have introduced a far more serious

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: >On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:32:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> [...] >> >> >And this is where "process" really matters. Making sure people don't get >> >too frustrated about the constant grind. >>

Re: [PATCH] unhide CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:54:04PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > Using: v2.6.25-rc1-120-ge760e71 > > In a normal compilation, I might this message: > > ... > MODPOST vmlinux.o > WARNING: modpost: Found 4 section mismatch(es). > To see full details build your kernel with: > 'make CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTI

Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Linus, > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git > master > > The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing > checks in the relative

Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > Linus, > > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git > > master > > > > The first patch fixes an overflow probl

Re: [patch 3/4] mempolicy: add MPOL_F_STATIC_NODES flag

2008-02-14 Thread David Rientjes
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Paul Jackson wrote: > In mempolicy.h, the lines: > > /* > * The lower MPOL_FLAG_SHIFT bits of the policy mode represent the MPOL_* > * constants defined in enum mempolicy_mode. The upper bits represent > * optional set_mempolicy() MPOL_F_* mode flags. >

Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Respun LMB patches.

2008-02-14 Thread Josh Boyer
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:58:22 -0600 Becky Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008, at 7:09 PM, David Miller wrote: > > > > > I've taken into consideration the various feedback, and > > ported the bug fix and other LMB patches posted recently > > in an effort to keep the patch churn b

Re: [PATCH 1/4] kmemcheck v4

2008-02-14 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:59:46 +0100 Vegard Nossum wrote: > Greetings, > Just a few doc comments (below). > > From 0fcca4341b6b1b277d936558aa3cab0f212bad9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Vegard Nossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:10:40 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] kmemcheck: ad

Re: [ACPI X86_64] 2.6.24 doesn't boot on a Core 2 Duo

2008-02-14 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > 2.6.24.2 fails to boot on the above system with an Intel DQ35JO > motherboard, as do Debian install kernels - both stock etch amd64 and > updated image from Kenshi Muto (kmuto.jp). The only way to boot was with > "acpi=off". Whereas ubuntu 7.1

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Greg KH wrote: >On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:04:41PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan Cox wrote: >> >> byte of a packet is being thrown away about .1% of the time for the >> >> pl2303, but I'm not sure if the FTDI driver still suffers from

Re: [PATCH] unhide CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:05:14PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Ravnborg writes: > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 03:54:04PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > > Using: v2.6.25-rc1-120-ge760e71 > > > > > > In a normal compilation, I might this message: > > > > > > ... > > >

Re: [PATCH] Avoid buffer overflows in get_user_pages()

2008-02-14 Thread Jonathan Corbet
Oliver Pinter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > for stable (.22 .23 .24) ? > > git id in mainline: 900cf086fd2fbad07f72f4575449e0d0958f860f I sent it to the stable folks a couple days ago. Thanks, jon Jonathan Corbet / LWN.net / [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "un

[GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull hrtimer fixes from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git master The first patch fixes an overflow problem, which is caused by missing checks in the relative to absolute time conversion in the futex code. It got caught by the WARN_ON() in cl

[2.6 patch] remove aoedev_isbusy()

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 05:56:53PM -0500, Ed L. Cashin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:05:37AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:03:35PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > > > > On Feb 13 2008 23:30, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > > > > > >This patch #if 0's the no longer used

Re: [PATCH] usb: serial: move zte MF330 from sierra to option

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:29:33 -0800 Kevin Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kevin Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Moves the Onda H600/ZTE MF33 device from the sierra driver to the option > driver. > A changelog should describe why a change was made, not simply what the change is. > > ---

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ide: add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > I agree but this option is meant to be only temporary to ease the cleanup > process. We can think about the proper solution after default IDE ports > initialization gets moved to ide_generic host driver. Makes sense and agreed. (I hoped so - which is why I said "borderline"). Sam --

Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

2008-02-14 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: Do you also have a patch to update the boot protocol? Looking for anything different than the root of this thread? -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: [PATCH 4/4] kmemcheck v4

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
The ifdefs are quite ugly. I would recommend to define standard functions (kmemcheck_init_zero or similar and an own __GFP flag) that can be used without ifdef and easily nop'ed out on !KMEMCHECK kernels. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: [PATCH] usb: serial: move zte MF330 from sierra to option

2008-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:12:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:29:33 -0800 > Kevin Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Kevin Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Moves the Onda H600/ZTE MF33 device from the sierra driver to the option > > driver. > > > > A change

[2.6 patch] make lpfc_disable_node() static

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch makes theneedlessly global lpfc_disable_node() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_crtn.h|1 - drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_hbadisc.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) c3ed441728e0116d0e545837d84cbe337740a3de d

[2.6 patch] remove mca-pentium

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch removes the mca-pentium boot option that was a noop. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |2 -- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c |8 arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c |1 - include/asm-x86/processor.h

Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:38:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > this is indeed a bug (we change the attributes for a larger area > > > than needed), but your fix is unclean. Find below a cleaner > > > solution. > > > > You're still ignoring the

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 16:03 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Also, more trees please ... :-) > > Please add the 'NEXT' branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git > > to your list. This is a throwaway meta-branch that is rebased often

[2.6 patch] make marker_debug static

2008-02-14 Thread Adrian Bunk
With the needlessly global marker_debug being static gcc can optimize the unused code away. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- 91577cc8ac60bf9003d0dd037a231db363003740 diff --git a/kernel/marker.c b/kernel/marker.c index c4c2cd8..133bdbb 100644 --- a/kernel/marker.c +++ b/kernel

Re: [PATCHv3 1/3] x86: use ELF format in compressed images.

2008-02-14 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Ian Campbell wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 17:01 +, Ian Campbell wrote: I have a xen domain builder patch as well. I was waiting for the Linux side to gain some traction before putting it forward (I'd attach it now but it's at home on a laptop which is sleeping). Here it is: # HG c

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-14 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 18:49 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Nice work, thanks. This is PCI only I take it. ISA and EISA look like they'll be a tad more troublesome, so PCI only is fine. > --- > drivers/scsi/gdth.c | 143 > +++

Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

2008-02-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > That means the PNP system driver has to be registered after the PCI > driver. After the PCI *subsystem* Here's the actual problem: [ 31.133141] PCI: Unable to reserve mem region #1:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for device :00:1b.0 and here is what the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] ide: add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS

2008-02-14 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Thursday 14 February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Hi Bart. > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:55:50PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > Add CONFIG_IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS to drivers/ide/Kconfig and use > > it instead of defining IDE_ARCH_OBSOLETE_DEFAULTS in . > > > > Signed-off-

[PATCH] Fix {clear,copy}_user_page() declarations in page.h

2008-02-14 Thread Chuck Lever
Clean up: eliminate some compiler noise on x86 when building with strict warnings enabled, introduced by commit 345b904c. In file included from include2/asm/thread_info_64.h:12, from include2/asm/thread_info.h:4, from /home/cel/src/linux/nfs-2.6/include/linux/thre

Re: [RFC] bitmap relative operator for mempolicy extensions

2008-02-14 Thread David Rientjes
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Ray Lee wrote: > map_bitmap violates your naming convention, bitmap_map isn't all that > clear, bitmap_remap is taken, and while it is one-to-one and onto, I > think calling it bitmap_bijection would lose everyone except the > mathematicians. bitmap_onto? bitmap_map_onto? bitm

Re: Strange hang on ia64 with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y

2008-02-14 Thread Tony Luck
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The strange thing is that Ingo's patch to make cpu_clock() a NOP until > after sched_init() didn't fix things for me... Very strange. I threw in an output line counter into the printk code() ... if I disable the timesta

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Paul, On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:49:28 +0900 Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For SH: > > master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git Added, thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ pgpsZoqKbvwi

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Boaz Harrosh wrote: do you intend this to be pushed into 2.6.25-rcx or this is already for 2.6.26? Should we put this in -mm tree for testing? Not intended for 2.6.25. I just wanted to get this "in process" somewhere, and keep this issue moving. I would definitely prefer to have this teste

Please pull powerpc.git merge branch

2008-02-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus, Please do git pull \ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge to get a collection of bug-fixes and very minor cleanups for powerpc (plus one commit wiring up the timerfd syscalls). Thanks, Paul. arch/powerpc/Kconfig |4 --- arch/p

Re: problem with starting 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git

2008-02-14 Thread Jean Delvare
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:27:34 +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote: > Of course there is a typo in the subject :) > > 2.5.25-rc1 -> 2.6.25-rc1 > > > Hello, > > > > I tried 2.6.25-rc1 and latest git on my laptop (x86 32bit) and have a > > problem. > > Linux boots but with huge delay due to some iss

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Dave, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:54:02 -0600 Dave Kleikamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please add: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6.git next Added, thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/ pgp0s5

Re: [PATCH] gdth: convert to PCI hotplug API

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
Comments noted for my next round of revisions (its a low priority, so definitely not this week). Good spotting, thanks! Jeff -- 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.k

Re: Strange hang on ia64 with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y

2008-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
> > The strange thing is that Ingo's patch to make cpu_clock() a NOP until > > after sched_init() didn't fix things for me... > Very strange. I threw in an output line counter into the printk code() ... > if I > disable the timestamps for the first 30 lines, then everything is good (so

Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:42:41 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:38:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > this is indeed a bug (we change the attributes for a larger > > > > area than needed), but your fix

Re: [2.6 patch] make lpfc_disable_node() static

2008-02-14 Thread James Smart
Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch makes theneedlessly global lpfc_disable_node() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- ACK -- james s -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Jeff Garzik
James Bottomley wrote: So does this indicate the meaning of upstream and upstream-fixes is still the same? I always took upstream-fixes to be bug fixes for this -rc and upstream as queued for the next merge window, in which case NEXT would be the union of those two sets? In practice, #upstrea

Re: What's the status of x2APIC support in Linux kernel?

2008-02-14 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:06:37PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > Are you adding x2apic support for both x86 and ia64, or only for x86? x2apic extension is specific to x86. ia64 already has an advanced lsapic, isn't it.. thanks, suresh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Martin, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:25:09 +0100 Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the s390 architecture please use the "features" branch of git390: > > git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git features Added thanks. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell[EM

Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Respun LMB patches.

2008-02-14 Thread David Miller
From: Becky Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:58:22 -0600 > Thanks for picking up the patches from Kumar and myself and fitting > them into your series - this is much appreciated. FYI, I applied the > entire patch series to my local tree and test-booted both mpc8641 and >

Re: [x86.git#mm] stack protector fixes, vmsplice exploit

2008-02-14 Thread pageexec
On 14 Feb 2008 at 21:25, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > really, the best defense is to reduce the useful lifetime of any > > leaked canary, and you can't get better than syscall granularity > > without disproportional effort and impact elsewhere (and i'

Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Linus, > > > > > > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > > > > > >

Re: futex local DoS on most architectures

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:59:34 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > The issue described in [1] is still present and unfixed (and even the > > fix there wasn't complete since it didn't cover SMP). > > Damn, this slipped through my a

Re: [stable] [GIT pull] hrtimer fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:19:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > Linus, > > > > > > please pull hrtimer fixes from: > > > > > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tg

Re: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] it8712f_wdt support for 16-bit timeout values, WDIOC_GETSTATUS

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 22:11:15 -0500 "Andrew Paprocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds support for 16-bit watchdog timeout values which are > available in chip revisions >= 0x08. Values <= 65535 are seconds precision, > otherwise minutes precision is used up to a maximum value of 393210

[PATCH] ubi: fix sparse errors in ubi.h

2008-02-14 Thread Harvey Harrison
In C, signed 1-bit bitfields can only take the values 0 and -1, only 0 and 1 are ever assigned in current code. Make them unsigned bitfields. Fixes the (repeated) sparse errors: drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:220:15: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h:221:17: error: dubious one-b

Re: [PATCH 2/6] fs/direct-io.c: Use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-14 Thread Mariusz Kozlowski
Hello, > > > Is it just me, or does > > > > > > ((user_addr + iov[seg].iov_len + PAGE_SIZE - 1)/PAGE_SIZE - > > > user_addr/PAGE_SIZE) > > > > > > not simplify to > > > > > > = ((iov[seg].iov_len + PAGE_SIZE - 1)/PAGE_SIZE + > > > user_addr/PAGE_SIZE - user_addr/PAGE_SIZE) > >

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 18:39 +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > And I'm not against doing it with the "at*" variants, as Trond > > > > suggested. > > > > > > If you're going to change the syscall, then you should ensure that it > > > solves _all_ the problems that are known at this time. Ignori

Re: + drivers-net-e1000-use-field_sizeof.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-14 Thread Kok, Auke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The patch titled > drivers/net/e1000: Use FIELD_SIZEOF > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > drivers-net-e1000-use-field_sizeof.patch > > Before you just go and hit "reply", please: >a) Consider who else should be cc'ed >b) Prefer to cc a

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Mauro, On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:38:50 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Please add v4l-dvb tree, at: > > ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-next.git > > The above tree has two branches: 'master' and 'stable' > > Both branches will have V4L/

RE: Strange hang on ia64 with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y

2008-02-14 Thread Luck, Tony
> I guess sched_init() is too early... it does seem really strange to > me, but I just double checked with Ingo's patch and it does indeed > hang. The slow way to make progress is just to go through > start_kernel() line-by-line and enable cpu_clock() at each stage, and > see where it stops hangin

Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

2008-02-14 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Thursday 14 February 2008 02:37:15 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > That means the PNP system driver has to be registered after the PCI > > driver. > > After the PCI *subsystem* > > Here's the actual problem: > > [ 31.133141] PCI: Unable to re

Re: linux-next: first tree

2008-02-14 Thread Trond Myklebust
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 00:35 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Also, more trees please ... :-) Please add the 'linux-next' branch of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6.git Cheers Trond -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: warning with 2.6.24.2 linking

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 04:15:41PM -0600, David Nicol wrote: > Do we care? > > > AS .tmp_kallsyms2.o > LD vmlinux.o > MODPOST vmlinux.o > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe51ac): Section mismatch: reference to > .init.text:pcibios_fixup_bus (between 'pci_scan_child_bus' and > 'pci_scan_

Re: [PATCH] Add MS_BIND_FLAGS mount flag

2008-02-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I deliberately not used the MS_* flags, which is currently a messy mix > > of things with totally different meanings. > > > > Does this solve all the issues? > > We should add a size parameter either in the mou

Re: [x86.git#mm] stack protector fixes, vmsplice exploit

2008-02-14 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:25:35PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > The per function call overhead from stackprotector is already pretty > serious IMO, but at least that's something that GCC _could_ be doing > (much) smarter (why doesnt it jne forward out to __check_stk_failure, > instead of generati

Re: [2.6 patch] make marker_debug static

2008-02-14 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > With the needlessly global marker_debug being static gcc can optimize > the unused code away. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks, Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > 91577cc8ac60bf9003d0dd037a231db36300374

Re: distributed module configuration [Was: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))]

2008-02-14 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:56:13AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Wednesday 13. February 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > config foo > > tristate "do you want foo?" > > depends on USB && BAR > > module > > obj-$(CONFIG_FOO) += foo.o > > foo-y := file1.o file2.o > >

warning with 2.6.24.2 linking

2008-02-14 Thread David Nicol
Do we care? AS .tmp_kallsyms2.o LD vmlinux.o MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xe51ac): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:pcibios_fixup_bus (between 'pci_scan_child_bus' and 'pci_scan_bus_parented') LD vmlinux SYSMAP System.map SYSMAP .tmp_System.map

Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Respun LMB patches.

2008-02-14 Thread David Miller
From: Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:24:48 -0600 > I plan on actually testing this on Ebony, Walnut, and Bamboo either > later tonight or tomorrow. I don't expect many issues. > > Dave, those above boards would cover the build of PowerPC 4xx CPU cores. Ok. -- To unsubs

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Apparently they do not Alan, the pl2303 in particular is a problem child, > throwing several lost com errors a day when doing nothing more strenuous than > talking to my belkin UPS from apcupsd, very small packets there, 20 bytes I > believe at several

Re: [PATCH resend] ext2/3/4: convert byte order of constant instead of variable

2008-02-14 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 11:10:15 +0100 Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fs/ext2/super.c |8 +++- > fs/ext3/super.c |2 +- > fs/ext4/super.c |2 +- Please don't bundle the filesystem patches in this manner. I split it into three patches. Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-14 Thread Caitlin Bestler
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > > > So suspend/resume to re-arrange pages is one thing. Suspend/resume to cover > > swapping out pages so they can be reallocated is an exercise in futility. > By the >

Re: + net-xfrm-statistics-depend-on-inet.patch added to -mm tree

2008-02-14 Thread David Miller
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:02:40 -0800 > Subject: net: xfrm statistics depend on INET > From: Paul Mundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > net/built-in.o: In function `xfrm_policy_init': > /home/pmundt/devel/git/sh-2.6.25/net/xfrm/xfrm_policy.c:2338: undefined > reference to `snmp_m

Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

2008-02-14 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Caitlin Bestler wrote: > I have no problem with that, as long as the application layer is responsible > for > tearing down and re-establishing the connections. The RDMA/transport layers > are incapable of tearing down and re-establishing a connection transparently > because c

Re: cups slow on linux-2.6.24

2008-02-14 Thread David Miller
From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:02:29 +0100 (CET) > Hi, > > On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Jeff Chua wrote: > > > Please note the lastest git commit is missing one part (which was in > > Jozsef's > > original patch). > > Sorry everyone, that's my fault: the patch I s

[PATCH] latencytop: fix kernel panic and memory leak on proc

2008-02-14 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
Hi, I posted 2 patches to fix kernel panic and memory leak. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/14/282 http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/14/283 But, I think this patch is better than old ones. --- From: Hiroshi Shimamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reading /proc//latency or /proc//task//latency could cause NULL poin

Re: a7839e96 (PNP: increase max resources) breaks my ALSA intel8x0 sound card

2008-02-14 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > [ 22.906610] system 00:08: iomem range 0xfebfe000-0xfebfec00 has been > > reserved > > [ 22.906654] system 00:08: iomem range 0xfebfa000-0xfebfac00 has been > > reserved > > The PNP resource fits entirely inside the PCI bus resource, so th

MemoryStick: reference to MMC should be MemoryStick

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Dooks
The drivers/memstick/Kconfig references MMC where it should read MemoryStick Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urNp linux-2.6.25-rc1/drivers/memstick/Kconfig linux-2.6.25-rc1-bjd1/drivers/memstick/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.25-rc1/drivers/memstick/Kconfig 2008-02-13 20:04:28.00

Re: Handshaking on USB serial devices

2008-02-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Apparently they do not Alan, the pl2303 in particular is a problem child, >> throwing several lost com errors a day when doing nothing more strenuous >> than talking to my belkin UPS from apcupsd, ver

Re: [x86.git#mm] stack protector fixes, vmsplice exploit

2008-02-14 Thread pageexec
On 14 Feb 2008 at 17:35, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Where do you see a mispredicted branch? try it with -Os (gentoo gcc 4.2.2): : 0: 48 83 ec 58 sub$0x58,%rsp 4: 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 mov%gs:0x28,%rax d: 48 89 44 24 48 mov%ra

Re: [PATCH] Fix left over EFI cache mapping problems

2008-02-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:08:16PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:42:41 +0100 > Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 07:38:19PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > this is indeed a b

[git pull] x86.git fixes

2008-02-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
Linus, please pull the latest x86 git tree from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git Find the shortlog and diffstat below. Small fixes only. One generic file modified: we touch mm/memory.c's print_vma_addr() to fix a bug on 64-bit x86 that was found yesterday

Re: [PATCH 0/4]: Respun LMB patches.

2008-02-14 Thread Olof Johansson
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 02:58:22PM -0600, Becky Bruce wrote: > Thanks for picking up the patches from Kumar and myself and fitting > them into your series - this is much appreciated. FYI, I applied the > entire patch series to my local tree and test-booted both mpc8641 and > mpc8568mds and

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-14 Thread Roland Dreier
> The first things I need from the subsystem maintainers (you know who you > are) are a contact address (a list address is fine) and at least one git > branch or quilt series that contains all the things you want to see go > into 2.6.26. For InfiniBand/RDMA, the tree is: master.kernel.org

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