Re: Current kexec status?

2005-07-13 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:32:39PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Can you give more details like > > - Which distro release you are running. > > Debian unstable; since it has no kexec-tools, I built those from source. > > > - Exactly what changes did

Re: Thread_Id

2005-07-13 Thread RVK
Robert Hancock wrote: RVK wrote: Can anyone suggest me how to get the threadId using 2.6.x kernels. pthread_self() does not work and returns some -ve integer. What do you mean, negative integer? It's not an integer, it's a pthread_t, you're not even supposed to look at it.. What is

Re: Thread_Id

2005-07-13 Thread RVK
You are right Bengettid() will do for me. Previously for 2.4.x (2.4.18)thread libraries I normally was using pthread_self(). Raghu Benedikt Spranger wrote: Hi, Can anyone suggest me how to get the threadId using 2.6.x kernels. pthread_self() does not work and returns some -ve

Re: About a change to the implementation of spin lock in 2.6.12 kernel.

2005-07-13 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 07:20:06PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I found _spin_lock used a LOCK instruction to make the following > operation "decb %0" atomic. As you know, LOCK instruction alone takes > almost 70 clock cycles to finish and this add lots of cost to the >

Re: moving DRM header files

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Airlie
> > I'm thinking include/linux/drm/ > > but include/linux would also be possible. > > > > Any suggestions or ideas? > > If you're in a mood to move things, how about moving drivers/char/drm > to drivers/video/drm. But that has little point beyond aesthetics... moving the header files is for a

Re: [PATCH] Filesystem capabilities support

2005-07-13 Thread Nicholas Hans Simmonds
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:51:46PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Nicholas Hans Simmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, my earlier reply seems to have gotten lost somewhere. I've been > > pondering this issue for some time and am still not sure what's the best > > answer. I've attached a

Re: moving DRM header files

2005-07-13 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/14/05, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to move the interface DRM header files (drm.h and *_drm.h) > somewhere more useful and also more "user-space" visible, (i.e. so > kernel-headers could start picking them up.) > > I'm thinking include/linux/drm/ > but

Re: moving DRM header files

2005-07-13 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/14/05, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to move the interface DRM header files (drm.h and *_drm.h) > somewhere more useful and also more "user-space" visible, (i.e. so > kernel-headers could start picking them up.) > > I'm thinking include/linux/drm/ > but

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Walker
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 13:50 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Now that I've read the thread, I see it's not mrlocks that is the > issue with unlocking in a different context - it's semaphores. > > All the pagebuf synchronisation is done with a semaphore because > it's held across the I/O and it's

moving DRM header files

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi, I'd like to move the interface DRM header files (drm.h and *_drm.h) somewhere more useful and also more "user-space" visible, (i.e. so kernel-headers could start picking them up.) I'm thinking include/linux/drm/ but include/linux would also be possible. Any suggestions or ideas? Dave. - To

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-13 Thread Dave Chinner
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:22:46AM +1000, Nathan Scott wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:45:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 08:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > downgrade_write() wasnt the main problem - the main problem was that for > > >

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc2/2.6.13-rc2-mm2/ Also available as a GIT archive (once the mirror has mirrored): http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/smurf/v2.6.13-rc2-mm2.git/ Suggestions for improvements welcome. --

[2.6.13 PATCH] DVB: LGDT3302 QAM lock bug fix

2005-07-13 Thread Michael Krufky
QAM working great now :-) ... Fix QAM lock bug. Previously, it was necessary to first scan in VSB before attempting to get a QAM lock. Signed-off-by: Mac Michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> linux/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt3302.c | 16

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:13 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/CEC/mm-timer.mspx Did anyone else find this strange: "The RTC is used in periodic mode to provide the system profiling interrupt on uni-processor systems and the clock interrupt on multi-processor

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > Interesting. First they say it's impractical to reprogram the PIT, then > they later imply that's exactly what Windows does, though for some > reason they don't come out and say it. I suspect that it is impractical to reprogram the PIT on a very fine

Re: [PATCH 0/19] Kconfig I18N completion

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> When I apply them to latest Linus tree I gett a few fuzz and a single > reject. After fixing this and compiling I get a number of warnings and > errors. I have not investigated the source of this. I now see that I missed two patches in the serie. I will try to reapply tomorrow. Sam -

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 18:13 -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:41:41PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > > > > windows xp base rate is 100Hz... but multimedia apps can ask for > > > almost any rate they want (depends on the hw

Re: XFS corruption on move from xscale to i686

2005-07-13 Thread Nathan Scott
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:22:28PM +0300, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote: > I found patch by Greg Ungreger to fix this problem, but why it's still > not in mainline? Or it's a gcc problem and should be fixed by gcc folks? Yes, IIRC the patch was incorrect for other platforms, and it sure looked like an

Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] share/private/slave a subtree

2005-07-13 Thread Ram
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 12:49, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > The reason why I implemented that way, is to less confuse the user and > > provide more flexibility. With my implementation, we have the ability > > to share any part of the tree, without bothering if it is a mountpoint > > or not. The side

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:41:41PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > > > windows xp base rate is 100Hz... but multimedia apps can ask for > > almost any rate they want (depends on the hw capabilities). i > > recall seeing rates >1200Hz when you launch some

Re: [patch] inotify.

2005-07-13 Thread John McCutchan
On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 10:25 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday June 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:29 +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > > There may well be other good arguments against 'fd's, but I'm trying > > > to point out that this isn't one of them, and so

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread linux
>> I don't think there's a strict 80 column rule anymore. It's 2005... > Think again. There are a lot of people who use 80 column windows so > that we can see two code windows side-by-side. Agreed. If you're having trouble with width, it's a sign that the code needs to be refactored. Also,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:46, Con Kolivas wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:31, David Lang wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Con Kolivas wrote: > > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: > > >> Con Kolivas wrote: > > >>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: > > for audio and video

[patch 03/04] swsusp: switch pm_message_t to struct

2005-07-13 Thread Pavel Machek
From: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This adds type-checking to pm_message_t, so that people can't confuse it with int or u32. It also allows us to fix "disk yoyo" during suspend (disk spinning down/up/down). [We've tried that before; since that cpufreq problems were fixed and I've tried make

[patch] fix ACPI table discovery from EFI for x86

2005-07-13 Thread Matt Tolentino
This patch addresses a problem on x86 EFI systems with larger memory configurations. Up until now, we've relied on the fact that the ACPI RSDT would reside somewhere in low memory that could be permanently mapped in kernel address space - so __va() has been sufficient. However, on EFI

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 04:41:41PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: > windows xp base rate is 100Hz... but multimedia apps can ask for > almost any rate they want (depends on the hw capabilities). i > recall seeing rates >1200Hz when you launch some of the media player > apps -- sorry i forget the

[patch 02/04] swsusp: fix remaining u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion

2005-07-13 Thread Pavel Machek
Fix remaining bits of u32 vs. pm_message confusion. Should not break anything. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit 9f2554eb9485d7e7a749515dfc4834c86d4e0010 tree 198c4de638e15842c5713ff67eecf272f348232d parent 1e279dd855d15b72364b4103f872d67d8592647e author <[EMAIL

[patch 04/04] fix pm_message_t stuff in -mm tree

2005-07-13 Thread Pavel Machek
This should bits from -mm tree that are affected by pm_message_t conversion. [I'm not 100% sure I got all of them, but I certainly got all the errors on make allyesconfig build, and most of warnings, too. I'll go through the buildlog tommorow and fix any remaining bits]. ---

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 10:31, David Lang wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: > >> Con Kolivas wrote: > >>> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: > for audio and video this would seem to be a fairly simple scaleing >

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread George Anzinger
Con Kolivas wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:10, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: No, but 1/1000Hz = 100ns, while 1/864Hz = 1157407.407ns. If you have a counter that counts the ticks in nanoseconds (xtime ...), the first will be exact, the second will be

[patch 01/04] swsusp: fix printks and cleanups

2005-07-13 Thread Pavel Machek
From: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix error printing in swsusp.c: add loglevels and add very usefull error information. Trivial cleanup for disk.c. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/power/disk.c |8 ++--

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Con Kolivas wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: for audio and video this would seem to be a fairly simple scaleing factor (or just doing a fixed amount of work rather then a fixed

Re: RT and XFS

2005-07-13 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi there, On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 09:45:58AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 08:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > downgrade_write() wasnt the main problem - the main problem was that for > > PREEMPT_RT i implemented 'strict' semaphores, which are not identical to > >

Re: [patch] inotify.

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday June 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Ok, so 3 weeks is too long (leave, family), and inotify has been accepted into mainline, so maybe it isn't worth pursuing this discussion, but there are a couple of points I'd still like to make, or respond to) > On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:29

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

2005-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Hi, > > > utf-8 enabled vc consoles (/dev/tty1) usually show line drawing > graphics with the ascii set, e.g. + - and | for lxdialog (and many other apps > btw) > > The following patch brings back the real graphics for lxdialog, which are > normally

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:54, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Con Kolivas wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: > >>for audio and video this would seem to be a fairly simple scaleing factor > >>(or just doing a fixed amount of work rather then a fixed percentage of > >>the CPU worth of

Re: [PATCH 0/19] Kconfig I18N completion

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry G�bor wrote: > The following patches complete the "Kconfig I18N support" patch by > Arnaldo. First I'd really like to see some documentation on this, which describes the interface how tools/distributions can provide Kconfig I18N support. > - answering (Y/M/N)

[rfc patch 2/2] direct-io: remove address alignment check

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel McNeil
This patch relaxes the direct i/o alignment check so that user addresses do not have to be a multiple of the device block size. I've done some preliminary testing and it mostly works on an ext3 file system on a ide disk. I have seen trouble when the user address is on an odd byte boundary.

Re: [PATCH 4/19] Kconfig I18N: lxdialog: multibyte character support

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry G�bor wrote: > UTF-8 support for lxdialog with wchar. The installed wide ncurses > (ncursesw) is optional because some languages (ex. English, Italian) > and ISO 8859-xx charsets don't require this patch. This is ugly, this just adds lots of #ifdefs with

Re: [PATCH 18/19] Kconfig I18N: LKC: whitespace removing

2005-07-13 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry G�bor wrote: > diff -puN scripts/kconfig/zconf.l~kconfig-i18n-18-whitespace-fix > scripts/kconfig/zconf.l > --- > linux-2.6.13-rc3-i18n-kconfig/scripts/kconfig/zconf.l~kconfig-i18n-18-whitespace-fix > 2005-07-13 18:32:20.0 +0200 > +++

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Petr Vandrovec
dean gaudet wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:48:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: "My expectation is if we want to beat the competition, we'll want the ability to go *under* 100Hz." What does Windows do here? windows xp base rate is 100Hz...

agpgart/drm problem

2005-07-13 Thread Mikhail Kshevetskiy
agpgart initialization problem, so the drm do not work. The problem appear on all 2.6.x. There is a messages from the kernel === Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset agpgart: Unknown aperture size from AGP

Synaptics probe problem on Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi

2005-07-13 Thread Thomas Sailer
Hi Vojtech, I've got a problem with my Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi Laptop: vanilla 2.6 does not detect the synaptics touchpad. The problem lies within psmouse_probe: after the PSMOUSE_CMD_GETID command, param[0] contains 0xfa, and not one of the expected values. If I just ignore this and continue,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 03:34, Lee Revell wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 13:27 +0200, szonyi calin wrote: > > I have the following problem with audio: > > Xmms is running with threads for audio and spectrum > > analyzer(OpenGL). > > The audio eats 5% cpu, the spectrum analyzer about 80 %. The > >

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Con Kolivas
On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 05:10, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > No, but 1/1000Hz = 100ns, while 1/864Hz = 1157407.407ns. If you have > > a counter that counts the ticks in nanoseconds (xtime ...), the first > > will be exact, the second will be accumulating an

Re: Open source firewalls

2005-07-13 Thread Nigel Rantor
Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote: Hello, Hello, *devil's advocate hat on* I have implemented an bare bones Intrusion detection system that currently detects scans like open, bouce, half open etc and a host of other tcp scans. As an aside, why, we have snort? I would like to develop this into

[PATCH 3/19] Kconfig I18N: lxdialog

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
I18N support for buttons in lxdialog. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/POTFILES.in |8 scripts/lxdialog/checklist.c |4 ++-- scripts/lxdialog/dialog.h|5 + scripts/lxdialog/inputbox.c |4 ++-- scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog.c |

[rfc patch 1/2] direct-io: rewrite to handle non-512 aligned user address

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel McNeil
This is a re-write of direct i/o so that it does not depend on the user address being a multiple of 512. This is necessary to allow relaxing the address alignment check in the 2nd patch. I have tested this on 2.6.13-rc2 with a variety of i/o sizes and i/o offsets on ext3 without problems (with

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:48:57PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > "My expectation is if we want to beat the competition, we'll want > > the ability to go *under* 100Hz." > > What does Windows do here? windows xp base rate is 100Hz... but multimedia

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread Marc Singer
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:22:04PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 23:58 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > > Dick Johnson wrote: > > > Or just disallow tabs altogether. At Analogic we ... > > > > This is the Linux kernel, not Analogic. > > > > We use tabs for indentation. You can

Re: pci_size() error condition

2005-07-13 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:53:13PM -0500, John Rose wrote: > Before a recent change, mask was a 64-bit number. The second part of > the if statement would always resolve to true, since the 32-bit bitop > would never equal the 64-bit mask. So the second part of the if > statement was ineffectual

[PATCH 9/19] Kconfig I18N: gconfig: answering

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
I18N support for answering in gconfig. This patch is useful for non-latin based languages. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/gconf.c | 24 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN

[PATCH 8/19] Kconfig I18N: gconfig: GUI

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
I18N support for menu and toolbar. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/Makefile|7 +-- scripts/kconfig/POTFILES.in |1 + 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/kconfig/POTFILES.in~kconfig-i18n-08-gconfig-gui

[PATCH 10/19] Kconfig I18N: gconfig: missing macros

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
Supplementing missing macros. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/gconf.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/kconfig/gconf.c~kconfig-i18n-10-gconfig-missing scripts/kconfig/gconf.c ---

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Updating hard disk firmware & parking hard disk

2005-07-13 Thread Shawn Starr
Perhaps you also need to flash the BIOS and or Embedded Controller firmware? Shawn. On July 13, 2005 04:58, Gijs Hillenius wrote: > > Frank Sorenson writes: > > Martin Knoblauch wrote: > > > >> Download is simple, just don't use the "IBM Download > >> Manager". Main

[PATCH 11/19] Kconfig I18N: gconfig: symbol fix

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
I18N support for symbol names are unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/gconf.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/kconfig/gconf.c~kconfig-i18n-11-gconfig-symbol-fix scripts/kconfig/gconf.c ---

Re: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 23:58 -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Dick Johnson wrote: > > Or just disallow tabs altogether. At Analogic we ... > > This is the Linux kernel, not Analogic. > > We use tabs for indentation. You can set the number > of physical spaces per tab however you want in your >

[PATCH 13/19] Kconfig I18N: menuconfig: answering

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
I18N support for answering in menuconfig. This patch is useful for non-latin based languages. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 18 +- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN

Re: [PATCH] Kconfig: lxdialog: Enable UTF8

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, utf-8 enabled vc consoles (/dev/tty1) usually show line drawing graphics with the ascii set, e.g. + - and | for lxdialog (and many other apps btw) The following patch brings back the real graphics for lxdialog, which are normally present in these cases: - non-utf8 vc - xterm (u8 /

console remains blanked

2005-07-13 Thread Albert Herranz
Hi, Looks like, since [1] was merged, a blanked console (due to inactivity for example) doesn't get unblanked anymore when new output is written to it. This hunk of the already metioned patch, which modifies vt_console_print() in drivers/char/vt.c, is possibly the cause: @@ -2220,9 +2220,6 @@

Re: Bridge changes and lost console on 2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:52:21PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > My machine has two child buses, AGP and PCI. I am using a PCI video > card at 02:03.0. Only the card on bus #2 fails, the AGP card is ok. > Are you setting the VGA port forwarding bits correctly on the bridge > #2 if it is the active

Oops: 2.6.13-rc2 at vma_prio_tree_remove

2005-07-13 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
Hi, has anybody seen this? I have 2.6.13-rc2 kernel on intel P4 box. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00040034 printing eip: c014937e *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Modules linked in: radeon drm parport_pc lp parport snd_rtctimer

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread George Anzinger
Lee Revell wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:16 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: Both can be detected from you .config and we could see HZ as needed there and everyone else could avoid this surely? Does anyone object to setting HZ at boot? I suspect nothing else will make everyone happy. This

Re: Linux v2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I think the shortlog speaks for itself. HZ still defaults to 250. As was explained in another thread, this will break apps like MIDI sequencers and won't really save much battery power. The default should remain 1000 until these issues

[PATCH 15/19] Kconfig I18n: xconfig

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
Full I18N support for xconfig. Signed-off-by: Egry Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc | 93 +++ 1 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc~kconfig-i18n-15-qconfig-i18n

Re: Synaptics probe problem on Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi

2005-07-13 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/13/05, Thomas Sailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vojtech, > > I've got a problem with my Acer Travelmate 3004WTMi Laptop: vanilla 2.6 > does not detect the synaptics touchpad. > > The problem lies within psmouse_probe: after the PSMOUSE_CMD_GETID > command, param[0] contains 0xfa, and

2.6.13-rc2-mm2 slab.c problem. Fails to boot.

2005-07-13 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
I have a problem with slab.c where it fails to boot the kernel. The first call to kmem_cache_create():about line 1063: using the INDEX_AC parameter succeeds and exits via the kcc:left_over route. The second call to kmem_cache_create():about line 1069: using the INDEX_L3 parameter fails and exits

RE: 2.6.9: serial_core: uart_open

2005-07-13 Thread karl malbrain
Thanks for the suggestion of setting the modem termio to a copy of the xterm console state. Unfortunately, it doesn't help, the system still goes out-to-lunch on the non-blocking open, and becomes nearly completely unresponsive at the console and to telnet sessions. Yesterday evening after

pci_size() error condition

2005-07-13 Thread John Rose
Can anyone lend an explanation of the following? /* base == maxbase can be valid only if the BAR has already been programmed with all 1s. */ if (base == maxbase && ((base | size) & mask) != mask) { printk("%s: 2 returning 0\n", __FUNCTION__);

[PATCH 1/3] fix page-becoming-writable in do_wp_page

2005-07-13 Thread Hugh Dickins
do_wp_page_mk_pte_writable was rather broken: page_mkwrite is for shared pages, whereas the code it was trying to share was for private pages, as the recent addition of a PageAnon test there has made more explicit. Sort that out and reabsorb it into do_wp_page: hch and others found that

[patch 3/3] inotify: misc cleanup

2005-07-13 Thread Robert Love
Linus, Real simple, basic cleanup. Please, apply. Robert Love Signed-off-by: Robert Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fs/inotify.c |9 +++-- include/linux/sched.h |2 +- kernel/user.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -urN

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Interbench v0.20 - Interactivity benchmark

2005-07-13 Thread Bill Davidsen
Con Kolivas wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 21:57, David Lang wrote: this looks very interesting, however one thing that looks odd to me in this is the thought of comparing the results for significantly different hardware. for some of the loads you really are going to be independant of the speed

High irq load (Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt)

2005-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > No, some kernel code causes a triple-fault-and-reboot when the HZ is >= > 10KHz. Maybe the highest possible value is 8192 Hz, not sure. Can you post the triple-fault message? It really shouldn't triple-fault, although it _will_ obviously spend

Re: Linux v2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:05 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > I think the shortlog speaks for itself. > > HZ still defaults to 250. As was explained in another thread, this will > break apps like MIDI sequencers and won't really save much battery >

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc1 03/10] IOCHK interface for I/O error handling/detecting

2005-07-13 Thread Linas Vepstas
Hi, Yes, but ... On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:18:57AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt was heard to remark: > > > Are you assuming that a device driver will use an iochk_read() for > > every DMA operation? for every MMIO to the card? > > > > For high performance devices, it seems to me that this

Followup on 2.6.13-rc3 ACPI processor C-state regression

2005-07-13 Thread Kevin Radloff
Previously, I had said that in 2.6.13-rc3, C2/C3 capabilities were not detected on my Fujitsu Lifebook P7010D. I found that in the merge at:

[patch 2.6.12-rc3] modified firmware_class.c to support no hotplug

2005-07-13 Thread Abhay Salunke
Resending the patch again. Greg, please let me know if you have any comments. Thanks Abhay On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:24:38PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:54:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Also, why not just add the hotplug flag to the firmware structure? > > That

Re: [stable] Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 06:05:32PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: Andi

Re: [RFC] RCU and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT progress, part 3

2005-07-13 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:35:54PM -0700, Bill Huey wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:48:01AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > 1. Is use of spin_trylock() and spin_unlock() in hardirq code > > (e.g., rcu_check_callbacks() and callees) a Bad Thing? > > Seems to result in boot-time

Re: PROBLEM: Oops when running mkreiserfs on large (9TB) raid0 set on AMD64 SMP

2005-07-13 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday July 13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After having installed a base system (Debian) on our shiny new AMD64 SMP > system, with 2 x 3ware 9000 SATA controllers for a total of 24 disks > (excluding the 2 connected to the motherboard), I wanted as a "quick" > test to put them all in a raid0

[03/11] ppc32: stop misusing ntps time_offset value

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: john stultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As part of my timeofday rework, I've been looking at the NTP code and I noticed that the PPC architecture is apparently misusing the NTP's time_offset (it is a

Re: [PATCH 0/19] Kconfig I18N completion

2005-07-13 Thread Egry Gábor
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 08:03:38PM +0200, Egry G?bor wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Egry G??bor wrote: > > > > > > > > The following patches complete the "Kconfig I18N support" patch by > > > > Arnaldo.

Re: [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver

2005-07-13 Thread Francois Romieu
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > -- > > > Drivers really only work well in SMP if they actually can be selected. > This is a leftover from the time when the 6pack drive only used to be > a bitrotten

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:24:10AM -0700, David Lang wrote: > >How serious is the 1/HZ = sane problem, and more to the point how many > >programs get the HZ value with a system call as opposed to including a > >header or building it in? I know some of my older programs use header > >files,

Re: Bridge changes and lost console on 2.6.13-rc3

2005-07-13 Thread Jon Smirl
On 7/13/05, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you please do a `dmesg > foo', then compare that with the 2.6.13-rc2 > dmesg output, send us a summary of what changed? It failed the same way under rc2. See this thread: "2.6.13-rc2 hangs at boot". The difference is that now I know in

Re: [stable] Re: [05/11] SMP fix for 6pack driver

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 12:01:23AM +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > -- > > > > > > Drivers really only work well in SMP if they actually can be selected. > > This is

[09/11] uml: fix TT mode by reverting "use fork instead of clone"

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Revert the following patch, because of miscompilation problems in different environments leading to UML not

Re: [uml-devel] Re: [patch 1/9] uml: fix lvalue for gcc4

2005-07-13 Thread Blaisorblade
On Wednesday 13 July 2005 23:29, Andrew Morton wrote: > Please identify which of these patches you consider to be 2.6.13 material. All ones are for 2.6.13... except this one, it's still wrong, I overlooked it a bit too much, it must be replaced by this (I'll post it in a mail it if needed):

Re: [11/11] x86_64: TASK_SIZE fixes for compatibility mode processes

2005-07-13 Thread Horst von Brand
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > Signed-off-by: Zou Nan hai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Huh? Cc: in here? > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-13 Thread Chuck Harding
51-28 still hangs. Attached is dmesg from 51-27 with apic=debug and .config On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, karsten wiese wrote: Please unselect CONFIG_X86_IOAPIC_FAST and try 51-28 again. Also please boot the newest "working for you" RT kernel with the kernel parameter 'apic=debug' added. Post the dmesg

[01/11] If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq.

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
[resend to get threading correct, sorry] -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- If ACPI doesn't find an irq listed, don't accept 0 as a valid PCI irq. That zero just means that nothing else found any irq information either. Fixes

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm2

2005-07-13 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 at 00:23:42 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >>...and BTW why does every line in the series file have a trailing space? > > Not in my copy of > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc2/2.6.13-rc2-mm2/patch-series > ? Looks like Quilt is

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 05:24:41PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Does anyone object to setting HZ at boot? I suspect nothing else > will make everyone happy. Does it bloat the code or slow things measurably? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: supporting functions missing from inotify patch

2005-07-13 Thread Steve French
> Is dir_notify suitable for inotify and your uses? The six dir_notify flags obviously map better to the network protocol which cifs can request (and which Samba server needs to respond to various network filesystem clients) but the 11 IN_ flags do not seem that different. >The problem with

[04/11] [SHAPER] fix Shaper driver lossage in 2.6.12

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- [SHAPER]: Switch to spinlocks. Dave, you were right and the sleeping locks in shaper were broken. Markus Kanet noticed this and also tested the patch below that switches locking to spinlocks.

[08/11] coverity: tty_ldisc_ref return null check

2005-07-13 Thread Greg KH
-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: KAMBAROV, ZAUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> We add a check of the return value of tty_ldisc_ref(), which is checked 7 out of 8 times, e.g.: 149 ld = tty_ldisc_ref(tty); 150 if (ld

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-13 Thread Lee Revell
On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 14:16 -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >(1) ACPI/SMM suckage in laptops Anything that loses ticks at 1000HZ is unsuitable for serious multimedia use anyway, so I think this part of the argument isn't as important. Also, I don't know that anyone has a list of machines with

Re: [PATCH] scripts/kernel-doc: don't use uninitialized SRCTREE

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:39:26PM -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Current kernel-doc (perl) script generates this warning: > Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at > scripts/kernel-doc line 1668. > > so explicitly check for

Re: usb mass storage bug

2005-07-13 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:53:16 -0700, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are right, ub isn't _that_ slow at all, I use it all the time on > some of my devices just fine. Ub actually gets terribly slow when partition size is odd (for both reading and writing). I even have a patch for it, but

Re: [PATCH] Lindent: ignore .indent.pro

2005-07-13 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 11:55:42AM -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > When I recently submitted a Lindent patch, it turned out that my .indent.pro > options were also applied to the tree. This patch directs indent(1) to ignore > the .indent.pro directives and only use options specified on the

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