Re: [PATCH] Option to disable AMD C1E (allows dynticks to work)

2007-12-28 Thread Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:57:57 -0500 Richard Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just saw this thread online from someone else who was having > problems with an HP laptop -- I believe my laptop falls into this > category. > > The laptop is currently running Fedora Core 8, but I couldn't figure >

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 2/9] gpiolib: add gpio provider infrastructure

2007-12-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi David. > +/* Warn when drivers omit gpio_request() calls -- legal but ill-advised > + * when setting direction, and otherwise illegal. Until board setup code > + * and drivers use explicit requests everywhere (which won't happen when > + * those calls have no teeth) we can't avoid

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 29, 2007 1:06 PM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007 12:42 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:36:49AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > > > > > The full boot dmesg with lockdep output is out, there's one warnings in > > > it : > > > >

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 1/9] gpiolib: add drivers/gpio directory

2007-12-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi David. > --- a/drivers/Makefile > +++ b/drivers/Makefile > @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ > # Rewritten to use lists instead of if-statements. > # > > +obj-$(CONFIG_GPIO_LIB) += gpio/ > obj-$(CONFIG_PCI)+= pci/ > obj-$(CONFIG_PARISC) += parisc/ > obj-$(CONFIG_RAPIDIO)

[PATCH -mm] EFI : Split EFI tables parsing code from EFI runtime service support code

2007-12-28 Thread Huang, Ying
This patch split EFI tables parsing code from EFI runtime service support code. This makes ACPI support and DMI support on EFI platform not depend on EFI runtime service support. Both EFI32 and EFI64 tables parsing functions are provided on i386 and x86_64. This makes it possible to use EFI

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2007-12-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > P.S.: Andrew, sorry my subject pretended I was subscribed to lkml, I am not. > I hoped for the script at lkml to pull the threads together because of > the subject. Find the relevant mail at lkml.org and have it forwarded to you. Then you can do a proper reply-to-all without breaking the

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 28 2007 22:02, dean gaudet wrote: > >i was trying to come up with a userland-only change in mount(8) which >would behave like so: > ># mount --subtree var /dev/md1 /var > internally mount does: > - mount /dev/md1 /tmpmnt > - mount --bind /tmpmnt/var /var > - umount /tmpmnt > ># mount

Re: [PATCH RESEND] max3100 driver

2007-12-28 Thread chri
Hi, On Dec 29, 2007 2:38 AM, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [4:128] is taken by ttyS64. Please look into Documentation/devices.txt. > I did it but I think it's better to reuse a minor from ttyS than allocating a new major (64 serial ports is a lot). I saw that other drivers take a

Re: [2.6.24 patch] restore blackfin HARDWARE_PM support

2007-12-28 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Robin Getz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri 28 Dec 2007 14:28, Mathieu Desnoyers pondered: > > * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:14:04PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > > * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > This patch restores the

Re: [2.6.24 patch] restore blackfin HARDWARE_PM support

2007-12-28 Thread Robin Getz
On Fri 28 Dec 2007 14:28, Mathieu Desnoyers pondered: > * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:14:04PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > This patch restores the blackfin Hardware Performance Monitor Profiling >

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Dec 28 2007 18:53, dean gaudet wrote: > >p.s. in retrospect i probably could have arranged it more like this: > > > > mount /dev/md1 $tmpmntpoint > > mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/var /var > > mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/home /home > > umount

Re: [PATCH] jfs: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for no-write pages

2007-12-28 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:50:59PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 10:21 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:53:14AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > diff -Nurp linux-2.6.24-rc6-git5/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c > > >

Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

2007-12-28 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 09:27:39AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > Hi Vivek, > > > > I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with > > kexec. It just gets stuck at "Starting new kernel". > > > > It does boot

Re: kexec refuses to boot latest -mm

2007-12-28 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:54:45PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 06:15:32PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > > Hi Vivek, > > > > I can't seem to get the latest -mm (2.6.24-rc6-mm1) to boot with > > kexec. It just gets stuck at "Starting new kernel". > > > > It does boot

Re: [PATCH 06/12] pci : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 29, 2007 10:55 AM, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:10:57AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > @@ -207,9 +207,9 @@ void pci_walk_bus(struct pci_bus *top, v > > next = dev->bus_list.next; > > > > /* Run device routines with

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 29, 2007 12:42 PM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:36:49AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > > > The full boot dmesg with lockdep output is out, there's one warnings in it : > > Please fix that warning before the next repost of these patches (along > with fixing

Re: [PATCH] Provide u64 version of jiffies_to_usecs() in kernel/tsacct.c

2007-12-28 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Jonathan Lim wrote: It's possible that the values used in and returned from jiffies_to_usecs() are incorrect because of truncation when variables of type u64 are involved. So a function specific to that type is used instead. Much worse than that. There are internal overflows in the

Re: [PATCH] jfs: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for no-write pages

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Kleikamp
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 10:21 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:53:14AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > > --- > > > > diff -Nurp linux-2.6.24-rc6-git5/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c > > linux/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c > > --- linux-2.6.24-rc6-git5/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c 2007-12-28

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:36:49AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > > The full boot dmesg with lockdep output is out, there's one warnings in it : Please fix that warning before the next repost of these patches (along with fixing the problem of them not being able to be applied and successfully built

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2007-12-28 Thread Sascha Warner
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:40 +0100 Sascha Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I applied your patches to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, but now I am faced with one >> pdflush often using 100% CPU for a long time. There seem to be some rare >> pauses from its 100% usage,

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 9/9] gpiolib: deprecate obsolete pca9539 driver

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: eric miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use drivers/gpio/pca9539.c instead. Signed-off-by: eric miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Ben Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/i2c/chips/pca9539 |3

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 7/9] gpiolib: mcp23s08 spi gpio expander support

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Basic driver for 8-bit SPI based MCP23S08 GPIO expander, without support for IRQs or the shared chipselect mechanism. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/gpio/Kconfig |7 drivers/gpio/Makefile|1

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 8/9] gpiolib: pca9539 i2c gpio expander support

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: eric miao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This adds a new-style I2C driver with basic support for the sixteen bit PCA9539 GPIO expanders. These chips have multiple registers, push-pull output drivers, and (not supported by this patch) pin change interrupts. Board-specific code must provide

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 5/9] gpiolib: pxa platform support

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: Philipp Zabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This adds gpiolib support for the PXA architecture: - move all GPIO API functions from generic.c into gpio.c - convert the gpio_get/set_value macros into inline functions This makes it easier to hook up GPIOs provided by external chips like ASICs and

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 6/9] gpiolib: pcf857x i2c gpio expander support

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a new-style I2C driver for most common 8 and 16 bit I2C based "quasi-bidirectional" GPIO expanders: pcf8574 or pcf8575, and several compatible models (mostly faster, supporting I2C at up to 1 MHz). The driver exposes the GPIO signals using the

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 3/9] gpiolib: update Documentation/gpio.txt

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update Documentation/gpio.txt, primarily to include the new optional "gpiolib" implementation infrastructure. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/gpio.txt | 133 - 1 file

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 4/9] gpiolib: avr32 at32ap platform support

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Teach AVR32 to use the "GPIO Library" when exposing its GPIOs, so that signals on external chips (like GPIO expanders) can easily be used. This mostly just reorganizes some existing logic, with two minor changes in behavior: - The PSR registers are used

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 2/9] gpiolib: add gpio provider infrastructure

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Provide new implementation infrastructure that platforms may choose to use to support the GPIO programming interface. Platforms can update current GPIO support to use this. In many cases the incremental cost to access a non-inlined GPIO should be less

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 1/9] gpiolib: add drivers/gpio directory

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add an empty drivers/gpio directory for gpiolib infrastructure and GPIO expanders. It is populated by subsequent patches. This won't be the only place to hold such gpio_chip code. Many external chips add a few GPIOs as secondary functionality (such as

[patch 2.6.24-rc6-mm 0/9] updated gpiolib patchset

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
This patchset is intended to replace the ones currently in the MM tree: generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support.patch generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-fix.patch generic-gpio-gpio_chip-support-gpiolib-locking-simplified.patch avr32-uses-gpio_chip.patch

Re: [PATCH/RFC] Add support for PowerQUICC watchdog

2007-12-28 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Jochen, Just a couple of suggestions. On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:13:11 +0100 Jochen Friedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +int __init pq_wdt_early_init(void) > +{ > > + data = of_get_property(soc, "bus-frequency", NULL); > + if (!data) { > + of_node_put(soc); > +

Re: TOMOYO Linux Security Goal

2007-12-28 Thread Tetsuo Handa
Hello. Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > > * namespace manipulation. (i.e. mount()/umount()/pivot_root()) > > > > > > do you track mounts namespace cloning? > > > > > Yes. TOMOYO can recognize mount operation with the following flags. > > > > --bind --move --remount > > --make-unbindable

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 28 2007 18:53, dean gaudet wrote: >p.s. in retrospect i probably could have arranged it more like this: > > mount /dev/md1 $tmpmntpoint > mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/var /var > mount --bind $tmpmntpoint/home /home > umount $tmpmntpoint > >except i can't easily specify that in fstab...

Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:34:34 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:30:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > > > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote: > > > > > + printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal

Re: [PATCH 06/12] pci : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:10:57AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > @@ -207,9 +207,9 @@ void pci_walk_bus(struct pci_bus *top, v > next = dev->bus_list.next; > > /* Run device routines with the device locked */ > - down(>dev.sem); > +

Re: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, David Newall wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > > But.. pity there's no mount flag override for smaller systems, > > where bind mounts might be more useful with link(2) actually working. > > I don't see it. You always can make hard link on the underlying filesystem. > If you need

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2007-12-28 Thread WU Fengguang
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:01:11PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:40 +0100 Sascha Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I applied your patches to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, but now I am faced with one > > pdflush often using 100% CPU for a long time. There seem to be

Re: [PATCH 1/1] mxser, remove it

2007-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
> + if (cmd == MOXA_SET_SPECIAL_BAUD_RATE) { > + int speed; > + > + if (get_user(speed, (int __user *)argp)) > + return -EFAULT; > + if (speed <= 0 || speed > info->max_baud) > + return -EFAULT; -EINVAL > +

Re: [2.6.23(?)=<] X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

2007-12-28 Thread Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér)
On 12/29/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:58:44 +0100 Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > > > On 12/29/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:11:25 +0100 Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > > > > > > > in newer kernel I

Re: [PATCH 1/1] mxser, remove it

2007-12-28 Thread Alan Cox
> > > >+static int mxvar_baud_table[] = { > >+0, 50, 75, 110, 134, 150, 200, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, > >+4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200, 230400, 460800, 921600 > >+}; > >+static unsigned int mxvar_baud_table1[] = { > >+0, B50, B75, B110, B134, B150, B200, B300, B600,

Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

2007-12-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:30:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote: > > > + printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal monitoring not " > > + "functional.\n",

Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote: > + printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal monitoring not " > + "functional.\n", cpu); > > Why is that KERN_CRIT? Does not seem that critical to me. If

Re: [PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s)

2007-12-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 28 December 2007 23:13:24 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:23:41PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > >... > > Noteworthy remarks on the unification: > >... > > - -funit-at-a-time should be easy to unify but it looks like we have a bug > > in 32 bit. We only enable

Re: [PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s)

2007-12-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 28 December 2007 22:23:41 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > - For 64 bit the sub architecture stuff is not used but structure > is kept to make it easy to introduce. I hope not. subarch is one of the main disaster areas in the i386 port. > +# gcc doesn't support -march=core2 yet as of gcc

[PATCH] 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - document 'make prepare' in 'make help'

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
The output of 'make help' covers a lot of options, but doesn't include a listing for 'make prepare'. Here's a one-liner to fix that... Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/Makefile.prepare 2007-12-28 21:16:18.0 -0500 +++

Re: [PATCH] jfs: clear PAGECACHE_TAG_DIRTY for no-write pages

2007-12-28 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:53:14AM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > --- > > diff -Nurp linux-2.6.24-rc6-git5/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c > linux/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c > --- linux-2.6.24-rc6-git5/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c 2007-12-28 > 10:28:33.0 -0600 > +++ linux/fs/jfs/jfs_metapage.c

Re: [2.6.23(?)=<] X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:58:44 +0100, "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Oliver_Pinter_(Pint=E9r_Oliv=E9r)?=" said: > sure, but to 2.6.22 or 2.6.23-rcX (with merged the cfs scheduler) > don't show this warnings, but the CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is enabled. > And I look in your dmesg-2.6.24-rc6-wifi0, and I see in

Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

2007-12-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote: > OK, given our discussion, perhaps the attached revised patch will be > more to your liking. > > If so, let me know and I'll give it one last paranoid test, then mail > you a Signed-off-by patch. > In general you seem to have a lot

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Shannon Nelson
On Dec 27, 2007 5:49 PM, Gustavo Guillermo Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > By mistake we activate intel I/oat dma support on a laptop with a centrino duo > to try to get better performance on IO. > > The wd1200bevs Western Digital Scorpio 120GB HD fails with bad sectors and > power down

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:21:44 +0530, Shourya Sarcar said: > Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: > > > > > I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding > > because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best > > distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
>From your previous mail >You need to actually boot the kernel to get effective reports from >lockdep, it'll build just fine. I will post the config file and dmesg with lockdep messages after a while. On Dec 29, 2007 9:57 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-28 Thread Huang, Ying
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 16:33 -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:33:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > > the following features: > > > > - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the > >

Re: [PATCH] SH/Dreamcast - add support for GD-Rom device

2007-12-28 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 01:18 +0100, Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote: > > - while ((ctrl_inb(GDROM_ALTSTATUS_REG) & 0x80) && (time_before(jiffies, > > timeout))) > > + while (gdrom_is_busy() && (time_before(jiffies, timeout))) > You don't need those parentheses. > > + while

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:52 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > Hm, actually it's not so hard, but If I resend the 12 patches seems > like spam to lkml :-). > > Of cource, if you all don't mind and it is really needed, I will do that. As it stands now I'm quite convinced these patches will make lockdep

Re: [PATCH 05/10] x86_64: Use generic percpu

2007-12-28 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 28 December 2007 23:05:05 Mike Travis wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Friday 28 December 2007 01:10:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> x86_64 provides an optimized way to determine the local per cpu area > >> offset through the pda and determines the base by accessing a remote > >> pda.

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 29, 2007 9:42 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:36 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm pretty sure you didn't boot that kernel with lockdep enabled. > > Yes, I will try

Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
[Adding jcm to Cc] On Dec 28 2007 16:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM > >System is openSUSE 10.3 > >on "make modules_install" , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory error >when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS >this

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 09:36 +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm pretty sure you didn't boot that kernel with lockdep enabled. > Yes, I will try rebuild with lockdep and test. I'll fail miserably :-) >From your other

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 29, 2007 9:36 AM, Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm pretty sure you didn't boot that kernel with lockdep enabled. > Yes, I will try rebuild with lockdep and test. No, I checked the config , lockdep is

Re: [PATCH 11/12] spi : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread David Brownell
On Friday 28 December 2007, Dave Young wrote: > Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ACK ... if the driver core is changing, this is obvious. > --- > drivers/spi/spi.c |4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff -upr linux/drivers/spi/spi.c

Re: [PATCH RESEND] max3100 driver

2007-12-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 28 2007 14:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >+ >+ * The initial minor number is 128 to prevent clashes with ttyS: >+ * mknod /dev/ttyMAX0 c 4 128 >+ */ [4:128] is taken by ttyS64. Please look into Documentation/devices.txt. >+struct max3100_port_s { >+ struct uart_port port; >+

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
On Dec 29, 2007 9:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure you didn't boot that kernel with lockdep enabled. Yes, I will try rebuild with lockdep and test. > > Also, most, if not all, of your patches miss a patch description. Does the description really needed for

Re: [PATCH 1/1] mxser, remove it

2007-12-28 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 28 2007 11:09, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >+struct mxser_cardinfo { >+ unsigned int nports; >+ char *name; >+ unsigned int flags; >+}; const char *name. Maybe name could also be put at the front to get closer struct packing on 64-bit? > >+static int mxvar_baud_table[] = { >+

Re: [PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Peter Zijlstra
I'm pretty sure you didn't boot that kernel with lockdep enabled. Also, most, if not all, of your patches miss a patch description. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

[PATCH 12/12] usb : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/usb.h |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/include/linux/usb.h linux.new/include/linux/usb.h --- linux/include/linux/usb.h 2007-12-28 10:50:31.0 +0800 +++

[PATCH 11/12] spi : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/spi/spi.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/spi/spi.c linux.new/drivers/spi/spi.c --- linux/drivers/spi/spi.c 2007-12-28 10:47:38.0 +0800 +++ linux.new/drivers/spi/spi.c

[PATCH 10/12] scsi : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/scsi/hosts.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/scsi/hosts.c linux.new/drivers/scsi/hosts.c --- linux/drivers/scsi/hosts.c 2007-12-28 10:45:46.0 +0800 +++

Re: [2.6.23(?)=<] X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

2007-12-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:58:44 +0100 Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > On 12/29/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:11:25 +0100 Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > > > > > in newer kernel I recently see this warnings: > > > > > > X used greatest stack

[PATCH 09/12] rtc : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/rtc/interface.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/rtc/interface.c linux.new/drivers/rtc/interface.c --- linux/drivers/rtc/interface.c 2007-12-28 10:41:42.0 +0800 +++

[PATCH 08/12] power supply : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/power/apm_power.c |6 +++--- drivers/power/power_supply_core.c |8 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/power/apm_power.c linux.new/drivers/power/apm_power.c ---

[PATCH 07/12] pcmcia : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pcmcia/ds.c |8 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c linux.new/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c --- linux/drivers/pcmcia/ds.c 2007-12-28 10:31:52.0 +0800 +++

[PATCH 06/12] pci : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/bus.c |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/pci/bus.c linux.new/drivers/pci/bus.c --- linux/drivers/pci/bus.c 2007-12-28 10:25:07.0 +0800 +++ linux.new/drivers/pci/bus.c

[PATCH 05/12] ieee1394 : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c | 54 ++--- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c linux.new/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c ---

[PATCH 04/12] i2c : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 10 +- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c linux.new/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c --- linux/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c2007-12-28 10:06:58.0 +0800 +++

[PATCH 03/12] firewire : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/firewire/fw-device.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/drivers/firewire/fw-device.c linux.new/drivers/firewire/fw-device.c --- linux/drivers/firewire/fw-device.c 2007-12-28 10:02:38.0

[PATCH 02/12] Documentation : Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/usb/power-management.txt | 14 +++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -upr linux/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt linux.new/Documentation/usb/power-management.txt ---

[PATCH 01/12] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/base/bus.c| 20 ++-- drivers/base/class.c | 22 +++--- drivers/base/core.c | 16 drivers/base/dd.c | 38 +++---

[PATCH 00/12][RFC] Use mutex instead of semaphore in driver core

2007-12-28 Thread Dave Young
Hi all, The semaphore use in driver core could be changed to mutex. These patches are based on 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 and can build on my pc. Regards dave -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

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Re: kbuild: modules_install regression ? - depmod

2007-12-28 Thread Jan-Simon Möller
Am Freitag 28 Dezember 2007 16:08:19 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > i have the same issue, but with 2.6.24-rc6 on a box with 512MB RAM > > System is openSUSE 10.3 > > on "make modules_install" , depmod reproduceably dies with out of memory > error when it is ~800MB VSZ and ~350MB RSS this happens on

[RFC/PATCH] e100 driver didn't support any MII-less PHYs...

2007-12-28 Thread Andreas Mohr
Hi all, I was mildly annoyed when rebooting my _headless_ internet gateway after a hotplug -> udev migration and witnessing it not coming up again, which turned out to be due to an eepro100 / e100 loading conflict since eepro100 supported both of my Intel-based network cards, whereas e100 only

Re: 2.6.24-rc5 sysfs pci bridge duplicate symlink

2007-12-28 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:03:22PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:11:37 + "Bahadir Balban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On ARM with PCI, I get this error since -rc2 (didn't try rc1): > > > > sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created > >

Re: [2.6.23(?)=<] X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

2007-12-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:11:25 +0100 Oliver Pinter (Pintér Olivér) wrote: > in newer kernel I recently see this warnings: > > X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left > > X E { program name } > N E { x byte } > > 8<-- > ... > khelper used greatest stack depth: 7496

Re: [PATCH] USB Kconfig: Reorganize USB Kconfig Menu

2007-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 02:18:58PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Sunday 23 December 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > > > > Reogranize USB Kconfig Menu, and move USB_GADGET out into the Device Driver > > Menu. This helps the USB Kconfig Menu to be more logical/usable. > > > > Cc: David Brownell

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64

2007-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 07:05:04PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Mariusz Kozlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:29:07 +0100 > > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x46b04): Section mismatch: reference to > > .init.text:sun4v_ktsb_register (between 'smp_callin' and > >

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:53:49 +0100 "Torsten Kaiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 23, 2007 5:27 PM, Torsten Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 23, 2007 8:30 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [PATCH] Exporting capability code/name pairs

2007-12-28 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:16:35 +0900 KaiGai Kohei wrote: > kernel/cap_names.sh generates the body of cap_entries[] array, > and it is invoked when we make the kernel. > > Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Makefile |9 +++ > cap_names.sh | 21 >

Re: 2.6.24-rc5 sysfs pci bridge duplicate symlink

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:11:37 + "Bahadir Balban" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On ARM with PCI, I get this error since -rc2 (didn't try rc1): > > sysfs: duplicate filename 'bridge' can not be created > WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:424 sysfs_add_one() > [] (dump_stack+0x0/0x14) from []

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:40 +0100 Sascha Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I applied your patches to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, but now I am faced with one > pdflush often using 100% CPU for a long time. There seem to be some rare > pauses from its 100% usage, however. > > On ~23 minutes uptime

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

2007-12-28 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On Dec 23, 2007 5:27 PM, Torsten Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 23, 2007 8:30 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/ > I have finally given up on using 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 with

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Shourya Sarcar
Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave out :(. Can you substantiate "distro is very disk-demanding because of

Re: [PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s)

2007-12-28 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 10:23:41PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: >... > Noteworthy remarks on the unification: >... > - -funit-at-a-time should be easy to unify but it looks like we have a bug > in 32 bit. We only enable -funit-at-a-time for gcc less than 0400 if they > support it No, we

Re: [PATCH 00/11] writeback bug fixes and simplifications

2007-12-28 Thread Sascha Warner
Hi, I applied your patches to 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, but now I am faced with one pdflush often using 100% CPU for a long time. There seem to be some rare pauses from its 100% usage, however. On ~23 minutes uptime i have ~19 minutes pdflush runtime. This is on E6600, x86_64, 2 Gig RAM, SATA HDD,

Re: [PATCH] SH/Dreamcast - add support for GD-Rom device

2007-12-28 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 20:17 +0100, Gino Badouri wrote: > Applied this over the last patch and I can confirm it works like a > charm :) It's Adrian's patch that works well. Thanks Adrian. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH 05/10] x86_64: Use generic percpu

2007-12-28 Thread Mike Travis
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 28 December 2007 01:10:51 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> x86_64 provides an optimized way to determine the local per cpu area >> offset through the pda and determines the base by accessing a remote >> pda. > > And? The rationale for this patch seems to be incomplete. > >

[PATCH] usb: remove duplicate entry in option.c and pl2303.h - linux-2.6.23.12

2007-12-28 Thread Daniel Kozák
From: Daniel Kozák <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove entry for Huawei E620 UMTS/HSDPA card (ID: 12d1:1001) Option driver is use instead Signed-off-by: Daniel Kozák <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6/drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h.orig 2007-12-28 22:11:13.0 +0100 +++

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv: fix ADMA ATAPI issues with memory over 4GB (v3)

2007-12-28 Thread Robert Hancock
Robert Hancock wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH 0/3 -mm] kexec jump -v8

2007-12-28 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:33:19PM +0800, Huang, Ying wrote: > This patchset provides an enhancement to kexec/kdump. It implements > the following features: > > - Backup/restore memory used both by the original kernel and the > kexeced kernel. > > - Jumping between the original kernel and the

[PATCH] Provide u64 version of jiffies_to_usecs() in kernel/tsacct.c

2007-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lim
It's possible that the values used in and returned from jiffies_to_usecs() are incorrect because of truncation when variables of type u64 are involved. So a function specific to that type is used instead. Diff'd against: linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.23.y.git Signed-off-by: Jonathan Lim

[PATCH] x86: unify x86 Makefile(s)

2007-12-28 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Unify the 32 and 64 bit specific Makefiles. The unification was simplest to do in one step although the readability of the patch suffers a bit from this. Noteworthy remarks on the unification: - The 64 bit cpu stuff should be moved to Makefile_32.cpu but I did not feel confident doing it due

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