On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:09:22AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:29:09AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:10:29PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > If I've got XFS on filesystems A and B on the same spindle (or volume
>
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:29:09AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:10:29PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 09:31:59PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > In other words, I/O priority is per-spindle and not per-
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:15:24PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:59:43PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > So I'd be surprised if that was a problem. But I can imagine having
> > problems for skbs without destructors which r
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:54:11PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:41:39PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > Here's another thought: move all this logic into the networking core,
> > unify it with current softirq zapper, the
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 10:32:22PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:11:20PM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:59:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:51:01PM +0300, Evg
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 08:57:57PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:07:56AM -0600, Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:55:19PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:21:57AM -0800,
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:55:19PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:21:57AM -0800, Andrew Morton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > > [2059664.615816] __iptables__: init4 IN=ppp0 OUT=ppp0 WARNING: at
> > > kernel/softirq.c:139 local_bh_enable()
> > > [2059664.620535] [<8
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:59:06PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:51:01PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL
> PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 09:48:51PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov ([EMAIL
> > PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > Stop, we are trying to free skb without d
Simon, can you test this patch? I think it's the most straightforward
2.6.24 fix.
diff -r c60016ba6237 net/core/netpoll.c
--- a/net/core/netpoll.cTue Nov 13 09:09:36 2007 -0800
+++ b/net/core/netpoll.cFri Nov 23 13:10:28 2007 -0600
@@ -203,6 +203,12 @@ static void refill_skbs(void)
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:03:29PM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 03:53:17AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 12:15:39AM +1100, David Chinner wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 01:06:11P
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 17:09 +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> The random_ioctl is registered as an ioctl function but it does not
> require BKL to be held when called. Changing it as an unlocked_ioctl
> function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Looks good, but I've a
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 17:24 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> The following series of patches create and populate the toplevel tests/
> directory. This will henceforth be the place where all in-kernel tests
> live.
>
> All patches against 2.6.24-rc6-mm1
There's a small test I stuck at t
On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 11:10 -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:02:54 +0300 Anton Salikhmetov wrote:
>
> > 2008/1/15, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:02:44PM +0300, Anton Salikhmetov wrote:
>
> > > > @@ -33,71 +34,65 @@ asmlinkage long sys_
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:43 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> [PATCH] x86: fix unconditional arch/x86/kernel/pcspeaker.c compiling
>
> Applies to 2.6.24-rc8-git1
>
> This patch results from Linux Tiny's efforts to hunt for unnecessary
> code added unconditionally with "obj-y +="
>
> This patch
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:05 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> On 01/17/2008 05:36 PM, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:43 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote:
> >
> >> diff -Naur linux-2.6.24-
We weren't merging freed blocks at the beginning of the free list.
Fixing this showed a 2.5% efficiency improvement in a userspace test
harness.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 408d4beddb6c -r 771a5ab2c6b7 mm/slob.c
--- a/mm/slob.c Wed Jan 16 19:00:27 2008 +00
Here are some SLOB fragmentation reduction patches for 2.6.25, please apply.
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diff -r eff994add207 -r db1f4e74c5ab init/Kconfig
--- a/init/Kconfig Wed Jan 16 18:14:29 2008 -0600
+++ b/init/Kconfig Wed Jan 16 18:14:29 2008 -0600
@@ -648,11 +648,9 @@
depends on EMBEDDED
bool "SLOB (Simpl
By putting smaller objects on their own list, we greatly reduce
overall external fragmentation and increase repeatability. This
reduces total SLOB overhead from > 50% to ~6% on a simple boot test.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 771a5ab2c6b7 -r eff994add207
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 02:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/
Hmm. On my Thinkpad R51, this gives me:
Uncompressing linux... Ok, booting kernel.
..and nothing more with the attached .config.
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On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > proc_loop: /proc/3731/task/3731/pagemap
> > kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > fs/proc/task_mmu.c:554
> > kernel: in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> > kernel: Call Trace:
> > kernel: [cf1cddf0] [c000840c] s
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:29 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Do we need `offset' at all?
Looks like no.
I wonder if there's a good argument for adding a pte_offset_val() which
would let us do:
pteval = pte_offset_val(pmd, addr);
and shrink the map/unmap window and overhead here and possibly
elsew
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 16:05 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:39:54 -0600
> Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:51 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > proc_loop: /proc/3731/task/3731/pagemap
> &
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 17:07 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> That worked out nicely.
Cool, feel free to add:
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Wasn't the old code potentially pte_unmap()ping the wrong address? If we
> enter with addr==end?
Yes, that was bust
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:10 -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 02:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/
>
> Hmm. On my Thinkpad R51, this gives me:
>
> Uncompressing linux.
This is a collection of drivers/char/random.c cleanups and fixes for
2.6.25. Please apply.
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diff -r 5595adaea70f -r 905475c480bd drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 13:26:54 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
static int trickle_thresh __read_
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 905475c480bd -r f814137b0bfc drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
@@ -540,6 +540,10 @@
nb
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 6f8bed9c59f7 -r 3e0b0226df90 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
@@ -900,7 +900,7 @@
sizeof(*(u
- split the SHA variables apart into hash and workspace
- rename data to extract
- wipe extract and workspace after hashing
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 3e0b0226df90 -r 42aa9f950f97 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008
, hash the entire pool in one go, then feedback the whole hash
(160 bits) in one go. This will make backtracking at least as hard as
inverting the hash.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 42aa9f950f97 -r 9569d3011032 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c T
Earlier changes greatly reduce the number of times we grab the lock
per output byte, so we shouldn't need this particular hack any more.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 9569d3011032 -r 70f981257057 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan
- eliminate new_rotate
- move input_rotate masking
- simplify input_rotate update
- move input_rotate update to end of inner loop for readability
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r 70f981257057 -r f06a2e1b4d58 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu
!)
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r f06a2e1b4d58 -r bc31fa097d34 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
@@ -457,7 +457,7 @@
unsigned long i, add_ptr, tap1
No locking actually needed.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r f814137b0bfc -r 6f8bed9c59f7 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:23 2008 -0600
@@ -1063,8 +
The add_ptr variable wasn't used in a sensible way, use only i instead.
i got reused later for a different purpose, use j instead.
While we're here, put tap0 first in the tap list and add a comment.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -r bc31fa097d34 -r 8f28
Switch add_entropy_words to a byte-oriented interface, eliminating
numerous casts and byte/word size rounding issues. This also
reduces the overall bit/byte/word confusion in this code.
We now mix a byte at a time into the word-based pool. This takes four
times as many iterations, but should be ne
- emphasize bits in the name
- make zero bits lock-free
- simplify logic
diff -r a0689714301a -r 218e9dac90b1 drivers/char/random.c
--- a/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:24 2008 -0600
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c Thu Jan 17 20:25:24 2008 -0600
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
/*
* This functio
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 18:28 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:02:17 + Byron Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > In arch/arm/kernel/setup.c:setup_ramdisk(), rd_size is set from the
> > boot tags. The replacement ramdisk driver has rd_size as static
> > which causes link
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:20:44PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I tried the following patch with a full x86 .config [1]:
>
> --- a/include/asm-x86/cache.h
> +++ b/include/asm-x86/cache.h
> -#define __read_mostly __attribute__((__section__(".data.read_mostly")))
> +/* #define __read_mostly __attribu
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:30:41PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> #ifndef HAVE_ARCH_BUG
> #define BUG() do { \
> - printk("BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()!\n", __FILE__, __LINE__,
> __FUNCTION__); \
> + printk(KERN_ERR "BUG: failure at %s:%d/%s()! (%s)\n",
> + __FILE__, __LINE__, __FU
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:38:04PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Matt Mackall a ?crit :
> >On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:20:44PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> >>I tried the following patch with a full x86 .config [1]:
> >>
> >>--- a/include/asm-x86
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:00:35AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Makes an embedded image a bit smaller
Looks good to me. This should probably go to Andrew first though. And
it wouldn't hurt to see some size(1) results.
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Signed
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:27:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi:
>
> [PATCH] Make WARN_ON/WARN_ON_ONCE no-ops when CONFIG_BUG is off
>
> The description of CONFIG_BUG clearly states that both BUG and
> WARN_ON may be skipped. However, our actual implementation still
> checks the condition on WA
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:34:09AM -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> xfer_secondary_pool() in drivers/char/random.c tells add_entropy_words()
> to use uninitialized tmp[] whenever bytes is not a multiple of 4.
> Besides being unfriendly to automated dynamic checkers, this is a
> potential leak of user da
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 12:16:59PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 12:02:46PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> > I added CONFIG_BUG, and I think the current behavior is correct. As
> > you've noticed, we have to evaluate condition, it may have
> >
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:02:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:09:41 + Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On (13/12/07 14:29), Andrew Morton didst pronounce:
> > > > The simple way seems to be to malloc a large area, touch every page and
> > > > then look at t
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:04:49PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 11:52:18PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> > No. The code as written above should reduce to:
> >
> > if (val == NULL)
> > return -EFAULT;
> >
> >
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:13:19PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> John Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > If speed matters that much, then please recoup 33 cycles on x86
> > by using shifts instead of three divides, such as (gcc 4.1.2):
> >
> >add_entropy_words(r, tmp, (bytes +
and add a new primitive.
>
> [PATCH] Added BARF_ON/BARF_ON_ONCE
>
> The description of CONFIG_BUG clearly states that both BUG and
> WARN_ON may be skipped. However, our actual implementation still
> checks the condition on WARN_ON if it's used as part of an if
> stat
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 02:34:42PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 05:31:30PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > That's something I've actually never quite liked... the fact that we
> > evaluate the expression anyway. I'm pretty happy with -not- evaluating
> > the expre
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:45:01PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> While examining vmlinux namelist on i686, I noticed :
>
> c0581300 D random_table
> c0581480 d input_pool
> c0581580 d random_read_wakeup_thresh
> c0581584 d random_write_wakeup_thresh
> c0581600 d blocking_pool
>
> That means that t
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> > cat /proc/kpageflags on sparc64 causes the box to lock.
> > I can not write on any terminal - but I can issue sysrqs and switch
> > between consoles.
> >
> > cat process hangs in read(3, ...
>
> cat /proc/kpagecount pr
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 07:38:14PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Adrian Bunk a ??crit :
> >On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:42:57PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >>Adrian Bunk a ??crit :
> >>...
> >>>And even more funny, with gcc 4.2 and CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE=y your
> >>>patch doesn't seem to make a
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 08:10:10PM +0100, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> > > Can you change line 710 of fs/proc/proc_misc.c to:
> > >
> > > ppage = NULL;
> >
> > Sure.
> >
> > > ..and see if it still breaks?
> >
> > Yes it does - the same way as eariler. Box is locked, processes stuck in D
> > s
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:39:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:26:11 -0800 (PST) David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 20:11:49 -0600
> >
> > >
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 11:24:57AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:55:20 + Mel Gorman wrote:
>
> > > > Just using cp to read the file is enough to cause problems but I
> > > > included
> > > > a very basic program below that produces the BUG_ON checks. Is this a
> > > > k
On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:36:31PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:31 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and
> > > warning reports f
>
> >Heh. UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique. Code
> >on the other hand should be readable. :-)
>
> Linus' suggested... improvement should either be done in all 3 places or
> none ;)
> Since you're the maintainer... wha
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:06:14AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>+char *get_boot_uuid(void)
> >>+{
> >>+ static char target[38];
> >>+ unsigned char *uuid;
> >>+
> >>+ if (sysctl_bootid[8] == 0)
> >>+ g
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:25:50PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Some 'extern struct seq_operations' are wrongly defined in
> fs/proc/proc_misc.c (they miss a const qualifier)
>
> In order to fix this correctly, move the "extern ... " declaration from .c
> file to an appropriate include file, as
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:22:55PM +0200, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
> On 12/6/07, Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > netpoll will ignore incoming UDP -from- the wrong port/ip/mac, since
> > it's otherwise bypassing the firewall layer.
> ...
> > I for
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:53:41PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 15:26 +, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> > The asynch code: perhaps not worth doing for MADV_WILLNEED alone,
> > but might prove useful for more general use when swapping in.
> > Not really the same as Con's swa
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 04:53:59AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:55:54 -0600
>
> > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 10:39:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Actually, you may only need these two:
> >
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 18:28 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Subject: mm: MADV_WILLNEED implementation for anonymous memory
>
> Implement MADV_WILLNEED for anonymous pages by walking the page tables and
> starting asynchonous swap cache reads for all encountered swap pages.
>
> Doing so required a
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 16:14 +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote:
> > > Imo,
> > > "same exact C compiler" is just bad language, because C compilers are
> > > always "exact". "exactly same C compiler" would do.
> >
> > No, "exactly same C compiler" doesn't parse well in English.
>
> "Same exact C compil
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:02 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes the no longer used EXPORT_SYMBOL(add_disk_randomness).
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> f1a195a30248eae541ba006633aa7
I've noticed a few problems with HFS+ support in recent kernels on
another user's machine running Ubuntu (Warty) running
2.6.8.1-3-powerpc. I'm not in a position to extensively test or fix
either of these problem because of the fs tools situation so I'm just
passing this on.
First, it reports inap
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:42:45AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
>
> > > +static inline cycle_t read_timesource(struct timesource_t* ts)
> > > +{
> > > + switch (ts->type) {
> > > + case TIMESOURCE_MMIO_32:
> > > + return (cycle_t)readl(ts->mmio_ptr);
> > > + case TIMESOURCE_MMIO_64:
> > > +
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:43:21AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:29 -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:42:45AM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > >
> > > > > +static inline cycle_t read_t
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:04:07PM -0800, john stultz wrote:
> > > > > > > +static inline cycle_t read_timesource(struct timesource_t* ts)
> > > > > > > +{
> > > > > > > + switch (ts->type) {
> > > > > > > + case TIMESOURCE_MMIO_32:
> > > > > > > + return (cycle_t)readl(ts->mmio_ptr);
> > >
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 09:49:17PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make
> > preempt kernels easily identifiable.
> I have the following patch in my tr
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:14:17AM +0100, Vegard Lima wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in the long thread on "[request for inclusion] Realtime LSM" there
> doesn't appear to be too many people who has actually tested the
> nice-and-rt-prio-rlimits.patch. Well, it works for me...
>
> However, the patch to pam_
A quick skim...
> + * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> + * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
> + * Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
> + *
> + * inode.c
> + */
> +
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:47:23PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> >>+ for (;;) {
> >
> >while (1)
>
> I always thought for (;;) was preferred. Or at least acceptable?
The for (;;) form has always struck me as needlessly clever and I'
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 11:18:49AM +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > I've noticed a few problems with HFS+ support in recent kernels on
> > another user's machine running Ubuntu (Warty) running
> > 2.6
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:30:33PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> +config SQUASHFS_1_0_COMPATIBILITY
> + bool "Include support for mounting SquashFS 1.x filesystems"
How common are these? It would be nice not to bring in legacy code.
> +#define SERROR(s, args...) do { \
> +
campaigns.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: bk/include/linux/pm.h
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--- bk.orig/include/linux/pm.h 2005-03-14 22:14:59.0 -0800
+++ bk/include/linux/pm.h 2005-03-14 22:17:48.0 -0800
@@ -
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 03:50:26PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Paul Jackson wrote:
> >In the overall kernel (Linus's bk tree) I count:
> >
> > 733 lines matching 'for *( *; *; *)'
> > 718 lines matching 'while *( *1 *)'
> >
> >In the kernel/*.c files, I count 15 of the 'for(;;)' style a
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 09:44:24AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:25:46AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 04:15:54PM +, David Greaves wrote:
> > > Old thread (!) but this is the last time I could find patch-kernel
> > > updated.
> >
> > Why not just use k
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:25:07PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> Matt Mackall wrote:
> >
> >>+config SQUASHFS_1_0_COMPATIBILITY
> >>+ bool "Include support for mounting SquashFS 1.x filesystems"
> >
> >How common are these? It would be ni
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 05:04:32PM -0800, Matt Mackall wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 11:25:07PM +, Phillip Lougher wrote:
> > >>+ unsigned ints_major:16;
> > >>+ unsigned ints_minor:16;
> > >
> > >What's going
This is a resync of the -tiny tree against 2.6.11.
The latest patch can be found at:
http://selenic.com/tiny/2.6.11-tiny1.patch.bz2
http://selenic.com/tiny/2.6.11-tiny1-broken-out.tar.bz2
There's a mailing list for linux-tiny development at:
linux-tiny at selenic.com
http://selenic.com/mai
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 02:29:58PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Jesse Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > kgdb patches are maintained in -mm kernels.
> > >
> > > Patches are in
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11
> > >-mm1/broken-out/*kgdb*
> >
On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 01:44:24AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On my IBM ThinkPad X31, I can only do one successful APM resume. After
> the resume, there's a stream of messages on the console:
>
> uhci_hcd :00:1d.0: host controller process error, something bad
> happened!
> uhci_hcd
Add PREEMPT to UTS_VERSION where enabled as is done for SMP to make
preempt kernels easily identifiable.
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: mm1/scripts/mkcompile_h
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--- mm1.orig/scripts/mkcompile_h
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 01:21:08PM -0600, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> This is the first in a series of eight patches to the BSD Secure
> Levels LSM. It overhauls the printk mechanism in order to reduce the
> unnecessary usage of the .text area. Thanks to Brad Spengler for the
> suggestion.
>
> Sign
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:51:44PM -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> [direct reply bounced, resending via gmail]
>
> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:47:27PM -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Matt Mackall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > What happened to the RT rlimit code from Chris?
>
> I still have it, but I had the impression Ingo didn't like it as a long
> term solution/hack (albeit small) to
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 10:41:28PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> [ the best solution is ]
>
> [ my preferred solution is ... ]
>
> [ it would be better if ... ]
>
> [ this is a kludge and it should be done instead like ... ]
>
> did nobody read what andrew wrote and what JOQ pointed o
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:54:17AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Eh? Chris Wright's original rlimits patch was very straightforward
> > [...]
>
> the problem is that it didnt solve the problem (unprivileged
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:14:22AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> > I think it's important to recognize that we're trying to address an
> > issue that has a much wider potential audience than pro audio users,
> > and not very far off - what is high end audio performance today will
> > be expected d
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:48:43AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Here's Chris' patch for reference:
> >
> > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/linux.kernel/msg/6408569e13ed6e80
>
> how does
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:04:19AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So the comparison boils down to putting a magic gid in a sysfs
> > file/module parameter or setting an rlimit with standard tools (PAM,
> > etc). I&#
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> think of SCHED_FIFO on the desktop as an ugly wart, a hammer, that
> destroys the careful balance of priorities of SCHED_OTHER tasks. Yes, it
> can be useful if you _need_ a scheduling guarantee due to physical
> constraints, and it
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 10:53:27AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:59:42AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > > think of SCHED_FIFO on the desktop as an ugly wart, a hammer, tha
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:49:04PM -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >RT-LSM introduces architectural problems in the form of bogus API. And
>
> that may be true of LSM, but not RT-LSM in particular. RT-LSM doesn't
> introduce *any* API whatsoever - it simply allows software to call
> various existing AP
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:49:05PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> * Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Yes. There's also the whole soft limit thing.
> > >
> > > i'm curious, how does this 'per-app' rlimit t
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 12:17:24PM +0100, Fruhwirth Clemens wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 02:33 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Fruhwirth Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 17:19 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Fruhwirth Clemens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
On my Thinkpad T30 with a Radeon Mobility M7 LW, I get interesting
console video corruption if I start GDM, switch back to text mode,
then stop it again. X is Xfree86 from Debian/unstable or X.org 6.8.2.
The corruption shows up whenever the console scrolls after X has been
shut down and manifests
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