Date:Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:19:20 -0500
From: Jeremy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I had written a simple program 10-20 lines C to count pulses at rate
of 1 per second give or take. It turned out that the driver disabled
the UART's generation of interrupts completely for certai
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 17:13:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* search for appropriate cylinder group had been taken out of the
ext2_new_inode() into helper functions - find_cg_dir(sb, parent_group) and
find_cg_other(sb, parent_group). Bug caught by D
From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:00:32 -0500 (EST)
> Any programmer who has evolved sufficiently from a scriptie
> should take necessary precautions to check how much data was
> transferred. Those who don't..well, there is still tomorro
Date:Sat, 2 Dec 2000 17:18:43 + (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> This is currently happening with lucent winmodem driver: there's
> modified version of serial.c, and customers are asked to compile it
> and (staticaly-)link it against proprietary code to get us
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:34:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Erm... Not that ignoring the return values was a bright idea, but the
lack of reliable ordered datagram protocol in IP family is not a good
thing. It can be implemented over TCP, but it's a big over
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 18:21:26 -0700
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Under this argument, it is argued that the engineer who had source
code access "inevitably used" negative knowledge he gained from
his study of the Linux sources. Absent the vague descriptions of
From: "Saber Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Sun, 03 Dec 2000 05:59:47 -
Well that's the last time I run a devel kernel with a nontest
system. sigh.
Had one directory replaced with a different directory
and also a directory replaced with a file. Possible further
Date:Fri, 1 Sep 2000 12:47:44 +0200 (MESZ)
From: "Dr. Michael Weller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sorry, I've no idea about the ext2 and fs implementation.
However did you read the comment below and convince yourself that 'err' is
always set correctly?
I looked at it and was convi
From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:23:39 +0100 (BST)
At the marked line (! - line 647), what if flip.count is equal to
TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE? Surely we're writing to a character outside the
flag_buf_ptr array? If that is the case, should we not move this
From: Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:49:14 +0200
Curiously, this field is measured in 512 byte units, giving a 2TB Ext2
filesize limit. That's starting to look uncomfortably small - I can
easily imagine a single database file wanting to be big
Date:Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:47:04 -0700
From: Stephen Satchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
5) Even better would be to obtain the services of a PR firm used to
dealing with high-tech questions -- if you would like a list of potential
sponsors I can poll the IPG to see who might be l
From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:01 Sep 2000 14:52:28 -0700
1st Problem: One signal handler process process-wide
What is handled correctly now is sending signals to the group. Also
that every thread has its mask. But there must be exactly one signal
han
Andre wrote:
> Linux rejected the code because it does not understand nor does anyone
> have the desire to learn what it does. Since it is not in the kernel
> there is no GPL issue. Upon Microsoft's adpotion of the model they will
That's B.S. The GPL is a Copyright license; it applies whether
From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Mon, 4 Sep 2000 15:42:57 +0200
In test7 the stallion.c serial driver is in the drivers/media/video
directory. This means that it won't compile and that compilation will break
if the Stallion driver is enabled.
Could this fil
Did someone manage to get a copy of the 0.0.9 cuecat kernel driver
before Lineo took it off the net (due to their getting threatenedd by
Digital Convergence over some bogus "the driver has our intellectual
property" threat)? If so, could someone send me a copy of the driver
via e-mail? Thanks!!
Date:Wed, 6 Sep 2000 01:43:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Alex Buell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Only, with the former, I get to restart the application everytime it
> croaks, with the latter (modules excluded) I have to reboot. This is
> much more time consuming and means you really have
Date:Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:06:17 -0600
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
One of the principal architects at Compaq called me Friday after
reading Linus' email about not caring about commercial or support
issues for commercialization of Linux on this topic-- his right
Date:Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:08:59 +
From: Pravir Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've been working to change the implementation of /dev/random over to the
Yarrow-160a algorithm created by Bruce Schneier and John Kelsey. We've been
working on parallel development for Linux and
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> Thanks Ted. I know, but a kernel debugger is one of those nasty pieaces
> of software that can quickly get out of sync if it's maintained
> separately from the tree -- the speed at which changes occur in Linux
> would render it a very difficult proj
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:51:20 -0600
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I support source level in the kernel. Based on Andi Klein's review, I
have grabbed ext2utils and am looking at a minimal int 0x13 interface to
load files into memory. hardest problem here for Linux i
Date:Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:27:30 -0700
From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I've told Linus several times about this problems but he puts out one
> test release after the other without this fixed.
This is kinda important, I run DNS tools which are threaded amongst
numer
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:56:12 +
From: Pravir Chandra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
i agree that the yarrow generator does place some faith on the crypto
cipher and the accumulator uses a hash, but current /dev/random
places faith on a crc and urandom uses a hash.
No, not true. The m
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:23:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> No, not true. The mixing into the entropy pool uses a twisted LFSR, but
> all outputs from the pool (to either /dev/random or /dev/urandom)
> filters the output through SHA-1 as a whit
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:37:57 -0700
From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 4. Boot Time Failures
> >
> > * Use PCI DMA 'lost interrupt' problem with some hw [which ?] (NEC
> >Versa LX with PIIX tuning)
>
> If this is a rare version of the BX/LX that has a
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:46:00 +0200
From: Harald Dunkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How can I submit a bug report to be added to this list?
I *try* to follow bug reports sent to Linux-kernel, but if you want to
be sure, send it directly to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
(And now for the sta
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 23:55:55 -0700
From: David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Please add 'APM resume returns the machine to the first tty, crashes
X' This appeared w/ test8. If this is intended, I'd be very happy to
know if so and I can write in to xfree86 about it. If not
intend
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:03:39 +0200
From: Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 01:56:39AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 8. Fix Exists But Isnt Merged
...
> 9. To Do
> * Mount of new fs over existing mointpoint should return an error
>
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:54:49 +0200 (CEST)
From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Don't forget that 2^20 > 10^6, hence if you really want units of
microseconds, you actually only need to save 3 bytes worth of data per
timestamp.
For the purposes of NFS, however the
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:56:22 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> suggest a unique identifier for your patch? Humans are usually better
> at picking sensible names than a machine, and in discussions, it is
> better to refer to 'ide-foobar-fix3' than KP7562 ev
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 22:35:10 +0200 (CEST)
From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You might be able to steal a couple of bytes and then rewrite ext2fs
to mask those out from the 'i_generation' field, but it would mean that
you could no longer boot your old 2.2.16 kernel withou
From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:20:42 -0400 (EDT)
The ext2 inode has 6 obviously free bytes, 6 that are only used
on filesystems marked as Hurd-type, and 8 that seem to be claimed
by competing security and EA projects. So, being wastef
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:09:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Would it perhaps make sense to use one of these last 'free' fields
as a pointer to an 'inode entension'?
If you still want ext2fs to be able to accommodate new projects and
ideas, then it seem
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:12:35 +0200 (MEST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rogier Wolff)
The "right" way to do this is to have a "this spot is in use, but you
don't understand it" indication for an inode (*). The "expansion ptr"
can then normally point to the directly following inode, b
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:03:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For the timestamps, yes, but inode caching will take most of that
hit. After all, the only time stat() reads from disk is when the inode
has completely fallen out of the cache.
For commonly used
From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:34:42 +0400
Just have compiled 2.4.0-test8 today...
Nothing interesting
Everything goes the same way as 2 test releases before...
All my devices are detected right, but... :-(
Kernel panic again at the file sys
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:17:01 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I ran with the idea, and created the attached patch, against
2.4.0-test8. It converts serial.c to the new PCI API (quite compactly,
I might add) It should be possible with this patch to now hotplug
ser
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 01:06:24 +0200 (MEST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rogier Wolff)
My suggestion is indeed effectivly (almost) doubling the inode size.
However, it provides an upgrade path, where you can double-boot with a
kernel that DOESN"T know about the inodes.
The 2.2 kerne
Date:Sat, 21 Oct 2000 23:45:58 +0200
From: octave klaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I use the serial cart with 5.03 / 2.2.17
Serial driver version 5.03 (2000-08-11) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
00:0d.0 Serial controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd: Unknown device 716
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:14:13 +0200
From: octave klaba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Can you actually give me some details of how your system "crashed"? It
> certainly shouldn't have. Kermit will sometimes hang waiting for the
> terminal to flush if it's enabled hardware flow control a
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:46:19 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 05:14:34PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote:
> Of corse right! BTW. There are tons of places where log2 is calculated
> explicitly in kernel which should be replaced with the corresponding
> built
Date:Thu, 02 Nov 2000 12:31:51 -0700
From: Tim Riker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Me or Alan? I did not mean this as a dig. I feel strongly that one
should have the choice here. I do not choose to enforce my beliefs on
anyone else. I am suggesting only that others should provide the
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 13:53:55 -0700
From: Tim Riker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As is being discussed here, C99 has some replacements to the gcc syntax
the kernel uses. I believe the C99 syntax will win in the near future,
and thus the gcc syntax will have to be removed at some point. In
Date:Fri, 03 Nov 2000 14:44:17 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My problem is that pthread_create (glibc 2.1.3, kernel 2.2.17 i686) is
failing because, deep inside glibc somewhere, nanosleep() is returning
EINTR.
Sounds like it might be a bug in pthread_create although th
Date:Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:13:25 -0500 (EST)
From: George Talbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I respectfully disagree that programs which don't surround some of the
most common system calls with
do
{
rv = __some_system_call__(...);
} wh
From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Nov 2000 10:50:37 -0800
> Arguably though the bug is in glibc, in that if it's using signals
> behinds the scenes, it should have passed SA_RESTART to sigaction.
Why are you talking such a nonsense?
The claim was made that pthrea
Date:Thu, 9 Nov 2000 13:39:04 + (GMT)
From: Paul Jakma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I actually think Linus has been too loose/vague on modules. The
official COPYING txt file in the tree contains an exception on linking
to the kernel using syscalls from linus and the GPL. nothing
Date:Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:43:14 -0500
From: Michael Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
And how would a hypothetical Advanced Linux Kernel Project be different?
Set aside the GKHI and the issue of binary-only hook modules; how would
an "enterprise" fork be any different than RT or
Date:Wed, 08 Nov 2000 16:35:33 -0500
From: Michael Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a
modular kernel.
This is true; that's because a modular kernel means that interfaces have
to be frozen in time, usually forever.
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 14:26:33 + (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Actually, he's been quite specific. It's ok to have binary modules as
> long as they conform to the interface defined in /proc/ksyms.
What is completely unclear is if he has the authority to say tha
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date:Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:41:09 +
It has the potential to to make patches easier to re-work for different
kernel versions, and to enable development maintence and fixing of the
patch to be done independently of a kernel build. And it also has the
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 10:36:31 -0800
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As soon as I finish writing raw write disk routines (not using kiobufs),
we can _maybe_ get LKCD accepted one of these days, especially now that we
don't have to build 'lcrash' against a kernel revis
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 13:27:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I didn't have time to do more than just quickly apply the patch and leave
in a hurry, but my Vaio certainly recognized the serial port on the combo
cardbus card I have with this patch. Everything lo
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 23:41:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a problem that many drivers have: when the card is removed, the
driver sees an interrupt (which happens to be the CardBus card removal
interrupt, but the serial driver doesn't know that, and
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 10:13:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I checked my VAIO's, and they all have a Ricoh cardbus bridge.
Ted claimed he had a TI1311 or something, I think. So his VAIO is
definitely different from the ones I have. That may be enough of a
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:13:59 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Note how the "rs_interrupt()" routine _tries_ to avoid this by having a
> pass counter value, but that logic never triggers because we will loop
> forever in receive_chars(), so the rs_interrupt() counter
Date:Fri, 15 Dec 2000 01:09:29 + (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > oWe tell vendors to build RPMv3 , glibc 2.1.x
> Curious HOW do you tell vendors??
When they ask. More usefully Dan Quinlann and most vendors put together a
recommended set of thing
Date:Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:38:01 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
David Schwartz wrote:
> The code does its best to estimate how much actual entropy it is gathering.
A potential weakness. The entropy estimator can be manipulated by
feeding data which looks ra
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:49:48 +0100
From: Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:33:13PM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Note that writing to /dev/random does *not* update the entropy estimate,
> for this very reason. The assumption is t
Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 19:24:01 +0200
From: Frederic Magniette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
We would like to do some operations on a ext2 disk while it is
mounted read-only. The problem is that our operations have no
effects because everithing is cached. Is it possible to shrink al
Date:Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:49:04 -0600
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is going to be a continuing problem for non-Unix file systems like
NTFS and NWFS that rely on the ability to read and write variable length
sector runs.
It's not just non-Unix file syste
Date:Sat, 30 Sep 2000 04:10:59 +0200
From: Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do you really think that explicitly supporting broken distributions
(redhat 7.0 comes with a experimental snapshot of gcc which is neither
binary compatible to 2.95 nor to 3.0, cutting binary compat
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 22:16:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Basically you can de-stroke a drive with what you let the OS/FS report.
Once this is done there is no way any FS can get to the stuff beyond what
it knows about.
I'm not sure what you mean by "de-s
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 15:45:24 -0700
From: Larry McVoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. First of all, having a flag
day where everyone switches to BK just isn't a realistic expectation,
even if the license wasn't an issue. Things just don't work
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 03:30:39 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 03:18:14 -0700 (PDT)
How exactly does a system to tracking patches and bugs/fixes (not to
mention helping Lin
Date:Wed, 13 Sep 2000 02:27:07 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/torvalds/src/linux \
ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/LIVE/linux
would be the real helper for people like me whose only real issue
now is bothering Lin
From: "Dunlap, Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 09:17:55 -0700
I appreciate Alan and you doing the kernel Status/TODO lists,
but I think that you ought to simplify it for yourself at
least (not that this would help Linus) by having maintainers
do it instead of y
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:14:57 +0200 (MEST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rogier Wolff)
Today we fixed a problem in a driver we maintain here. We should've
gone ahead and generate the patch and queued it for Linus. However,
in reality we'd like the complaining customer to test the pat
Date:Fri, 06 Oct 2000 12:01:34 -0500
From: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
tty_register_devfs and tty_unregister_devfs both declare "struct tty_struct" locals.
According to gdb:
(gdb) p sizeof(struct tty_struct)
$20 = 3084
This eats up most of a 4K page, and on UML t
On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 07:04:56PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> The err is not used after initalization. So just remove the variable.
>
> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang
I'll apply this patch, but how did you generate the diff? The
function name here is all wrong:
> diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/
On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 08:59:33PM +0800, zhong jiang wrote:
> I create the diff in this patch again ,but get the same result .
> the git version is git version 1.7.12.4 but I create the diff in
> git version 1.8.3.1. It shows the correct function name.
Ah, OK, so it was a git bug. Whew! Glad
On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 07:28:45AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 12:17:30AM +0200, Matthias Schiffer wrote:
> > On 08/01/2018 06:52 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
> > > know.
> >
> > It seems
The following changes since commit 5012284700775a4e6e3fbe7eac4c543c4874b559:
ext4: fix check to prevent initializing reserved inodes (2018-07-29 15:34:00
-0400)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git
tags/ext4_for_linus
for you
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:26:25PM -0700, Sodagudi Prasad wrote:
> On 2018-07-26 18:04, Sodagudi Prasad wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
>
> +linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org list.
>
> Hi All,
>
> Observing the following issue with one of the partition on android device
> with 4.14.56 kernel. When I try to
More generally, stupid question, but does Android *really* need to
have debugfs mounted? And if so, can we figure out what facilities
that are needed and can we find some other way of meeting those
requirements?
- Ted
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:11:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> That said, I would assume that
> other Android utilities are using other debugfs files for system
> status and such.
Yeah, I know we probably have lost the "debugfs is only for debugging
and has no place in a production system" batt
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 03:05:43PM -0700, Sandeep Patil wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:21:14PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 04:11:03PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > That said, I would assume that
> > > other Android utiliti
On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 01:34:31PM -0700, Sodagudi Prasad wrote:
> > The error should be pretty clear: "Inode table for bg 0 marked as
> > needing zeroing". That should never happen.
>
> Can you provide any debug patch to detect when this corruption is happening?
> Source of this corruption and h
The following changes since commit 1e4b044d22517cae7047c99038abb23243ca:
Linux 4.18-rc4 (2018-07-08 16:34:02 -0700)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/random.git
tags/random_for_linus_stable
for you to fetch changes up to 81e69df
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:43:23PM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Make use of the swap macro and remove unnecessary variable *tmp*.
> This makes the code easier to read and maintain.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Thanks, appl
Hey Jeremy,
I think you are also going to be changing the 1/3 patch from the
original patch series that this was part of. That's correct, right?
It would be easier for me if you could simply make all of the
revisions you plan to make for the patch series, and then upload a
full v2 of the entire
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 02:46:59PM -0400, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> I dropped patch 1/3 and 2/3 from the original series because they can
> both be covered by some sanitation in fs/quota/quota.c, so the this is
> only patch from the v1 series that should be applied.
>
> Sorry for not being more clear!
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 04:37:21PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar
>
> No need to keep preemption disabled across the whole function.
>
> mix_pool_bytes() uses a spin_lock() to protect the pool and there are
> other places like write_pool() whhich invoke mix_pool_byte
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:58:28PM +0900, Junil Lee wrote:
> The -EBUSY return value of dquot_enable() function means that just
> want to update flags. If some users make a duplicate request to update
> flags, lockdep could catch the false positive casued by needing to
> allocate a quota block from
On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 04:00:30PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> Use new return type vm_fault_t for fault handler
> ext4_filemap_fault.
>
> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 08:16:00AM -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Make use of the swap macro and remove unnecessary variable *tmp*.
> This makes the code easier to read and maintain. Also, reduces the
> stack usage.
>
> This code was detected with the help of Coccinelle.
>
> Signed-off-by: G
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 06:15:47PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> Output the warning message before we clobber type and be -1 all the time.
> The error message would now be
>
> [1.519791] EXT4-fs warning (device vdb): ext4_enable_quotas:5402:
> Failed to enable quota tracking (type=0, err=-3).
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 12:49:38PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > That said, people have wanted these kinds of extended error
> > descriptors forever, and the reason we haven't added them is that it
> > generally is more pain than it is necessarily worth. I'm not actually
> > at all convinced tha
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> Way to poison the well by calling it VMS-style error reporting! As I
> understand it though, VMS reported errors in English with an error code
> that could be looked up in The Wall of documentation. I'd see David's
> proposal as
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 02:20:00PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> Use new return type vm_fault_t for ext4_page_mkwrite
> handler and block_page_mkwrite_return.
>
> Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder
FYI, this patch was very sloppy, and didn't do the right thing. That's
because of how you messed
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 06:56:39PM +0530, Souptick Joarder wrote:
> As caller of block_page_mkwrite() are -
> fs/ext4/inode.c
> fs/nilfs2/file.c
>
> I will merge both changes in a single patch and send it.
Note that it's *important* for ext4 that we know what kind of error
was returned by the hel
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:38:30AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> I'm going to drop the whole ext4 changes for vm_fault_t for this
> cycle, and I'll let you try to fix it up properly for the next cycle.
Here's the fixed up commit that I'm going to drop since y
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 09:13:19AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:06:18PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 10:38:30AM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> > > I'm going to drop the whole ext4 changes for vm_fault_t f
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 05:14:01PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
>
> Some attributes (such as the servers backing a network filesystem) can have
> multiple values. These can be enumerated by setting params->Nth and
> params->Mth to 0, 1, ... until ENODATA is returned.
How does the caller know whet
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 06:07:47PM +, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> 'ac->ac_g_ex.fe_len' is a user-controlled value which is used in the
> derivation of 'ac->ac_2order'. 'ac->ac_2order', in turn, is used to
> index arrays which makes it a potential spectre gadget. Fix this by
> sanitizing the value ass
On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 02:15:15PM +0800, Liu Song wrote:
> Merge the duplicated complex conditions to improve code readability.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Song
> Reviewed-by: Jiang Biao
Thanks, applied.
- Ted
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 10:48:37AM +0900, 이준일/연구원/MC연구소 BSP실
BSP6팀(junil0814@lge.com) wrote:
> Then, I have a question.
> quotactl() doesn't have case only to set limits flag, the routine to set
> the DQUOT_LIMITS_ENABLED flag is under dquot_enable() function.
> According to this logic, if use
On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 12:11:12PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>
> I believe Stephan Mueller wrote up the weakness a couple of years ago.
> He's the one who explained the interactions to me. Mueller was even
> cited at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4167.
Stephan had a lot of complain
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 03:25:07PM +0800, 张宁 wrote:
> Hi, everyone
>
> I notice each developer in this email list has a company email address
> or Gmail, or maybe selfhosted email.
>
> last night I have tried my outlook.com, yahoo.com, QQ.com email, all
> of them are rejected by mechine.
There a
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:26:37PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> The problem is that there's more than one actual "open" involved.
>
> fd = fsopen("ext4");<--- #1
> whatever_interface(fd, "s /dev/sda1");
> whatever_interface(fd, "o journal_path=/dev/sd
>
> Review console log and on each run I have filesystem rebuild. The problem
> is that mke2fs I am using is 1.44.3-rc2. I am now reseting the environment
> and re-test.
>
Could it be that you saw the error in ext4_validate_block_bitmap()?
The patch which I sent Dann only fixed the problem for in
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