Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-17

2005-07-08 Thread William Weston
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > ok, you are right, the edge case was mishandled - but i think it was > > > already mishandled upstream, we just never (or rarely) triggered it. > > > I've reworked this area based on your patch, could you check -51-15, > > > does it work for you? I

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-17

2005-07-08 Thread William Weston
Hi Ingo, More SMT weirdness. Latency traces aren't looking quite right on -51-17 with my SMT debug config. Started jackd, immediately after boot (before logging in to X), then: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/latency_trace cat/2149[CPU#1]: BUG in update_out_trace at kernel/latency.c:698 [] du

kernel oops in 2.6.12.3 SMP

2005-07-27 Thread William Park
0 8b 84 24 a0 00 00 00 50 <8b> 3c 68 40 c1 00 f9 30 c0 00 f9 30 c0 4c 68 40 c1 4c 68 40 c1 -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html BashDiff: Super Bash shell

[PATCH] for acpi S1 power cycle resume problems

2005-08-19 Thread William Morrow
Hi I was told that if I had a patch to submit for a baseline change that this was the place to do it. If not, please let me know... thanks, morrow Patched against 2.6.11 baseline problems fixed: 1) OHCI_INTR_RD not being cleared in ohci interrupt handler results in interrupt storm and system h

modprobing ipmi_si on Dell Power Edge 2600 make the terminal hang kernel ver. >= 2.6.20

2008-01-20 Thread william cheng
2.6.19.7 It looks like the problem only occurs when using kernel after 2.6.20 with Power Edge 2600. Anyone know the reason for that? Any additional information should I provide? Thanks William -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

2007-10-04 Thread William Cattey
the whole pt_regs patch (commit 49d26b6eaa8e970c8cf6e299e6ccba2474191bf5) from kernel.org and see if that has a beneficial effect. -Bill ---- William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology N42-040M, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mit.edu/wdc/w

forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-20 Thread William Beebe
The following quote is from the article "Linux Kernel Security, Again" (http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/308): "Don't get me wrong. Linux doesn't suck. But I do believe that the Linux kernel team (and some of the Linux distributions that are still vulnerable to fork bombing) need to take pr

Re: forkbombing Linux distributions

2005-03-20 Thread William Beebe
Thanks. That's what I thought. Sorry for the annoyance. On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 22:22:21 -0500, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:06:57PM -0500, William Beebe wrote: > > > Is this really a kernel issue? Or is there a better way in userland to

Re: Linux Virtual Network Device

2005-02-07 Thread William Stearns
ith either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857 (Courtesy of Eric S. Raymond) ------ William Stearns

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-09 Thread William Weston
lags); > if (spin_trylock(&mpu->output_lock)) { > snd_mpu401_uart_output_write(mpu); > spin_unlock(&mpu->output_lock); > } > - local_irq_restore(flags); > +

Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.11-rc3-V0.7.38-01

2005-02-09 Thread William Weston
esting: .. [] __do_IRQ+0xfb/0x1a0 .[] .. ( <= do_IRQ+0x6f/0xb0) .. [] print_traces+0x1b/0x60 .[] .. ( <= dump_stack+0x23/0x30) Additional info about the system/kernel/config can be found at http://www.sysex.net/testing/ Best Regards, --William Weston O

Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-12 Thread William Park
re-compiling 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 with the extra pass of > kallsyms to see if the problem persists with this release. Try 'acpi=noirq'. -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because I can type. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-12 Thread William Park
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:47:15PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Feb 12 2005, William Park wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:45:58PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > > For some kernel versions (say, since 2.6.10 proper, all the 2.6.11-rc's, > > > some -mm

Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-12 Thread William Park
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 09:50:43PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > On Feb 12 2005, William Park wrote: > > This looks awefully like 'acpi' is on. If 'acpi=noirq' does not work, > > then try 'pci=noacpi'. > > Hi, Willian. > > First of

Disabling IRQ #xx, because nobody cared!

2005-01-28 Thread William Park
q+0x0/0x60) At which point, USB is dead. Do you know if 'acpi' is responsible for this? -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because I can type. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: Disabling IRQ #xx, because nobody cared!

2005-01-31 Thread William Park
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:32:12AM +, William Park wrote: > I'm runing 2.6.10 SMP. I usually use APM, but I decided to try ACPI. > On my machine, USB (integrated) and Audio (PCI card) shares IRQ: ... > After a while, I get > > irq 185: nobody cared! > [] __r

Re: irq 10: nobody cared! (was: Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm1)

2005-02-05 Thread William Park
ng 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 with the extra pass of > kallsyms to see if the problem persists with this release. Try 'acpi=noirq'. It did it for me (Abit VP6 dual-p3, Via VT82C694X, Via VT82C686B). -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because I can t

tmscsim.o INQUIRY inconsistency in 2.2.19

2001-06-13 Thread John William
Is this a known bug in tmscsim.o (2.0f, included with 2.2.19): I have the following devices (cat /proc/scsi/scsi) Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST15230N Rev: 0638 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host:

Re: Bug in 3c905 driver.

2001-06-25 Thread William Park
I have 3c905CX and 2.4.5 kernel. Maybe you have 2 cards inside? ;-) -- William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8 CPUs cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Sc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread William Stearns
--- "Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it." -- Old Chinese Proverb ------ William Stearns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mason, Buil

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac20

2001-06-28 Thread William Stearns
t vulnerability is completely theoretical." -- Microsoft L0pht, Making the theoretical practical since 1992. (Courtesy of "Deliduka, Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) -- William Stearns ([EMAIL P

Re: [OT] Quad-cpu motherboard recommendation

2001-07-05 Thread William Park
time I checked. Why not get dual, and take a coffee break? -- William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8 CPUs cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Sc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

New Machine Check problem

2001-07-06 Thread William Earnest
Hello, Have a system with an Asus P5A motherboard, Classic Pentium-200 underclocked to 180 MHz, and 196 MB of real memory. Up through 2.4.4 it has performed flawlessly. Kernels 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 will not complete the boot. Boot looks normal through the F0 0F check, and the message

Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop

2001-06-24 Thread William Stearns
y way to know when you have done something truly great is when your spine tingles." - on Alice Kober, cryptanalist, in The Code Book, Simon Singh. -- William Stearns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mason, Buildkernel, named2hos

Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

2005-03-04 Thread William Park
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:57:38AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's > the difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really? > > So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have > trouble understanding

[CHECKER] security rules?

2001-04-26 Thread William Ie
Hi, my name is William Ie and I am currently working with the mc group. We are currently looking into how capability checks are used in the 2.4.3 kernel. Along the way, we found a few potential bugs that we are not too sure about. Please bear in mind our checker right now is still very very crude

Where did this patch come from?

2001-04-27 Thread peck, william
I was wondering if anyone could tell me who is responsible for the patch I have included? It fixes some issues with scanning the scsi bus, specifically it reports luns higher than 8. I am just wondering if whoever has created this if they have submitted it to be included in the mainstream 2.2.x

ide.2.2.19.04092001.patch + VIA82CXXX (Abit VP6)

2001-04-27 Thread William Park
: ST315320A, ATA DISK drive hdc: CD-ROM 24X/AKOx, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 <-- hangs here Interestingly, I didn't have this problem with ide-2.2.18 patch. --William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga,

Re: question regarding cpu selection

2001-04-29 Thread William Park
ering, since Coppermine > is basically a newish PIII with 128K less cache... Try both, and see if your machine throws up. --William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. 8 CPUs, Linux, python, LaTeX, vim, mutt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: Whether can we put our company's linux driver into linux kernel?

2001-05-03 Thread William Park
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:06:24PM -, mirabilos wrote: > Hmmm is he sure he knows what linux is...? > I dunno whether he has understood the concept right, > maybe he'll post a WDM driver ;-) Well, what is your answer? How do you submit your own driver? --William Park,

another potential security bug

2001-05-10 Thread William Ie
Hi, my name is William Ie and I am currently working under Dawson Engler's mc project here in the Stanford CS dept. We are currently trying to develop security related bug-checkers, particularly regarding the capability checks done in the linux kernel. While going through the results o

Re: Chat rooms for linux kernel developers

2001-05-11 Thread William Stearns
ill --- "If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology." -- Bruce Schneier, Secrets and Lies ------ William St

Re: kprobe_handler should check pre_handler function

2005-03-29 Thread William Cohen
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 04:10:32PM -0500, William Cohen wrote: Hi Will, I found kprobes expects there to be a pre_handler function in the structure. I was writing a probe that only needed a post_handler function, no pre_handler function. The probe was tracking

Re: usb-storage on SMP?

2005-01-17 Thread William Park
but I can't load the kernel from USB key drive. -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware Linux -- because I can type. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: usb-storage on SMP?

2005-01-17 Thread William Park
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 08:01:23PM +, Paulo Marques wrote: > William Park wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 06:26:33PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > >>On Monday, 17 of January 2005 18:17, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > >> > >>>Hi, > >>

Re: [PATCH] Wait and retry mounting root device (revised)

2005-01-17 Thread William Park
- they only hide the problem and make it harder > to reproduce. The problem at hand is that USB key drive (which is my immediate concern) takes 5sec to show up. So, it's much better approach than 'initrd'. -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada Slackware

Re: [PATCH] Configurable delay before mounting root device

2005-01-21 Thread William Park
sb-storage devices which no longer make their partitions > immediately available, and for other storage devices which require some > "spin-up" time. > > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Very concise. It's much better than 2.4 patch or its 2.6 ada

Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-13 Thread William Cohen
Robert Richter wrote: On 10.11.07 21:32:39, Andi Kleen wrote: It would be really good to extract a core perfmon and start with that and then add stuff as it makes sense. e.g. core perfmon could be something simple like just support to context switch state and initialize counters in a basic way

Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-13 Thread William Cohen
Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:35:11AM -0500, William Cohen wrote: Robert Richter wrote: On 10.11.07 21:32:39, Andi Kleen wrote: It would be really good to extract a core perfmon and start with that and then add stuff as it makes sense. e.g. core perfmon could be

Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-14 Thread William Cohen
Andi Kleen wrote: One approach does not prevent the other. Assuming you allow cr4.pce, then nothing prevents a self-monitoring thread from reading the counters directly. You'll just get the lower 32-bit of it. So if you read frequently enough, you should not have a problem. Hmm? RDPMC is 64b

Re: perfmon2 merge news

2007-11-16 Thread William Cohen
Andi Kleen wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 08:00:56AM -0800, Stephane Eranian wrote: No, he is talking about something similar to what was in perfctr. The kernel emulates 64-bit counters in software and that is you get back when you read the counters. If you read via RDPMC, you get 40 bits. To re

Re: ALPS touchpad with new Dell not recognised

2007-08-04 Thread William Pettersson
Hi LKML, Thanks to Vojtech for some advice, I finally got something happening with this. Turns out I had to add support for a new model in alps.c, the attached file does this successfully for my laptop. It'd be nice to have others test it, but I am yet to find anyone else who has this same laptop

Re: ALPS touchpad with new Dell not recognised

2007-08-04 Thread William Pettersson
Hi, This patch adds support for the Alps touchpad on my Dell Vostro 1400 to the linux kernel. Signed-off-by: William Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Vojtech, I went over my debug info again with your thoughts in mind, and you were right. The highest bit is always set in the sync byte

ALPS touchpad with new Dell not recognised

2007-08-01 Thread William Pettersson
I tried 0xff and 0xf8 as they were two common options. Is anyone familiar with the Alps driver, and able to help me work out how to get this touchpad working? William - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

2007-08-14 Thread William Cattey
. When we put a known value in each byte of the buffer before making the vm86 call, the known data would always be overwritten either with EDID data or zeros. -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology W92-176, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL PROTE

Re: vm86.c audit_syscall_exit() call trashes registers

2007-08-14 Thread William Cattey
e's a race condition with memory not being where it's expected to be when a large app calls out to real mode? -Bill William Cattey Linux Platform Coordinator MIT Information Services & Technology W92-176, 617-253-0140, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mit.edu/wdc/www/ On Aug 14

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-14 Thread William Heimbigner
tched, until the compiler gets fixed to properly handle it. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFC 1/6] bidi support: request dma_data_direction

2007-01-22 Thread William Studenmund
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Benny Halevy wrote: Douglas Gilbert wrote: Boaz Harrosh wrote: - Introduce a new enum dma_data_direction data_dir member in struct request. and remove the RW bit from request->cmd_flag - Add new API to query request direction. - Adjust existing API and impleme

Size of 2.6.20 task_struct on x86_64 machines

2007-02-08 Thread William Cohen
This past week I was playing around with that pahole tool (http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/acme/dwarves/) and looking at the size of various struct in the kernel. I was surprised by the size of the task_struct on x86_64, approaching 4K. I looked through the fields in task_struct and found that

Looking at space used by objects in slab allocator

2007-02-12 Thread William Cohen
After last week's experiment reducing size of task_struct on I was curious to see what things are using up memory on the system and which structs have the largest impact on the space used. /proc/slabinfo provides information about the number objects allocated and their sizes. With one line script

Re: [perfmon] 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-02-13 Thread William Cohen
Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. This version of the kernel patch is relative to 2.6.20. This new kernel patch includes the following new features and bug fixes: - first cut at supporting Oprofile on i386 and x86-64 ar

Re: [perfmon] 2.6.20 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2007-02-14 Thread William Cohen
William Cohen wrote: Hello Stephane, The oprofile patch should be made against the oprofile cvs rather than the 0.9.2 tarball. There are some files that the patch touches that are created by the autogen.sh. The oprofile patch doesn't build if things are configured without the &quo

Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-02 Thread William Estrada
ing something? Do I need to change linuxrc? Does someone have a simple example of how to do an NFS Root FS? Would appreciate any points. -- Thanks for your time. William Estrada Email : MrUmunhum at popdial dot com Resume : www.Mt-Umunhum-Wireless.net/resume/william_estrada.html HT

Re: [perfmon] 2.6.19 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2006-12-05 Thread William Cohen
Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, I have released another version of the perfmon new code base packages. There is no major updates in this version compared to 061127. This is a convenience release so that people can use plain 2.6.19. The perfmon2 kernel changes are: - fix UP exit bug in

Re: [perfmon] 2.6.19 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2006-12-06 Thread William Cohen
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:24:36PM -0500, William Cohen wrote: Some of the ptrace functions (e.g. ptrace_may_attach in perfmon_syscall.c) being used in the perfmon kernel patches will go away with the utrace patches: http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace/ At least

Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.19-rc5: known regressions (v3)

2006-11-16 Thread William Cohen
Andi Kleen wrote: On Thursday 16 November 2006 06:05, Andrew Morton wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 04:21:09 +0100 Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If it's really true that oprofile is simply busted then that's a serious problem and we should find some way of unbusting it. If that means jus

Re: [perfmon] 2.6.19-rc6-git10 new perfmon code base + libpfm + pfmon

2006-11-27 Thread William Cohen
Stephane Eranian wrote: Hello, I have released another version of the perfmon new code base package. This version of the kernel patch is relative to 2.6.19-rc6-git10. This is a major update because it completes the changes requested during the code review on LKML. As a consequence, the kernel

Error in syslog on 2.6.20

2007-06-22 Thread William Thompson
I'm not on either list, keep me in CC. I noticed the following error on a cdrom device: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata2.00: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:20/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 0 res 40/00:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout) ata2:

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-07-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 19:32:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:35:39AM -0400, Darren wrote: I know this may sound kind of stupid, but how about not deprecating either, and fully supporting both sound systems? Maybe we can get them to work together, and the distro or user can c

Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-07-09 Thread William Tambe
it can do. It may be a great idea: but it's really not needed to solve this particular little problem. As last time around, you were suggesting .mremap callouts; but I much prefer your original shmem_zero_nopage, which is a solution of the scale appropriate to the problem. Such a thing coul

Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-07-10 Thread William Tambe
Hugh Dickins wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, William Tambe wrote: Hugh Dickins wrote: I've come right around to your original view, Stas, and William's: if that mmap creates such an object, then the expanding mremap really ought to be useful, and allow the underlying object to be exp

e100 driver hard lockups with AEI-P430C 4 port card

2007-07-11 Thread William Montgomery
nt see any backtrace info. Any suggestions would be welcome. Regards, William Montgomery - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please r

Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-07-11 Thread William Tambe
Stas Sergeev wrote: Hi. William Tambe wrote: I understand your concern. But since I am working on a dynamic memory management code that I wish to use with other projects that I have, I didn't find appropriate to use shm_open. Could you please provide a detailed list of the problem

e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-13 Thread William Montgomery
In an earlier post to the list I described a hard lockup condition that occurs on linux kernels 2.4.22, 2.6.13, and 2.6.17 when using a 4 port 10/100 fast ethernet card. The lockup is easily repeatable and occurs on 2 out of 3 computers. Further testing has revealed that the lockup can be preve

Re: e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-13 Thread William Montgomery
Thanks for responding. I am very interested to find the source of this problem. Kok, Auke wrote: William Montgomery wrote: In an earlier post to the list I described a hard lockup condition that occurs on linux kernels 2.4.22, 2.6.13, and 2.6.17 when using a 4 port 10/100 fast ethernet

Re: e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-13 Thread William Montgomery
Kok, Auke wrote: William Montgomery wrote: Thanks for responding. I am very interested to find the source of this problem. Kok, Auke wrote: William Montgomery wrote: In an earlier post to the list I described a hard lockup condition that occurs on linux kernels 2.4.22, 2.6.13, and

Re: e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-14 Thread William Montgomery
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: William Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: In an earlier post to the list I described a hard lockup condition that occurs on linux kernels 2.4.22, 2.6.13, and 2.6.17 when using a 4 port 10/100 fast ethernet card. The lockup is easily repeatable and occur

Re: e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-14 Thread William Montgomery
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: William Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am using a PCI analyzer and it shows the bus in an idle state after the lockup. The PCI transactions just prior to the lockup show a couple of interrupts from the card which appear to be handled correctly. An

Re: e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-17 Thread William Montgomery
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: William Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am using a PCI analyzer and it shows the bus in an idle state after the lockup. The PCI transactions just prior to the lockup show a couple of interrupts from the card which appear to be handled correctly. An

Re: e100 PCI bridge problem

2007-07-17 Thread William Montgomery
Kok, Auke wrote: 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 82) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fa

Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-06-29 Thread William Tambe
I read a post that you made about not being able to expand anonymous shared mapping with mremap(). And I am actually having that issue now. You made the post in 2004 and we are now in 2007. I would like to know if that feature was added because the code below always fail with bus error on my m

Re: Concerning a post that you made about expandable anonymous shared mappings

2007-07-02 Thread William Tambe
writing in an expended area not to generate a Bus error? Sincerely, William Tambe Hugh Dickins wrote: On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, William Tambe wrote: I read a post that you made about not being able to expand anonymous shared mapping with mremap(). And I am actually having that issue now. I gu

Re: Error in syslog on 2.6.20

2007-07-03 Thread William Thompson
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:26:31PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > William Thompson wrote: > > I'm not on either list, keep me in CC. > > > > I noticed the following error on a cdrom device: > > ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen > > a

CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA prevents kprobes from working on 2.6.22-rc2

2007-05-23 Thread William Cohen
The recent changes in the 2.6.22-rc2 kernel to the write protection of read only data enable by CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA prevents kprobes from working. At least on the on i386 and x86_64 machine the mark_rodata_ro() function marks memory starting from _text as read only. Thus, when kprobes attempts t

BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
8b 55 ec 89 04 24 89 f0 e8 82 ff ff ff 3d 00 f0 ff ff 89 c7 76 0d 8b 45 f0 e8 dc fb ff ff 89 7d f0 eb 56 <8b> 40 0c bb 20 00 00 40 8b 70 30 0f b7 56 66 81 e2 00 f0 00 00 [ 3972.138557] EIP: [] do_sys_open+0x59/0xc2 SS:ESP 0068:de336f88 Is this a bug? If any more information is neces

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
reiser4 support, etc. I don't see why something like plugins should matter. If it works enough to be marked as experimental, why shouldn't reiser4 support be included? It's a pain for me personally to have to patch any kernel with reiser4 support so I can use the reiser4 fs. Willi

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
William Heimbigner wrote: > Eric Hopper wrote: > > I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the > > prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. > > It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features, > like

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: William Heimbigner wrote: However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this

Re: Question about Reiser4

2007-04-22 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: William Heimbigner wrote: If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding standards", would it be included in the kernel? While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills these criteria (and is

Re: [PATCH] libata: fallback to the other IDENTIFY on device error

2007-05-07 Thread William Thompson
t shouldn't cause too much problem. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: William Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Willam, please verify this fixes your problem. Jeff, after all, we > seem to need this. :-( Seems that I have a different vers

Re: [PATCH] libata: fallback to the other IDENTIFY on device error

2007-05-07 Thread William Thompson
t shouldn't cause too much problem. > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: William Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > Willam, please verify this fixes your problem. Jeff, after all, we > seem to need this. :-( Even though you have a diffe

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It certainly is. Are you able to identify an earlier kernel in which this didn't happen? 2.6.20? An earlier 2.6.21-rcX? I'll try .18 and .20 and see where that gets me - this is my first time trying to set up packet writing. William

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference (2.6.21-rc7)

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, William Heimbigner wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: It certainly is. Are you able to identify an earlier kernel in which this didn't happen? 2.6.20? An earlier 2.6.21-rcX? I'll try .18 and .20 and see where that gets me - this is my first ti

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
ral solution to a very specific circumstance. If there is any more information I can provide, let me know. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 04:09:18 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This bug occurs in linux-2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc7-git5, and does not occur in linux-2.6.19-git22. After running "pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd", I get (ti

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:10:04 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c~packet-fix-error-handling +++ a/drivers/block/pktcdvd.c @@ -777,7 +777,8 @@ static int pkt_generic_packet(stru

Re: NonExecutable Bit in 32Bit

2007-04-23 Thread William Heimbigner
X bit. Would having this be supported in i386 help debugging (and security) significantly? William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kerne

cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? I'm not aware of any reason why one of those governors could not be used as default. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: Hi William, On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Question: is there some reason that kconfig does not allow for default governors of conservative/ondemand/powersave? Performance? I'm not aware of any reason

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi William, > > On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Question: is there some r

Re: cpufreq default governor

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 24/04/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: &g

[RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and ondemand in the kernel configuration. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -uprN -X linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6/drivers/cpufreq/Kconfig linux-2.6.21-rc7-git6-hwill/drivers

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

2007-04-24 Thread William Heimbigner
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Dave Jones wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:03:23PM +, William Heimbigner wrote: > The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and > ondemand in the kernel configuration. This has been rejected several times already. Ondema

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
d in the kernel, and then various userspace implementations could take care of this? Or is all of the software suspend code in the kernel absolutely necessary, such that this wouldn't work? William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
ld have a generic suspend mechanism in the kernel, and then various other things done in userspace. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://

Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz uploaded

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz has been uploaded to ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-04-25-02-49.tar.gz Was support for UnionFS deliberately removed in this release? William Heimbigner

Re: BUG: Null pointer dereference in fs/open.c

2007-04-25 Thread William Heimbigner
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:53:00 + (GMT) William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: OK. I am able to use the pktcdvd driver OK in mainline with a piix/sata drive. It could be that something is

Question re config_cmdline

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
I noticed that many of the architectures have support for CONFIG_CMDLINE (which allows for the configuration of a default kernel command lines), however, x86 doesn't. Is this intentional, and if so, why? It seems to me that a built in command line would be architecture-independent. Wi

linux-2.6.21-rc7-mm2 fails to compile

2007-04-26 Thread William Heimbigner
s is on an iMac G3 powerpc. William Heimbigner [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cpufreq: allow full selection of default governors

2007-04-27 Thread William Heimbigner
ravamudan wrote: >> > On 4/24/07, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:03:23PM +, William Heimbigner wrote: >> >> > The following patches should allow selection of conservative, powersave, and >> >> &g

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