Re: [PATCH] aoe: add documentation for udev users

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:10:35PM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: > Hi. This patch was generated against block-2.6 but should apply > easily in other trees, since it touches only documentation. > > > add documentation for udev users > > Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thank

Re: [PATCH block-2.6] aoe status.sh: handle sysfs not in /etc/mtab

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 04:02:02PM -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote: > Suse 9.1 Pro doesn't put /sys in /etc/mtab. This patch makes the > example aoe status.sh script work when sysfs is mounted but `mount` > doesn't mention sysfs. > > > aoe status.sh: handle sysfs not in /etc/mtab > Signed-off-by: Ed L.

Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Block config access during BIST (resend)

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:35:46AM -0600, Brian King wrote: > +#define PCI_USER_READ_CONFIG(size,type) \ > +int pci_user_read_config_##size \ > + (struct pci_dev *dev, int pos, type *val) \ > +{\ > + unsigne

Re: Fwd: Patch to control VGA bus routing and active VGA device.

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:59:45AM -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 20:24:59 -0800, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This can be done today in the bus specific match functions. And because > > of that, I would argue that this belongs in the bus specific code, and > > not in the

Re: [PATCH] PCI: add PCI Express Port Bus Driver subsystem

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:10:25PM -0800, long wrote: > On Tuesday, January 18, 2005 5:03 PM Greg KH wrote: > >> > > >> >That would be great, but it doesn't show up that way on my box. All > >> >of > >> >the portX devices are in /sys/devices/ which is what I don't think > >> >you > >> >want. I wo

Re: pci: Arch hook to determine config space size

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:40:04PM -0600, Brian King wrote: > CC'ing the linux-pci mailing list... thanks... > > This patch adds an arch hook so > > that individual archs can indicate if the underlying system supports > > expanded config space accesses or not. > >@@ -653,6 +653,8 @@ static int p

Re: Patch to add usbmon

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:29:03PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > This patch adds so-called "usbmon", or USB monitoring framework, similar > to what tcpdump provides for Ethernet. This is an initial version, but > it should be safe and useful. It adds an overhead of an if () statement > into submissi

Re: [PATCH 2/3] buffer writes to sysfs

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:39:00PM -0800, Mitch Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > Who is trying to send > 1K to a sysfs file? Remember, sysfs files are > > for 1 value only. If you consider > 1K a "single value" please point me > > to that part of the kernel that

Re: I2C algorithm IDs

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 05:47:18PM +, Russell King wrote: > Greg, > > Are I2C algorithm IDs supposed to be unique? Do they have any meaning in > reality at all? If the answer is yes to either of these questions, the > following should probably be resolved: Yes, they are used in some places,

Re: question on symbol exports

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 18:15 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote: > It appears that in 2.6.9 the ppc64 version of flush_tlb_page() depends > on two symbols which are not currently exported: the function > __flush_tlb_pending(), and the per-cpu variable ppc64_tlb_batch. > > Is there any particular reason w

[PATCH] 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 can't insmod modules correctly!

Hi, When I update to the 2.6.11-rc2-mm2, I couldn't insmod any module successfully. And I traced the module insert procedure. I got the stop_machine_run() is defined as do-nothing function when CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE is undefined. So __link_module can't be called at all. My little patch is below:

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ram wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:31, Mike Waychison wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Al Viro wrote: >> >> >>>OK, here comes the first draft of proposed semantics for subtree >>>sharing. What we want is being able t

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Implement a vDSO and use it for signal trampoline

> Right hand side is evaluated only when left hand side is used. > Also very usefull. Example just mocked up: > cmd_vdso32_cc = $(CC) -T $^ -o $@ > > Doing late evaluation will cause correct replacement of $^ and $@ when > used. When cmd_vdso_32 is defined make does not know the desired values >

possible performance issue in 4-level page tables

There is a performance regression of lmbench lat_proc fork result on ia64. in 2.6.10 I got Process fork+exit:164.8438 microseconds. in 2.6.11-rc2 Process fork+exit:183.8621 microseconds. I believe this regression was caused by the 4-level page tables change. Since most of the kernel time

kernel crash using XFS over raid5 partition

Hi all, I am facing a kernel bug[1] that completely crashes my machines. During the last days I tried to fine tune the problem and I am now inclined for a bug in libata/sata_sil or device mapper code. I activated the DEBUG messages in raid5 source module, but I cannot find a way to do the same wit

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Implement a vDSO and use it for signal trampoline #2

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:49:44PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: core-y+= arch/ppc64/kernel/ > +core-y += arch/ppc64/kernel/vdso32/ > +core-y += arch/ppc64/kernel/vdso64/ Please include your previo

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Implement a vDSO and use it for signal trampoline

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:38:02AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Also notice that ':=' uses all over. No need to use late evaluation when > > no dynamic references are used ($ $@ etc.). > > Hrm... Rusty tells me that you got it backward ;) Anyway, I'll stick > to := for now, it's not

Patch to add usbmon

This patch adds so-called "usbmon", or USB monitoring framework, similar to what tcpdump provides for Ethernet. This is an initial version, but it should be safe and useful. It adds an overhead of an if () statement into submission and giveback paths even when not monitoring, but this was deemed a

[PATCH] NFS ACL build fix, POSIX ACL config tidy

Apologies if I've sent this twice: Build fix for NFS ACLs and cleanup of POSIX ACL config. Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: mm2/fs/Kconfig === --- mm2.orig/fs/Kconfig 2005-01-30 21:26:27.0 -0800 +++ mm2

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

On Tuesday 01 February 2005 00:06, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:40:35 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Suddenly, touchpad motions started to cause wild movements in it became > > > impossible to do anything due to a focus loss (of course, I had plenty of >

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 22:40:35 -0500, Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Suddenly, touchpad motions started to cause wild movements in it became > > impossible to do anything due to a focus loss (of course, I had plenty of > > modified files open :-) > > psmouse.c: TouchPad at isa0060/s

[PATCH] ppc64 iseries: can't remove viocd module when no cdroms

Hi Andrew, This patch fixes a bug where attempting to remove the viocd module when no virtual cdroms where actually present would cause an oops. The driver was not completing its initialisation in this case. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell

Re: pci: Arch hook to determine config space size

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 22:52 -0600, Brian King wrote: > Assuming I am reading the spec correctly, this is only a property of the > PHB, so I could move it into the pci_controller struct instead. Note that Arnd seems to imply the opposite ... BTW. I'm thinking about moving all those PCI/VIO relat

Re: [PATCH] sched - Implement priority and fifo support for SCHED_ISO

Jack O'Quin wrote: Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Good work. Looks like you're probably right about the accounting. It may be as simple as the fact that it is on the timer tick that we're getting rescheduled and this ends up being accounted as more since the accounting happens only at the

Re: pci: Arch hook to determine config space size

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:43 -0600, Brian King wrote: diff -puN include/asm-ppc64/prom.h~ppc64_pcix_mode2_cfg include/asm-ppc64/prom.h --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/include/asm-ppc64/prom.h~ppc64_pcix_mode2_cfg 2005-01-31 14:32:01.0 -0600 +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk9-

[ANNOUNCE] quilt.el minor mode for emacs

I've created a minor mode for using quilt in Emacs. I've made it available at: http://selenic.com/quilt/ It automatically detects files that are in a quilt hierarchy and enables itself. To prevent a common class of screw-up with quilt, it attempts to determine which files are part of currently a

Re: [PATCH] sched - Implement priority and fifo support for SCHED_ISO

Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Good work. Looks like you're probably right about the accounting. It > may be as simple as the fact that it is on the timer tick that we're > getting rescheduled and this ends up being accounted as more since the > accounting happens only at the scheduler

Re: [PATCH 2.6] 6/7 replace net_sysctl_strdup by kstrdup

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 03:28:39 + "" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch removes a strdup implmentation in the networking layer > (net_sysctl_strdup), and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. > > Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If kstrdup() does in, I'm fine with

Re: [PATCH 0/8] base-small: CONFIG_BASE_SMALL for small systems

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:55:32PM -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > This patch series introduced a new pair of CONFIG_EMBEDDED options call > > CONFIG_BASE_FULL/CONFIG_BASE_SMALL. Disabling CONFIG_BASE_FULL sets > > the boolean CONFIG_BASE_SMALL to 1 and it

Re: page fault scalability patch V16 [3/4]: Drop page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault

Christoph Lameter wrote: The page fault handler attempts to use the page_table_lock only for short time periods. It repeatedly drops and reacquires the lock. When the lock is reacquired, checks are made if the underlying pte has changed before replacing the pte value. These locations are a good fit

Re: page fault scalability patch V16 [3/4]: Drop page_table_lock in handle_mm_fault

Christoph Lameter wrote: Slightly OT: are you still planning to move the update_mem_hiwater and friends crud out of these fastpaths? It looks like at least that function is unsafe to be lockless. @@ -1316,21 +1318,27 @@ static int do_wp_page(struct mm_struct * flush_cache_pa

Re: [PATCH 0/8] base-small: CONFIG_BASE_SMALL for small systems

Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This patch series introduced a new pair of CONFIG_EMBEDDED options call > CONFIG_BASE_FULL/CONFIG_BASE_SMALL. Disabling CONFIG_BASE_FULL sets > the boolean CONFIG_BASE_SMALL to 1 and it is used to shrink a number > of core data structures. The space savings

Re: [PATCH 1/8] lib/sort: Heapsort implementation of sort()

Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This patch adds a generic array sorting library routine. This is meant > to replace qsort, which has two problem areas for kernel use. Another problem is the GPL license. It will certainly be wanted from non-GPL (e.g., binary) modules. Please just EXPORT_SY

PATCH: SysV semaphore race vs SIGSTOP

As I mentioned in an earlier mail, there is a race when SIGSTOP-ing a process waiting for a SysV semaphore, where if a process holding a semaphore suspends another process waiting on the semaphore and then releases the semaphore, the suspended process might still get the semaphore, resulting in a d

Re: Touchpad problems with 2.6.11-rc2

On Monday 31 January 2005 18:15, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > Hello, Peter: > > The keyboard seems to work now, but I stepped on a very strange condition. > Suddenly, touchpad motions started to cause wild movements in it became > impossible to do anything due to a focus loss (of course, I had plenty of

[PATCH 2.6] 5/7 use kstrdup library function in net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c

This patch removes a private strdup in net/sunrpc/svcauth_unix.c, and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (17

[PATCH 2.6] 2/7 use kstrdup library function in dm-ioctl.c

This patch removes a private strdup in dm-ioctl.c, and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797) ---

[PATCH 2.6] 6/7 replace net_sysctl_strdup by kstrdup

This patch removes a strdup implmentation in the networking layer (net_sysctl_strdup), and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do noth

[PATCH 2.6] 7/7 replace snd_kmalloc_strdup by kstrdup

This patch removes the strdup implementation from the sound core (snd_kmalloc_strdup), and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do noth

[PATCH 2.6] 4/7 replace uml_strdup by kstrdup

This patch removes the strdup implementation in the UML architecture (uml_strdup), and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

[PATCH 2.6] 3/7 use kstrdup library function in parport/probe.c

This patch removes a private strdup in parport/probe.c, and updates it to use the kstrdup library function. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

[PATCH 2.6] 1/7 create kstrdup library function

This patch creates the kstrdup library function so that it doesn't have to be reimplemented (or even EXPORT'ed) by every user that needs it. Signed-off-by: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do no

[PATCH 2.6] 0/7 make kstrdup a library function

This series of patches create a "char *kstrdup(const char *s, int gfp)" library function, and remove all the "private" strdup implementations in the kernel tree. 1 - create a kstrdup library function 2 - remove private strdup from drivers/md/dm-ioctl.c 3 - remove private strdup from drivers/parpo

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 (& bk9) - rowdy little warn in drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c

Cal wrote: With 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 & 2.6.11-rc2-bk9 and usb mouse, the warn("event field not found") in drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c is hyperactive whenever the mouse moves. hihone kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found hihone last message repeated 619 times hihone last messag

Re: USB ioctl problem in 2.4.28

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:57:41 +0200 (EET), Kaupo Arulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We can use a macro, if it is really necessary No, I prefer it explicit. See the attached patch. I changed Sergey's patch just a little, so the invalid ioctls are detected outside the lock. > IMHO it is correct to r

Re: pci: Arch hook to determine config space size

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 16:43 -0600, Brian King wrote: > diff -puN include/asm-ppc64/prom.h~ppc64_pcix_mode2_cfg > include/asm-ppc64/prom.h > --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk9/include/asm-ppc64/prom.h~ppc64_pcix_mode2_cfg > 2005-01-31 14:32:01.0 -0600 > +++ linux-2.6.11-rc2-bk9-bjking1/inclu

Patch for CIFS vfs

This is the patch for CIFS ver 1.22 (included with linux-2.6.8). This improves cifs vfs client file read performance by 10-15%. Changes were made only to a single file in cifs tree (/usr/src/linux/fs/cifs/file.c) The function cifs_readpages() is modifed and cifs_readpages_threadfn() has been a

Re: [PATCH] sched - Implement priority and fifo support for SCHED_ISO

Jack O'Quin wrote: The fact that the results did improve with the 90% setting suggests that there may be a bug in your throttling or time accounting. The DSP load for this test should hover around 50% when things are working properly. It should never hit a 70% limit, not even momentarily. The ba

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 14:31, Mike Waychison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Al Viro wrote: > > > OK, here comes the first draft of proposed semantics for subtree > > sharing. What we want is being able to propagate events between > > the parts of mount trees. Below

Re: [PATCH] sched - Implement priority and fifo support for SCHED_ISO

> Jack O'Quin wrote: >> The corrected version works noticeably better, but still nowhere near >> as well as SCHED_FIFO. The first run had a cluster of really bad >> xruns. The second and third were much better, but still with numerous >> small xruns. >> >> http://www.joq.us/jack/benchmarks/sche

Re: [PATCH] Prevent NMI oopser

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:00:22AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote: > cc: Andrey Melnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Marcello, Andrey > > I believe this patch is wrong. > First, it prevent nothing: NMI watchdog is a signal that you wait too > long with disabled interrup

Re: Kernel bug: mm/rmap.c:483 and related {now 2.6.8}

>Thanks for giving that a thorough run, memory seems exonerated... yet I >don't trust this machine at all: have you tried manufacturer diagnostics? Ouch, that hurts. This is a machine I built myself over three years ago. Ran very stably with 2.4.*. may be it is the age of the machine. The rec

www.Lotion4you.com now links to you

Dear Linux Kernel, I visited your site today and think that the content could be of use to some of my customers. I am looking for reputable websites to send my visitors to, and was wondering if you would like to exchange links with me.Us linking to each other would increase where we stand with

Re: [ACPI] [BKPATCH] ACPI for 2.4

Hi, cool May I suggest a little more debug with this 2nd version of the patch in attach ?. I get dmesg | grep -i via 1. Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 80): [55] 3c & 1f -> 1c 2. PCI: Via IRQ fixup 3. Applying quirk_via_acpi. 4. Applying VIA southbridge workaround. (VIA Apoll

Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Mike Waychison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sorry for the bad quoting below: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > > Al Viro wrote: > > > OK, here comes the first draft of proposed semantics f

Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm2

Laurent Riffard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 31.01.2005 22:15, Andre Eisenbach a écrit : | Andrew, | | My PCMCIA slot (yenta_socket) doesn't work anymore with | 2.6.11-rc2-m2. See the dmesg output below. It works fine with | 2.6.11-rc1-mm1. | | Let me know if you need any

[2.6 patch] mm/rmap.c: update the email address of Rik van Riel

This patch updates the email address of Rik van Riel in mm/rmap.c from a bouncing address to his current address. This patch was already ACK'ed by Rik van Riel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc2-mm2-full/mm/rmap.c.old 2005-01-31 22:47:25.0 +0100 ++

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] vmlinux: add SETUP_DESC() to describe __setup() options

On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 17:50 -0600, Matt Domsch wrote: > __setup() options are traditionally documented in > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. However, it would be nice if > they could be documented alongside the implementation, similar to > MODULE_PARM_DESC() fields for modules, and if 'modinfo

[RFC] [PATCH] bio-set patch on latest bk source tree

Hi, Jens, I sent you a patch for review about a week ago. Here is that same patch, applied to the latest bk kernel. Thanks in advance for the review Dave Olien = drivers/md/dm.c 1.61 vs edited = --- 1.61/drivers/md/dm.c2005-01-25 13:50:21 -08:00 +++ edited/drivers/md/dm.c

Re: CONFIG_THERM_PM72 is missing from .config from recent kernels (2.6.10, 2.6.11)

Maurice Volaski wrote: CONFIG_THERM_PM72 is required for thermal management in at least Macs, most notably the PowerMac G5. Without it, the computer will run its fans at the max and is very loud. It's missing from .config in at least a few releases of recent kernels (2.6.10, 2.6.11). Does anyo

[2.6 patch] IDE: remove WAIT_READY dependency on APM

On the one hand APM isn't enabled on all laptops. On the other hand, this also affects regular PCs with APM support (or using a distribution kernel with APM support). The time for the !APM case was already increased from 30msec in 2.4 . Isn't there a timeout that is suitable for all cases? Alan C

Re: [PATCH][I2C] Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 11:41:28AM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 06:26:45PM -0700, Mark A. Greer wrote: > > > > > >>+static inline void > >>+mv64xxx_i2c_fsm(struct mv64xxx_i2c_data *drv_data, u32 status) > >> > >> > > > >This is a much too big of a f

[PATCH][PPC32] Add PPC440SP and Luan ref board support

Adds support for the IBM/AMCC PPC440SP SoC. Also adds support for the Luan reference board that has a 440SP on it. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nru a/arch/ppc/boot/simple/Makefile b/arch/ppc/boot/simple/Makefile --- a/arch/ppc/boot/simple/Makefile 2005-01-31 17:03:53 -

Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm2

On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:38, Andrew Morton wrote: > - This kernel isn't particularly well-tested, sorry.  I've been a bit tied >   up with other stuff. I recently switched my main box to a x86_64 box and installed the unofficial debian 'true64' port on it. I have been running 11-rc2 (with t

Re: [PATCH] Fix SERIAL_TXX9 dependencies

> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:23:10 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: arnd> I just found that the version in -mm2 does not add the Makefile arnd> change, so you need this patchlet on top. If you haven't redone arnd> the patch yet, it might be better still to rename the file to ar

Re: [PATCH 1/5] resource: core changes to update u64 to unsigned long

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 01:32:50PM -0800, Dave Jiang wrote: > Here's the prink's with the proper cast I think. Should only be change > in core and driver. The arch patches are fine. Thanks, I've applied this one, and the other 4 to my bk trees, and they will show up in the next -mm releases. Afte

question on symbol exports

It appears that in 2.6.9 the ppc64 version of flush_tlb_page() depends on two symbols which are not currently exported: the function __flush_tlb_pending(), and the per-cpu variable ppc64_tlb_batch. Is there any particular reason why modules should not be allowed to flush the tlb, or is this an

Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Implement a vDSO and use it for signal trampoline

> Also notice that ':=' uses all over. No need to use late evaluation when > no dynamic references are used ($ $@ etc.). Hrm... Rusty tells me that you got it backward ;) Anyway, I'll stick to := for now, it's not really an issue. Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: [patch, 2.6.11-rc2] sched: RLIMIT_RT_CPU_RATIO feature

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:29:10PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote: > The problem hasn't changed in a few decades, neither has the urge of > developers to make their app look good at the expense of the rest of the > system. Been there and done that myself. > > "Back when" we had no good tools except

Re: [PATCH] sysfs: export the vfs release call of binary attribute

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:34:10PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:19:23PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > Initialize the allocated bin_attribute structure, otherwise unused fields > > are pointing to random places. > > Sorry, wrong place for the inititalization. > > Signed-o

Re: [PATCH] pci_proc_domain

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:23:35PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > There's no need for the architectures to know how to name busses, > so replace pci_name_bus with pci_proc_domain -- a predicate to allow > architectures to choose whether domains are included in /proc/bus/pci > or not. I've conve

[2.6 patch] remove dp83840.h

On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 03:46:07PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:41:58 +0100 > Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > dp83840.h is included once but none of the definitions it contains is > > actually used. > > > > Ralf Baechle wants that it stays as documentation, s

Re: [PATCH 1/1] pci: Add Citrine quirk

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 08:53:47AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The IBM Citrine chipset has a feature that if PCI config register > 0xA0 is read while DMAs are being performed to it, there is the possiblity > that the parity will be wrong on the PCI bus, causing a parity error and > a maste

Re: [RFC] "biological parent" pid

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I am not aware of concepts in Linux or other unices that apply to this > case. Normal process accounting. If you want to keep the pid of the bio-parent, you also need to keep the start-time to make it unique. Better would be to have a all-time-unqiue pr

Re: 2.6.10-ac11 announcement?

On Llu, 2005-01-31 at 23:19, Dave Jones wrote: > I see this happening too. It seems to go away when I back out > this chunk.. Yep will stick up an -ac12 tomorrow pm with that and a couple of other dumb bugs fixed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

[2.6 patch] move dp83840.h to Documentation/

dp83840.h is included once but none of the definitions it contains is actually used. Ralf Baechle wants that it stays as documentation, so this patch moves it under Documentation/ . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/networking/00-INDEX|2 + Documentation

[2.6 patch] kernel/sysctl.c: misc cleanups

This patch makes some needlessly global code static and removes the unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL(proc_doulonglongvec_minmax). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/sysctl.h |7 -- kernel/sysctl.c| 96 - 2 files changed,

Re: [RFC] "biological parent" pid

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Michael Buesch wrote: > Quoting Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The ppid of a process is not really helpful if I want to reconstruct the > > real history of processes on a machine, since it may become 1 when the > > parent dies and the process is reparented to init. >

[2.6 patch] remove the unused OSS maestro_tables.h

Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- sound/oss/maestro_tables.h | 333 -- 1 files changed, 333 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: - 26 Dec 2004 diff -L sound/oss/maestro_tables.h -p

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] vmlinux: put built-in module parameter info in vmlinux

Module parameter descriptions are added to loadable modules, but is omitted from objects built into the kernel itself. It would be nice if you could get the list of parameters usable on the kernel command line by looking at vmlinux. $ modinfo vmlinux | grep parm: parm: thermal.tzp:Therm

Re: [2.6 patch] move dp83840.h to Documentation/

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 12:41:58AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > dp83840.h is included once but none of the definitions it contains is > actually used. > > Ralf Baechle wants that it stays as documentation, so this patch moves > it under Documentation/ . Under Documentation is certainly not th

[2.6 patch] non-PC parport config change

This patch adds a config option PARPORT_NOT_PC (and removes the PARPORT_OTHER option) that get's selected if any non-PC hardware was chosen. This way, the mega #if in parport.h is gone now. Additionally, it removes the unneeded PARPORT_NEED_GENERIC_OPS #define. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMA

[PATCH 2.6.11-rc2-mm2] serial: add NEC VR4100 series serial support

This patch adds serial driver for NEC VR4100 series serial interface unit. Yoichi Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN -X dontdiff a-orig/Documentation/devices.txt a/Documentation/devices.txt --- a-orig/Documentation/devices.txtMon Jan 31 00:42:18 2005 +++ a/Documentati

Re: [2.6 patch] move dp83840.h to Documentation/

David S. Miller wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:41:58 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dp83840.h is included once but none of the definitions it contains is actually used. Ralf Baechle wants that it stays as documentation, so this patch moves it under Documentation/ . No, let's kill thi

Re: [2.6 patch] move dp83840.h to Documentation/

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 00:41:58 +0100 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dp83840.h is included once but none of the definitions it contains is > actually used. > > Ralf Baechle wants that it stays as documentation, so this patch moves > it under Documentation/ . No, let's kill this thing alto

[RFC][PATCH 2.6.11-rc2] vmlinux: add SETUP_DESC() to describe __setup() options

__setup() options are traditionally documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt. However, it would be nice if they could be documented alongside the implementation, similar to MODULE_PARM_DESC() fields for modules, and if 'modinfo vmlinux' could report such. Patch below adds a new macro, SE

Re: Bug: audio playing broke with my SCSI CD and DVD drives in 2.6.11-rc2-bk7 and beyond.

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 00:22 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > audio > Could you try the attached? > James > I applied the patch to 2.6.11-rc2-bk9, rebuild, rebooted and now everything is just fine. Thank you. -- Jesper Juhl - To unsubscribe from thi

[2.6 patch] fs/hfsplus/: misc cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - bnode.c: remove the unused global functions hfsplus_lock_bnode and hfsplus_unlock_bnode Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/hfsplus/bnode.c | 11 --- fs/hfsplus/brec.c

[2.6 patch] small partitions/msdos cleanups

This patch makes the following changes to the msdos partition code: - remove CONFIG_NEC98_PARTITION leftovers - make parse_bsd static This patch was already ACK'ed by Andries Brouwer. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diffstat output: fs/partitions/Makefile |1 - fs/partit

[2.6 patch] fs/hpfs/: make some code static

This patch makes some needlessly global code static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/hpfs/alloc.c |4 +++- fs/hpfs/dentry.c |6 +++--- fs/hpfs/dnode.c | 14 -- fs/hpfs/hpfs_fn.h |4 fs/hpfs/inode.c |2 +- fs/hpfs/name.c|4 +

[2.6 patch] fs/hfs/: misc cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - super.c: remove the unused global variable hfs_version Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/hfs/brec.c| 10 +++--- fs/hfs/btree.h |3 --- fs/hfs/catalog.c |2 +- fs/hfs/dir.c

[2.6 patch] i386/math-emu/: misc cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - #if 0 unused code Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/math-emu/errors.c |2 ++ arch/i386/math-emu/fpu_aux.c |2 +- arch/i386/math-emu/fpu_proto.h|2 -- arch/i38

[2.6 patch] kernel/timer.c: make two variables static

This patch makes two needlessly global variables static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diffstat output: include/linux/timex.h |2 -- kernel/timer.c|4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: - 12 Dec 2004 --- l

[2.6 patch] i386/x86_64 process.c: make hlt_counter static

This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/kernel/process.c |2 +- arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) This patch was alread sent on: - 16 Jan 2005 --- linux-2.6.

[2.6 patch] i386/mach-default/topology.c: make cpu_devices static

This patch makes a needlessly global struct static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/i386/mach-default/topology.c |2 +- include/asm-i386/cpu.h|1 - 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) This patch was already sent on: - 16 Jan 2005 --- lin

Re: Bug: audio playing broke with my SCSI CD and DVD drives in 2.6.11-rc2-bk7 and beyond.

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 00:22 +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > audio Could you try the attached? James --- Begin Message --- Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Jan 31 2005, Douglas Gilbert wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: On Mon, Jan 31 2005, Fabio Coatti wrote: Alle 09:00, lunedì 31 gennaio 2005, Jens Axboe ha scritt

2.6.11-rc2-mm2 (& bk9) - rowdy little warn in drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c

With 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 & 2.6.11-rc2-bk9 and usb mouse, the warn("event field not found") in drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c is hyperactive whenever the mouse moves. hihone kernel: drivers/usb/input/hid-input.c: event field not found hihone last message repeated 619 times hihone last message repeated

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order memory allocations [update]

Hi, On Monday, 31 of January 2005 00:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > The following patch is (yet) an(other) attempt to eliminate the need for > using higher > order memory allocations on resume.  It accomplishes this by replacing the > array > of page backup entries with a list, so it is

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

> could you please also react to this feedback: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110698371131630&w=2 > > to quote a couple of key points from that very detailed security > analysis: > > " I'm not sure how the OpenBSD code is better in any way. (Notice that > it uses the sam

Re: [PATCH] ohci1394: dma_pool_destroy while in_atomic() && irqs_disabled()

Forgot to attach ohci.h diff which is affected by this change as well. Meanwhile, David Brownell suggested it would be much simpler to move the dma allocations to _probe and deallocations to _remove. I am working on it and so far haven't got it to work. Andrew - What do you think? If you too fee

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