Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-02-12 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:50, Roey Katz wrote: > Hello again Dmitry, > > is there anything new about this issue? any fixes in the kernel? > If you want, I can continue doing the test/debug cycle as before. > Hi Roey, I have been looking over your logs one more time and it looks like there

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-12 Thread hugang
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 01:04:56PM +0706, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:22:52AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 23:42, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > > +static inline void eat_page(void *page) { > > > > > > Please put { on new

Oops with oprofile + RT preempt 2.6.11-rc2-RT-V0.7.37-01

2005-02-12 Thread Lee Revell
Are there any known incompatibilities with oprofile and the RT preempt patch? Lee Oops: [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: realtime commoncap af_packet via_rhine mii crc32 ehci_hcd usbhid uhci_hcd usbcore via_ agp agpgart evdev snd_rtctimer snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emu10k1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pc

Re: [RFC][PATCH] swsusp: do not use higher order allocations on resume [update 2]

2005-02-12 Thread hugang
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:22:52AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Tuesday, 8 of February 2005 23:42, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > +static inline void eat_page(void *page) { > > > > Please put { on new line. > > Oh, I still tend to forget about this. Corrected in the patch that is

Re: memset argument order misuses

2005-02-12 Thread Andrew Morton
Joe Korty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > A simple 'grep memset.*\<0);' shows argument order errors in several uses > of memset. > > This grep was inspired by Al Viro's recent patch, megaraid_mbox fix, > which fixed this problem in the megaraid driver. > heh. Lsydexic s/390 develope

HIGHMEM slows down 2.6.11-rc3-bk7 machine

2005-02-12 Thread Martin MOKREJŠ
Hi Marcello and other gurus! I have just bough 4GB of RAM into my machine. Immediately, I have noticed the machine is terribly slow on bootup. After inspecting all BIOS related possibilities I found that the problem goes off with highmem=off. I should note I don't see this slowdown when I have onl

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-12 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 03:41:01 +0100, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sünnavend 12 Februar 2005 14:28, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:38:26 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > #define __wait_event_lock(wq, condition, lock, flags) \ > > > do {

[PATCH] radeonfb: typos fixes

2005-02-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Hi ! The dynamic clock code in radeonfb comes almost as-is from X.org (where it was contributed by ATI). It has a few typos (wrong register access macros) that this patch fixes. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-work/drivers/video/aty/radeon_pm.c

Strange /dev/mem behaviour on IA32, PPC64, (others?)

2005-02-12 Thread Ryan Lortie
There are a couple of problems that I have encountered with /dev/mem on the 2.6.10 kernel. The first problem is that lseek()/read() results in different data than mmap() and reading from the mapped memory area. I've written a small program to demonstrate the problem. I am fairly sure it is corre

Linux 2.6.11-rc4

2005-02-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hi there everybody, this is hopefully the last -rc kernel before the real 2.6.11, so please give it a whirl, and complain loudly about anything broken. As can be seen from the shortlog, most of the changes are pretty trivial. I think the biggest change is the radeon updates, and some of the NL

memset argument order misuses

2005-02-12 Thread Joe Korty
Hi Andrew, A simple 'grep memset.*\<0);' shows argument order errors in several uses of memset. This grep was inspired by Al Viro's recent patch, megaraid_mbox fix, which fixed this problem in the megaraid driver. Completely untested. Regards, Joe -- "Money can buy bandwidth, but latency is fore

[PATCH] correctly name the Shell sort

2005-02-12 Thread Daniel Dickman
As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer. Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-rc3-bk9/kernel/sys.c 2005-02-12 22:17:26.801294776 -0500 +++ linux/kernel/sys.c 2005-02-12 17:53:15.0

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sünnavend 12 Februar 2005 14:28, Sergey Vlasov wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:38:26 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > #define __wait_event_lock(wq, condition, lock, flags) \ > > do { \ > >DEFINE_WAIT(__wait)

Re: how to make a contribution

2005-02-12 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 22:49 +0100, sylvanino b wrote: > I would like to share this tool if somebody is interested, but I dont > know how to proceed, I mean how to make a contribution an efficient > way. Any help/idea/information is welcome. > Put the patch on the web somewhere and post the URL to

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 all, thank you very much for both your attention and help. > >

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread linux
linux> It's easy to make a smaller hash by just thowing bits away, linux> but a block cipher is a permutation, and has to be linux> invertible. linux> For example, if I take a k-bit counter and encrypt it with linux> a k-bit block cipher, the output is guaranteed not to lin

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 (radeon) hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 02:05 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > Commenting out pllCLK_PWRMGT_CNTL alone -> still hangs > Commenting out pllCLK_PIN_CNTL in addition -> works > > Do you want me to build a kernel with only the pllCLK_PIN_CNTL > instruction commented out or is this enough info ? You

[PATCH][2.6-mm] kgdb documentation fix

2005-02-12 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Please apply. --- Update Documentation/i386/kgdb/gdbinit-modules to conform to the current kernel's module data structure. Signed-Off-By: Matthias Urlichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- = Documentation/i386/kgdb/gdbinit-modules 1.1 vs edited = --- 1.1/Documentation/i386/kgdb/gdbinit-mo

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 (radeon) hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 22:12:26 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 01:09 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:52:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > It's definitely the new radeon changes - re

2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

2005-02-12 Thread Adrian Bunk
In 2.6, drivers/input/power.c would only have been built if CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable this option. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread Roland Dreier
linux> It's easy to make a smaller hash by just thowing bits away, linux> but a block cipher is a permutation, and has to be linux> invertible. linux> For example, if I take a k-bit counter and encrypt it with linux> a k-bit block cipher, the output is guaranteed not to lin

Re: i8042 access timings

2005-02-12 Thread Bill Rugolsky Jr.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 05:37:14PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 11:34:31AM -0500, Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > > I have a Digital HiNote collecting dust which had this keyboard problem > > with the RH 6.x 2.2.x boot disk kernels, IIRC. I can test if you like, > > but I won'

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 (radeon) hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 01:09 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:52:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > It's definitely the new radeon changes - replacing > > > drivers/video/aty/* and include/video/radeon.h in the > > > -bk9 tree with the

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 (radeon) hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 21:52:55 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's definitely the new radeon changes - replacing > > drivers/video/aty/* and include/video/radeon.h in the > > -bk9 tree with the ones from -bk8 causes the hang to > > not reproduce anymore. CC'd Ben a

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 (radeon) hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> It's definitely the new radeon changes - replacing > drivers/video/aty/* and include/video/radeon.h in the > -bk9 tree with the ones from -bk8 causes the hang to > not reproduce anymore. CC'd Ben and edited subject > to more accurately reflect the issue. Grrr... Can you try booting with r

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

2005-02-12 Thread Rogério Brito
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 all, thank you very much for both your attention and help. Unfortunately, I have already tried booting the 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 that I just compil

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread linux
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> (The homebrew 15-bit block cipher in this code does show how much the >> world needs a small block cipher for some of these applications.) > > Doesn't TEA fill this niche? It's certainly used for this in the Linux > kernel, e.g. in reiserfs (although I have my doubts

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 trees and also -ac) I have been getti

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

2005-02-12 Thread Rogério Brito
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 trees and also -ac) I have been getting the message "irq 10: > > nobody cared!". > > Try 'acpi=noirq'. Unf

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-12 Thread Olaf Dietsche
Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 02:35:08AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> >> - Added the mlock and !SCHED_OTHER Linux Security Module for the audio guys. >> It seems that nothing else is going to come along and this is completely >> encapsulated. > > Ev

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > (The homebrew 15-bit block cipher in this code does show how much the > world needs a small block cipher for some of these applications.) Doesn't TEA fill this niche? It's certainly used for this in the Linux kernel, e.g. in reiserfs (although I have my doubts it is r

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

2005-02-12 Thread William Park
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:45:58PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > Dear developers, > > For some kernel versions (say, since 2.6.10 proper, all the 2.6.11-rc's, > some -mm trees and also -ac) I have been getting the message "irq 10: > nobody cared!". > > The message says that I should pass the irqp

Re: [PATCH] device-mapper: multipath hardware handler for EMC

2005-02-12 Thread Mike Christie
Christoph Hellwig wrote: +/* Code borrowed from dm-lsi-rdac by Mike Christie */ Any reason that module isn't submitted? I do not have access to their HW specs, and have been busy with some iscsi things so I did not have time to finish things up. I was also hoping LSI would soon figure out that the

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 (radeon) hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 16:59:20 +0100, Alessandro Suardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:49:05 +0100, Alessandro Suardi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dell Latitude C640, PIV @1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, uptodate FC2 > > > > -bk7 (which I currently rebooted in) is okay. > > -bk9 at first tr

how to make a contribution

2005-02-12 Thread sylvanino b
Hi, I am writing to get some advice and general information. I wrote a kernel tool for my personnal usage which goal is to keep a record of recent task preemptions and interruptions that appears under linux. Although the record is short (a few minutes only), It can help to analyse scheduling algo

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Jackson
Dave wrote: > Might it be useful to use nodemasks instead of those arrays? I don't think he can. A nodemask represents an unorderd set of nodes. He needs (or wants) to pass a map, mapping the node that each page might be on, to the node to which it should migrate. A bitmask doesn't contain eno

spontaneous rebuilds on prom console tables

2005-02-12 Thread Meelis Roos
When I run "make" on 2.6 sparc32 macine several times it remakes prom console files each time and so links a new kernel. CNMKHSH drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.c CC drivers/video/console/promcon_tbl.o LD drivers/video/console/built-in.o LD drivers/video/built-in.o LD

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:54:26PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. > > > The kernel interface that we are proposing is the

Re: bttv: tuner: i2c i/o error: rc == -121 (should be 4)

2005-02-12 Thread Margus Eha
Thanks for the notification. Margus On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:22:17 +0100, Jindrich Makovicka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Margus Eha wrote: > > Tv card works but i can't change channel. Something goes wrong in tuner.c > > when tvtime program tries to change frequency. In /var/log/messages i can >

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-12 Thread Dave Hansen
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:26 -0800, Ray Bryant wrote: > This patch introduces the sys_page_migrate() system call: > > sys_page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes); > > Its intent is to cause the pages in the range given that are found on > old_nodes[i] to be moved to new_no

reboot hangs on Toshiba Satellite 1800 laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Meelis Roos
This seems to be an old problem (google tells it was the same in 2.2 kernels) but now it troubles me. I have a laptop, Toshiba Satellite 1800 (Celeron 1.1 GHz, ALi chipset). It works fine but rebooting from linux always hangs the machine hard. The last thing seen is "Rebooting", after thatt the

Re: Problem on SATA-disk with Promise SATAII 150 TX4 ("DriveReady SeekComplete Error")

2005-02-12 Thread Joerg Sommrey
Jeff Garzik wrote:: >Johannes Resch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> [please CC me on replies] >> >> I've got a box running 2.6.10 (with the patch[0] needed to support the >> Promise SATAII 150 TX4 controller). >> This box has three software raid1 partitions mirrored on a SATA disk on >> the Promise control

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Jackson
Andi wrote: > They're already exposed through mbind/set_mempolicy/get_mempolicy and sysfs > of course. And soon I hope through cpusets ;). -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-12 Thread Dave Jones
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:36:13PM +0100, Marcus Hartig wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >hmm I wonder.. .could you collect lspci -vxxx settings for the AGP > >device (lspci -vxxx gives you lots of devices, but only one is relevant) > >in both cases, maybe the difference between the two s

Re: bttv: tuner: i2c i/o error: rc == -121 (should be 4)

2005-02-12 Thread Jindrich Makovicka
Margus Eha wrote: Tv card works but i can't change channel. Something goes wrong in tuner.c when tvtime program tries to change frequency. In /var/log/messages i can find tuner: i2c i/o error: rc == -121 (should be 4). Las working version i tried was 2.6.11-rc2 Both 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 and Both 2.6.11

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 01:54:26PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. > > > The kernel interface that we are proposing is the

Re: once more w/feeling

2005-02-12 Thread shogunx
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Gil Lapidus wrote: That would be lack of ide adapter support in your kernel. common with k-6's. try just the generic ide support. > Greetings, > > On a K6-2 500MHz box. > > kernel 2.4.28 boots _fine_. > > kernel 2.6.9 displays "Loading " then PC resets. > > Here's the

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 12:17:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. > > The kernel interface that we are proposing is the following: > > > > page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes,

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-12 Thread Marcus Hartig
Arjan van de Ven wrote: hmm I wonder.. .could you collect lspci -vxxx settings for the AGP device (lspci -vxxx gives you lots of devices, but only one is relevant) in both cases, maybe the difference between the two shows something useful... Hmmm...only the latency at the VGA card. With AGPGART: 01

Re: [2.4.30-pre1] Sparc SMP build fixes

2005-02-12 Thread David S. Miller
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 11:13:49 +0100 Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The recent addition of an smp_rmb() in kfree_skb() by Herbert Xu > broke SMP builds on sparc and sparc64, but it's not Herbert's fault, > it's because of a few extra semi-colons in system.h for both archs. I pushed this

bttv: tuner: i2c i/o error: rc == -121 (should be 4)

2005-02-12 Thread Margus Eha
Tv card works but i can't change channel. Something goes wrong in tuner.c when tvtime program tries to change frequency. In /var/log/messages i can find tuner: i2c i/o error: rc == -121 (should be 4). Las working version i tried was 2.6.11-rc2 Both 2.6.11-rc3-mm1 and Both 2.6.11-rc3-mm2 are not w

once more w/feeling

2005-02-12 Thread Gil Lapidus
Greetings, On a K6-2 500MHz box. kernel 2.4.28 boots _fine_. kernel 2.6.9 displays "Loading " then PC resets. Here's the .config filtered through grep ^C: CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_MMU=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IOMAP=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_CLEAN_COMPILE=y C

Re: 2.6-bk: cpu hotplug + preempt = smp_processor_id warnings galore

2005-02-12 Thread Zwane Mwaikambo
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Nathan Lynch wrote: > With 2.6.11-rc3-bk7 on ppc64 I am seeing lots of smp_processor_id > warnings whenever I hotplug cpus: > > # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online > cpu 1 (hwid 1) Ready to die... > BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [0001] code: > k

Re: M7101

2005-02-12 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi, > Will m7101.c be modified once quirks enabling the device? m7101.c is for 2.4 kernels while the proposed quirk is to be merged into 2.6 kernels, so m7101.c will still be needed as is. That said, if cleanups are made on the way to 2.6 and someone offers a patch that ports these cleanups back

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-12 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > > Hi! > > > > I've reimplemented the Lifebook touchscreen driver using libps2 and > > input, to make it short and fitting into the kernel drivers. > > > > Please commen

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> agpgart: 58,1 frames > nv_agp: 63,1 frames > > Its a lot in Doom3. hmm I wonder.. .could you collect lspci -vxxx settings for the AGP device (lspci -vxxx gives you lots of devices, but only one is relevant) in both cases, maybe the difference between the two shows something useful... - To un

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-12 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Saturday 12 February 2005 12:01, Kenan Esau wrote: > Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate > the lbtouch-support into the psmouse-driver since there is no real way > of deciding if the device you are talking to is REALLY a > lifebook-touchsreen or not. > I t

Re: How to disable slow agpgart in kernel config?

2005-02-12 Thread Marcus Hartig
Terence Ripperda wrote: > I wouldn't expect even falling back to pci dma would have this big of an > impact on 2d performance, but perhaps there's enough bus activity for > this to happen. Marcus, can you verify that you're actually using > agpgart in that situation? do you possibly have our XF86Co

Re: 2.6.9 & 2.6.10 unresponsive to keyboard upon bootup

2005-02-12 Thread Roey Katz
Hello again Dmitry, is there anything new about this issue? any fixes in the kernel? If you want, I can continue doing the test/debug cycle as before. Roey On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:42:51 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vg

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 18:01 +0100, Kenan Esau wrote: > Second thing is that I am not shure that it is a good idea to integrate > the lbtouch-support into the psmouse-driver since there is no real way > of deciding if the device you are talking to is REALLY a > lifebook-touchsreen or not. ... > IM

Re: ckrm-e17

2005-02-12 Thread Shailabh Nagar
Peter Williams wrote: Shailabh Nagar wrote: At line 3887 of cpu.ckrm-e17.v10.patch you add the line: set_task_cpu(p,this_cpu); to the middle of the function wake_up_new_task() resulting in the following code: } else { this_rq = cpu_rq(this_cpu); /* * Not the l

Warnings when compiling apm

2005-02-12 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there. For many kernel releases, including 2.6.11-rc3-mm2, I ve been getting warnings like the following when compiling the apm driver: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CC arch/i386/kernel/apm.o arch/i386/kernel/apm.c: In function `suspend': ar

Re: [rfc/rft] Fujitsu B-Series Lifebook PS/2 TouchScreen driver

2005-02-12 Thread Kenan Esau
Am Freitag, den 11.02.2005, 21:10 +0100 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > Hi! > > I've reimplemented the Lifebook touchscreen driver using libps2 and > input, to make it short and fitting into the kernel drivers. > > Please comment on code and test for functionality! > > PS.: The driver should register

linux-2.6.11-rc3 and isdn mppp

2005-02-12 Thread Christian Heim
Well, i have to setup ISDN here at home, and wanted to use both channels. I am able to add the second channel, but then the kernel (at least i think) starts to complain. >17:36:22 kraftwerk Badness in local_bh_enable at kernel/softirq.c:140 >17:36:22 kraftwerk [] local_bh_enable+0x71/0x80 >17:36:

2.6.10 thru 2.6.11-rc3 hang

2005-02-12 Thread Gregory Davis
This is probably an isolated incident, but I am having kernel hangs using 2.6.10 thru 2.6.11-rc3. I have tried all different patchsets (mm, ck, cko), and all produce the same behavior. 2.6.8.1 does not produce the behavior. Basically, after a few minutes, the kernel hangs, and interrupts are appa

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-bk9 hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:49:05 +0100, Alessandro Suardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dell Latitude C640, PIV @1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, uptodate FC2 > > -bk7 (which I currently rebooted in) is okay. > -bk9 at first try got me to the login prompt, logged in, ran startx... > frozen with the black background b

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

2005-02-12 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > > That said, many mod_perl users are *VERY* interested in being able to > detect and observe how "shared" our forked children are. Shared meaning > private pages shared with children (copy on write). Is it even possible > to do this in 2.6 kernels?

Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Actually this is trivial to do by using a file in initramfs. > > If we need something in a well defined format anyway. > > Yes, constructing an additional initramfs, or modifying an existing > one to hold such data is c

Re: [PATCH] kmalloc() bug in pci-dma.c

2005-02-12 Thread James Bottomley
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:24 -0800, Venkatesh Pallipadi wrote: > After burning my fingers with a similar mistake in one of the patches > that I am working on, I did a quick grep to find out all faulty kmalloc() > calls and found this. > > dma_declare_coherent_memory() is calling kmalloc with wron

Re: 2.6.11-rc3-mm2

2005-02-12 Thread Henning Rohde
Hi, Yuval Tanny wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >>cachefs-filesystem.patch >> CacheFS filesystem > ... as you mention cachefs - know what's the status of supporting nfs? Or is the project as dead as the mailing-list? Is there any whole-in-one patch relative to vanilla-sources, at best including

Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-12 Thread Werner Almesberger
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Actually this is trivial to do by using a file in initramfs. > If we need something in a well defined format anyway. Yes, constructing an additional initramfs, or modifying an existing one to hold such data is certainly a possibility. I think there are mainly three choi

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 07:34:32AM -0500, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:26 -0800, Ray Bryant wrote: > > This patch introduces the sys_page_migrate() system call: > > > > sys_page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes); > > are you really sure you want to

2.6.11-rc3-bk9 hangs hard my laptop

2005-02-12 Thread Alessandro Suardi
Dell Latitude C640, PIV @1.8Ghz, 1GB RAM, uptodate FC2 -bk7 (which I currently rebooted in) is okay. -bk9 at first try got me to the login prompt, logged in, ran startx... frozen with the black background before seeing anything. Second try hung well before, at the point where it switches the ra

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

2005-02-12 Thread Richard F. Rebel
Hugh, Thank you immensely for answering this so clearly. Although it leaves me at a short end, I am grateful I no longer have to bang my head in this direction any further. I have wasted a HUGE amount of time in recent months trying to figure out why different kernel versions caused my applicat

RE: Using O_DIRECT for file writing in a kernel module

2005-02-12 Thread Hanson, Jonathan M
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 17:58 -0700, Hanson, Jonathan M wrote: > I'm trying to write to a file with the O_DIRECT flag from a > kernel module in a 2.4 series of kernel on x86 hardware. I've learned > that the O_DIRECT flag requires that the amount of data written and the > file offset pointer mu

Re: 2.6.11-rc3: intel8x0 alsa outputs no sound

2005-02-12 Thread Alessandro Suardi
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 01:23:19 +0100, Tomas Szepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb-05 2005, Sat, 16:06 -0600 > Narayan Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Try muting the headphone jack sense control with alsamixer. I had the > > same problem with rc2 on my t41p, and that solved it. > > This d

Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE increasing in 2.6.11-rc1-bk6

2005-02-12 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > It's dependent on the architecture already. I would like to enable > > it on i386/x86-64 because the kernel command line is often used > > to pass parameters to installers, and having a small limit there > > can be awkward. >

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-12 Thread Sergey Vlasov
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 12:38:26 +0100 Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Freedag 11 Februar 2005 20:55, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > + * If the macro name contains: > > + * lock, then @lock should be held before calling wait_event*(). > > + * It is released before sleeping and gra

Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

2005-02-12 Thread Jean Delvare
> Based on feedback from Jean Delvare and Pekka Enberg, here is an > updated version. Works for me (Vaio PCG-GR214EP). Tested with 2.6.11-rc3-bk8. I then enabled the debug mode. I couldn't find anything relevant WRT what each additional file is supposed to do, but I still have noticed a number of

Re: [RFC] Reliable video POSTing on resume

2005-02-12 Thread Bodo Eggert
Kendall Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Laptops are a little different as they will make calls from the Video > BIOS into the system BIOS, so you need to make sure that the system BIOS > is also available in the execution environment. Any video BIOS (especially EGA) may call system BIOS func

Re: /proc/*/statm, exactly what does "shared" mean?

2005-02-12 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Richard F. Rebel wrote: > > I can't seem to find clear documentation about the 'share' column > from /proc//statm. > > Does this include pages that are shared with forked children marked as > copy-on-write? > > Does this only reflect libraries that are dynamically loaded? W

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-12 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 19:26 -0800, Ray Bryant wrote: > This patch introduces the sys_page_migrate() system call: > > sys_page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes); are you really sure you want to expose nodes to userspace via an ABI this solid and never changing? To me that

Re: [RFC UPDATE PATCH] add wait_event_*_lock() functions and comments

2005-02-12 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Freedag 11 Februar 2005 20:55, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > + * If the macro name contains: > + * lock, then @lock should be held before calling wait_event*(). > + * It is released before sleeping and grabbed after > + * waking, saving the current IRQ mask in @flags. This

Re: bttv : overlay mode and big disk io hang and could corrupt the fs

2005-02-12 Thread matthieu castet
Hi, matthieu castet wrote: Hi, if I run "xawtv" [1] and then do a "grep -r toto /usr", my system quickly freeze. If there isn't any xawv running nothing happen. I don't try to use xawtv with grab mode (port 54) because I don't want to loose data by crashing again my / fs. I retry it and I arriv

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 0/7] mm: manual page migration -- overview

2005-02-12 Thread Andi Kleen
Ray Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > set of pages associated with a particular process need to be moved. > The kernel interface that we are proposing is the following: > > page_migrate(pid, va_start, va_end, count, old_nodes, new_nodes); [Only commenting on the interface, haven't read your pat

[2.4.30-pre1] Sparc SMP build fixes

2005-02-12 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Marcelo and David, The recent addition of an smp_rmb() in kfree_skb() by Herbert Xu broke SMP builds on sparc and sparc64, but it's not Herbert's fault, it's because of a few extra semi-colons in system.h for both archs. The smp_rmb() has been inserted this way : if (likely(atomic_read(&sk

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Re: [ANNOUNCE] hotplug-ng 001 release

2005-02-12 Thread Harald Dunkel
Greg KH wrote: Because we don't have an easy way yet to build against a copy of klibc on a system? For right now, it's the simplest way to ensure that it works for everyone, once klibc moves into the kernel tree I can remove it from udev and hotplug-ng. If it is not possible to use klibc together

Re: [RFC 2.6.11-rc2-mm2 7/7] mm: manual page migration -- sys_page_migrate

2005-02-12 Thread Paul Jackson
Minor comments ... nothing profound. Ray wrote: > once we agree on what the authority model should be. Are the usual kill-like permissions sufficient? You can migrate the pages of a process if you can kill it. === In the following routine, tighten up some vertical spacing, add { ... } , ... Th