Re: ALPS psmouse_reset on reconnect confusing Tecra M2

2005-07-09 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 23:53, Micheal Marineau wrote: > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > On Monday 04 July 2005 16:14, Mike Waychison wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I just upgrade my Tecra M2 this weekend to the latest GIT tree and > >>noticed that my mouse pointer/touchpad is now broken on resume. > >> >

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc1] driver core: subclasses

2005-07-09 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Saturday 09 July 2005 08:04, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 07:40:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 05:54:48PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > > The below patch is a first pass at implementing subclasses, for review > > > and comment. > > > > Oops, when you ment

Re: I confused about diff(simple question)

2005-07-09 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 01:41:40PM +0800, guorke wrote: > like: > > /* > @@ -220,9 +232,8(HERE: why not -220,9 +220,8) @@ fastcall notrace void > do_page_fault(stru >struct vm_area_struct * vma; >unsigned long address; >unsigned long page; > - int write; > - si

Re: I confused about diff(simple question)

2005-07-09 Thread randy_dunlap
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:41:40 +0800 guorke wrote: | like: | | /* | @@ -220,9 +232,8(HERE: why not -220,9 +220,8) @@ fastcall notrace void | do_page_fault(stru |struct vm_area_struct * vma; |unsigned long address; |unsigned long page; | - int write; | - siginfo_

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-09 Thread Horst von Brand
Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Lang wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > >> No Flame from me. One thing to remember is that Hans and friends > >> _have_ supported R3 for years. They let it fall into disrepair when they started work on 4. > >>

Re: I confused about diff(simple question)

2005-07-09 Thread guorke
On 7/10/05, guorke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > like: > > /* > @@ -220,9 +232,8(HERE: why not -220,9 +220,8) @@ fastcall notrace void > do_page_fault(stru > struct vm_area_struct * vma; > unsigned long address; > unsigned long page; > - int write; > - siginfo_t info;

I confused about diff(simple question)

2005-07-09 Thread guorke
like: /* @@ -220,9 +232,8(HERE: why not -220,9 +220,8) @@ fastcall notrace void do_page_fault(stru struct vm_area_struct * vma; unsigned long address; unsigned long page; - int write; - siginfo_t info; - + int write, si_code; + /* get the address */

Re: XFS Oops Under 2.6.12.2

2005-07-09 Thread Nathan Scott
Hi there, On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:20:53AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > After a couple hours of use, I get this error on a linear RAID under > 2.6.12.2 using loop-AES w/AES-256 encrypted filesystem. > > Anyone know what is wrong? This is not an Oops as your subject line states ... its a forc

Re: The question come again.

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:28:20 +0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" said: > But I found it may call __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much(). but I can > not get where is > defined. Note that you can only reach it if you have a *compile-time constant* of over 32M or so in size. If it's smaller, it will catch t

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc2] [RFD] Text section for "slow" code

2005-07-09 Thread Chuck Ebbert
I came up with this patch for moving slow code to its own section, but some questions arose: 1. How to implement for each arch? 2. What name to use for the text section? Patch for X86 and PPC follows, then a test patch for i386 to show it boots and runs. Index: 2.6.13-rc2a/a

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 04:41:16PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > this patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or > SIGSEGV) into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the > main do_page_fault() stackframe. The effect is 132 bytes less of > stack used by the typical do_page_

Re: arch xtensa does not compile

2005-07-09 Thread Christian Zankel
Jan Dittmer wrote: I guess I'm using the wrong binutils version (2.15.94.0.2.2). Which is the recommended gcc/binutils pair which is supposed to compile the kernel? Bob Wilson made some changes to binutils last week to address this problem but he only submitted it to the latest binutils versio

Re: [BUG] Oops: EIP is at sysfs_release+0x34/0x80

2005-07-09 Thread Dave Airlie
> >> > >> > >>>EIP is at sysfs_release+0x34/0x80 > >>>eax: 0001 ebx: dc7c2000 ecx: d1979860 edx: 0001 > >>>esi: 762f7373 edi: d5ba26a0 ebp: d9368544 esp: dc7c3f80 > >>>ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 > >>>Process udev (pid: 31802, threadinfo=dc7c2000 task=c7c19040) > >>>Stack: df

Para Linux-kernel

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[git tree] drm dumb maintainer forgot which tree he pushed..

2005-07-09 Thread Dave Airlie
Hi Linus, Please grab the master tree from rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git or straight from master.kernel.org if it hasn't reached the mirrors yet.. There was a patch to the i915 driver to make it compile which I put in after I rsynced but I thought

Re: 2.6.12 USB Keypad still not working

2005-07-09 Thread Sid Boyce
The latest collection of data on this problem with 2.6.13-rc2, no change since new device installed under 2.6.12. barrabas:/home/lancelot # cat /proc/asound/oss/sndstat Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.9 emulation code) Kernel: Linux barrabas 2.6.13-rc2 #1 Thu Jul 7 00:44:07 BST 2005 i686 C

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2005-07-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > You misunderstood entirely what I said. There is no portable/documented way to grow a file without having the file system null its content. However why is that a problem, you dont create those files very often. Besides it is better for the OS to be able

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2005-07-09 Thread Wakko Warner
Eric Sandall wrote: > >Of course, now this begs the question: Is it possible to create a large > >file > >w/o actually writing that much to the device (ie uninitialized). There's > >absolutely no reason that a swap file needs to be fully initialized, only > >part which mkswap does. Of course, I

Re: [PATCH] Early kmalloc/kfree

2005-07-09 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Fri, 9 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > I think that is a really really bad idea. slab is already complex enough > and adding scary hacks like this will probably make it collapse > under its own weight at some point. Seconded. Maybe we can solve this by bringing the system up in a limited con

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread
Quoting Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [...] > it's a config option. Some distros ship 100 already, others 1000, again > others will do 250. What does it matter? > (Although I still prefer 300 over 250 due to the 50/60 thing) I just want to point out that while a frequency of 300Hz has go

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc2-mm1] printk: add features when CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y

2005-07-09 Thread Stanislaw W. Gruszka
Add 2 values which control time printing when CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y. Values can be changed on boot option printk_time=n,m or by /proc/sys/kernel/printk_time. First one tell about what is printing: 0 - no additional time info, 1 - current time, 2 - difference between to consecutive printk calls. Se

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread hui
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 10:22:07AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > PREEMPT_RT is not pre-tuned for every situation , but the bests > performance is achieved when the system is tuned. If any of these tests > rely on a low priority thread, then we just raise the priority and you > have better performan

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
Lee Revell said: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: >> | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default >> | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost? >> >> indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per >> second? > > So wh

Re: Swap partition vs swap file

2005-07-09 Thread Eric Sandall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Wakko Warner wrote: Jeremy Nickurak wrote: On ven, 2005-07-08 at 03:22 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: No, it is creating files by appending just like any other file write. One could think about a call to create unfragmented files

Re: [PATCH] Apple USB Touchpad driver (new)

2005-07-09 Thread Peter Osterlund
Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Btw, what I don't completely understand is why you need linear > regression, when you're not trying to detect motion or something like > that. Basic floating average, or even simpler filtering like the input > core uses for fuzz could work well enough I

Re: [PATCH] Apple USB Touchpad driver (new)

2005-07-09 Thread Peter Osterlund
Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > +Synaptics re-detection problems: > + > + > +The synaptics X11 driver tries to re-open the touchpad input device file > +(/dev/input/eventX) each time you change from text mode back to X11. If the > +input device file does n

Re: [PATCH] [37/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 613-pageflags.patch

2005-07-09 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 22:16, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > You know what I think about plugins, right? There are already plugins > at block device level, like raid5, LVM, device mapper... I do not see > why you should need another one. > > > +/* > > + * expected_compression_ratio > > + * > >

Kernel panic with dc395x in 2.6.12.2

2005-07-09 Thread Pierre Ossman
I upgraded a machine from 2.6.11.7 to 2.6.12.2 today and the only thanks I got was a brand new kernel panic. From the backtrace it seems that the dc395x driver is the culprit. From what I can tell it hasn't undergone any changes between the two versions. Image of kernel panic: http://craffe.se/im

Re: [PATCH] ability to change SysRq scancode

2005-07-09 Thread federico
Alexey Dobriyan ha scritto: >On Sunday 10 July 2005 00:44, federico wrote: > > >>i release this patch because my keyboard ("Mitsumi Electric Apple >>Extended USB Keyboard" Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=0205 Version=0122) >>doesn't have a PrintScr key, so cannot send the right scancode, and >>KEY_

RE: [git patches] IDE update

2005-07-09 Thread Al Boldi
Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:{ > >> > >>>Some more investigation - it appears to be broken read-ahead, actually. > >>> > >>>--- mm/readahead.c~2005-07-08 11:16:14.0 +0200 > >>>+++ mm/readahead.c 2005-07-08 11:17:49.0 +0200 > >>>@@ -351,7 +351,9 @@ > >>>

Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

2005-07-09 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ed Cogburn wrote: Maybe its because Hans and Co., having only a finite amount of dev time, would much prefer to spend that time on R4 rather than R3? Maybe if we were to let R4 into the kernel, it wouldn't be long after that R3 could be retired because everyone has moved to

[ANNOUNCE] bootutils v0.0.5

2005-07-09 Thread Nigel Kukard
Project Description: BootUtils is a collection of utilities to facilitate booting of modern Kernel 2.6 based systems. BootUtils is designed for initramfs, although volunteers to add support for initrd are welcome. The process of finding the root volume either by label or explicit label= on the kern

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 13:30 -0700, randy_dunlap wrote: > | Then the owners of such machines can use HZ=250 and leave the default > | alone. Why should everyone have to bear the cost? > > indeed, why should everyone have to have 1000 timer interrupts per second? So why waste everyone's time with

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.51-12

2005-07-09 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:12 -0700, William Weston wrote: > On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > could you check whether the priority leakage happens if you disable SMP? > > (if you can reproduce it easily) > > No priority leakages have been seen with UP configs on any of the > machines

Re: [PATCH] ability to change SysRq scancode

2005-07-09 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sunday 10 July 2005 00:44, federico wrote: > i release this patch because my keyboard ("Mitsumi Electric Apple > Extended USB Keyboard" Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=0205 Version=0122) > doesn't have a PrintScr key, so cannot send the right scancode, and > KEY_SYSRQ needs to be modified. > > i h

Re: Documentation mismatch in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

2005-07-09 Thread Bodo Eggert
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:37:48AM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: [menu dependencies "if" vs. "depends on"] > > It should be, but either it's really applied to the config instead of the > > prompt (in which can also be added to the depends on list) or the > >

Re: alternative [PATCH] 1/2) drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal

2005-07-09 Thread Ben Collins
Applied, but I set the default to "N". No reason to prolong doing it, since it doesn't break anything in the kernel or in our tree. It's an easy pointer to the option for anyone inquiring about the change. On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:32:33PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Can

proper network intarface behaviour ?

2005-07-09 Thread Jaroslav Soltys
hello, i have two disjunct networks with only one computer connected to both of them. I did the following setup: eth0: 192.168.111.13/24 eth1: 158.195.100.248/22 later i added eth0:0 158.195.101.13/22 i did ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the eth1's network, but notice the eth0:0's address. ip_forwa

Re: sis190

2005-07-09 Thread Francois Romieu
Pascal CHAPPERON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : [...] > I don't receive Lars's results, but here are my results. Lars can apparently not reproduce it any more. I'll consider this issue fixed until it returns. Thanks for checking. [ping test removed] > # cat /proc/net/pktgen/eth0 > Params: count 1000

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal

2005-07-09 Thread Ben Collins
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:55:57PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:50:35AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Can we, instead of removing these, wrap then in a "Export full API" config > > option? I've already got several reports from external projects that are > > This will e

[PATCH] ability to change SysRq scancode

2005-07-09 Thread federico
i release this patch because my keyboard ("Mitsumi Electric Apple Extended USB Keyboard" Bus=0003 Vendor=05ac Product=0205 Version=0122) doesn't have a PrintScr key, so cannot send the right scancode, and KEY_SYSRQ needs to be modified. i hope that i've done in the right way ;) it's tested by me,

[2.6.12-git8] ACPI shutdown fails to power off machine

2005-07-09 Thread Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
Hi: I realized 2.6.13-rc2 would not power off my box anymore, although it worked fine back in 2.6.12. A binary search of intermediate -git patches showed that between -git7 and -git8 something broke power down. Every kernel used has been compiled from sources downloaded from kernel.org, no additio

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread randy_dunlap
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:16:01 -0400 Lee Revell wrote: | On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: | > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > | > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and | > > > well people can select the one they want, right? |

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 21:15 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 07:31:04PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > +static void force_sig_info_fault(int si_signo, int si_co

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal

2005-07-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:50:35AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: >> Can we, instead of removing these, wrap then in a "Export full API" config >> option? I've already got several reports from external projects that are > > This will end in all distributions having this option enab

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > +static void force_sig_info_fault(int si_signo, int si_code, > > +unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk) > > This won't work with a unit-at-a-time compiler which happi

Re: [PATCH] tpm: Support for new chip type

2005-07-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > after some corrections here is a newer patch supporting the Infineon Trusted > Platform > Module SLD 9630 (TPM 1.1b), which is embedded on Intel-mainboards or in > HP/Fujitsu-Siemens/Toshiba-Notebooks. > The module fits the interfaces created by IBM and was patched against the > latest kern

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 07:31:04PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > +static void force_sig_info_fault(int si_signo, int si_code, > > > + unsigned long address, str

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 12:12 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and > > > well people can select the one they want, right? > > > > Then why not leave the default at 1000? > > Because som

Re: [PATCH] Apple USB Touchpad driver (new)

2005-07-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:10:05PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 01:18:01PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Nice to see this going into the kernel :) > > > > > This is a driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on > > > post-February 2005 Apple Power

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Andrew Morton
Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is not a userspace visible thing really with few exceptions, and > > well people can select the one they want, right? > > Then why not leave the default at 1000? Because some machines exhibit appreciable latency in entering low power state via A

[2.6 patch] net/Kconfig: two ATM-related spelling fixes

2005-07-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
Trivial spelling fix patch for net/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was sent by Jesper Juhl on: - 16 Mar 2005 --- linux-2.6.11-mm4-orig/net/Kconfig 2005-03-16 15:45:41.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-mm4/net/

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal

2005-07-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 03:50:35AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > Can we, instead of removing these, wrap then in a "Export full API" config > option? I've already got several reports from external projects that are This will end in all distributions having this option enabled resulting in no chang

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:49:43PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > BTW, Christoph Lameter, if you're seeing this, your mail is bouncing... my bad, i typoed it when i first send the original email - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:41 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Yes, that's called "progress" so no one complained. Going back is > called a "regression". People don't like those as much. Sorry for the tone of this message, I really sound like a jerk. Anyway, I've said all I have on this topic. I don't

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:39 +0200, Diego Calleja wrote: > El Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:16:31 -0400, > Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the > > middle of a stable kernel series. People WILL complain about it. > > > Lots of p

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Diego Calleja
El Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:16:31 -0400, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > I still think you're absolutely insane to change the default in the > middle of a stable kernel series. People WILL complain about it. Lots of people have switched from 2.4 to 2.6 (100 Hz to 1000 Hz) with no impact

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:31 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > why? Because the minimum poll/select timeout is now 4ms rather than 1ms. An app that has a soft RT constraint somewhere in the middle that worked on 2.6.12 will break on 2.6.13. > it's a config option. Some distros ship 100 already, ot

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 08:31:55PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > it's a config option. Some distros ship 100 already, others 1000, > again others will do 250. Who does anything other than 1000 for a 2.6.x kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:08 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > WHAT? > > > > > > > > The previous value here i386 is 1000 ---

Re: Real-Time Preemption -RT-V0.7.51-17 - Keyboard Problems

2005-07-09 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 21:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * K.R. Foley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ingo, > > > > I have an issue with keys VERY SPORADICALLY repeating, SOMETIMES, when > > running the RT patches. The problem manifests itself as if the key > > were stuck but happens far too qu

Re: linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 20:22 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > I once made a patch so that the front and back channels were inverted > but I lost it somewhere. And since I'm a lazy ass I kept using the OSS > driver. It's not as if I actually use my sblive for anything else but > the occasional mp3. But

Re: linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 14:14 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:29 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > [] emu10k1_audio_release+0x114/0x210 [emu10k1] (40) > > Kind of OT, but any particular reason you're using this old OSS driver? > It's likely to be deprecated soon, and the ALSA dri

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:08 +0200, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > WHAT? > > > > > > The previous value here i386 is 1000 --- so why is the default 250. > > > > Because 1000 is too high. > >

Re: linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Lee Revell
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:29 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > [] emu10k1_audio_release+0x114/0x210 [emu10k1] (40) Kind of OT, but any particular reason you're using this old OSS driver? It's likely to be deprecated soon, and the ALSA driver is much more actively maintained... Lee - To unsubscribe

Re: [BUG] Oops: EIP is at sysfs_release+0x34/0x80

2005-07-09 Thread Nathan Boyle
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:50:01PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: Nathan Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: EIP is at sysfs_release+0x34/0x80 eax: 0001 ebx: dc7c2000 ecx: d1979860 edx: 0001 esi: 762f7373 edi: d5ba26a0 ebp: d9368544 esp: dc7c3f80 ds: 007b

Re: [BUG] Oops: EIP is at sysfs_release+0x34/0x80

2005-07-09 Thread Nathan Boyle
Dave Airlie wrote: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 762f7473 printing eip: c0183c14 *pde = Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: rtc nls_utf8 snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emu10k1 snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_rawmidi snd_pcm_oss snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_midi_e

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 compilation errors with linux1394.org rev.1296

2005-07-09 Thread Stefan Richter
I wrote on 8 Jul: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >> You should tell the developers at linux1394.org (Cc'ed) that they should >> fix it in their tree. > > Better yet: Send in a patch. Well, I just bundled the relevant changes in two patches against linux1394's trunk (head) and posted them on linux1394-dev

Re: linux-kernel Cannot determine dependencies of module piix

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:16:46 +0200, Lance said: > I get the message "Cannot determine dependencies of module piix" > while running mkinitrd. My apologies that this might me a very > "newbie" question. (until now I have compiled upto 2.6.11.12 without > any problems. man depmod You've probably m

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 19:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > +static void force_sig_info_fault(int si_signo, int si_code, > > +unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk) > > This won't work with a unit-at-a-time compiler

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 09:19 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > (if your goal was to check how heavily external interrupts can influence > a PREEMPT_RT box, you should chrt the network IRQ thread to SCHED_OTHER > and renice it and softirq-net-rx and softirq-net-tx to nice +19.) > This is interesting.

Re: halt: init exits/panic

2005-07-09 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 7/9/05, Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants > to shutdown the system? > > I currently do: > > - call reboot(RB_POWER_OFF/RB_AUTOBOOT/RB_HALT_SYSTEM) > - _exit(0) > > Is this exit() call wrong? If I do RB_

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-09 Thread Martin Schlemmer
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 14:59 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WHAT? > > > > The previous value here i386 is 1000 --- so why is the default 250. > > Because 1000 is too high. > What happened to 300 as default, as that is divisible by both 50 and 60 (or

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Andi Kleen
Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > +static void force_sig_info_fault(int si_signo, int si_code, > + unsigned long address, struct task_struct *tsk) This won't work with a unit-at-a-time compiler which happily inlines everything static with only a single call

Re: ns558 mis-detects gameport

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Neil Darlow wrote: > Hi Vojtech, > > On Friday 08 Jul 2005 22:24, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >>In the current input GIT tree there is a patch to reverse the order of >>probing (PnP first) for exactly this reason. I expect 2.6.13 should have >>the fix. > > > Daniel, is it worth backporting this fix

Re: alternative [PATCH] 1/2) drivers/ieee1394/: schedule unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's for removal

2005-07-09 Thread Ben Collins
Now that I can live with. If everyone else is ok with it, I'll apply it to our tree for when I sync to Linus. On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 12:32:33PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote: > Ben Collins wrote: > > Can we, instead of removing these, wrap then in a "Export full API" config > > option? I've already

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 16:57, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay, I'll send you the vmlinux from -18 with a new digital photo, and > > config, with CONFIG_4KSTACKS enabled. > > this crash too seems to indicate trigger_softirqs()/wakeup_softirqd(). > S

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > c011ed50 t wakeup_softirqd > c011ed80 t trigger_softirqs > > but it looks pretty weird. DEBUG_STACK_POISON (and the full-debug > .config i sent) could perhaps uncover other types of stack > corruptions. there's one more pretty efficient debugging m

Re: [SYSFS QUESTION] How to add new sysfs attributes under /sys/modul e/

2005-07-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 06:13:38PM -0400, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: > Sysfs Gurus, > > I want to export few driver specific sysfs attributes when my driver loads. > This driver is a pci hotplug driver. I want to export these sysfs attributes > as soon as my pci_module_init succeeds. > > 1. I se

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, I'll send you the vmlinux from -18 with a new digital photo, and > config, with CONFIG_4KSTACKS enabled. this crash too seems to indicate trigger_softirqs()/wakeup_softirqd(). Somewhere we somehow corrupt the stack and e.g. in oops7.

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Can't type right anymore ... Karim Yaghmour wrote: > BTW, we've also released the latest very of the LRTBF we used to version Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.oper

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Karim Yaghmour wrote: > I would usually like very much to entertain this further, but we've > really busted all the time slots I had allocated to this work. So at > this time, we really think others should start publishing results. > After all, our results are no more authoritative than those > pu

Re: [patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
Guillaume noticed a bug in the patch, si_signo should be used instead of SIGSEGV. (doh) New patch below. Ingo - this patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or SIGSEGV) into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the main do_page_fault() stackframe. The e

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Ingo Molnar wrote: > yeah, they definitely have helped, and thanks for this round of testing > too! I'll explain the recent changes to PREEMPT_RT that resulted in > these speedups in another mail. Great, I'm very much looking forward to it. > Looking at your numbers i realized that the area wh

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "IRQ & hd" run: > > Measurements | Vanilla | preempt_rt| ipipe > > ---+-++- > > fork | 101us | 94us (-7%) | 103us (+2%) > > open/close | 2.9us | 2.9us (~)

Re: linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > I got the following BUG while playing a nice tune with xmms. Shortly > after the BUG the machine froze hard and I had to reach over and press > the reset button. > > PS. there is a simple compile error in 51-18 when > CONFIG_DEBUG_ST

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess also, as you suggested elsewhere in this thread, I could try > an 8K stacks kernel, let openvpn run (even just for 5 minutes, then > close it) and see if I get a stack-footprint dump *for openvpn*, which > so far I've not been able

[patch] compress the stack layout of do_page_fault(), x86

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
this patch pushes the creation of a rare signal frame (SIGBUS or SIGSEGV) into a separate function, thus saving stackspace in the main do_page_fault() stackframe. The effect is 132 bytes less of stack used by the typical do_page_fault() invocation - resulting in a denser cache-layout. (anothe

Re: PREEMPT_RT and I-PIPE: the numbers, part 4

2005-07-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
Paul Rolland wrote: >>mmap | 794us | 654us (+18%) | 822us (+4%) > > You mean -18%, not +18% I think. Doh ... too many numbers flying around ... yes, -18% :) Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Rea

linux-2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-18: RT task yield()-ing!

2005-07-09 Thread Peter Zijlstra
Hi Ingo, I got the following BUG while playing a nice tune with xmms. Shortly after the BUG the machine froze hard and I had to reach over and press the reset button. PS. there is a simple compile error in 51-18 when CONFIG_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW is undefined. BUG: xmms:2200 RT task yield()-ing!

Re: Synaptics Touchpad not detected in 2.6.13-rc2

2005-07-09 Thread Mattia Dongili
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:29:08AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: [...] > Does it help if you boot with "usb-handoff" kernel option? Another > one would be "i8042.nomux". Btw, does your laptop have external > PS/2 ports? Ok, it seems I can now reliably reproduce the wrong detection (by removing the

Re: halt: init exits/panic

2005-07-09 Thread DervishD
Hi Nico :) * Nico Schottelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit: > What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants > to shutdown the system? What I do in my vcinit, the last steps I mean, is: reboot(RB_POWER_OFF); /* If halting*/ or reboot(RB_AUTOBOOT); /* If

halt: init exits/panic

2005-07-09 Thread Nico Schottelius
Hello! What's the 'correct behaviour' of an init system, if someone wants to shutdown the system? I currently do: - call reboot(RB_POWER_OFF/RB_AUTOBOOT/RB_HALT_SYSTEM) - _exit(0) Is this exit() call wrong? If I do RB_HALT_SYSTEM and _exit(0) after, the kernel panics. Should init simply sleep,

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Saturday 09 Jul 2005 12:58, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Got this (slightly better) oops. Figured out how to use my camera :-) > > > > http://devzero.co.uk/~alistair/oops6.jpeg > > this was a bit more useful - shows a softirq wakeup. Could you send

[patch] reduce stack footprint of functions in drivers/net/sk98lin/skgepnmi.c

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
this patch reduces the stack footprint of Vpd() from 1018 bytes to 28 bytes, SkPnmiGetStruct() from 744 bytes to 92 bytes, GetVpdKeyArr() from 552 bytes to 48 bytes, and General() from 364 bytes to 112 bytes. build and boot tested. (but i likely did not excercise all the possible codepaths aff

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
> (gdb) > (gdb) # c0169503, stack size: 408 bytes # > (gdb) > (gdb) 0xc0169503 is in blkdev_get (fs/block_dev.c:663). this patch reduces the stack footprint of blkdev_get() from 408 bytes to 28 bytes. Build and boot-

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
> (gdb) > (gdb) # c02a0a26, stack size: 416 bytes # > (gdb) > (gdb) 0xc02a0a26 is in pcmcia_device_query (drivers/pcmcia/ds.c:436). this patch reduces the stack footprint of pcmcia_device_query() from 416 bytes to 36

Re: sis190

2005-07-09 Thread Pascal CHAPPERON
> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:29:25 +0200 > From: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > The patchkit of the day should fix these issues: > http://www.zoreil.com/~romieu/sis190/20050706-2.6.13-rc1/patches [...] > I'd appreciate if you could check the allowed frame size range, say > ping -s 1468 .

Re: Documentation mismatch in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt

2005-07-09 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Bodo Eggert wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:59:18PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > > ... > > > Therefore I can't use > > > config SGI_IOC4 > > > tristate > > > prompt "SGI IOC4 Base IO support" if PROMPT_FOR_UNUSED_CORES

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc2-mm1] add PCI IRQ initialization to TB0219

2005-07-09 Thread Yoichi Yuasa
Hi, This patch had added PCI IRQ initialization to TB0219 driver. Please apply. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urN -X dontdiff mm1-orig/drivers/char/tb0219.c mm1/drivers/char/tb0219.c --- mm1-orig/drivers/char/tb0219.c 2005-07-06 12:46:33.0 +0900 +++ mm1/drive

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