On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:40:21PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Dmitry.
>
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Isn't think a good thing? By decoupling the 2 layers we insulate them
> > from changes in each other. This allows bug subsystems to concentrate
> > on topics that important to them instead of
El Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:50:36PM -0400 Kyle Moffett ha dit:
> On Apr 22, 2007, at 17:39:59, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> >use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
>
> I think you really meant: "Use mutex instead of binary semaphore in
> idt77252 driver", since this is a binary se
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Neil Brown wrote:
> Another option might be to name each cache actually created with a
> unique name, and then create a symlink for each cache that was asked
> for (whether it was created or whether a pre-existing cache was used).
> Then being lazy about deletion shouldn't be
On Thursday April 19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Right. Sigh. But there is no user of the symlinks.
>
> I could drop the symlinks completely. Just do not track what names a cache
> aliases to?
>
Suppose I have a kmem_cache which at different times has different
sizes (like, for example, the
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
William Heimbigner wrote:
If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding
standards", would it be included in the kernel?
While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills
these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:29:59 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What about swapout? That can increase the number of writeback pages,
> > > without decreasing the number of dirty pages, no?
> >
> > Could we not solve that by enabling cap_account_writeback on
> > swapper_space,
Hello, Dmitry.
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Isn't think a good thing? By decoupling the 2 layers we insulate them
> from changes in each other. This allows bug subsystems to concentrate
> on topics that important to them instead of worying about refcounting
> objects that are not directly interesting
> > > > The other deadlock, in throttle_vm_writeout() is still to be solved.
> > >
> > > Let's go back to the original changelog:
> > >
> > > Author: marcelo.tosatti
> > > Date: Tue Mar 8 17:25:19 2005 +
> > >
> > > [PATCH] vm: pageout throttling
> > >
> > > With silly pageou
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
> >> @@ -565,62 +565,9 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
> >>which are loaded in the m
William Heimbigner wrote:
If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding
standards", would it be included in the kernel?
While I cannot speak for Linus and Andrew, code that fulfills
these criteria (and is useful to have - reiser4 seems to have
enough user interest) usually
* Markus Trippelsdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The new version does not link here (amd64,smp):
> >
> > LD .tmp_vmlinux1
> > arch/x86_64/kernel/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x1dd8): undefined reference to
> > `sys_yield_to'
>
> Changing sys_yield_to to sys_sched_yield_to in
> include/as
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig
>> @@ -565,62 +565,9 @@ config CRASH_DUMP
>>which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
>>a specially reserved region and
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This patch causes a use-uninitialised crash in the locks code.
Sigh. The only case in which the check is inverted in a constructor.
Invert the check.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6.21-rc6/fs/locks.c
Hi Ogawa :)
* OGAWA Hirofumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dixit:
> DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> It would add the limitation to following simple usage,
> >>
> >># mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
> >> # cp -a * /mnt
> >> # umount
> >>
> >> if /dev/sda1 was the large and s
Updated patch according to Sam's comments.
/Mikael
diff -urNP --exclude='*.cvsignore'
../linux/arch/cris/arch-v32/boot/compressed/decompress.ld
linux-2.6/arch/cris/arch-v32/boot/compressed/decompress.ld
--- ../linux/arch/cris/arch-v32/boot/compressed/decompress.ld 2007-02-04
19:44:54.0
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 22:25 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > The other deadlock, in throttle_vm_writeout() is still to be solved.
> >
> > Let's go back to the original changelog:
> >
> > Author: marcelo.tosatti
> > Date: Tue Mar 8 17:25:19 2005 +
> >
> > [PATCH] vm: pageout throttl
On 4/23/07, William Heimbigner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4
Count me in.
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
William Heimbigner wrote:
However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't
want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people
interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this wouldn't
keep getting
Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:41:14 +0400
> Pavel Emelianov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> If the thread failed to create the subsequent wait_event
>> will hang forever.
>>
>> This is likely to happen if kernel hits max_threads limit.
>>
>> Will be critical for virtualization syst
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:39:43 -0700 (PDT) Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL. It is only supported by SLAB.
>
> I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
> to verify that the state is the constructor state a
William Heimbigner wrote:
However, is the code really in such a shape that the
community doesn't want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant
number of people interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions
like this wouldn't keep getting asked.
There are people interested in usi
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Now that the vmlinux is marked as relocatable there is no reason to
> retain the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option, as we can put the binary we
> have at any 2MB aligned address in memory.
>
> With CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START gone the ha
When data symbols are not present in kernel image, user needs to add
dot(".") before function name explicitly, that he wants to probe in kprobe
module on ppc64.
for ex:-
When data symbols are missing on ppc64,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /proc/kallsyms | grep do_fork
c0
William Heimbigner wrote:
> Eric Hopper wrote:
> > I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the
> > prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status.
>
> It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features,
> like filesystem plugins, make more tech
William Heimbigner wrote:
Eric Hopper wrote:
I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the
prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status.
It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features,
like filesystem plugins, make more technical sense in the L
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:58:53AM +0200, Wolfgang Erig wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a regression with 2.6.21-rc7-g80d74d51.
> The utility "gammu" to talk to my mobile does not work anymore.
> With 2.6.20 gammu runs fine.
>
> Distribution is the latest Debian/testing
>
> Wolfgang
>
> $ gammu --ba
El Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:25:58AM +0200 Andi Kleen ha dit:
> Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > -static DECLARE_MUTEX(sony_sem);/* Semaphore for drive hardware
> > access */
> > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(sony_mtx); /* Mutex for drive hardware
> > access */
>
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:12:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i'm pleased to announce release -v5 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The
> patch against v2.6.21-rc7 and v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded from:
...
> - feature: add initial sys_sched_yield_to() implementation. Not hooked
>into the fu
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 07:16:59AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:12:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > i'm pleased to announce release -v5 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The
> > patch against v2.6.21-rc7 and v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded from:
> ...
> > - featu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is a Samsung HD501LJ SATA drive connected to 631xESB/632xESB controller.
Reading and writing every block of the drive does not generate any other
errors/failures. This is observed in 2.6.20.7 like a clockwork on any
badblocks -v run or rebuild of a MD raid1 array onto
Now that the vmlinux is marked as relocatable there is no reason to
retain the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option, as we can put the binary we
have at any 2MB aligned address in memory.
With CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START gone the handful of code lines that depend
on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE no longer make sense to b
Currently because vmlinux does not reflect that the kernel is relocatable
we still have to support CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START. So this patch adds a small
c program to do what we cannot do with a linker script, set the elf header
type to ET_DYN.
This should remove the last obstacle to removing CONFIG_
Hello.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (at Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:09:17 -0700), Andrew
Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
> > [PATCH] x86: Fix potential overflow in perfctr reservation
:
> The created a warning storm:
>
>
> arch/i386/kernel/nmi.c: In function 'avail_to_resrv_perfctr_nmi_bit':
>
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> Currently failslab injects failures into cache_alloc().
> But with enabling CONFIG_NUMA it's not enough to let actual
> slab allocator functions (kmalloc, kmem_cache_alloc, ...) return NULL.
>
> This patch moves fault injection hook inside of __cache_
Jakub Jelinek wrote:
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:52:44PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
It turns out that Nick's patch does not improve peak
performance much, but it does prevent the decline when
running with 16 threads on my quad core CPU!
We _definately_ want both patches, there's a huge benefit
Bhuvan Kumar MITTAL wrote:
Hi Alan,
I believe that dma_alloc_coherent will mark the kernel buffer as uncached at alocation time.
But that is not my intention. I have mapped some user space memory to the kernel buffer and I wish to ensure that the contents of both are coherent and correctly orde
Nick Piggin wrote:
So where is the down_write coming from in this workload, I wonder?
Heap management? What syscalls?
Trying to answer this question, I straced the mysql threads that
showed up in top when running a single threaded sysbench workload.
There were no mmap, munmap, brk, mprotect o
Hi Alan,
I believe that dma_alloc_coherent will mark the kernel buffer as uncached at
alocation time.
But that is not my intention. I have mapped some user space memory to the
kernel buffer and I wish to ensure that the contents of both are coherent and
correctly ordered.
In other words I wi
Hi Rafael,
+/*
+ * Per task flags used by the freezer
+ *
+ * They should not be referred to directly outside of this file.
+ */
+#define TFF_NOFREEZE 0 /* task should not be frozen */
+#define TFF_FREEZE 8 /* task should go to the refrigerator ASAP */
+#define TFF_SKIP
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:43:10AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > note that CFS's "granularity" value is not directly comparable to
> > > "timeslice length":
> >
> > Right, but it does introduce the kbuild regression, [...]
>
> Note that i increa
Rik van Riel wrote:
I've added a 5th column, with just your mmap_sem patch and
without my madv_free patch. It is run with the glibc patch,
which should make it fall back to MADV_DONTNEED after the
first MADV_FREE call fails.
Thanks! (I edited slightly so it doesn't wrap)
vanilla new gl
Eric Hopper wrote:
I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the
prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status.
It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features,
like filesystem plugins, make more technical sense in the Linux
VFS, but made more bus
Rik van Riel wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
Here are the transactions/seconds for each combination:
I've added a 5th column, with just your mmap_sem patch and
without my madv_free patch. It is run with the glibc patch,
which should m
Eric Hopper wrote:
I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the
prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status.
It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features,
like filesystem plugins, make more technical sense in the Linux
VFS, but made more busin
Nick Piggin wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
Here are the transactions/seconds for each combination:
I've added a 5th column, with just your mmap_sem patch and
without my madv_free patch. It is run with the glibc patch,
which should make it fall back to M
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > note that CFS's "granularity" value is not directly comparable to
> > "timeslice length":
>
> Right, but it does introduce the kbuild regression, [...]
Note that i increased the granularity from 1msec to 5msecs after your
kbuild report, could you p
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 04:55:53AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > the biggest user-visible change in -v5 are various interactivity
> > > improvements (especially under higher load) to fix reported
> > > regressions, and an improved way of handling
Ingo Molnar wrote:
i'm pleased to announce release -v5 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The
patch against v2.6.21-rc7 and v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded from:
FYI, make headers_check seems to fail on this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6]$ make headers_check
[snip]
CHECK include/linux/usb/cdc
On 4/23/07, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One more question - why would I want to do this?
Check out the FAQ in Documentation/power/swsusp.txt.
Is this like something that would be useful on a laptop, to suspend
activity and reduce battery drain, while preserving the current state
o
It is a Samsung HD501LJ SATA drive connected to 631xESB/632xESB controller.
Reading and writing every block of the drive does not generate any other
errors/failures. This is observed in 2.6.20.7 like a clockwork on any
badblocks -v run or rebuild of a MD raid1 array onto the disk.
It, however,
This patch implements the kthread helper functions kthread_start
and kthread_end which make it simple to support a kernel thread
that may decided to exit on it's own before we request it to.
It is still assumed that eventually we will get around to requesting
that the kernel thread stop.
Signed-o
* Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I haven't approached that yet, but I just noticed, having been booted
> to this for all of 5 minutes, that although I told it not to renice x
> when my script ran 'make oldconfig', and I answered n, but there it
> is, sitting at -19 according to htop
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > the biggest user-visible change in -v5 are various interactivity
> > improvements (especially under higher load) to fix reported
> > regressions, and an improved way of handling nice levels. There's
> > also a new sys_sched_yield_to() syscall implem
On Sunday 22 April 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:12:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> i'm pleased to announce release -v5 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The
>> patch against v2.6.21-rc7 and v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded from:
>>
>> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/
>>
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The X server should not be re-niced. It was done in the past, and it
> was wrogn then (and caused problems - we had to tell people to undo
> it, because some distros had started doing it by default).
>
> If you have a single client, the X server is
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:27:14AM +0400, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/mpc885ads_setup.c
> b/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/mpc885ads_setup.c
> index 9bd81c7..d32e066 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/mpc885ads_setup.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/mpc88
On 4/22/07, Eric Hopper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not an LKML subscriber.
Did you try searching LKML archives?
Lee
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DervishD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It would add the limitation to following simple usage,
>>
>> # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
>> # cp -a * /mnt
>> # umount
>>
>> if /dev/sda1 was the large and slow device, "mount" will need several
>> minutes to counts free clusters. I
I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the
prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. Is
Reiser4 going to be going into the Linus kernel anytime soon? Is there
somewhere I should be looking to find this out without wasting bandwidth
here?
I'm not an LKML sub
Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > - usefree is a bad name (I'd suggest recalc_free instead),
>>
>> Is it about nofree option?
>
> Yes. I think recalc_free is way more descriptive.
Recalc is already default on current patch.
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Date: Apr 22, 2007 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ck] [ANNOUNCE] Staircase Deadline cpu scheduler version 0.46
To: Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
First of all, thank you for your continued development of SD. I've
been using RSDL v.30 since it came out with skunk-sourc
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> >
> > Why not do it in the X server itself? This will avoid controversial
> > policy in the kernel, and have the added advantage of working with
> > X servers that don't direct
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 03:12:29AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i'm pleased to announce release -v5 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The
> patch against v2.6.21-rc7 and v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded from:
>
> http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/
>
> this CFS release mainly fixes regressions
i'm pleased to announce release -v5 of the CFS scheduler patchset. The
patch against v2.6.21-rc7 and v2.6.20.7 can be downloaded from:
http://redhat.com/~mingo/cfs-scheduler/
this CFS release mainly fixes regressions and improves interactivity:
13 files changed, 211 insertions(+), 199
Rik van Riel wrote:
Nick Piggin wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
Here are the transactions/seconds for each combination:
vanilla new glibc madv_free kernel madv_free + mmap_sem
threads
1 610 609 596545
2103211361196
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 09:16 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On 4/22/07, William Lee Irwin III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 12:17:31AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > > For futex(), the extension is needed for the FUTEX_WAIT operation. We
> > > need a new operation FUTEX_W
On 4/23/07, Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
diff --git a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
index b4b8014..e3cf141 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
+++ b
On Apr 22, 2007, at 17:39:59, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
I think you really meant: "Use mutex instead of binary semaphore in
idt77252 driver", since this is a binary semaphore (not a mutex,
which are always binary):
- struct semap
Miguel Ojeda wrote:
Hi all,
I have a ASUS P4P800 Deluxe, P4 3GHz HT, 1GB RAM and testing -rc7 I
noticed I just got 1 CPU.
I checked my .config but I do not see anything bad. Also I read
Documentation/smp.txt. Just for being sure this is not a bug, I'm
posting it.
Here you have .config and dmes
FYI,
This was a debugging kernel (preempt, slab debugging, lockdep etc. enabled)
running autotest and some other load on a 4 core Opteron system
There was also another lockdep warning before that which I'm sending
separately.
Looks like some memory corruption. Could be something else, but at le
S.Çağlar Onur wrote:
USRobotics Wireless Adapter (Model 5423) works well with current zd1211rw
driver also (i have tested 2.6.18, 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc7). I know -mm/and
Daniel's tree has new version (i think with more features like rate estimator
etc.) of this driver but maybe you should consid
===
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.21-rc5-git6 #44
---
perl/7968 is trying to acquire lock:
(&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: []
reiserfs_file_release+0x109/0x2cc
but
On 22/04/07 11:41 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> scx200_acb doesn't detect any device that it can drive (nothing in dmesg
> at all when loaded) on the sc1200. I believe the main changes that
> happened to scx200_acb was adding support for the newer CS chipsets,
> such as the one used with t
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
>
> Why not do it in the X server itself? This will avoid controversial
> policy in the kernel, and have the added advantage of working with
> X servers that don't directly access hardware.
It's wrong *wherever* you do it.
The X server should not
On running "pktsetup 0 /dev/hdd", I get the following:
[ 3970.461403] =
[ 3970.482051] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[ 3970.498210] 2.6.21-rc7 #2
[ 3970.506062] -
[ 3970.58] vol_id/8686 is
Location:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git
RSS feed of the git tree:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=rss
Changes since 2.6.16.48:
Adrian Bunk (2):
Linux
> Oh I definitely was not advocating against renicing X,
Why not do it in the X server itself? This will avoid controversial
policy in the kernel, and have the added advantage of working with
X servers that don't directly access hardware.
Con, if you tell me ``if you're running under Linux and s
---
~Randy
--- Original Message ---
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:53:36AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:20:59 +0200 Borislav Petkov wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > > I'm pretty sure the reason you cannot reproduce this warning is the
> > > > > line
> > > > >
> > > > > 1
>
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> to also allow for size not an integer number of pages as Andrew noticed?
> This could be done in 2 patches:
patch 2:
---
Fix bitmap allocation and size non-multiple of PAGE_SIZE in
dma_declare_coherent_memory implementations. i386 compile-tes
Christoph Hellwig writes:
> Why is this driver using a thread at all? It's only doing a bunch
> of rather short-lived things in the thread.
It's doing i2c reads and writes, which block, and are actually quite
slow.
Paul.
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 20:08 +0200, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > - int bitmap_size = (pages + 31)/32;
> > + int bitmap_size = DIV_ROUND_UP(pages, 8);
>
> This isn't quite right. Bitmaps are arrays of longs, not arrays of
> bytes. The bug is f
Rafael wrote:
> I'll try to explain how it works.
Ok - thanks. Good explanation of how it works.
One more question - why would I want to do this?
Is this like something that would be useful on a laptop, to suspend
activity and reduce battery drain, while preserving the current state
of ones ses
Karuna sagar K wrote:
Hi,
The attached code contains program to estimate the cross-chunk
references for ChunkFS file system (idea from Valh). Below are the
results:
Nice to see some numbers! But would be really nice to know:
- what the chunk size is
- how the files were created or, more vagu
Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> -static DECLARE_MUTEX(sony_sem); /* Semaphore for drive hardware
> access */
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(sony_mtx); /* Mutex for drive hardware
> access */
That's not a spinlock. Also normally some rationale is added to the
On Sunday, 22 April 2007 23:14, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Rafael wrote:
> > Move all of the freezer-related flags to a separate field in task_struct and
> > introduce functions to operate them using set_bit() etc.
>
> It's getting time I learned what this freezer thing is.
>
> What would you suggest
James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Changelog and cc to linux-scsi, and I think it can go in ... not that it
> matters; nothing ever activates this code inside libsas anyway ...
Should we just remove the relevant code then?
Eric
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On Sunday 22 April 2007, Vitaly Bordug wrote:
> This utilizes PCMCIA on mpc885ads and mpc866ads from arch/powerpc. In the
> new approach, direct IMMR accesses from within drivers/ were totally
> eliminated, that requires hardware_enable, hardware_disable, voltage_set
> board-specific functions to b
On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Windows _does_ care*, it will pretend the disk to be full.
>
> Did you test on 2000 or XP? (e.g. write 0 to free_clusters, then
> create new file.)
That was back when I still used W98.
> > - usefree is a ba
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:38 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 05:37:53PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:58:38 -0600
> > "Eric W. Biederman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > This patch modif
use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
diff --git a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
index b4b8014..e3cf141 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
@@ -2430,7 +2430,7 @@ idt77252_ope
icom, mark __init as __devinit
Two functions are called from __devinit context, but they are marked as
__init. Fix this.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
commit 257f51b72348e8879e8ef397f82e1408233843c1
tree 79a82d6c884adc7b941773929c92d269a9b91679
parent 6f42cfdf174bdd2c05edf7d1
use spinlock instead of binary mutex in CDU-31A driver
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
diff --git a/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c b/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c
index 2157c58..d3649e4 100644
--- a/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c
+++ b/drivers/cdrom/cdu31a.c
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ static int sony
On Monday 23 April 2007 03:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> mån 2007-04-23 klockan 01:03 +1000 skrev Con Kolivas:
> > Yet another significant bugfix for SMP balancing was just posted for the
> > staircase deadline cpu scheduler which improves behaviour dramatically on
> > any SMP machine.
> >
> > Thank
Rafael wrote:
> Move all of the freezer-related flags to a separate field in task_struct and
> introduce functions to operate them using set_bit() etc.
It's getting time I learned what this freezer thing is.
What would you suggest I read?
I looked in include/linux/freezer.h and didn't see any ex
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:26:31 -0400 Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The listxattr() and getxattr() operations are only protected by a read
>> lock. As a result, if either of these operations run in parallel, a race
Hi,
For some time I had been working on this file system test framework.
Now I have a implementation for the same and below is the explanation.
Any comments are welcome.
Introduction:
The testing tools and benchmarks available around do not take into
account the repair and recovery aspects of fi
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:44AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This patch starts the xpc kernel threads using kthread_run
> not a combination of kernel_thread and daemonize. Resuling
> in slightly simpler and more maintainable code.
This driv
Hi,
The attached code contains program to estimate the cross-chunk
references for ChunkFS file system (idea from Valh). Below are the
results:
test on ext3, / partition-1 on 27 March 2007
Number of files = 217806
Number of directories = 24295
Total size = 8193116 KB
Total data stored = 7557892 K
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:43AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This patch modifies the startup of kecardd to use
> kthread_run not a kernel_thread combination of kernel_thread
> and daemonize. Making the code slightly simpler and more
> mainta
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 01:58:42AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> From: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Modify zfcperp%s to be started with kthread_run not
> a combination of kernel_thread, daemonize and siginitsetinv
> making the code slightly simpler and more maintainable.
This dri
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