Re: lmbench ctxsw regression with CFS

2007-08-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh good. Thanks for getting to the bottom of it. We have normally > disliked too much runtime tunables in the scheduler, so I assume these > are mostly going away or under a CONFIG option for 2.6.23? Or...? yeah, they are all already under CONFIG_SCHE

[PATCH] Use ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK if poll() is interrupted by a signal (was: Re: [PATCH] Use ERESTARTNOHAND if poll() is interrupted by a signal)

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Wright
* Oleg Nesterov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What we need is ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK, and restart_block.arg2 should > have the new timeout value, which takes the time we already slept > into account. This passes my simple 32-bit and 64-bit testing. See any issues with this one? thanks, -chris --

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > > These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address > > three > > issues: > > 1) inter device starvation > > 2) stacked device deadlocks > > 3) inter process starvation > >

Re: Oops in 2.6.23-rc1-git9, arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c::fill_mp_bus_to_cpumask()

2007-08-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:50:35PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:10:03 -0400 > Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250859 > > > > at line 74: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: ICH8 CF timeout (regression)...

2007-08-03 Thread Tejun Heo
Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Tejun, > > On 03/08/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Daniel J Blueman wrote: >>> The ICH8 south-bridge I have is the mobile variant and does come >>> equipped with native parallel IDE - see page 447: >>> http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/313056

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Jeff Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After resume from s2ram or switching to console from X, my console is > messed up on rc1 and rc2. Is there a fix for this? This is on IBM X60. i915 chipset. No problem on 2.6.22. If this is a

Re: [PATCH x86-64] Calgary - Fix mis-handled PCI topology

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 16:39:26 +0300 Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew, can you please push this Calgary bug-fix to 2.6.23 in your > next merge? it fixes a showstopper bug in the recently merged CalIOC2 > support that hits machines with multiple levels of PCI-to-PCI bridges. > > Th

Re: [PATCH] request_firmware: skip timeout if userspace was not notified

2007-08-03 Thread david
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Javier Pello wrote: Hi, I have prepared a patch that makes request_firmware skip the usual grace period that it gives firmware images to show up, if it determines that userspace was not notified at all. When request_firmware is called, it sends an event to userspace to ask

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Jeff Chua
On 8/4/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot of the changes are small, and a lot of them really are fixes, but > there's a MIPS merge in there too, and some absolutely _huge_ diffs due to > some drivers undergoing Lindent cleanups (28 _thousand_ lines changes in > advansys.c, and t

Re: Vmware crashes if compress/misc.c scrolls?

2007-08-03 Thread Zachary Amsden
H. Peter Anvin wrote: I just got the following message on the syslinux mailing list: 2. On some platforms (vmware for example :), READING from the video memory in the 32bit mode is impossible (causes an exeption). Taking in to account that the scroll function in ilinux/arch/i386/boot/c

Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering]

2007-08-03 Thread david
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Ondrej Zajicek wrote: On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: It does not rename ethX to the "next free" one, but to a _persistent_ one. If it were a "next free" thing, then removing

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread david
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: So I tried to hold people to the merge window, and said no to a few pull requests, but this whole "-rc2 is the new -rc1" thing is a disease, and not only is -rc2 late, it's bigger than it should be. Oh, well. I don't think this is new, -rc1 has always

Re: [PATCH] pci_get_device call from interrupt in reboot fixups

2007-08-03 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:39:24PM +0400, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > The following calltrace is possible now: > handle_sysrq >machine_emergency_restart > mach_reboot_fixups >pci_get_device > pci_get_subsys > down_read > The patch obtains PCI device during initializa

Re: [PATCH] PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION

2007-08-03 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 03 August 2007 18:47, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 4 August 2007 00:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > depends on PM > > > - depends on !SMP || SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE > > > + depends on SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE || ((BLACKFIN || MIP

Re: [REGRESSION] tg3 dead after s2ram

2007-08-03 Thread David Miller
From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 12:10:29 -0700 > [TG3]: Fix suspend/resume problem. > > Joachim Deguara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> reported that tg3 devices > would not resume properly if the device was shutdown before the system > was suspended. In such scenario where t

Linux 2.6.23-rc2

2007-08-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
So I tried to hold people to the merge window, and said no to a few pull requests, but this whole "-rc2 is the new -rc1" thing is a disease, and not only is -rc2 late, it's bigger than it should be. Oh, well. A lot of the changes are small, and a lot of them really are fixes, but there's a MIP

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-08-03 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:32:04PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > > These days I'm trying to create an html index that links into Documentation > in > a coherent order (with categories and everything), and using automated tools > to detect files that aren't linked to, or links that point to a file

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-08-03 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 03:32:04PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote: > On Friday 03 August 2007 1:11:55 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:28:06 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:15 -0400 Rob Landley wrote:

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Manu Abraham
On 8/4/07, Dave Dillow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:04 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > > On 7/31/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > TODO list currently includes following main items: > > > * redundancy algorithm (drop me a request of your own, but it

[PATCH] sched: Simplify move_tasks()

2007-08-03 Thread Peter Williams
The move_tasks() function is currently multiplexed with two distinct capabilities: 1. attempt to move a specified amount of weighted load from one run queue to another; and 2. attempt to move a specified number of tasks from one run queue to another. The first of these capabilities is used i

Re: [PATCH] SH: add machine-ops and Dreamcast specific fix-up

2007-08-03 Thread Paul Mundt
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 08:26:17PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote: > diff --git a/arch/sh/boards/dreamcast/Makefile > b/arch/sh/boards/dreamcast/Makefile > index e6fcd3d..7b97546 100644 > --- a/arch/sh/boards/dreamcast/Makefile > +++ b/arch/sh/boards/dreamcast/Makefile > @@ -2,5 +2,5 @@ > # Makefil

[PATCH] Categorize GFP flags

2007-08-03 Thread Christoph Lameter
The function of GFP_LEVEL_MASK seems to be unclear. In order to clear up the mystery we get rid of it and replace GFP_LEVEL_MASK with 3 sets of GFP flags: GFP_RECLAIM_MASKFlags used to control page allocator reclaim behavior. GFP_CONSTRAINT_MASK Flags used to limit where allocations c

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Actually the hrsleep() function would allow for submillisecond sleeps, > > which might be what some of the 450 users really want and they only use > > msleep(1) because it's the next best thing. > > A hrsleep() function is really what makes mos

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Dillow
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 09:04 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: > On 7/31/07, Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TODO list currently includes following main items: > > * redundancy algorithm (drop me a request of your own, but it is highly > > unlikley that Reed-Solomon based wil

Re: [-mm patch] DMA engine kconfig improvements

2007-08-03 Thread Dan Williams
On 7/25/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:03:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > >... > > Changes since 2.6.22-rc6-mm1: > >... > > +dma-arch-fix.patch > > > > Fix git-dma.patch > >... > > This results in an ARM-only driver in an X86-only menu... > > What about

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 03 August 2007 03:26, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:08:24PM -0700, I wrote: > > I see bits that worry me, e.g.: > > > > + req = mempool_alloc(st->w->req_pool, GFP_NOIO); > > > > which seems to be callable in response to a local request, just the > > case w

Re: PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Gert Robben
Have you reported this to the ALSA people? No, I thought this might as well be something for PCI or PM people, and I expected some ALSA people are also reading this list. If not, where else should I report this exactly? alsa-devel [...] the author of the driver Done (original message below). T

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Mike, On Thursday 02 August 2007 21:09, Mike Snitzer wrote: > But NBD's synchronous nature is actually an asset when coupled with > MD raid1 as it provides guarantees that the data has _really_ been > mirrored remotely. And bio completion doesn't? Regards, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
Hi Evgeniy, Nit alert: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 10:13, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > * storage can be formed on top of remote nodes and be exported > simultaneously (iSCSI is peer-to-peer only, NBD requires device > mapper and is synchronous) In fact, NBD has nothing to do with device

Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE

2007-08-03 Thread Mel Gorman
On (04/08/07 00:02), Andi Kleen didst pronounce: > On Thursday 02 August 2007 19:21:18 Mel Gorman wrote: > > The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone. When > > ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes > > ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that polic

Re: PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 04/08/07, Gert Robben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Hancock wrote: > > Have you reported this to the ALSA people? > No, I thought this might as well be something for PCI or PM people, and > I expected some ALSA people are also reading this list. > If not, where else should I report this ex

Re: PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Gert Robben
Robert Hancock wrote: Have you reported this to the ALSA people? No, I thought this might as well be something for PCI or PM people, and I expected some ALSA people are also reading this list. If not, where else should I report this exactly? Gert Robben - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

[PATCH] au88x0: mem leak fix in snd_vortex_create()

2007-08-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, In sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0.c::snd_vortex_create() : The Coverity checker found that if we allocate storage for 'chip' but then leave via the regions_out: label, then we end up leaking the storage allocated for 'chip'. I believe simply freeing 'chip' before the "return err;" line is all w

custom baud rates with serial core

2007-08-03 Thread Mike Frysinger
is there a method for setting custom baud rates that doesnt cause a "deprecated" message from showing up ? for example: # setserial -a /dev/ttyBF0 divisor 9 spd_cust setserial sets custom speed on ttyBF0. This is deprecated. my reading of the serial core code is that the only way to specify a bau

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-03 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Actually the hrsleep() function would allow for submillisecond sleeps, > which might be what some of the 450 users really want and they only use > msleep(1) because it's the next best thing. > A hrsleep() function is really what makes most sense from an API > perspective. I respectfully di

Re: dev->priv to netdev_priv(dev)

2007-08-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Yoann Padioleau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c hdlc_fr (PVC device) uses dev->priv for N:1 mappings (a single pvc structure may be referenced as dev->priv by multiple (up to 2 currently) PVC devs). > drivers/net/wan/hdlc_ppp.c hdlc_ppp obvio

[PATCH] UBI: Don't use signed int as array index before testing if it is negative

2007-08-03 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi, I can't find anything guaranteeing that 'ubi_num' cannot be <0 in drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c::ubi_open_volume(), and in fact the code even tests for that and errors out if so. Unfortunately the test for "ubi_num < 0" happens after we've already used 'ubi_num' as an array index - bad thing to d

[PATCH] powerpc: Use linux/elfcore-compat.h

2007-08-03 Thread Roland McGrath
This makes powerpc64's compat code use the new linux/elfcore-compat.h, reducing some hand-copied duplication. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/binfmt_elf32.c | 67 --- include/asm-powerpc/elf.h | 38 +++

[PATCH] x86_64: Use linux/elfcore-compat.h

2007-08-03 Thread Roland McGrath
This makes x86-64's ia32 code use the new linux/elfcore-compat.h, reducing some hand-copied duplication. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86_64/ia32/ia32_binfmt.c | 123 +++- include/asm-x86_64/compat.h|6 ++ 2 files changed

[PATCH] Add linux/elfcore-compat.h

2007-08-03 Thread Roland McGrath
This adds the linux/elfcore-compat.h header file, which is the CONFIG_COMPAT analog of the linux/elfcore.h header. Each arch that needs to fake out fs/binfmt_elf.c for its compat code can use this header to replace the hand-copied definitions of the compat variants of struct elf_prstatus et al.

Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

2007-08-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 08/03/2007 02:00 PM, Robert Hancock wrote: > This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers > (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to > libata error handling output. This prevents the need to pore through > standards documents to figure

Re: Oops in 2.6.23-rc1-git9, arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c::fill_mp_bus_to_cpumask()

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:10:03 -0400 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250859 > > at line 74: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:sd = bus->sysdata; > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Robert Hancock
Gert Robben wrote: After a suspend-resume cycle (using Suspend2), my sound card doesn't work anymore. It works again after reloading the module. dmesg, initial boot: Linux version 2.6.22-ck1 8< PCI driver au8830 lacks driver specific resume support. dmesg, after resume, trying to u

Re: ICH8 CF timeout (regression)...

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Tejun, On 03/08/07, Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel J Blueman wrote: > > The ICH8 south-bridge I have is the mobile variant and does come > > equipped with native parallel IDE - see page 447: > > http://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/datashts/31305603.pdf . I do > > see 35MB/s wi

Re: [PATCH] PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION

2007-08-03 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Saturday, 4 August 2007 00:01, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > depends on PM > > - depends on !SMP || SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE > > + depends on SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE || ((BLACKFIN || MIPS || SUPERH || FRV \ > > + || (PPC32 && PPC_MPC52

Re: [PATCH RFC -rt] Allow rcutorture to handle synchronize_sched()

2007-08-03 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 11:44 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > The rcutorture module uses a random-number generator that periodically > calls get_random_bytes() to add entropy. This random-number generator > is invoked from within the RCU read-side critical section, which, in the > case of the synch

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB BIOS early handoff only when the we the driver is configured

2007-08-03 Thread Grant Grundler
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:43:29AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: ... > It wasn't just MIPS. IBM has a very popular blade system that has huge > issues with this, and I think there are some other IBM systems based on > the same BIOS that also do bad things if we don't grab the USB > controller away from th

Re: [PATCH 00/23] per device dirty throttling -v8

2007-08-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > These patches aim to improve balance_dirty_pages() and directly address three > issues: > 1) inter device starvation > 2) stacked device deadlocks > 3) inter process starvation Ok, the patches certainly look pretty enough, and you fixed the on

PROBLEM: snd-au8830: dead after software suspend

2007-08-03 Thread Gert Robben
After a suspend-resume cycle (using Suspend2), my sound card doesn't work anymore. It works again after reloading the module. dmesg, initial boot: Linux version 2.6.22-ck1 8< PCI driver au8830 lacks driver specific resume support. dmesg, after resume, trying to use the card: vortex

Re: + remove-current-defines-and-uses-of-pr_err-add-pr_emerg.patch added to -mm tree

2007-08-03 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:05 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Fine with me, but this first patch should still be correct per se. Add new pr_ printk(KERN_ fmt "\n", ##arg) to kernel.h pr_info and pr_debug are unchanged Remove local pr_err #defines Convert current uses of pr_err Signed-off-by: Joe Per

Oops in 2.6.23-rc1-git9, arch/x86_64/pci/k8-bus.c::fill_mp_bus_to_cpumask()

2007-08-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250859 at line 74: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sd = bus->sysdata; [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sd->node = node; <= bus->sysdata is NULL. Last changed by this hu

Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

2007-08-03 Thread Al Viro
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:13:51PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote: > You're correct that dynamic major/minor numbers are sufficient for most > purposes, but embedded users really need their static numbers. As for > ripping out major/minor numberings, that's a non-starter. Too much of our > device ma

Re: [PATCH] kill an obsolete sub-thread-ptrace stuff

2007-08-03 Thread Roland McGrath
> However, I disagree. exit_notify() doesn't check the ptrace-same-group > case. So, unless I missed something, we set EXIT_DEAD in any case, even > if ptracer doesn't belong to our thread group. Oh, you're right. I was reading the other line you changed. Thanks, Roland - To unsubscribe from th

Re: [PATCH] PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION

2007-08-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > depends on PM > - depends on !SMP || SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE > + depends on SUSPEND_SMP_POSSIBLE || ((BLACKFIN || MIPS || SUPERH || FRV \ > + || (PPC32 && PPC_MPC52xx)) && !SMP) Please, do that as SUSPEND_UP_POSSIBLE, and

Re: [PATCH] Apply memory policies to top two highest zones when highest zone is ZONE_MOVABLE

2007-08-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 02 August 2007 19:21:18 Mel Gorman wrote: > The NUMA layer only supports NUMA policies for the highest zone. When > ZONE_MOVABLE is configured with kernelcore=, the the highest zone becomes > ZONE_MOVABLE. The result is that policies are only applied to allocations > like anonymous page

Re: [PATCH] kill an obsolete sub-thread-ptrace stuff

2007-08-03 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 08/03, Roland McGrath wrote: > > > There is a couple of subtle checks which were needed to handle ptracing from > > the same thread group. This was deprecated a long ago, imho this code just > > complicates the understanding. > > Looks ok to me. Thanks! > > And, the "->parent->signal->flags &

Re: ACPI on Averatec 2370

2007-08-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Cal Peake wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > That said, the "AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-52" _should_ be > > a REV-F CPU afaik, and it should have thus fallen through to the > > "ENABLE_C1E_MASK" logic. Afaik that's broken. > > > > Cal

Re: [PATCH] kill an obsolete sub-thread-ptrace stuff

2007-08-03 Thread Roland McGrath
> There is a couple of subtle checks which were needed to handle ptracing from > the same thread group. This was deprecated a long ago, imho this code just > complicates the understanding. Looks ok to me. > And, the "->parent->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT" check in exit_notify() > is not rig

[PATCH] PM: Fix dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION

2007-08-03 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION introduced by commit 296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 "Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for suspend-to-Ram and standby" are incorrect, as they don't cover the facts that (1) not all architectures supp

Re: [PATCH -mm] libata: add human-readable error value decoding v3

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Cox
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:00:57 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This adds human-readable decoding of the ATA status and error registers > (similar to what drivers/ide does) as well as the SATA Serror register to > libata error handling output. This prevents the need to pore through

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:17:24PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > > > here's a head start for you. > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243038 > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246713 > > https://bugzilla.re

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 05:17:24PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > The last report appears to be related more to the EHCI-cpufreq problem, > for which a patch was recently posted. There seem to be multiple issues there, with at least one of them being autosuspend related. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMA

Re: [2/3] 2.6.23-rc1: known regressions v3

2007-08-03 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 00:07, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Meelis Roos wrote: > >>> Subject : New ACPI error/warning with Linus' latest GIT > >>> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/26/395 > >>> Last known good : ? > >>> Submitter : Ismail Dönmez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> C

Re: arch maintainers: define O_CLOEXEC correctly!

2007-08-03 Thread David Miller
From: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:09:16 -0700 > Affected as far as I know: > > Alpha: probably needs value 01000 > > Sparc*: -"- 0x40 I've fixed sparc, thanks for reporting this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dave Jones wrote: > here's a head start for you. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243038 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246713 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243953 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/s

Re: Dynamic major/minor numbers (or dropping them completely)

2007-08-03 Thread Chris Snook
Eduard-Gabriel Munteanu wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Currently, the kernel has the following properties: 1) initramfs can be used to boot the system. We don't need any predefined /dev entries. 2) udev can be started from the initramfs to create

[PATCH] kill an obsolete sub-thread-ptrace stuff

2007-08-03 Thread Oleg Nesterov
There is a couple of subtle checks which were needed to handle ptracing from the same thread group. This was deprecated a long ago, imho this code just complicates the understanding. And, the "->parent->signal->flags & SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT" check in exit_notify() is not right. SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT can m

Re: [PATCH] lro: myri10ge example how to use LRO

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Kok, Auke wrote: Andrew Gallatin wrote: To follow up on Jan-Bernd Themann's LRO patch earlier today, this patch shows how the generic LRO interface can be used for page based drivers. Again, many thanks to Jan-Bernd Themann for leading this effort. Drew Singed off by: Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL

Re: PROBLEM: Oops when using dm-crypt with dpt_i2o

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:46:14 +0200 Philipp T__lke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, hi everybody! > > Thanks for the reply! > > Andrew Morton wrote: > >> The oopses: > >> > >> #v+ > >> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 14001000 > >> [...] > > > > So it looks l

[PATCH] Fix local_irq_* macro definition thinkos for the !TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT case

2007-08-03 Thread George G. Davis
From: George G. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix local_irq_* macro definition errors for the !TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT case in which the macros are errantly "redefined" rather than defined. Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/include/linux/irqflags.h b/include/linux/irqfla

spurious NCQ completions from FUJITSU MHW2120BH

2007-08-03 Thread Meelis Roos
Todays git gave me some EH errors during fsck (30 times mounted and time to check), then recovered and works fine. Seems to be spurious NCQ completion. The disk is Device Model: FUJITSU MHW2120BH Firmware Version: 0012 User Capacity:120 034 123 776 bytes Tried Debian 2.6.22-1-686 an

Re: PROBLEM: Oops when using dm-crypt with dpt_i2o

2007-08-03 Thread Philipp Tölke
Hi Andrew, hi everybody! Thanks for the reply! Andrew Morton wrote: >> The oopses: >> >> #v+ >> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 14001000 >> [...] > > So it looks like q->request_fn points at 0x14001000, which is in outer > space. > > I wonder how that could happen

Re: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe latest BIOS wants acpi_use_timer_override

2007-08-03 Thread Andi Kleen
> Is it possible to open a bugzilla and drop the acpidump and dmesg > from both the new and old BIOS in it? My guess is that they changed some bits outside the DSDT. But ok makes sense. > Assuming the override in both cases is identical, I'm really baffled > by this failure. It seems that the

Re: [PATCH] lro: myri10ge example how to use LRO

2007-08-03 Thread Kok, Auke
Andrew Gallatin wrote: To follow up on Jan-Bernd Themann's LRO patch earlier today, this patch shows how the generic LRO interface can be used for page based drivers. Again, many thanks to Jan-Bernd Themann for leading this effort. Drew Singed off by: Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pl

Re: [PATCH] lro: eHEA example how to use LRO

2007-08-03 Thread Kok, Auke
Jan-Bernd Themann wrote: This patch shows how the generic LRO interface is used for SKB mode Signed-off-by: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/Kconfig |1 + drivers/net/ehea/ehea.h |9 - drivers/net/ehea/ehea_ethtool.c | 15 +++ drivers/

Re: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe latest BIOS wants acpi_use_timer_override

2007-08-03 Thread Len Brown
On Friday 03 August 2007 16:01, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Friday 03 August 2007 20:38:17 Robert Hancock wrote: > > It appears that the latest BIOS version 1805 for the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe > > board fixes the broken ACPI timer override that was in earlier versions, > > and which the kernel ignores on n

[PATCH] pxa2xx PCMCIA timing issue on iPAQ H5550

2007-08-03 Thread Milan Plzik
Good day, recently I've been trying to get working PCMCIA interface on H5000 ipaq series, using dual PCMCIA sleeve. So far things work correctly, but I had to do one modification to drivers/pcmcia/pxa2xx_base.c to get the interface working with orinoco gold PCMCIA card (wired pcnet_cs ethernet

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:44:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:26:43PM +0200, Rogan Dawes wrote: > > > > > Compare that to: > > > > > > "My USB printer broke, guess I'd better report it to LKML". >

Re: [rfc] balance-on-fork NUMA placement

2007-08-03 Thread Siddha, Suresh B
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:20:10AM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:33:39AM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: > > Nick Piggin wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 03:52:11PM -0700, Martin Bligh wrote: > > >>>And so forth. Initial forks will balance. If the children refuse to > > >>>

Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

2007-08-03 Thread Oleg Nesterov
Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > Looks like the same problem with spinlock unfairness we've seen > elsewhere: it seems to be looping here? Or is everyone stuck > just waiting for writeout? > > lock_timer_base(): > for (;;) { > tvec_base_t *prelock_base = timer->base; >

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:08:11PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag 03 August 2007 schrieb Matthew Garrett: > > > Which is why I didn't suggest doing that, of course.  The only > > > one making that kind of straw man argument seems to be you. > > > > But however you phrase it, that's

[patch v2] fuse: fix permission checking on sticky directories

2007-08-03 Thread Miklos Szeredi
From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The VFS checks sticky bits on the parent directory even if the filesystem defines it's own ->permission(). In some situations (sshfs, mountlo, etc) the user does have permission to delete a file even if the attribute based checking would not allow it. So

Re: [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:45:32 -0400, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My experience suggests the opposite. Of the several I've tried so far, > > > none have worked with usb suspend. > > > > All of mine work. I'm wondering if this has something to do with > > a hub or motherboard...

Re: [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:29:21 -0400, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, we did - with hindsight it may not have been such a great plan :) > > I believe that Fedora did as well, but have disabled it in an update > > kernel. > > Yeah, autosuspend broke too many devices. Way too many

Re: Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe latest BIOS wants acpi_use_timer_override

2007-08-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 03 August 2007 20:38:17 Robert Hancock wrote: > It appears that the latest BIOS version 1805 for the ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe > board fixes the broken ACPI timer override that was in earlier versions, > and which the kernel ignores on nForce4 chipsets. Now the same override: > > ACPI: INT_SRC

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:19 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > > > Most comments last time were favorable. The one dissenter was Roman, > > > who worries about the overhead of using hrtim

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 03 August 2007 07:53, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 17:49 +0400, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 02:27:52PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > ...my main position is to > > allocate per socket reserve from socket's queue, and copy data > > there from main

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-03 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 21:19 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > Most comments last time were favorable. The one dissenter was Roman, > > who worries about the overhead of using hrtimers for this operation; my > > understanding is that he would ra

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:34:47PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:24:16 -0400, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:57:45AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > > Kernel developers are a diverser lot than you think ;-) > > > We don't enabl

Re: Distributed storage.

2007-08-03 Thread Daniel Phillips
On Friday 03 August 2007 06:49, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > ...rx has global reserve (always allocated on > startup or sometime way before reclaim/oom)where data is originally > received (including skb, shared info and whatever is needed, page is > just an exmaple), then it is copied into per-socket

lvcreate on 2.6.22.1: kernel tried to execute NX-protected page

2007-08-03 Thread Juergen Kreileder
Hi, I got the appended BUG from a 32-bit 2.6.22.1 kernel (with exec-shield patch and PAE enabled) on an Athlon64 with dmsetup 1.02.03 and lvm2 v2.02.02. (Note, the message comes from the vanilla kernel, not from the exec-shiled patch.) I wasn't able to reproduce the problem so far. The machine c

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 10:24:16 -0400, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 09:57:45AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Kernel developers are a diverser lot than you think ;-) > > We don't enable autosuspend in drivers we can't test, except where > > the lack of a kerne

Re: Documentation of kernel messages (Summary)

2007-08-03 Thread Rob Landley
On Friday 03 August 2007 1:11:55 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:53:06 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:28:06 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 21:56:15 -0400 Rob Landley wrote: > > > > On Friday 13 July 2007 11:54:41 pm Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >

Re: [BUG] timer.h

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:41:39 +0200 Christian Sch__fer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Sch__fer wrote: > > today I got the following kernel bug while wpa_supplicant tried to > > connect to my AP. Kernel is a self-compiled 2.6.22 running under Ubuntu > > Feisty. > > The wireless device is a

Re: [PATCH] USB: Only enable autosuspend by default on certain device classes

2007-08-03 Thread Chuck Ebbert
On 08/03/2007 01:48 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 10:44:35AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 01:32:53PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> But while this is still a likely probability, the chances are no >>> distribution is going to ship with CONFIG_USB_SUSPE

[PATCH] SH: add machine-ops and Dreamcast specific fix-up

2007-08-03 Thread Adrian McMenamin
(This code is closely modelled on the i386 machine-ops, though currently the only board specific fixup is for the Dreamcast and so there is not a separate set of mach fixups.) This needs to be tested against a wide range of SH boards and would be good to go in -mm if Paul acks it. Add machine-ops

Re: [PATCH] create CONFIG_SUSPEND_UP_POSSIBLE

2007-08-03 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Without this change, it is possible to build CONFIG_HIBERNATE > > on all !SMP architectures, but not necessarily their SMP versions. > > Did you want to say "CONFIG_SUSPEND"? Yes. > > I don't know for sure if the architecture list u

Re: 2.6.22.1: hang with forcedeth driver?

2007-08-03 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:57:21 +0300 (EEST) Timo Jantunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heip! > > I have had few total hangs with 2.6.22.1 kernel. Everything suddenly > freezes and nothing works (SysRq keys, pinging the machine from the > network.) Neither syslog nor netconsole have any relevant me

Re: [PATCH] msleep() with hrtimers

2007-08-03 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Most comments last time were favorable. The one dissenter was Roman, > who worries about the overhead of using hrtimers for this operation; my > understanding is that he would rather see a really_msleep() function for > those who actually want mil

Re: NFSv4 poops itself

2007-08-03 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 01:29:00PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:16 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > Jeff and Bruce, could you please try to reproduce the problem after > > > either applying patches 001 to 004 or just the single NFS_ALL patch > >

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