On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:59 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> >
> > > 8) kmalloc-4096 order is 1 which means one slab consists of 2 objects. So
> > > a
> >
> > You can change that by booting with slub_max_or
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:27:23PM +0530, Renuka Pampana wrote:
> hi all,
>
> iam having one doubt about the usb driver application. i written one
> small application (u can see this file usbthread.c
> in attachment
Nothing was attached :(
> , cc -o usbthread usbthread.c -lpthread -lusb (for
On 247, 09 04, 2007 at 01:37:22PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> We see that in ata_piix.c, there is a whitelist for (laptop) Intel ICH
> controllers with short cables, tied to specific vendor subsystem IDs.
> Since my mini-ITX Ibase MI910F has the subsystem IDs specified as
> Intel [1], this is
Jeff Garzik wrote:
Jonathan A. George wrote:
... But is it _ethical_ (as opposed to legal) to violate the expressed
intent of the original author ...
The author expresses his intent primarily by choice of license text, and
it's very important to all of us that we follow the rules set forth by
Andreas Herrmann wrote:
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 04:33:19AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 11:17:18 +0200
"Andreas Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
\>
Do you see any other issues besides the naming of the bit?
I wonder if we should key this off a PCI ID of the chipset ra
This trivial patch removes the unneeded pointer intf returned from
usb_ifnum_to_if(), which is never used. The check for NULL can be simply done
by if (!usb_ifnum_to_if(usb_dev, 2)).
Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- a/drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c2007-09-04 23:18:17.
This trivial patch removes the unneeded pointer newdp, which is never used.
Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- a/net/dccp/ipv4.c 2007-09-04 23:18:42.0 +0800
+++ b/net/dccp/ipv4.c 2007-09-05 00:49:54.0 +0800
@@ -381,7 +381,6 @@
{
struct inet_reques
This trivial patch removes the unneeded pointer iph, which is never used.
Signed-off-by: Micah Gruber < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- a/net/ipv6/ipcomp6.c2007-09-04 23:18:43.0 +0800
+++ b/net/ipv6/ipcomp6.c2007-09-05 00:48:05.0 +0800
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
static int ipco
Steven Rostedt wrote:
This is a formal announcement of Lguest64.
Most are aware of the little puppies (lguest32, or simply lguest, or in
some circles "rustyvisor"). But this time the puppies ate a bit too
much. No more lean and mean puppies, now we got big fat lazy ones.
Running on the hardwar
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:59 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>
> > 8) kmalloc-4096 order is 1 which means one slab consists of 2 objects. So a
>
> You can change that by booting with slub_max_order=0. Then we can also use
> the per cpu queues to get thes
Hello everybody,
I found a problem in /proc/self/schedstat: a simple "cat" can give "wrong"
results.
/proc# cat self/schedstat
91117 26027 2
/proc# cat self/schedstat
90691 27872 2
/proc# cat self/schedstat
995483 15675 3
/proc# cat self/sc
Hi Mike,
On Wednesday 05 September 2007 00:34, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > + kbd->dev = input_allocate_device();
> > ...
> > + retval = input_register_device(kbd->dev);
> > + if (unlikely(retval))
> > + goto cleanup;
> > ...
> > + cleanup:
> > + kfree(kbd);
> > +
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> --- a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
> + Say Y here if you have a DreamCast console running Linux and have
funny caps in Dreamcast
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/maple_keyb.c
> +st
On Monday 27 August 2007 18:07, Daniel Ritz wrote:
> > OK, so here's the new patch, inline this time:
>
> thanks. looks fine now. forwarding to Dmitry for mainline inclusion...
>
Applied, thank you.
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On Monday 20 August 2007 20:38, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some braille keyboards have 10 dots, so extend the Input braille keys
> definitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Applied, thank you Samuel.
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On Monday 03 September 2007 17:47, Elvis Pranskevichus wrote:
> This fixes "atkbd.c: Suprious NAK on isa0060/serio0" errors for
> HP Pavilion DV4270ca. Same reasons as for
> 9d9d50bb2efb50594abfc3941a5504b62c514ebd
> and 6e782584e0713ea89da151333e7fe754c8f40324.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elvis Pranskevi
Hi,
On Saturday 04 August 2007 18:45, William Pettersson wrote:
> Hi,
> This patch adds support for the Alps touchpad on my Dell Vostro 1400 to
> the linux kernel.
>
> Signed-off-by: William Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Applied, thank you William.
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From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- fix typos/spellos in docproc.c and Makefile
- add a little whitespace {while, switch} (coding style)
- use NULL instead of 0 for pointer testing
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
scripts/basic/Makefile |8
scripts/basic/doc
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> 8) kmalloc-4096 order is 1 which means one slab consists of 2 objects. So a
You can change that by booting with slub_max_order=0. Then we can also use
the per cpu queues to get these order 0 objects which may speed up the
allocations because we do not
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > My question though, would include/linux/smp.h be the appropriate place for
> > the above define? (That is, if the above approach is the correct one... ;-)
>
> It'd be better to convert the unconverted architectures?
That is certainly the cleanest sol
Hi Adrian,
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 19:34, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> This patch will add support for the Dreamcast keyboard when used
> alongside the maple bus patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/165) and
> the pvr2 patch.
>
> Signed off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
Thnank you
This is a formal announcement of Lguest64.
Most are aware of the little puppies (lguest32, or simply lguest, or in
some circles "rustyvisor"). But this time the puppies ate a bit too
much. No more lean and mean puppies, now we got big fat lazy ones.
Running on the hardware that's too lazy to do
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Apparently XEN does not keep the contents of the 48-bit gdt_48 data
structure that is passed to lgdt in the XEN machine state. Instead it
appears to save the _address_ of the 48-bit descript
Sami Farin wrote:
Using SMP kernel 2.6.22.6pre-CFS-v20.5 on Pentium D (IA-32).
I think this bug (or whatever you want to call it) got triggered
when you first allocate several megabytes of memory in a kernel module
and then free them, and then run e.g. X and when memory gets tight,
you end up wit
Hi,
I have just had a quite unexpected 'low memory situation'...
This is a AMD64 machine with 2 gig memory, running 64 bit userland.
Kernel: 2.6.23-rc3-git10, updating to -rc5-* as soon as i can.
I'm using SLUB:s
To me, this looks odd... I thought that any cached memory would be
reclamed but
Hi Evgeniy,
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Evgeniy Dushistov wrote:
>
> Different types of ufs hold state in different places,
> to hide complexity of this, there is ufs_get_fs_state,
> it returns state according to "UFS_SB(sb)->s_flags",
> but during mount ufs_get_fs_state is called,
> before setting s_f
Joe Perches wrote:
MAINTAINERS curently has:
TUN/TAP driver
P: Maxim Krasnyansky
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
L: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to be a valid email address.
Should it be removed or modified?
Sorry for late response. Just noticed this.
Yes it's an anc
1) Tbench has about 30% regression in kernel 2.6.23-rc4 than 2.6.22.
2.6.23-rc1 has about 10% regression. I investigated 2.6.22 and 2.6.23-rc4.
2) Testing environment: x86_64, qual-core, 2 physical processors, totally
8 cores. 8GB memory. Kernel enables CONFIG_SLUB=y and CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG=y.
3) Und
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 17:12 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> Hi Ingo... I'm getting reports from some of my Planet CCRMA users (which
> I confirmed) that the latest rt kernel I released has broken suspend
> (tested on fc6 & fc7, stock Fedora kernel works fine - the rt
> configuration files ar
Hi Eugene,
This already got merged into -mm, but ...
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007, Eugene Teo wrote:
>
> tsk->exit_state can only be 0, EXIT_ZOMBIE, or EXIT_DEAD. A non-zero test
> is the same as tsk->exit_state & (EXIT_ZOMBIE | EXIT_DEAD), so just testing
> tsk->exit_state is sufficient.
... IMHO this
Hi Ingo... I'm getting reports from some of my Planet CCRMA users (which
I confirmed) that the latest rt kernel I released has broken suspend
(tested on fc6 & fc7, stock Fedora kernel works fine - the rt
configuration files are virtual clones as far as possible of the
standard Fedora kernel config
Davide,
> > As I think about this more, I see more problems with
> > your argument. timerfd needs the ability to get and
> > get-while-setting just as much as the earlier APIs.
> > Consider a library that creates a timerfd file descriptor that
> > is handed off to an application: that library ma
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:11:31 -0700 Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > It'd be better to convert the unconverted architectures?
>
> I can easily do the changes for ia64 and test them. I don't have the
> capability
> of testing on the powerpc.
>
> And are you asking for just the
Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Tue 04-09-07 16:32:10, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > On Thu 30-08-07 17:14:47, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > > Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > > > I imagine it so that you have a machine and on it sever
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 07:35:21PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 08/28/2007 06:27 PM, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> > Try to fix MC/HT scheduler optimization breakage again, with out breaking
> > the FUZZ logic.
> >
> > First fix the check
> > if (*imbalance + SCHED_LOAD_SCALE_FUZZ < busiest_loa
On 08/28/2007 06:27 PM, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 12:31:03PM -0700, Siddha, Suresh B wrote:
>> Essentially I observed that nice 0 tasks still endup on two cores of same
>> package, with out getting spread out to two different packages. This behavior
>> is same with out this
We're seeing this identical timeout starting with 2.6.21, any time we try and
push a significant amount of traffic through the nforce ethernet. We've rolled
back to 2.6.20.18 and don't see any problems. It seems that this bug got
introduced along with all the forcedeth fixes and optimizations in
This patch will add support for the Dreamcast keyboard when used
alongside the maple bus patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/165) and
the pvr2 patch.
Signed off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
index c97d5eb..16
On Friday 27 July 2007 04:57, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Thanks for writing this, Rafael.
> * system hibernation state - state, in which the system's processors are off
> and
> its main memory is not powered, but the information necessary for continuing
> the computations carried out when the
The maple bus driver (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/165) uses hardware
synchronisation between the maple bus and the VBLANK to poll the maple
bus. This patch makes the interrupt shareable.
By definition the interrupt is for both devices.
Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff -
This patch adds support for SEGA's proprietary Maple bus. Maple is a
serial communications bus and support is required to operate Dreamcast
peripherals. A keyboard driver is also available and will be posted
separately.
Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/arch/sh/Kcon
Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:29:11 -0700 Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:49:03 -0700
>>> From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Cc: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [E
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:25:14 -0400, "Halevy, Benny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi
> request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call
> end_that_request_chunk on req->next_rq and never
> end_that_request_la
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 15:44:31 Michael Poole wrote:
> Chris Friesen writes:
> > Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> >>>Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he
Hi Jason,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Jason Lunz wrote:
>
> Declare mtdsuper to be gpl-licensed so it can access get_mtd_device and
> put_mtd_device when loaded as a module.
The actual issue was a bit different -- refer commit bec494775600b1cd in
latest -git (patch included below).
David, it looks lik
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Xu Yang wrote:
> Hi Dick,
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> then how to create these device nodes in /dev? from the information i
> got from the cosole(unknown block(1,0) ), it seems that I didn't
> create the device? I thought the kernel should do this work right? if
> not how to c
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > Useless like it'd be a motorcycle w/out a cup-holder :)
> > Seriously, the ability to get the previous values from "something" could
> > have a meaning if this something is a shared global resource (like
> > signals
> > for example). In the timerfd
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> Hi Davide,
>
> > >
> > >
> > > I'd have thought that the existing stuff would be near-useless without
> > > the capabilities which you describe?
> >
> > Useless like it'd be a motorcycle w/out a cup-holder :)
> > Seriously, the ability to get the pr
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:55:45AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> Apparently XEN does not keep the contents of the 48-bit gdt_48 data
> structure that is passed to lgdt in the XEN machine state. Instead it
> appears to save the _address_ of the 48-bit descriptor
> somewhere.
On Tue 04-09-07 16:32:10, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > On Thu 30-08-07 17:14:47, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > > I imagine it so that you have a machine and on it several virtual
> > > > machines which are sharing a
Hi Jens,
Thank you for the comments.
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 09:45:45 +0200, Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +extern int blk_end_request(struct request *rq, int uptodate, int nr_bytes);
> > +extern int __blk_end_request(struct request *rq, int uptodate, int
> > nr_bytes);
> > extern int en
Declare mtdsuper to be gpl-licensed so it can access get_mtd_device and
put_mtd_device when loaded as a module.
Signed-off-by: Jason Lunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c |1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Index: linux-2.6.22.6-uml/drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c
===
On 09/04/2007 05:43 PM, Len Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 16:47, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> A look at the 'cpuidle' branch of git-acpi shows a commit
>> e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4, "cpuidle: first
>> round of documentation updates" that doesn't show up in that
>> branch onli
Having established that the oops was not the cause of the hangs I have
been observing with MCYRIXIII, could anyone suggest ways to track down
if this is a compiler or kernel bug?
I have just complied latest git (with tcp_input.c oops fix)
With CONFIG_MCYRIXIII I got a hang with empty logs and not
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 16:47, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> A look at the 'cpuidle' branch of git-acpi shows a commit
> e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4, "cpuidle: first
> round of documentation updates" that doesn't show up in that
> branch online. The entire Documentation/cpuidle directory
Hi Dick,
Thanks for the reply.
then how to create these device nodes in /dev? from the information i
got from the cosole(unknown block(1,0) ), it seems that I didn't
create the device? I thought the kernel should do this work right? if
not how to create it?
thanks,
regards,
2007/9/4, linux-os
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 10:54:32 -0700
Zach Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > +ioc3-program-uart-predividers.patch
> > +sky2-fe-chip-support.patch
> > +sky2-use-debugfs-rename.patch
> > +sky2-document-gphy_ctrl-bits.patch
> > +sky2-dont-restrict-config-space-access.patch
> > +sky2-advanced-error
Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> On Thu 30-08-07 17:14:47, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Jan Kara ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > Maybe before proceeding further with the discussion I'd like to
> > > understand following: What are these user namespaces supposed to be good
> > > for?
> >
>
On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Halevy, Benny wrote:
> Boaz raised my attention to this patchset today...
> We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi
> request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call
> end_that_request_chunk on req->next_rq and never
> end_tha
Boaz raised my attention to this patchset today...
We suspect we'll still need the extern entry points for handling the bidi
request in the scsi_io_completion() path as we only want to call
end_that_request_chunk on req->next_rq and never
end_that_request_last.
(see
http://www.bhalevy.com/open-
Hi,
> * Fix this warning:
>
> drivers/watchdog/core/watchdog_dev.c:84:
> warning: format '%i' expects type 'int', but argument 5 has type 'size_t'
>
> * CONFIG_xxx options are directly usable by preprocessor directives.
Patch works for me. I applied it to the linux-2.6-watchdog-mm tree.
Gr
> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:29:11 -0700 Mike Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Sorry, I did not see this message until Christoph forwarded it to me. I'm
> guessing we (SGI) still have a problem with our external spam filter?]
>
> >
> > -- Forwarded message --
> > Date: Fri, 31 Au
On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote:
> tir, 04 09 2007 kl. 13:06 +0200, skrev Jens Axboe:
> > On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Micah Gruber wrote:
> > > This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference us
> > > before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing af
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Simon Holm Thøgersen wrote:
> > tir, 04 09 2007 kl. 13:06 +0200, skrev Jens Axboe:
> > On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Micah Gruber wrote:
> > > This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference us
> > > before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing
From: Massimiliano Ghilardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The MP3/MP4/AVI player "Rockchip ROCK MP3" is seen as a USB disk, but fails
if more than 128 sectors (64kB) are sent or requested in a single read or write
command, and disconnects from the USB bus.
Typical kernel log showing the problem is:
usb 3-
On 9/4/07, davide rossetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a problem on a Sun V40Z server with 4 network
> devices grabbing random ethX device names. now, trying to force the
> device names to what I want, I got a __tmpX form of device name,
> which I think is a half-confi
Hey-
2nd of two patches. This patch enhances modprobe to operate like rmmod
in non-blocking mode. It also adds a -w option to allow for explicit blocking
operation.
Regards
Neil
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
modprobe.8 |9 +
modprobe.c | 21
> > > The ABI change doesn't really matter, since timerfd() was broken in
> > > 2.6.22 anyway.
> > >
> > > Both previous APIs provided the features I have described provide:
> > >
> > > * the ability to fetch the old timer value when applying
> > > a new setting
> > >
> > > * the ability to no
A look at the 'cpuidle' branch of git-acpi shows a commit
e40cede7d63a029e92712a3fe02faee60cc38fb4, "cpuidle: first
round of documentation updates" that doesn't show up in that
branch online. The entire Documentation/cpuidle directory
is missing from the tree when looking at the web pages, and
it's
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> @@ -1566,12 +1565,13 @@ redo:
> object[c->offset]) != object))
> goto redo;
>
> - put_cpu();
> + local_exit(flags);
> if (unlikely((gfpflags & __GFP_ZERO)))
> memset(object, 0, c->objsi
[Sorry, I did not see this message until Christoph forwarded it to me. I'm
guessing we (SGI) still have a problem with our external spam filter?]
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:49:03 -0700
> From: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Daniel Hazelton wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she
may have released the work un
Patch 1/2 to fix netfilter socket option removal
This patch changes netfilter socket options to do reference counting on the
module refcounter (And saves us 4 bytes in the structure to boot :) ).
regards
Neil
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
include/linux/netfilter.h
tir, 04 09 2007 kl. 13:06 +0200, skrev Jens Axboe:
> On Tue, Sep 04 2007, Micah Gruber wrote:
> > This patch fixes a potential null dereference bug where we dereference us
> > before a null check. This patch simply moves the dereferencing after the
> > null check.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Micah Gr
Hey all-
So I've had a deadlock reported to me. I've found that the sequence of
events goes like this:
1) process A (modprobe) runs to remove ip_tables.ko
2) process B (iptables-restore) runs and calls setsockopt on a netfilter socket,
increasing the ip_tables socket_ops use count
3) pr
local_t protection (critical section)
Adds local_enter(flags) and local_exit(flags) as primitives to surround critical
sections using local_t types.
On architectures providing fast atomic primitives, this turns into a preempt
disable/enable().
However, on architectures not providing such fast pri
slub - Use local_t protection
Use local_enter/local_exit for protection in the fast path.
Depends on the cmpxchg_local slub patch.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
mm/slub.c | 18 ++
1 file changed, 10 insertion
* Christoph Lameter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Measurements on IA64 slub w/per cpu vs slub w/per cpu/cmpxchg_local
> emulation. Results are not good:
>
Hi Christoph,
I tried to come up with a patch set implementing the basics of a new
critical section: local_enter(flags) and local_exit(flags)
Chris Friesen writes:
> Daniel Hazelton wrote:
>> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>>
>>>Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she
may have released the work under, can still revoke t
Daniel Hazelton wrote:
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she
may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a
specific person or grou
--- Leroy van Logchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:05:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Ok perhaps the new adaptive dirty limits helps your single disk
> >> a lot too. But your improvements seem to be more "collateral
> damage" @)
> >>
> >>
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 16:20 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
>
> +Setting a limit to a number that is not a multiple of page size causes
> +rounding up of the value. The user must check back to see (by reading
> +memory.limit_in_bytes), to check for differences between desired values and
> +committed va
Jeff Norden writes:
> From: Jeff Norden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Fix "lost" interrupt problem when using dma with CD/DVD drives in some
> configurations. This problem can make installing linux from media
> impossible for distro's that have switched to libata-only configurations.
>
> The s
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 11:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > This is only for the initial booting stack (init_thread_union); see
> > arch/i386/kernel/head.S:
> > /* Set up the stack pointer */
> > lss stack_start,%esp
> > ...
> > pu
> +ioc3-program-uart-predividers.patch
> +sky2-fe-chip-support.patch
> +sky2-use-debugfs-rename.patch
> +sky2-document-gphy_ctrl-bits.patch
> +sky2-dont-restrict-config-space-access.patch
> +sky2-advanced-error-reporting.patch
> +sky2-use-pci_config-access-functions.patch
> +sky2-use-net_device-in
Adrian Bunk napsal(a):
> defconfig fails with the following error on parisc:
>
> <-- snip -->
>
> ...
> CC net/core/gen_estimator.o
> In file included from include2/asm/bitops.h:111,
> from
> /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/net/core/gen_estimator.c:18:
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:14:19AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:16:50AM +0530, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > >
> > > The locking used by get_random_bytes() can conflict with the
> > > preempt_disable() and
On 9/4/07, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For regular proc files, this is fixed in 2.6.23-rc1 and later.
Thanks!
I see you've been working on it:
fix-rmmod-read-write-races-in-proc-entries...
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/br
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:10:52 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:23:37 PDT, David Schwartz said:
> > > Wrong - I said "You can't complain about Person A doing X when
> > > you let Person
> > > B do X without complaint".
> >
> > Yes, I can. There is no inconsistency between ac
>> Please do submit new PCI device IDs to pciids.sf.net project.
>
>Yep.
FYI: I have already posted the Tolapai DID's and device strings to
pciids.sf.net.
Thanks,
Jason
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dear all,
I'm trying to track down a problem on a Sun V40Z server with 4 network
devices grabbing random ethX device names. now, trying to force the
device names to what I want, I got a __tmpX form of device name,
which I think is a half-configured device... but which piece of
software is to bl
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she
> > may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a
> > specific person or group of people. (T
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> After a week uptime I got this error. I hope it
> will be useful for you.
Yes indeed but this is a different type of failure. Looks like a higher
allocation failure in the networking code. Someone created objects that
required an order 2 allocations tha
Tilman Schmidt wrote:
Paulo Marques schrieb:
I just tried booting a brand new 2.6.23-rc5 and after a few minutes it
just panicked: machine totally frozen, blinking keyboard leds.
[...]
Maybe someone out there has a good suggestion that I could try before
bisecting...
A probable candidate wou
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 04:50:34 James Bruce wrote:
> Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> > On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> >> Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>> The fact
> >>> remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of
> >>> copyrigh
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 06:39:33PM +0200, anon... anon.al wrote:
> There is a race condition if an instance is executing "__exit
> device_exit" and calls remove_proc_entry, while someone is still using
> the procfile, right?.
>
> static void __exit device_exit(void)
> {
> // what if the procfile
Hi Linus,
Please pull:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup.git
for-linus
Christian Ehrhardt (1):
[x86 setup] Work around bug in Xen HVM
arch/i386/boot/pm.c |2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
[Log messages and full diffs follow
Hi,
I'm tryng to mount a nfs file system with the option async and run a
program that writes to the file system. The problem is that the
program keep writing even when the file system is full. It appears
that the nfs dont see that the file system is full and keeps writing
to the cache. This program
On 9/4/07, anon... anon.al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If yes: which mechanism can be used?
I was thinking about using an atomic counter in procfile_write
proc_f = create_proc_entry(PROC_FILE_NAME, 0644, NULL);
//...
proc_f->write_proc = procfile_write;
int procfile_write(struct file *fi
From: Jeff Norden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fix "lost" interrupt problem when using dma with CD/DVD drives in some
configurations. This problem can make installing linux from media
impossible for distro's that have switched to libata-only configurations.
The simple fix is to eliminate the use of dma
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