Re: [patch] MTD: fix cfi_interleave() build errors

2007-09-30 Thread David Woodhouse
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 07:01 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > FYI, the attached .config fails with the build errors below. Kernel is > > latest 2.6.23-git. Found via make randconfig. > > the quick fix below resolves these build failures. (i guess it might

Re: checkpatch and kernel/sched.c

2007-09-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
(lkml Cc:-ed - this might be of interest to others too) * Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable > #411: FILE: home/apw/git/linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c:408: > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_clock); yes, this is a legit warni

Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

2007-09-30 Thread Denys
Just a bit more details about hardware: Sun Fire X4100 (AMD Opteron 252), chipset looks like AMD-8111/AMD-8131 chips. There is no HPET detected, and by default acpi_pm used, which is seems more CPU intensive(based on oprofile results) than TSC. Choosing TSC over /sys doesn't make much difference

Re: + sched-use-show_regs-to-improve-__schedule_bug-output.patch added to -mm tree

2007-09-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch titled > sched: Use show_regs() to improve __schedule_bug() output > has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is > sched-use-show_regs-to-improve-__schedule_bug-output.patch [...] > */ > static noinline void __schedule_b

Re: [PATCH] PCI hotplug : Switch to pci_get_bus_and_slot instead of deprecated pci_find_slot.

2007-09-30 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:09:07PM +0900, JoonwooPark wrote: > This patch fixes these warnings: > > drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_pci.c: In function ???cpqhp_configure_device???: > drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_pci.c:92: warning: ???pci_find_slot??? is > deprecated (declared at include/linux/pci.h:481)

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Dmitry Adamushko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here is a few patches on top of the recent 'sched-dev': > > (1) [ proposal ] make timeslices of SCHED_RR tasks constant and not > dependent on task's static_prio; > > (2) [ cleanup ] calc_weighted() is obsolete, remove it; > > (3) [ refactoring ]

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 21:15 +0200, Dmitry Adamushko wrote: > > > > remove obsolete code -- calc_weighted() > > > > Here's another piece of low hanging obsolete fruit. > > Remove obsolete TASK_NONINTERACTIVE. > > Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[EM

Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

2007-09-30 Thread Eric Dumazet
Denys a écrit : Hi I got pi linux-git # git bisect bad Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this [f85958151900f9d30fa5ff941b0ce71eaa45a7de] [NET]: random functions can use nsec resolution instead of usec I will make sure and will try to reverse this patch on 2.6.22 But it seems "that'

[PATCH 16/19] Unionfs: coding style: take assignments out of "if" conditions

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 12 fs/unionfs/copyup.c |9 ++--- fs/unionfs/dirfops.c|6 -- fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c |3 ++- fs/unionfs/file.c | 18 -- fs/unionfs/inode.c | 18

[PATCH 19/19] Unionfs: coding style: avoid lines longer than 80 chars

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 18 ++- fs/unionfs/debug.c | 80 +++--- fs/unionfs/dentry.c |3 +- fs/unionfs/dirfops.c|8 +++-- fs/unionfs/fanout.h |9 +++-- 5 files change

[PATCH 10/19] Unionfs: convert all appropriate printk's to pr_debug calls

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 14 ++-- fs/unionfs/debug.c | 248 +++--- fs/unionfs/union.h |8 +- 3 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 136 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c b/fs/u

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-30 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 21:15 +0200, Dmitry Adamushko wrote: > > remove obsolete code -- calc_weighted() > Here's another piece of low hanging obsolete fruit. Remove obsolete TASK_NONINTERACTIVE. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -uprNX /root/dontdiff git/linux-2.6.sched-de

[PATCH 13/19] Unionfs: remove periods from the end of printk strings

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/lookup.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/main.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/rename.c |4 ++-- fs/unionfs/super.c | 10 +- 4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/lookup.c b/fs/unionfs/lookup.c index 981

[PATCH 15/19] Unionfs: coding style: proper spacing

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/copyup.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/debug.c | 22 +++--- fs/unionfs/dentry.c |8 fs/unionfs/fanout.h |2 +- fs/unionfs/super.c | 14 +++--- fs/unionfs/union.h | 38 +++-

[PATCH 02/19] Unionfs: add un/likely on conditionals

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 34 +++--- fs/unionfs/copyup.c | 18 fs/unionfs/debug.c | 108 +-- fs/unionfs/dentry.c | 25 ++- fs/unionfs/dirfops.c|6 +- f

[PATCH 12/19] Unionfs: update/assign a KERN_* level to all printk statements

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Also use pr_info() instead of printk(KERN_INFO ...) Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c |4 ++-- fs/unionfs/copyup.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/dentry.c | 18 +- fs/unionfs/file.c |7 --- fs/unionfs/inode.c | 16 +

[PATCH 14/19] Unionfs: use braces in both branches of conditionals

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
As per CodingStyle, if one branch of an if-then-else has braces because it has multiple statements, then the other branch should have braces too, even if the other branch has only one statement in it. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c |6 -- fs/unio

[PATCH 09/19] Unionfs: use pr_debug() instead of custom dprintk()

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Also turn on DEBUG if CONFIG_UNION_FS_DEBUG is on Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/Makefile |4 fs/unionfs/commonfops.c |4 ++-- fs/unionfs/dentry.c |6 +++--- fs/unionfs/lookup.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/union.h |6 +- 5 files ch

[PATCH 17/19] Unionfs: coding style: avoid multiple assignments on same line

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/mmap.c |3 ++- fs/unionfs/super.c |9 ++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/mmap.c b/fs/unionfs/mmap.c index ac1a060..6440282 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/mmap.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/mmap.c @

[PATCH 18/19] Unionfs: coding style: miscellaneous fixes

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
No braces around single-statement if's. No externs in .c files. use not . Use (foo *) not (foo*). Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/rdstate.c |3 +-- fs/unionfs/super.c |3 +-- fs/unionfs/union.h |3 ++- fs/unionfs/xattr.c |6 +++--- 4 files chang

[PATCH 11/19] Unionfs: add missing newlines in printk's

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/main.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/main.c b/fs/unionfs/main.c index 5c7f672..185ddb8 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/main.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/main.c @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ skip:

[PATCH 06/19] Unionfs: properly indent static struct

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/main.c |5 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/main.c b/fs/unionfs/main.c index 615617a..5c7f672 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/main.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/main.c @@ -564,7 +564,10 @@ static struct de

[PATCH 07/19] Unionfs: remove unnecessary if condition

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
The condition is always true there. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/dirfops.c | 10 -- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dirfops.c b/fs/unionfs/dirfops.c index 200fb55..da0fcdb 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/dirfops.c +++ b/f

[PATCH 08/19] Unionfs: use page_offset() helper

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/mmap.c |7 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/mmap.c b/fs/unionfs/mmap.c index cf9545e..8928e99 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/mmap.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/mmap.c @@ -179,8 +179,7 @@ static int unio

[PATCH 05/19] Unionfs: use UNIONFS_NAME macro

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/debug.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/main.c |4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/debug.c b/fs/unionfs/debug.c index b103eb9..da82a47 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/debug.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/debug.c @@

[PATCH 04/19] Unionfs: use consistent printk prefixes

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/inode.c |4 ++-- fs/unionfs/union.h |4 ++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/inode.c b/fs/unionfs/inode.c index 021e206..ba85a67 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/inode.c @

[PATCH 03/19] Unionfs: minor comment cleanups

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/lookup.c |2 +- fs/unionfs/mmap.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/lookup.c b/fs/unionfs/lookup.c index 94e4c8e..53668d6 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/lookup.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/lookup.c

[PATCH 01/19] Unionfs: compile if debug is off

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-of-by: John Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/unionfs/union.h |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/union.h b/fs/unionfs/union.h index 824bb67..7ce4771 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/union.h +++ b/fs/unio

[GIT PULL -mm] 00/19 Unionfs updates/cleanups/fixes

2007-09-30 Thread Erez Zadok
The following is a series of patches related to Unionfs. The main changes here are compliance with coding style and assorted cleanups, based on lkml comments and advise. Specifically, the un/likely updates from the previous series of patches was completely redone; the number of un/likely instanc

[patch] MTD: fix cfi_interleave() build errors

2007-09-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, the attached .config fails with the build errors below. Kernel is > latest 2.6.23-git. Found via make randconfig. the quick fix below resolves these build failures. (i guess it might be cleaner/safer to solve this via excluding this .config combi

[build bug] MTD build error, v2.6.23-rc8-git4

2007-09-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
FYI, the attached .config fails with the build errors below. Kernel is latest 2.6.23-git. Found via make randconfig. Ingo In file included from drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c:40: include/linux/mtd/cfi.h: In function 'cfi_build_cmd': include/linux/mtd/cfi.h:293: error: implicit decl

[PATCH] Update Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX

2007-09-30 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Update Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX to match current files. Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/scsi/00-INDEX | 34 +++--- 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -r f4ca99897c12 Docum

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-09-30 Thread Casey Schaufler
--- "Serge E. Hallyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > +A process can see the smack label it is running with by > > +reading /proc/self/attr/current. A privileged process can > > +set the process smack by writing there. > > Ok, so to control smack label transitions, basically you would > run

Repost: NMI error and Intel S5000PSL Motherboards

2007-09-30 Thread AndrewL733
This is a slightly edited repost of a note sent on Friday September 28, as we haven't heard back from anyone yet. (I know it was the weekend!) Sorry to post again but this issue caused great problems for us and I want to be sure we're choosing a decent solution. Perhaps one of the people who s

Re: [PATCH] cpuset and sched domains: sched_load_balance flag

2007-09-30 Thread Paul Jackson
Nick wrote: > Moreover, sched_load_balance doesn't really sound like a good name > for asking for a partition. Yup - it's not a good name for asking for a partition. That's because it isn't asking for a partition. It's asking for load balancing over the CPUs in the cpuset so marked. > It's mor

Re: [PATCH] Add ability to dump mapped pages with /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

2007-09-30 Thread Dave Jones
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote: > This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable > measurements of startup time for applications. > > Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running appl

[PATCH] Add missing entries to Documentation/arm/00-INDEX

2007-09-30 Thread Rob Landley
From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add several missing entries to Documentation/arm/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/arm/00-INDEX | 22 -- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -r f4ca99897c12 Documentation/arm/0

[PATCH] PCI hotplug : Switch to pci_get_bus_and_slot instead of deprecated pci_find_slot.

2007-09-30 Thread JoonwooPark
This patch fixes these warnings: drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_pci.c: In function ‘cpqhp_configure_device’: drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_pci.c:92: warning: ‘pci_find_slot’ is deprecated (declared at include/linux/pci.h:481) drivers/pci/hotplug/cpqphp_pci.c:102: warning: ‘pci_find_slot’ is deprecated

Re: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

2007-09-30 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > My use case is: I want to do a nonblocking read on descriptor 0 (stdin). > It may be a pipe or a socket. > > There may be other processes which share this descriptor with me, > I simply cannot know that. And they, too, may want to do reads on it. > > I

Re: What's in linux-backlight.git for 2.6.24?

2007-09-30 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:52:07AM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > I've become aware that I should be posting a merge plan, probably > slightly earlier than this but better late than never. Can you post a diffstat too, so we get an idea of what is going to be changing? thanks, greg k-h - To unsub

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-30 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 02:07:33 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That excludes all the extra stuff in -mm and should give us a good hint > > whether HPET is really at fault. > > The system does boot with rc8 + hrt1. > > Andrew: any suggestions on how to trace the "real" culprit for the

Re: [PATCH] Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX

2007-09-30 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 30 September 2007 3:35:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 07:44:02PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > From: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Add Documentation/x86_64/00-INDEX > > What's the point of this file? It's for http://kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ I have a scr

Re: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

2007-09-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Ulrich, > >On Friday 28 September 2007 18:34, Ulrich Drepper wrote: >> One more small change to extend the availability of creation of >> file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set. Adding a new command to >> fcntl() requires

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 October 2007, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 02:07:33 +0200 Frans Pop (FP) wrote: > FP> On Monday 01 October 2007, you wrote: > FP> > I was suggesting to download 2.6.23-rc8 and applying the -hrt > patchset FP> > at > FP> > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-git4: Known regressions from 2.6.22

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Linville
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:44:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:09 +0200 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > Subject: build #301 failed for 2.6.23-rc6-g0d4cbb5 in > > > linux/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ > > > Submitter:

Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

2007-09-30 Thread David Miller
From: "Michael Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:47:17 -0700 > On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:49 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:03:55 +0100 > > > > > Do patches look ok to you? > > > > I'm travelling so I haven't

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-30 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 02:07:33 +0200 Frans Pop (FP) wrote: FP> On Monday 01 October 2007, you wrote: FP> > I was suggesting to download 2.6.23-rc8 and applying the -hrt patchset FP> > at FP> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tglx/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc8/ FP> > on top of it. FP> FP> Ah, OK.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] ebizzy 0.2 released

2007-09-30 Thread David Miller
From: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:06:26 -0600 > ebizzy is designed to generate a workload resembling common web > application server workloads. I downloaded this only to be basically disappointed. Any program which claims to generate workloads "resembling common

[PATCH] softmac: Fix compiler-warning

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Knutsson
CC net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.o /home/kernel/src/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c: In function ‘ieee80211softmac_wx_set_essid’: /home/kernel/src/net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c:117: warning: label ‘out’ defined but not used due to commit: efe8

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 01 October 2007, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:50:29 +0200 Frans Pop (FP) wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean. I fetched the branch I think you referred > > to [1], but when I did a merge of that on top of v2.6.23-rc8-mm2 I > > got "Already up-to-date", so AFAICT that branch is fu

Re: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

2007-09-30 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Monday 01 October 2007 00:11, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > Hi Ulrich, > > > > On Friday 28 September 2007 18:34, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > > One more small change to extend the availability of creation of > > > file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set.

What's in linux-backlight.git for 2.6.24?

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Purdie
I've become aware that I should be posting a merge plan, probably slightly earlier than this but better late than never. The backlight tree doesn't have too much in it, basically a new driver, some cleanups, a driver bugfix and a conversion of a driver to become more generic code. http://git.o-ha

What's in linux-leds.git for 2.6.24?

2007-09-30 Thread Richard Purdie
I've become aware that I should be posting a merge plan, probably slightly earlier than this but better late than never. The leds tree doesn't have much in it, basically some changes to the cobalt LED drivers. http://git.o-hand.com/?p=linux-rpurdie-leds;a=shortlog;h=for-mm Yoichi Yuasa (3):

Re: [patch/backport] CFS scheduler, -v22, for v2.6.23-rc8, v2.6.22.8, v2.6.21.7, v2.6.20.20

2007-09-30 Thread Bill Davidsen
Matthew wrote: Hi Ingo & everbody on the list, first of all: many thanks for developing this great scheduler (also: kudos to Con Kolivas for having developed SD & CK-patchset) (this is my second mail to this list and I hope I'm doing everything right) I'm doing some backup during work right no

Re: [PATCH] blacklist NCQ on Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS

2007-09-30 Thread Robert Hancock
Paolo Ornati wrote: Hi, I think you forgot to blacklist this one :) -- Seagate Barracuda ST380817AS has troubles with NCQ. For example, unpacking a tarball on an XFS filesystem gives this: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen ata1.00: cmd 61/40:00:29:a3:98/00:00:00:

Re: [PATCH] robust futex thread exit race

2007-09-30 Thread David Miller
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:55:38 +0200 > > * Martin Schwidefsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 19:11 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > good catch! A quick preliminary review of your patch indicates it's > > > > > > fine - and it m

Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] Sysace: Use the established platform bus api

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
On 9/30/07, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:57:09PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > > + if ((rc = platform_driver_register(&ace_platform_driver)) != 0) > > + goto err_plat; > > rc = platform_driver_register(&ace_platform_driver); >

[PATCH -mm] IrCOMM discovery indication simplification

2007-09-30 Thread Samuel Ortiz
Hi Andrew, Every IrCOMM socket is registered with the discovery subsystem, so we don't need to loop over all of them for every discovery event. We just need to do it for the registered IrCOMM socket. Would you please consider this patch for -mm inclusion ? From: Ryan Reading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [PATCH] Version 3 (2.6.23-rc8) Smack: Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel

2007-09-30 Thread david
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Andi Kleen wrote: The authentication issues are very real, but a separate issue. First rule of network security: don't trust the network. This I agree with Without authentication it's completely useless. I don't understand how you can disregard that as "separate issue"

Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

2007-09-30 Thread Denys
Hi I can confirm, that reversing this patch on 2.6.23-rc8 fixes the problem. Checked on 3 different servers. softirq not jumping anymore on top of "top" and mpstat also looks stable, reasonable and nice. pi linux-git # git bisect bad Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this [f85958151900

Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

2007-09-30 Thread Denys
Hi I got pi linux-git # git bisect bad Bisecting: 0 revisions left to test after this [f85958151900f9d30fa5ff941b0ce71eaa45a7de] [NET]: random functions can use nsec resolution instead of usec I will make sure and will try to reverse this patch on 2.6.22 But it seems "that's it". On Sun, 30

Re: F_DUPFD_CLOEXEC implementation

2007-09-30 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > > On Friday 28 September 2007 18:34, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > > One more small change to extend the availability of creation of > > file descriptors with FD_CLOEXEC set. Adding a new command to > > fcntl() requires no new system call and t

[RFC][PATCH 3/6] 9p: 9P server connection code

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
This patchset provides support for in-kernel 9P2000 servers. This patch add the 9P server connection code. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/9p/srv/conn.c | 743 + 1 files changed, 743 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) c

Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] Sysace: Use the established platform bus api

2007-09-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 04:57:09PM -0600, Grant Likely wrote: > + if ((rc = platform_driver_register(&ace_platform_driver)) != 0) > + goto err_plat; rc = platform_driver_register(&ace_platform_driver); if (rc) goto err_plat; please. > + err_p

[RFC][PATCH 2/6] 9p: 9P server interface and common srv code

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
This patchset provides support for in-kernel 9P2000 servers. This patch adds the header file that defines the 9P server interface as well as the code for the common support functions for the server. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/net/9p/srv.h | 208

[RFC][PATCH 5/6] 9p: 9P server TCP socket connection support

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
This patchset provides support for in-kernel 9P2000 servers. Support for 9P servers listening on TCP sockets. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/9p/srv/socksrv.c | 252 ++ 1 files changed, 252 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

[RFC][REFERENCE ONLY] 9p: 9P ramfs sample implementation

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
Sample ramfs file server that uses the 9P in-kernel server implementation. This code is for reference only, it is not supposed to be merged into the kernel. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/9p/srv/Kconfig |6 + net/9p/srv/Makefile |4 + net/9p/srv/ramfs.c | 9

[RFC][PATCH 1/6] 9p: 9P server low-level 9P messages support

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
This patchset provides support for in-kernel 9P2000 servers. Implement support for the 9P messages required by the server side. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/net/9p/9p.h | 19 ++ net/9p/conv.c | 508 ++- n

[RFC][PATCH 4/6] 9p: 9P server fid management

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
This patchset provides support for in-kernel 9P2000 servers. This patch adds the 9P server fid management. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/9p/srv/fid.c | 178 ++ 1 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) c

[RFC][PATCH 6/6] 9p: 9P server Kconfig and Makefile changes

2007-09-30 Thread Latchesar Ionkov
This patchset provides support for in-kernel 9P2000 servers. 9P server Kconfig and Makefile changes. Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/9p/Kconfig |1 + net/9p/Makefile |1 + net/9p/srv/Kconfig |9 + net/9p/srv/Makefile |7 +++ 4 fil

Re: [PATCH RFC 3/9] RCU: Preemptible RCU

2007-09-30 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Ah, but I asked the different question. We must see CPU 1's stores by > definition, but what about CPU 0's stores (which could be seen by CPU 1)? > > Let's take a "real life" example, > > A = B = X = 0; > P = Q = &A; >

2.6.23-rc8, no tvtime

2007-09-30 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I have a pcHDTV-3000 card in this box. This is a cx88 based card AFAIK. I had a need to check something with tvtime today and found it couldn't open /dev/video0 Checking in /dev, there indeed is no such animal, or anything seemingly video related. An lsmod|grep cx88 returns: c

[PATCH v2 2/6] Sysace: Use the established platform bus api

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
From: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SystemACE uses the platform bus binding, but it doesn't use the platform bus API. Move to using the correct API for consistency sake and future proofing against platform bus changes. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/block/xsysac

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] Fails to resume from s2mem (was:kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:591! ...)

2007-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 September 2007, you wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:15:35 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 28 September 2007, you wrote: > > > My Toshiba Satellite A40 (i386, P4 Mobile) hangs during boot after: > > > > With 'hpet-force-enable-on-ich34' reverted the system boots

[PATCH v2 1/6] Add Xilinx SystemACE entry to maintainers

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
From: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm the author of the SystemACE driver Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- MAINTAINERS |7 +++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 8f80068..cb6323e 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS

[PATCH v2 4/6] Sysace: minor rework and cleanup changes

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
From: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Miscellanious rework to the sysace driver; Not critical, but makes the subsequent addition of the of_platform bus binding a wee bit cleaner Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/block/xsysace.c | 12 +--- 1 files changed, 9

[PATCH v2 5/6] Sysace: Move IRQ handler registration to occur after FSM is initialized

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
From: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The FSM needs to be initialized before it is safe to call the ISR Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/block/xsysace.c | 21 ++--- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/xsysa

[PATCH v2 6/6] Sysace: Add of_platform_bus binding

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
From: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The of_platform bus binding is needed to make the device driver usable under arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/block/xsysace.c | 89 +++ 1 files changed, 89 insertions(+)

[PATCH v2 0/6] SystemACE: rework and of_platform bus binding patches

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
Here is a set of rework patches on the Xilinx SystemACE driver which ends in the addition of an of_platform bus binding. The of_platform bus binding is needed to use the driver from arch/powerpc. SystemACE is most commonly used in Xilinx Virtex system (ppc405). Jens, I'm hoping I can get these c

Re: 32-bit Athlon X2 won't poweroff

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: .. So next is inside the kernel itself, at linux/kernel/sys.c :: sys_reboot(), where we see this code: /* Instead of trying to make the power_off code look like * halt when pm_power_off is not set do it the easy way. */ if ((cmd == LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_

[PATCH v2 3/6] Sysace: Move structure allocation from bus binding into common code

2007-09-30 Thread Grant Likely
From: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Split the determination of device registers/irqs/etc from the actual allocation and initialization of the device structure. This cleans up the code a bit in preparation to add an of_platform bus binding Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---

Re: 32-bit Athlon X2 won't poweroff (was: Fix SMP poweroff hangs)

2007-09-30 Thread Mark Lord
Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: I booted into single mode, then umounted all unneeded stuff and put / to ro, stopped all unused raids, ... then did... .. strace /bin/halt -f -p .. rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:591! | invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP

2007-09-30 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> > +Call Trace: > > + [] kobject_cleanup+0x31/0x47 > > + [] kref_put+0x76/0x84 > > + [] fuse_sysfs_cleanup+0xa/0x14 [fuse] > > + [] fuse_exit+0x19/0x24 [fuse] > > + [] sys_delete_module+0x1c0/0x228 > > + [] sysenter_past_esp+0x6b/0xa1 > > + [] 0xe410 > > + === > > +Code: aa

[2.6.22] i8042, ACPI, ipw2100 and issues reported by psmouse.c atkbd.c

2007-09-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel: 2.6.22-r5 Kernel option: i8042.nomux=1 See attached full dmesg for more. I have recently updated my kernel to 2.6.22 and - in the same occasion - changed various options in the kernel .config; I cannot state that the problem have arisen since kernel 2.6.22 but more probably since I en

Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

2007-09-30 Thread Jörn Engel
On Fri, 28 September 2007 10:39:06 +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > > If think you misunderstood: > Say, you compile out everything of DEBUG level. > Say, you have a continued printk() after each and every pr_debug(). > > Then how is the macro supposed to know (at compile-time) that the > contin

Re: Fwd: [Suspend2-devel] [patch] 2.2.10.3 build fixes

2007-09-30 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 30 September 2007 23:43, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Monday 01 October 2007 05:56:45 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sunday, 30 September 2007 13:44, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi Rafael et al. > > > > > > This looks like it will be vanilla material, maybe 2.6.

Re: [PATCH] [20/45] x86_64: Use 8 byte stack alignment when possible

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
On Friday 21 September 2007 23:19:35 Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 10:45:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Kernel doesn't use SSE2, so it doesn't need 16 byte alignment. Also > > the stack can be already unaligned so letting the compiler align > > is useless. This may make som

Re: 2.6.22.7 default kernel configuration

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
"Jaswinder Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > By default configuration size of vmlinux is 41 MB and it includes > approx 75% of useless stuff for me. That's not a i386 or x86-64 defconfig. i386 and x86-64 defconfigs are ~6.1MB and ~12MB. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

2007-09-30 Thread Denys
Hi Nick There is no numbers for sure now, it is just instability. I am bisecting kernel now (from 2.6.21 to 2.6.22-rc1), i think it is caused by some patch, and maybe not related to CFS. Anyways, let's see when i finish bisect. Just i was thinking, maybe anyone else have similar issues or some

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-30 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:50:29 +0200 Frans Pop (FP) wrote: FP> I'm not sure what you mean. I fetched the branch I think you referred to FP> [1], but when I did a merge of that on top of v2.6.23-rc8-mm2 I FP> got "Already up-to-date", so AFAICT that branch is fully merged into mm FP> and I'm alread

Re: [2.6.23-rc8-mm2] System hangs (loops?) during boot

2007-09-30 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 30 September 2007, you wrote: > On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:02:34 -0700 Andrew Morton (AM) wrote: > AM> On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 21:40:22 +0200 Frans Pop wrote: > AM> > 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503 is first bad commit > AM> > commit 3fe6c0016fd863b233097a8219a0d8577c2fd503 > AM> > Autho

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-git4: Known regressions from 2.6.22

2007-09-30 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:09 +0200 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Subject:build #301 failed for 2.6.23-rc6-g0d4cbb5 in > > linux/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ > > Submitter: Toralf Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > References: http://lkml.org/lkm

Re: Fwd: [Suspend2-devel] [patch] 2.2.10.3 build fixes

2007-09-30 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Monday 01 October 2007 05:56:45 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Sunday, 30 September 2007 13:44, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi Rafael et al. > > > > This looks like it will be vanilla material, maybe 2.6.23 material? > > Well, I wouldn't like to export freezer.h . Why exactly wou

Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22

2007-09-30 Thread Andi Kleen
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > shrink_dcache_memory That usually means random memory corruption from somewhere -- dcache tends to use a lot of memory and when it is corrupted anywhere these functions tend to crash while walking the lists. Unfortunately memory corruption is hard

Re: Conflict when loading initio driver

2007-09-30 Thread Alan Cox
>I have a scanner connected to a Initio INI-950 SCSI card and I recently > upgraded from SuSE 10.2 to 10.3. The new kernel doesn't see any of my > devices. I get the following in /var/log/messages: > > > > > >Sep 30 09:05:13 r2d2 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:0a.0[A] -> GSI

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-git4: Known regressions from 2.6.22

2007-09-30 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:05:09 +0200 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > > Subject: build #301 failed for 2.6.23-rc6-g0d4cbb5 in > linux/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ > Submitter:Toralf Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/11/150 > http://

Re: [Samba] 2.6.22/realtek bug in hardware, any kernel work-around?

2007-09-30 Thread Sinisa Bandin
Justin Piszcz wrote: Package: samba Version: 3.0.26a-1 Kernel: 2.6.22 samba 3.0.26a-1 performance < 900 KiB/s, but FTP = 30-90 MiB/s Let me start out by saing this is an oddball problem: SAMBA: LINUX -> WINDOWS = < 900 KiB/s (varies between 100 - 900 KiB/s) WINDOWS -> LINUX = 30-90 MiB/s (a

Conflict when loading initio driver

2007-09-30 Thread Scott Simpson
SuSE 10.3 (new release candidate), 2.6.22.5-29 kernel, SCSI initio driver I have a scanner connected to a Initio INI-950 SCSI card and I recently upgraded from SuSE 10.2 to 10.3. The new kernel doesn't see any of my devices. I get the following i

Re: x86-64 sporadic hang in 2.6.23rc7 and 2.6.22

2007-09-30 Thread Helge Hafting
Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sat, 29 Sep 2007, Helge Hafting wrote: Thomas Gleixner wrote: I have gone back to 2.6.22rc4, which seems to work. This is a single opteron, although on a dual-slot board. Can you switch to serial console, so we can get some information out of th

Re: 2.6.21 -> 2.6.22 & 2.6.23-rc8 performance regression

2007-09-30 Thread Nick Piggin
Hi Denys, thanks for reporting (btw. please reply-to-all when replying on lkml). You say that SLAB is better than SLUB on an otherwise identical kernel, but I didn't see if you quantified the actual numbers? It sounds like there is still a regression with SLAB? On Monday 01 October 2007 03:48,

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