Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-05 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > > > > > > > > i8042_platform_init(): > > > > +#if defined(__i386__) || defined(__x86_64__) > > > > use #ifdef CONFIG_X86? > > > > I considered it but above was tested and in line with the style of the > rest of the file... Then please change the rest of the file so it is consistent wit

tool to keep multiple architectures/kernel configs straight?

2008-02-05 Thread Marty Leisner
Supporting a number of kernels/platforms there are: 1) common options (which should be all the same across all platforms) 2) platform/processor specific options 3) some options are common across kernel versions but not across all versions Is there a good way to maintain this

Re: [PATCH] DS1WM: decouple host IRQ and INTR active state settings.

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 09:21:55 +0100 "pHilipp Zabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 8, 2008 1:13 AM, Matt Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 15:10 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:46:14 +0100 > > > Philipp Zabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Information about MMU

2008-02-05 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:31:05AM +0530, Pravin Nanaware wrote: > Hi, > > Can somebody point me where could I get the MMU(Memory management Unit) > details ? >From system programming manuals of the processor you are interested in, and in general, from any half-decent computer architecture book

Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] duplicate strcasecmp test for "rj-master" in mpc8610_hpcd_probe()

2008-02-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Feb 2008 10:19:43 +, Mark Brown wrote: > > From: Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In linus' git tree I found this problem. Is it also in the alsa tree? > please confirm it's the right fix. The patch was not yet tested. Thanks, I applied it to ALSA tree now. Let me know if it's

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-05 Thread Andi Kleen
> +static __init int init_syncookies(void) > +{ > + get_random_bytes(syncookie_secret, sizeof(syncookie_secret)); > + return 0; > +} > +module_init(init_syncookies); I didn't think a module could have multiple module_inits. Are you sure that works? -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: T61P sound issue

2008-02-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:16:08 +0100 (CET), Jiri Kosina wrote: > > [ added Takashi ] > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > > > > > > Could anyone make T61P's ICH8 sound controller to work properly? > > Good that there's a lot of people using T61p, it's a good machine. > > I'll upgrade my

Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 01:08:30 -0500 Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton (1): > Input: i8042 - non-x86 build fix Also, please prefer to fold patches like this into the patch which they fix, to avoid breaking git-bisect, thanks. (I add a little one-line mention in the ch

Re: [PATCH] Whine about suspicious return values from module's ->init() hook

2008-02-05 Thread Rusty Russell
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 10:37:52 Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:48:10 +1100 > > Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It's a no-brainer. > > > > For non-developers, WARN_ON is a noop. > > Oh.. Rusty. The mailing list and bugzilla are *full* of WARN_ON reports > from t

Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 01:32, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Looks OK. Minorish things from a quick scan: > > > > tosakbd_scankeyboard() looks like it'll spend a perfectly wicked amount of > time under spin_lock_irqsave(). > I think you are right. I will check with Dmitry if it can be relaxe

Re: [2.6.24 regression][BUGFIX] numactl --interleave=all doesn't works on memoryless node.

2008-02-05 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi Lee-san > Here's a patch that addresses the problem w/o requiring change to > numactl or libnuma. It DOES have side affects, discussed in the > description. Thank you! but unfortunately, My machine is broken phisically today ;-) I will test it tommorow or later. -- To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [PATCH for review] ACPI: Create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ counters

2008-02-05 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:33:25AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Greg. > > If these counters are not always available by default, then > I've lost most of their value for supporting systems in the field. > > Plus, I think I can live with just the individual sysfs files, > given

[PATCH] ACPI: create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ (v2)

2008-02-05 Thread Len Brown
From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi Inspired-by: Luming Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-acpi | 99 drivers/acpi/events/evevent.c |

Re: RT scheduler config, suggestions and questions

2008-02-05 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 15:37 -0800, Max Krasnyanskiy wrote: > Folks, > > I just realized that in latest Linus' tree following sysctls are under > SCHED_DEBUG: > sched_rt_period > sched_rt_ratio > > I do not believe that is correct. I know that we do not want to expose > scheduler kn

Re: [PATCH for review] ACPI: Create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ counters

2008-02-05 Thread Len Brown
Thanks for the reply, Greg. If these counters are not always available by default, then I've lost most of their value for supporting systems in the field. Plus, I think I can live with just the individual sysfs files, given Bjorn's "grep . *" tip. So if I follow the rules, do you think it is oka

Re: [git pull] Input updates for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
Looks OK. Minorish things from a quick scan: tosakbd_scankeyboard() looks like it'll spend a perfectly wicked amount of time under spin_lock_irqsave(). This code, in tosakbd_probe(): +fail2: + while (--i >= 0) + gpio_free(TOSA_GPIO_KEY_STROBE(i)); + + i = TOSA_KEY

Re: {2.6.22.y} quicklists must keep even off node pages on the quicklists until the TLB flush has been completed.

2008-02-05 Thread Oliver Pinter
I use this, without errors ... but the machine is i386 desktop On Feb 6, 2008 7:02 AM, Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:06:02PM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote: > > it is already im queue for 2.6.23, > > > > 8<- > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 22 14:04:

Re: uli526x doesn't get link if no link when interface is set up

2008-02-05 Thread Grant Grundler
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 03:56:38PM +0100, Santiago Garcia Mantinan wrote: > Hi! > > I've been experiencing problems with this (internal) card ever since I > bought this motherboard, lately I've been doing some tests and I found out > some things, maybe not enough to let us debug this, but I'll exp

[git pull] Input updates for 2.6.25-rc0

2008-02-05 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Linus, Please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus or master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git for-linus to receive updates for the input subsystem. Most of the changes were in -mm for some time with the exception

Re: {2.6.22.y} quicklists must keep even off node pages on the quicklists until the TLB flush has been completed.

2008-02-05 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:06:02PM +0100, Oliver Pinter wrote: > it is already im queue for 2.6.23, > > 8<- > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Dec 22 14:04:08 2007 > From: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:03:23 -0800 > Subject: quicklists: do not release off nod

Re: Access MSR functions in userspace?

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Maxim Levitsky wrote: On Wednesday, 6 February 2008 05:29:47 Hasan Rashid wrote: Is there a way to use RDMSR and WRMSR in userspace? I only need to write to one register, writing a module with a userspace piece to handle that seems like an over kill. TIA! Fortunately linux have /dev/cpu/*/ms

Re: ide-tape redux (was: Re:)

2008-02-05 Thread Borislav Petkov
... and while we're at it ... commit c824f79fe4040f7541d7e35c546bb57a22d2fe11 Author: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed Feb 6 06:23:10 2008 +0100 ide-tape: move all struct and other defs to the top Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers

Re: ide-tape redux (was: Re:)

2008-02-05 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:20:22AM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: [...] > w.r.t. #11 ide-tape uses char devices and supports DSC so it is not as obvious > as in ide-floppy case that all atomic bitops can be just removed (extra audit > and some time -mm are required) so please resync/resu

Re: [PATCH 0/9] firewire-sbp2: misc hotplug related patches

2008-02-05 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Sunday 03 February 2008 05:00:54 pm Stefan Richter wrote: > Here is various stuff to hopefully improve fw-sbp2's behavior during bus > resets. The main piece is patch 9/9 which considerably raises the > chance that ongoing I/O survives plugging and unplugging of other > devices on the same bus

Re: [PATCH 1/3] exporting capability code/name pairs (try #3)

2008-02-05 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Kohei KaiGai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> Quoting Kohei KaiGai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > All that being said, the friendliness factor of this is somewhat > undeniable, and so I can see why folk might want it in the kernel > anyway. If so, would it possible to mo

Information about MMU

2008-02-05 Thread Pravin Nanaware
Hi, Can somebody point me where could I get the MMU(Memory management Unit) details ? Regards, Pravin -**Nihilent*** " *** All information contained in this communication is confidential, proprietary, privileged and is intended for the addressees only. If youhave re

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 09/15] (RFC) IPC: new kernel API to change an ID

2008-02-05 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Oren Laadan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >> Quoting Oren Laadan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >>> I strongly second Kirill on this matter. >>> >>> IMHO, we should _avoid_ as much as possible exposing internal kernel >>> state to applications, unless a _real_ need for it is _clea

Re: [PATCH 1/4] x86 mmiotrace: use lookup_address()

2008-02-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:28:07PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > Use lookup_address() from pageattr.c instead of doing the same > manually. Also had to EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_address) to make this > work for modules. This also fixes "undefined symbol 'init_mm'" > compile error for x86_32. This shou

Re: [PATCH mm] stop c_p_a corrupting the pds

2008-02-05 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT, Hugh Dickins said: > > When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is > > currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing > > the thinko which passes down a physical

RE: [git patches] net driver updates #2

2008-02-05 Thread Pravin Nanaware
Hi, Can somebody point me where could I get the MMU(Memory management Unit) details ? Regards, Pravin -**Nihilent*** " *** All information contained in this communication is confidential, proprietary, privileged and is intended for the addressees only. If youhave rec

Re: [PATCH 1/3] KGDB: Major refactoring

2008-02-05 Thread Jason Wessel
Jan Kiszka wrote: > As most changes are tightly coupled, this refactoring patch for > KGDB_8250 as well as the core and the new KGDBOC driver comes as a > single chunk. The changes are: > - Reorganized configuration: I/O drivers can be independently >configured as module or built-in > - Dynam

more iommu sg merging fallout

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
The sparc64 change: commit fde6a3c82d67f592eb587be4d1b0ae6d4321 Author: FUJITA Tomonori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon Feb 4 22:28:02 2008 -0800 iommu sg merging: sparc64: make iommu respect the segment size limits This patch makes iommu respect segment size limits

Re: [PATCH] [NFS]: Lock daemon start/stop rework.

2008-02-05 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:48:32AM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:41:34PM +0300, Denis V. Lunev wrote: > >> The pid of the locking daemon can be substituted with a task struct > >> without a problem. Namely, the value if filled in the context

Re: [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory

2008-02-05 Thread Balbir Singh
KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > Hi > The interesting thing is the use of total_vm and not the RSS which is used as the basis by the OOM killer. I need to read/understand the code a bit more. >>> RSS makes more sense to me as well. >> Andrea Arcangeli has patches pending which change this

Re: [NET/IPv6] Race condition with flow_cache_genid?

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
You'll get a better set of eyes on this if you post it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is where the networking developers hang out. linux-net is for user questions. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: Access MSR functions in userspace?

2008-02-05 Thread Maxim Levitsky
On Wednesday, 6 February 2008 05:29:47 Hasan Rashid wrote: > Is there a way to use RDMSR and WRMSR in userspace? I only need to write > to one register, writing a module with a userspace piece to handle that > seems like an over kill. > > TIA! Fortunately linux have /dev/cpu/*/msr Take look at

Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Make wrr "no available servers" error message rate-limited

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
From: Simon Horman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 11:19:09 +0900 > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Sven Wegener wrote: > > No available servers is more an error message than something informational. > > It > > should also be rate-limited, else we're going to flood our logs on

Access MSR functions in userspace?

2008-02-05 Thread Hasan Rashid
Is there a way to use RDMSR and WRMSR in userspace? I only need to write to one register, writing a module with a userspace piece to handle that seems like an over kill. TIA! -- Regards, Hasan R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

[PATCH 3/3] IB: expand ib_umem_get() prototype

2008-02-05 Thread akepner
Add a new parameter, dmasync, to the ib_umem_get() prototype. Use dmasync = 1 when mapping user-allocated CQs with ib_umem_get(). Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/infiniband/core/umem.c | 17 + drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.

Re: brk randomization breaks columns

2008-02-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 23:35:27 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > the combo of a config option + sysctl sounds the right way forward then > > ;( > > OK, so I propose the one below (unested yet, but should be trivial). Does > anyone have any objectio

[PATCH 2/3] dma/ia64: update ia64 machvecs

2008-02-05 Thread akepner
Change all ia64 machvecs to use the new dma_{un}map_*_attrs() interfaces. Implement the old dma_{un}map_*() interfaces in terms of the corresponding new interfaces. For ia64/sn, make use of one dma attribute, DMA_ATTR_SYNC_ON_WRITE. Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/ia6

Re: Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:52:47 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could I ask you to pull the DMA Pool changes detailed below? > > All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various > comments (and acks) have been taken into account. (see > http://thread.gmane.org/g

[PATCH 1/3 v2] dma/doc: document dma_{un}map_{single|sg}_attrs() interface

2008-02-05 Thread akepner
Document the new dma_{un}map_{single|sg}_attrs() functions. Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- DMA-API.txt| 65 + DMA-attributes.txt | 29 +++ 2 files changed, 94 insertions(+) diff --git a/D

[PATCH 0/3 v2] dma: dma_{un}map_{single|sg}_attrs() interface

2008-02-05 Thread akepner
Introduce a new interface for passing architecture-specific attributes when memory is mapped and unmapped for DMA. Give the interface a default implementation which ignores attributes. Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- dma-mapping.h | 35 +++

Re: [git pull] x86 arch updates for v2.6.25

2008-02-05 Thread David Cullen
Dear Kernel Maintainers, I am with Phil Oester and Andrew Morton when it comes to getting kgdb into the mainline kernel. I _am_ a full time developer, and when I have to work with Linux kernel code, kgdb makes things a lot easier. I work on many different platforms, with many different oper

Re: down_killable implementations for every architecture

2008-02-05 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:23:52AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tuesday 29 January 2008 00:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > As part of the TASK_KILLABLE changes, we're going to need > > down_killable(). Unfortunately, semaphores are implemented for every > > architecture, which we should probably fi

Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86 mmiotrace: move files into arch/x86/mm/

2008-02-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:39:58 +0200 Pekka Paalanen wrote: > As this patch is too big for the list, it can be found at: > http://jumi.lut.fi/~paalanen/scratch/mmio25-b/0004-x86-mmiotrace-move-files-into-arch-x86-mm.patch > > The patch is 85 kB and Documentation/SubmittingPatches says I should not >

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-05 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:12 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:16:51 -0600 > James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:40:56 -0600 > > Subject: [SCSI] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

Pull request: DMA pool updates

2008-02-05 Thread Matthew Wilcox
Hi Linus, Could I ask you to pull the DMA Pool changes detailed below? All the patches have been posted to linux-kernel before, and various comments (and acks) have been taken into account. (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/609943) It's a fairly nice performance improvement, so wo

Re: [PATCH for review] ACPI: Create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ counters

2008-02-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 08:58:50PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:18, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:12:09PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:18, Greg KH wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:30:10AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: >

Re: Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 19:19:42 -0700 Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And going back through the mailing list all I can find is a series of five > > patches in October - it's unclear where and when the other 17 were > > reviewed, if they were. > > A large number of these patches are jus

RE: ipw3945: not only it periodically dies, it also BUG()s

2008-02-05 Thread Chatre, Reinette
On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 1:45 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > ...I've reported this before, with full debugging. Not sure if > anything happened. Could you please point me to where you have reported it before? > Now, I got BUG() in iwl3945-base.c: 3824 Which driver and kernel are you using?

Re: [PATCH 1/3] exporting capability code/name pairs (try #3)

2008-02-05 Thread Kohei KaiGai
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Kohei KaiGai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): All that being said, the friendliness factor of this is somewhat undeniable, and so I can see why folk might want it in the kernel anyway. If so, would it possible to move this code into security/capability.c and not in the main ke

Re: T61P sound issue

2008-02-05 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:16:08PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > [ added Takashi ] > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Felipe Balbi wrote: > > > > > > > Could anyone make T61P's ICH8 sound controller to work properly? > > Good that there's a lot of people using T61p, it's a good machine. > > I'll upgrade my BI

Re: Problem burning DVDs with Marvell 88SE6121 on pata_marvell

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Hokenson
On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 at 03:21PM, Andrew Morton wrote: (added linux-ide) thanks On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:30:04 -0600 Mike Hokenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently put together a new system with a MSI P35 PLATINUM and although reading from data CDs, DVDs, and watching DVD movies

Re: Pull request: TASK_KILLABLE

2008-02-05 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:02:05PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > No such export was needed in the patches which I added to -mm. So > something changed between then and now. Not sure abouut that problem -- still on holiday, so just checking ym mail quickly. > And going back through the mailing li

Re: [PATCH] ipvs: Make wrr "no available servers" error message rate-limited

2008-02-05 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:30:21PM +0100, Sven Wegener wrote: > No available servers is more an error message than something informational. It > should also be rate-limited, else we're going to flood our logs on a busy > director, if all real servers are out of order with a weight of zero. > > Sig

Re: [2.6.24 regression][BUGFIX] numactl --interleave=all doesn't works on memoryless node.

2008-02-05 Thread David Rientjes
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > Index: Linux/mm/mempolicy.c > === > --- Linux.orig/mm/mempolicy.c 2008-02-05 11:25:17.0 -0500 > +++ Linux/mm/mempolicy.c 2008-02-05 16:03:11.0 -0500 > @@ -131,7 +131,7

Re: [patch 2/4] forcedeth: fix MAC address detection on network card (regression in 2.6.23)

2008-02-05 Thread Michael Pyne
On Monday 04 February 2008, Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > >> I believe Michael determined that a newer BIOS fixes this issue. > > > > That's a solution that makes vendors happy... but we still have to deal > > with it in Linux. There are plenty of the old broke

Re: [PATCH mm] stop c_p_a corrupting the pds

2008-02-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT, Hugh Dickins said: > When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is > currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing > the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address - > this version of the

Re: [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory

2008-02-05 Thread David Rientjes
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > Andrea Arcangeli has patches pending which change this to the RSS. > > Specifically: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=119977937126925 > > I agreed with you that RSS is better :) > > > > but.. > on many node numa, per zone rss is more

Re: [PATCH,RESEND] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-05 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andrew Morton, le Tue 05 Feb 2008 16:58:53 -0800, a écrit : > On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:00:54 + > Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. > > This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / > > cannot be moun

Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 09/15] (RFC) IPC: new kernel API to change an ID

2008-02-05 Thread Oren Laadan
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting Oren Laadan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I strongly second Kirill on this matter. IMHO, we should _avoid_ as much as possible exposing internal kernel state to applications, unless a _real_ need for it is _clearly_ demonstrated. The reasons for this are quite obvious.

Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 10:29 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:09:15 +0100 > Matteo Tescione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5-02-2008 14:38, "FUJITA Tomonori" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:14:01 +0100 > > > Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [PATCH] ide-pci-generic: kill the unused ifdef/endif/MODULE code

2008-02-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Denis Cheng wrote: > with module_param macro, the __setup code can be killed now: > const __setup("all-generic-ide", ide_generic_all_on); > > and the module name "generic.ko" is not descriptive to its functionality, > can be changed in Makefile, the "ide-pci-gen

Re: [PATCH for review] ACPI: Create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ counters

2008-02-05 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 18:18, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:12:09PM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 17:18, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 02:30:10AM -0500, Len Brown wrote: > > > > # cat /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/summary > > > > pm_timer

Re: [PATCH] badness() dramatically overcounts memory

2008-02-05 Thread KOSAKI Motohiro
Hi > > > The interesting thing is the use of total_vm and not the RSS which is > > > used as > > > the basis by the OOM killer. I need to read/understand the code a bit > > > more. > > > > RSS makes more sense to me as well. > > Andrea Arcangeli has patches pending which change this to the RSS

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 6 of February 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> The asm() for making beeps really need to be moved to a function and > >> cleaned up (redone in C using inb()/outb()) if they are to be retained > >> at all. > > > > Yes, they are. For some people they're th

Re: [PATCH for review] ACPI: Create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ counters

2008-02-05 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 19:44, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:12:09 pm Len Brown wrote: > > is there > > a version of cat that prints the file name before > > the contents of each file? > > I use "grep . *" for this sort of thing. good tip, bjorn, thanks! /sys/devices/

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: The asm() for making beeps really need to be moved to a function and cleaned up (redone in C using inb()/outb()) if they are to be retained at all. Yes, they are. For some people they're the only tool to debug broken resume. That's fine, but they should get cleaned

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:11 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 22:21 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>> iSCSI is way, way too complicated. > > >> > > >> I fully agree. From one side, all that complexity is unavoidable for > > >> case of mul

inotify_add_watch() returning ENOSPC in 2.6.24 [watch descriptor leak?]

2008-02-05 Thread Clem Taylor
I'm trying to move a MIPS based embedded system from 2.6.16.16 to 2.6.24. Most things seem to be working, but I'm having troubles with inotify. The code is using inotify to detect a file written to /tmp (tmpfs). The writer creates a file with a temporary name and then rename()s the tmp file over th

Re: [PATCH] Add IPv6 support to TCP SYN cookies

2008-02-05 Thread Glenn Griffin
I realized an earlier email I sent had an incorrect timestamp and wasn't associated with the thread, so I thought it would be better to resend. I apologize if this is duplicated for anyone. Here is a reworked patch that moves the IPv6 syncookie support out of the ipv4/syncookies.c file and into it

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 6 of February 2008, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Tuesday, 5 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> This rewrites wakeup code to .c, and it fixes stack (should use movl > >> ,%esp, not movw). Testers wanted. Makefile infrastructure was done by > >> hpa, c

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 5 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: This rewrites wakeup code to .c, and it fixes stack (should use movl ,%esp, not movw). Testers wanted. Makefile infrastructure was done by hpa, cleanups by rjw. I'll test it tomorrow and I still have some more cleanup

Re: [PATCH 3/8] sched: rt-group: interface

2008-02-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 22:03:01 +0100 Peter Zijlstra wrote: > Change the rt_ratio interface to rt_runtime_us, to match rt_period_us. > This avoids picking a granularity for the ratio. > > Extend the /sys/kernel/uids// interface to allow setting > the group's rt_runtime. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Zij

Re: [Scst-devel] Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread FUJITA Tomonori
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:09:15 +0100 Matteo Tescione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5-02-2008 14:38, "FUJITA Tomonori" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:14:01 +0100 > > Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> James Bottomley schrieb: > >> > >>> These are both

Re: [rft] s2ram wakeup moves to .c, could fix few machines

2008-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 5 of February 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > This rewrites wakeup code to .c, and it fixes stack (should use movl > ,%esp, not movw). Testers wanted. Makefile infrastructure was done by > hpa, cleanups by rjw. I'll test it tomorrow and I still have some more cleanups (I was distracted

Re: New RTC drivers don't provide the sysctl to set max user frequency

2008-02-05 Thread Lee Revell
On Feb 5, 2008 5:54 PM, Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is every application that uses /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq > supposed to be updated to use the new /sys interface? IMHO the default should be increased to 1024 - the current default of 64 dates back to the 486 era. This would e

Re: [Regression] 2.6.24-git9: RT sched mishandles artswrapper (bisected)

2008-02-05 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 5 of February 2008, Dmitry Adamushko wrote: > Rafael, any progress with this issue? (a few questions below). > > > > > > > Does this artsmessage thing also run with RT priority? > > > > Well, it's in a strange state (after it's broken). From top: > > > > PR = -51 > > NI = 0 > > S = R

Re: [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.

2008-02-05 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:02:48 + Ian Campbell wrote: > --- > >From 1c614383dc9cb0c7791ebab386dc012db336b28c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Ian Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:01:22 + > Subject: [PATCH] x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image. > > Signed-off-b

[patch] mtd maps: document MTD_PHYSMAP module name in kconfig

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
Help out users by telling them the module name in the Kconfig help when using the MTD_PHYSMAP option. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig index a592fc0..2f15330 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/mt

Re: tg3 broken after "PCI: Fix bus resource assignment on 32 bits with 64b resources"

2008-02-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Looks like your attachment got currupted for some reason (got here as a corrupted bzip2 file that was encoded as plain text). Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.o

Re: [PATCH,RESEND] Basic braille screen reader support

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 22:00:54 + Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. > This is meant to be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / > cannot be mounted etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work. Could you fe

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:48 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 22:01 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > >>>better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is > > >>>way > > >>>better than some cr

[patch] usb net: asix does not really need 10/100mbit

2008-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
The asix usb driver currently depends on NET_ETHERNET which means you cannot enable this driver if you only have 1000mbit enabled in your kernel. Since there is no real dependency between the NET_ETHERNET portion and the asix driver, simply drop it. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 22:01 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Alan Cox wrote: > > > >>>better. So for example, I personally suspect that ATA-over-ethernet is way > >>>better than some crazy SCSI-over-TCP crap, but I'm biased for simple and > >>>low-level, and against t

Re: softlockup: automatically detect hung TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:59:17 GMT Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote: > Gitweb: > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=82a1fcb90287052aabfa235e7ffc693ea003fe69 > Commit: 82a1fcb90287052aabfa235e7ffc693ea003fe69 > Parent: d0d23b5432fe61229dd3641c

Re: [PATCH for review] ACPI: Create /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/ counters

2008-02-05 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:12:09 pm Len Brown wrote: > is there > a version of cat that prints the file name before > the contents of each file? I use "grep . *" for this sort of thing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: [git patches] IDE updates part #4

2008-02-05 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi Linus, On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > * next part of IDE probing code re-organization saga > > (that would be me) > > This seems to cause very irritating and bogus messages for me: > > Probing IDE

Re: [PATCH] [PPPOL2TP] Label unused warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set.

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 13:22:19 -0500 > David or Paul, wanna pick this up? I took it, no worries. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kern

Re: [PATCH] [PPPOL2TP] Label unused warning when CONFIG_PROC_FS is not set.

2008-02-05 Thread David Miller
From: James Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:38:10 + > Acked-by: James Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied, thanks everyone. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: PCIE ASPM support hangs my laptop pretty often

2008-02-05 Thread Kok, Auke
?? ??? wrote: > I've patched my kernel with the PCIe ASPM and after setting > echo powersave > /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy > > I started to experience random hangs of my laptop. > Hardware info: > Thinkpad x60s 1704-5UG the x60's chipset doesn't

Re: [BUG] 2.6.24 refuses to boot - NMI watchdog problem?

2008-02-05 Thread Chris Rankin
--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:36:42 + (GMT) > Chris Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a 1 GHz Coppermine PC with 512 MB RAM, and it is failing to boot > > with the > nmi_watchdog=1 > > option. This kernel was rebuilt after doing a "make mrprop

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 14:12 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> iSCSI is way, way too complicated. > > > > I fully agree. From one side, all that complexity is unavoidable for > > case of multiple connections per session, but for the regular case

Re: [PATCH][v4] ipwireless: driver for 3G PC Card

2008-02-05 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And especially with wireless, I think the impact for any future changes > are about the wireless infrastructure, not PCMCIA. There's little reason > to believe that we'll ever make any big PCMCIA overhauls exctly because > PCMCIA is so dead. So I'd ha

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-05 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:16:51 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:40:56 -0600 > Subject: [SCSI] enclosure: add support for enclosure services > > The enclosure misc device is really just a library providing sysf

Re: Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel

2008-02-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 22:21 +0300, Vladislav Bolkhovitin wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>> iSCSI is way, way too complicated. > >> > >> I fully agree. From one side, all that complexity is unavoidable for > >> case of multiple connections per session, but for the regular case of > >> one connect

Re: PCIE ASPM support hangs my laptop pretty often

2008-02-05 Thread Дамјан Георгиевски
> >>> I've patched my kernel with the PCIe ASPM and after setting > >>> echo powersave > /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy > >>> > >>> I started to experience random hangs of my laptop. > >>> Hardware info: > >>> Thinkpad x60s 1704-5UG > >> > >> the x60's chipset doesn't support ASPM properly

Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v5

2008-02-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > You can of course setup a 2M granularity lock to get the same granularity > > as the pte lock. That would even work for the cases where you have to page > > pin now. > > If you set a 2M granularity lock, the _start callback would need to > do: >

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