On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:00:56AM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:15:58AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:29:41PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > > 40M:
> > > 2.6.22time 94315 ms
> > > 2.6.23time 107930 ms
> > > 2.6.24
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:43:52AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > This still doesn't address a lot of the review comments from Jason's
> > last posting.
>
> sorry, which mails are those?
It's all in the thread starting with '[PATCH 0/8] kgdb
Calling initcall 0x80c4b575: sm_adm1026_init+0x0/0xe()
i2c-adapter i2c-1: : Unrecognized stepping 0x45. Defaulting to ADM1026.
general protection fault: [1] SMP
CPU 0
Modules linked in:
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-smp-09379-g0cf975e-dirty #34
RIP: 0010:[] [] sysfs_add_fil
* Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This still doesn't address a lot of the review comments from Jason's
> last posting.
sorry, which mails are those?
Ingo
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Once the patch goes into Linus's tree, feel free to send it to the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] address so that we can include it in the 2.6.24.x
> tree.
I've been ignoring the patches because they say "PATCH 2.6.24-mm1", and so
I simply don't know whether it's su
* Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > config X86_64
> > def_bool 64BIT
> > + select KGDB_ARCH_HAS_SHADOW_INFO
> >
> > ### Arch settings
> > config X86
> > @@ -139,6 +140,9 @@ config AUDIT_ARCH
> > config ARCH_SUPPORTS_AOUT
> > def_bool y
> >
> > +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KGD
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:13:04 +0100
> this is the "kgdb light" tree that has been also posted at:
>
>http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/9/236
>
> it is available at:
>
>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
>
> See the s
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:13:21AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> add pid_max prototype - used by sysctl and will be used by kgdb as well.
Looks good, and this should go in ASAP independent of kgdb.
And while you're at it, I think all of the below want to f
This still doesn't address a lot of the review comments from Jason's
last posting.
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On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:13:45AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> simplified and streamlined kgdb support on x86, both 32-bit and 64-bit,
> based on patch from:
>
> Subject: kgdb: core-lite
> From: Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> [ and countless ot
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:13:31AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> From: Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> kgdb core code. Handles the protocol and the arch details.
>
> [ [EMAIL PROTECTED]: heavily modified, simplified and cleaned up. ]
Hi Ingo.
I see that only a very few of my comments posted
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch adds back the sysctl ftrace_enabled. This time it is
defaulted to on, if DYNAMIC_FTRACE is configured. When ftrace_enabled
is disabled, the ftrace function is set to the stub return.
If DYNAMIC_FTRACE is also configured, on ftrace_enabled = 0,
t
[ uhm, i cannot count apparently :-) There's no 19th patch. ]
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From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch adds a feature to dynamically replace the ftrace code
with the jmps to allow a kernel with ftrace configured to run
as fast as it can without it configured.
The way this works, is on bootup, a ftrace function is registered
to record the instruct
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add preempt off timings. A lot of kernel core code is taken from the RT patch
latency trace that was written by Ingo Molnar.
This adds "preemptoff" and "preemptirqsoff" to
/debugfs/tracing/available_tracers
Now instead of just tracing irqs off, preemptio
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch adds latency tracing for critical timings
(how long interrupts are disabled for).
"irqsoff" is added to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers
Note:
tracing_max_latency
also holds the max latency for irqsoff (in usecs).
(default to large
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch adds the tracer that tracks the wakeup latency of the
highest priority waking task.
"wakeup" is added to /debugfs/tracing/available_tracers
Also added to /debugfs/tracing
tracing_max_latency
holds the current max latency for the wakeu
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is a simple trace that uses the ftrace infrastructure. It is
designed to be fast and small, and easy to use. It is useful to
record things that happen over a very short period of time, and
not to analyze the system in general.
Updates:
available_t
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch adds context switch tracing, of the format of:
_--=> CPU#
/ _-=> irqs-off
| / _=> need-resched
|| / _---=> hardirq/softirq
||| / _--=> preempt-depth
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This patch adds the latency tracer infrastructure. This patch
does not add anything that will select and turn it on, but will
be used by later patches.
If it were to be compiled, it would add the following files
to the debugfs:
The root tracing directory
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If CONFIG_FTRACE is selected and /proc/sys/kernel/ftrace_enabled is
set to a non-zero value the ftrace routine will be called everytime
we enter a kernel function that is not marked with the "notrace"
attribute.
The ftrace routine will then call
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This annotates NMI functions with notrace. Some tracers may be able
to live with this, but some cannot. The safest is to turn it off,
it's not particularly interesting anyway.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[E
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add the notrace annotations to the vsyscall functions - there we are
not in kernel context yet, so the tracer function cannot (and must not)
be called.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
ar
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mark with "notrace" functions in core code that should not be
traced. The "notrace" attribute will prevent gcc from adding
a call to ftrace on the annotated funtions.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Ste
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 10:25:23PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2008 4:41 AM, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:54:05AM -0500, Tony Camuso wrote:
> > > Matthew,
> > >
> > > Perhaps I missed it, but did you address Yinghai's concerns?
> >
> > No, I was
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
notrace signals that a function should not be traced. Most of the
time this is used by tracers to annotate code that cannot be
traced - it's in a volatile state (such as in user vdso context
or NMI context) or it's in the tracer internals.
Signed-off-by: Ingo
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The tracer wants to be able to convert the state number
into a user visible character. This patch pulls that conversion
string out the scheduler into the header. This way if it were to
ever change, other parts of the kernel will know.
Signed-off-by: Steven
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The tracer may need to call preempt_enable and disable functions
for time keeping and such. The trace gets ugly when we see these
functions show up for all traces. To make the output cleaner
this patch adds preempt_enable_notrace and preempt_disable_notrace
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It is not wise to place a printk where the runqueue lock is held.
I just spent two hours debugging why some of my code was locking up,
to find that the lockup was caused by some debugging printk's that
I had in the scheduler. The printk's were only in rare
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:12:26AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed
> acpi junk is not acceptable.
>
> Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should
> do it always or it's not. Either way such a chan
From: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The
idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a
synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will
not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. Tha
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
add 3 lightweight callbacks to the tracer backend.
zero impact if tracing is turned off.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 26 ++
kernel/sched.c|3 +++
2 files changed, 29 insert
this is the latency tracer that has been also posted at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/8/435
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/9/127
the tree can be pulled from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched.git
about 9 iterations of this have been posted to lkml in t
The KVM configuration is no longer visible in the latest git tree. It looks
like it is selected by HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA. I've moved HAVE_KVM to
under CONFIG_X86. Hopefully, this is the right fix.
Comments?
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig |4 ++--
1 f
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
simplified and streamlined kgdb support on x86, both 32-bit and 64-bit,
based on patch from:
Subject: kgdb: core-lite
From: Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[ and countless other authors - see the patch for details. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL
From: Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
document the kgdboc module/boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt |5 +
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
Index: linux-kgdb.q/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
From: Jan Kiszka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
polled console handling support, to access a console in an irq-less
way while in debug or irq context.
absolutely zero impact as long as CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL is disabled.
(which is the default)
kgdb over consoles support from:
Jason Wessel <[EMAIL PROTECTE
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
add pid_max prototype - used by sysctl and will be used by kgdb as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/pid.h |2 ++
kernel/sysctl.c |2 +-
2 files changed, 3 in
From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
add probe_kernel_write() - copy & paste of the existing
probe_kernel_access(), extended to writes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/uaccess.h | 22 ++
1 fi
this is the "kgdb light" tree that has been also posted at:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/9/236
it is available at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
See the shortlog below.
various iterations of this have also been included in x86.git for the
past 3
Folks, moving this call around hidden behing in completely unreviewed
acpi junk is not acceptable.
Either populate_rootfs _is_ safe to be called earlier and then we should
do it always or it's not. Either way such a change should be posted
separately and reviewd on lkml.
Len, can you please reve
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 07:15:58AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:29:41PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > 40M:
> > 2.6.22 time 94315 ms
> > 2.6.23 time 107930 ms
> > 2.6.24 time 113291 ms
> > 2.6.24-git19time 110360 ms
> >
>
On Saturday 09 February 2008 22:01:44 Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 9 2008 13:29, Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >As the subject says I get ~1 minute delay when booting 2.6.24.1
> >pretty reliably. It is possible it is not new to 2.6.24.1 but I
> >can't tell due recent hardware changes.
On Feb 10, 2008 8:32 AM, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Niki Denev wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As the subject says the 2.6.24.1 is still vulnerable to the vmsplice
> > local root exploit.
>
> Yes indeed, that's quite bad. 2.6.24-git is still vulnerab
Hi Linus,
Please pull from:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4.git for_linus
These are mostly bug fixes that we've found since the last pull request.
The one non-bugfix change is that I've added a sanity check to assure
that production ext3 filesystems don't get mou
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Niki Denev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As the subject says the 2.6.24.1 is still vulnerable to the vmsplice
> local root exploit.
Yes indeed, that's quite bad. 2.6.24-git is still vulnerable too, and
also contains the fix :-(
CC'd Jens as he worked on the fix.
Wil
On Feb 9, 2008 4:41 AM, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 10:54:05AM -0500, Tony Camuso wrote:
> > Matthew,
> >
> > Perhaps I missed it, but did you address Yinghai's concerns?
>
> No, I was on holiday.
>
> > Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > >On Jan 28, 2008 7:03 PM, Matthew
On Sunday 10 February 2008 00:43:49 Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> > > > > It makes no difference if you
> > > > > distribute the GPL library with it or not.
> > > >
> > > > If you do not distribute the GPL library, the library is simply being
> > > > used in the intended, ordinary way. Yo
ION_CODE 132632; echo '#define
KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))';) <
/usr/src/linux-2.6.25-git-20080209/Makefile > include/linux/version.h.tmp; if [ -r
include/linux/version.h ] && cmp -s include/linux/version.h include/linux/version.h.tmp; t
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:29:41PM -0600, Olof Johansson wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:19:57PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:37:39PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 12:40 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at
Hi,
As the subject says the 2.6.24.1 is still vulnerable to the vmsplice
local root exploit.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ uname -a
Linux tester 2.6.24.1 #1 Sun Feb 10 00:06:49 EST 2008 i686 unknown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ ./vms
---
Linux vmsplice Local Root Exploit
B
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 02:29:24PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> CC'd Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I tested this patch on fujitsu memoryless node.
> (2.6.24 + silently-restrict-nodemask-to-allowed-nodes-V3 insted 2.6.24-mm1)
> it seems works good.
>
> Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTE
Hi Daniel,
> > > > It makes no difference if you
> > > > distribute the GPL library with it or not.
> > >
> > > If you do not distribute the GPL library, the library is simply being
> > > used in the intended, ordinary way. You do not need to agree to, nor can
> > > you violate, the GPL simply by
CC'd Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I tested this patch on fujitsu memoryless node.
(2.6.24 + silently-restrict-nodemask-to-allowed-nodes-V3 insted 2.6.24-mm1)
it seems works good.
Tested-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Greg, I hope this patch merge to 2.6.24.x stable tree because
this pat
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:42:59PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Linus,
>
> while this is probably one of the last days of the merge window, please
> still consider pulling the "kgdb light" git tree from:
>
>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb.git
Without postin
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 05:19:57PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:37:39PM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 12:40 +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:58:25AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Sat, 2008-02-0
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:10:07AM +0100, Ondrej Zary wrote:
> > > +typedef enum { EL3_ISA, EL3_PNP, EL3_MCA, EL3_EISA } el3_cardtype;
> > > +
> >
> > No typedef please (see checkpatch)
>
> Is there any standard way to solve this without a typedef? I added
> el3_dev_fill() function which fills th
On Saturday 09 February 2008 23:50:17 Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > It makes no difference if you
> > > distribute the GPL library with it or not.
> >
> > If you do not distribute the GPL library, the library is simply being
> > used in the intended, ordinary way. You do not need to agree to, nor c
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:38:11AM +0100, Sven Wegener wrote:
> struct ip_vs_sync_thread_data {
> - struct completion *startup;
> + struct completion *startup; /* set to NULL once completed */
This is not needed anmore. kthread_run guarantees that the newly
creates thread is run before r
Hi David,
> > Lets phrase this in better words as Valdis pointed out: You can't
> > distribute an application (binary or source form) under anything else
> > than GPL if it uses a GPL library.
>
> This simply cannot be correct. The only way it could be true is if the work
> was a derivative work
Paul Jackson wrote:
> Max wrote:
>> Linus, please pull CPU isolation extensions from
>
> Did I miss something in this discussion? I thought
> Ingo was quite clear, and Linus pretty clear too,
> that this patch should bake in *-mm or some such
> place for a bit first.
>
Andrew said:
> The featur
Hi;
Following patch silents
drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c: In function `ubi_create_volume':
drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c:379: warning: statement with no effect
compiler warning introduced by commit 801c135ce73d5df1caf3eca35b66a10824ae0707
(UBI: Unsorted Block Images)
Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROT
Hi;
Following patch fixes following undefined symbol errors with CONFIG_SND=N
ERROR: "snd_pcm_period_elapsed" [drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-alsa.ko]
undefined!
ERROR: "snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer"
[drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-alsa.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "snd_pcm_set_ops" [drivers/me
Max wrote:
> Linus, please pull CPU isolation extensions from
Did I miss something in this discussion? I thought
Ingo was quite clear, and Linus pretty clear too,
that this patch should bake in *-mm or some such
place for a bit first.
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I won't rest till it's the best ...
Hi;
Following patch updates kernel/.gitignore with new auto-generated files
Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kernel/.gitignore |1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/.gitignore b/kernel/.gitignore
index f2ab700..ab4f109 100644
--- a/kerne
Hi;
Following patch update arch/x86/boot/.gitignore with new auto-generated files
Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
arch/x86/boot/.gitignore |2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/boot/.gitignore b/arch/x86/boot/.gitignore
index 1846514
Linus, please pull CPU isolation extensions from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maxk/cpuisol-2.6.git for-linus
Diffstat:
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu | 41 +++
Documentation/cpu-isolation.txt| 113 +
arch/x86/Kc
Hi;
Following patch silents
drivers/rtc/rtc-r9701.c: In function `r9701_get_datetime':
drivers/rtc/rtc-r9701.c:74: warning: unused variable `time'
compiler warning introduced by commit 75b6102257874a4ea796af686de2f72cfa0452f9
(rtc: add support for Epson RTC-9701JE V4)
Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar O
Hi;
Following patch silents
drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c: In function `x25_asy_open_tty':
drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c:557: warning: unused variable `ld'
compiler warning introduced by commit 11b0cc3a4af65413ca3bb5698769e091486e0b22
(x25_asy: Fix ref count rule violation)
Signed-off-by: S.Çağlar On
Hi;
Following patch silents
net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c: In function `del_conn':
net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c:339: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment
used as truth value
compiler warning introduced by commit acea6852f32b8805e166d885ed7e9f0c7cd10d41
([BLUETOOTH]: Move children of connect
Am Friday, den 8 February hub Maximilian Wilhelm folgendes in die Tasten:
> Just noticed that Eric's address was wrong, so resend with corrected Cc.
> Eric, my intial report was http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/6/300
>
> > Am Thursday, den 7 February hub Krzysztof Oledzki folgendes in die Tasten:
>
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Lets phrase this in better words as Valdis pointed out: You can't
> distribute an application (binary or source form) under anything else
> than GPL if it uses a GPL library.
This simply cannot be correct. The only way it could be true is if the work
was a derivative wor
On Monday 04 February 2008, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this in dmesg:
> DMAR:[DMA Write] Request device [00:02.0] fault addr ee1512000
> DMAR:[fault reason 05] PTE Write access is not set
> PCI-DMA: Intel(R) Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O
> DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device [00:1d
On Sat 2008-02-09 11:07:09, Jon Masters wrote:
> This really needs to be triggered via a generic kernel
> event in the final version - I picture glibc having a
> reservation API and having generic support for freeing
> such reservations.
Not sure what you are talking about. This seems very ri
On Saturday 09 February 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Brownell wrote:
>
> > Actually I thought that what you needed was an is_valid_gpio();
> > your motivation was that you needed a predicate.
> >
> > The problem I have with a #define for a single such invalid GPI
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:24:50 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Linus,
>
> please pull the pending x86 updates from:
>
> ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git
> master
Hi Thomas,
can we please get diffstats with git pull requests?
(in the future)
> The up
On Sat 2008-02-09 14:34:30, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:13:43 +0100 (CET)
> Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Feb 1 2008 12:53, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
> > >>
> > >> # uname -m
> > >> I won't tell you.
> > >> # linux32 uname -m
> > >> i686
> >
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 12:38:11AM +0100, Sven Wegener wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to get your feedback on this:
>
> - Use kthread_run instead of doing a double-fork via kernel_thread()
>
> - Return proper error codes to user-space on failures
>
> Currently ipvsadm --start-daemon with an invalid
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:26:43 -0800
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ugh, how did I let that one through?
>
> Guys, how often mut it be said? PLEASE always test all code with all
> kernel deubg options enabled.
maybe we should make a CONFIG_KERNEL_DEVELOPER option that SELECTs the
vario
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 14:03:28 -0500 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Command run:
> find /proc | xargs tail
>
> [ 2710.028219] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> include/asm/uaccess_32.h:449
> [ 2710.028229] in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0
> [ 2710.028232] 1 lock
Em Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 01:18:18AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt escreveu:
>
> On Feb 9 2008 21:54, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> >> To drop strings that are only shown once anyway, such as:
> >>
> >> static int __init ebtables_init(void)
> >> {
> >> int ret;
> >>
> >> mutex_lock(&eb
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I get these warnings when compiling mm/slub.c in linux-2.6.git:
>
> mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_alloc':
> mm/slub.c:1637: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> mm/slub.c:1637: warning: assignment makes pointer from int
On Feb 9 2008 21:54, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> To drop strings that are only shown once anyway, such as:
>>
>> static int __init ebtables_init(void)
>> {
>> int ret;
>>
>> mutex_lock(&ebt_mutex);
>> list_add(&ebt_standard_target.list, &ebt_targets);
>> mu
On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> On Thursday 31 January 2008, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > As discussed on i2c mailing list with David Brownell, and number
> > outside of the 0...MAX_INT range is invalid as a GPIO number.
> > Define a macro, similar to NO_IRQ, to be used as a delibe
On Saturday 09 February 2008 22:48:05 Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 22:33:07 +0100
>
> Ondrej Zary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > this patch converts 3c509 driver to isa_driver and pnp_driver. The result
> > is that autoloading using udev and hibernation works with ISA Pn
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:40:12 -0700
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the set_pages_* API that replaces change_page_attr described
> somewhere? I have been unable to find it with Google.
>
> I'm trying to modify the VirtualBox kernel module to work with
> 2.6.24-git (and 2.6.25) on x86_
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:40:12 -0700
Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to modify the VirtualBox kernel module to work with
> 2.6.24-git (and 2.6.25) on x86_64 architecture. The current code has
> a value of the third argument of the call (prot) with 3 variants. All
> variations ha
Em Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:08:45PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt escreveu:
>
> On Feb 4 2008 19:07, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >> The attached patch allows something along the lines:
> >>
> >> int __init some_function(void)
> >> {
> >> [...]
> >> pr_init(KERN_WARNING "failure %s in %s\n", ...)
Ray Lee wrote:
> On Feb 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Kok, Auke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Martin Rogge wrote:
>>> On Saturday 09 February 2008 11:07:26 Martin Rogge wrote:
Hi,
I am not so familiar with the various mailing lists and missed out on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] the first time. Please c
Hi all,
I'd like to get your feedback on this:
- Use kthread_run instead of doing a double-fork via kernel_thread()
- Return proper error codes to user-space on failures
Currently ipvsadm --start-daemon with an invalid --mcast-interface will
silently suceed. With these changes we get an appro
Linus,
please pull the pending x86 updates from:
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86.git master
The update contains:
- a couple of bugfixes
- CPA and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC improvements
- x86 power management consolidation
- GEODE updates
- 32bit b
Thomas,
I haven't found a good way to capture the SysRq output for this. I
found that when it locks up at boot time, even SysRq is unresponsive.
I don't have another way of getting console on the machine right now
to get the output off of it. I have since upgraded to 2.6.24 and the
problem still p
[PATCH] scsi: ses fix mem leaking when fail to add intf
fix leaking with scomp leaking when failing.
also remove one extra space.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: linux-2.6/drivers/scsi/ses.c
===
--- linux-2.6.or
Is the set_pages_* API that replaces change_page_attr described somewhere? I have been unable to
find it with Google.
I'm trying to modify the VirtualBox kernel module to work with 2.6.24-git (and 2.6.25) on x86_64
architecture. The current code has a value of the third argument of the call (pr
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:13:43 +0100 (CET)
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Feb 1 2008 12:53, Alejandro Riveira Fernández wrote:
> >>
> >> # uname -m
> >> I won't tell you.
> >> # linux32 uname -m
> >> i686
> >
> > Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit userland 2.6.24
> >
> >$ uname -m
> >x86_64
> >$
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Johann Felix Soden wrote:
> > kernel/timeconst.pl generates only long sized constants in timeconst.pl
> > which gives this warning:
> >
> > kernel/time.c: In function 'msecs_to_jiffies':
> > kernel/time.c:472: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
> >
> >
On Feb 9, 2008 7:00 AM, James Bottomley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 04:13 -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > [PATCH] scsi: ses fix for len and mem leaking when fail to add intf
> >
> > change to u32 before left shifting char
>
> This one is a bit unnecessary; C promotion rules gu
On Feb 8 2008 10:52, Jason Baron wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:42:14PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 16:03 -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
>> > make the pr_debug() function dependent upon the new immediate
>> > infrastruture.
>>
>> What's wrong with klogd -c 8 or equivalent?
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Patrick Ringl wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am suffering from the following (usb-related?) problem:
>
> I have several different mashines - all x86 architecture - just lets
> call them mashineA, mashineB and mashineC.
> Anyway, mashineA has a severe problem with a
> Kingston-USB-pe
On Feb 4 2008 19:07, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> The attached patch allows something along the lines:
>>
>> int __init some_function(void)
>> {
>> [...]
>> pr_init(KERN_WARNING "failure %s in %s\n", ...);
>> [...]
>> }
>>
>> Another idea I had was to make printk a macro that f
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