Re: "BUG: held lock freed!" lock validator tripped by kswapd & xfs

2006-12-01 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 12/1/06, Mike Mattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In an attempt to debug another kernel issue I turned on the lock validator and managed to generate this report. As a side note the first attempt to boot with the lock validator failed with a message indicating I had exceeded MAX_LOCK_DEPTH. To

Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

2006-12-01 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 12/1/06, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:00 -0800, Hua Zhong wrote: > I am curious, what's the point? > > These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made, what the author's email addresses > were at that point.

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 8/14/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less > idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very > slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit. Yes you and I might write 99.9% of our code in good'

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-13 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 8/13/05, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds support for UTF-8 signatures (aka BOM, byte order > mark) to binfmt_script. > With such support, creating scripts that reliably carry non-ASCII > characters is simplified. > the approach would naturally extend to Perl to

Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset

2005-08-05 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 8/5/05, Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hmm. If we had kcmalloc then we may be able to add a zero bit to the slab > allocator. If we would obtain zeroed pages for the slab then we may skip > zeroing of individual entries. However, the cache warming effect of the > current zeroing

Re: [PATCH] kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset

2005-08-05 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 8/5/05, Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > This would imply a similiar kmalloc() would be useful as well. > > > Second, how relevant is it for the kernel? > > we've had a non-negliable amount of security holes because of this > So why do

Re: QoS scheduler

2005-07-29 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 7/29/05, Vitor Curado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You assumed right, Stephen: I'm interested in QoS process scheduling, > sorry for not specifying it... > > I'm taking a deeper look at the qlinux, ckrm and the plugsched > schedulers, if you have any more links, please send them to me... Also y

Re: ZyXEL Kernel /BusyBox GPL violation?

2005-07-25 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 7/25/05, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:21 -0400, Mace Moneta wrote: > > The response seems meaningless; does this constitute a violation of > > GPL? > > If so what, if any, action needs to be taken? http://gpl-violations.org/ http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licen

Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt

2005-07-15 Thread Stephen Pollei
On 7/14/05, Eric St-Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:24 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Trust me. When I say that the right thing to do is to just have a fixed > > (but high) HZ value, and just changing the timer rate, I'm -right-. > Of course you are, jiffies are sim