Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > We cannot merge a kernel change which requires a userspace upgrade to get > the X server working again. Agreed. > > You can do it the other way: make the X server work by default (my patch) > then, in your upgraded userspace, set /proc/sys/kernel/mmap

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:45:48 -0400 Eric Paris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 01:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:12:21 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I can't start the X server any more, but that's probably unrelated ;) > > >

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:12:48 -0400 (EDT) James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My fix: > > This should work. > uh, OK, surprised. Completer version: --- a/security/selinux/hooks.c~git-selinux-disable-mmap_min_addr-by-default +++ a/security/selinux/hooks.c @@ -112,9 +112,6 @@ int selinux

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Eric Paris
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 01:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:12:21 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I can't start the X server any more, but that's probably unrelated ;) > > > > > me hopelessly outnumbered> > > And the winner of the u-o-akpm-1-hour-of-his

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread James Morris
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: Sorry, we should have discovered this before you. > (Shouldn't this be in /proc/sys/vm?) Probably. > My fix: This should work. (We have some code to allow things like this to be added without needing new policy, but it's too late for this case).

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:12:21 -0700 Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't start the X server any more, but that's probably unrelated ;) > > me hopelessly outnumbered> And the winner of the u-o-akpm-1-hour-of-his-life-back award (and the bonus u-delayed-next-mm-by-a-day award!) is ..

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-28 Thread Andrew Morton
On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:38:22 -0700 Venki Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Auto-detect the presence of HPET on ICH5 or newer platforms and enable > HPET for broadcast timer. Hey. This works. The Vaio-of-doom is running tickless for the first time. I can't start the X server any more, but

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-23 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 09:52 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I _think_ what's going on here is that your code will go and poke the > hardware to enable the hpet even f the BIOS decided to hide its presence. > Is that correct? If so, perhaps the changelog should mention this > explicitly. > > > Appl

Re: [PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-23 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:38:22 -0700 Venki Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Auto-detect the presence of HPET on ICH5 or newer platforms and enable > HPET for broadcast timer. This gives a bigger upperlimit for tickless time > tick and improves the power consumption in comparison to PIT as bro

[PATCH 1/7] ICH Force HPET: Make generic time capable of switching broadcast timer

2007-06-22 Thread Venki Pallipadi
Auto-detect the presence of HPET on ICH5 or newer platforms and enable HPET for broadcast timer. This gives a bigger upperlimit for tickless time tick and improves the power consumption in comparison to PIT as broadcast timer. This patch: Change the broadcast timer, if a timer with higher ratin