Kernel OOPS:Badness in map_area_pte at mm/vmalloc.c:126 - Why should it misbehave? Linux 2.6.11

2007-04-19 Thread Ashish Gupta
isolated the reason for the crash. Misc. Details on the Ooops is:- 1) Isolation of code causing the crash - As below 2) Hardware : ARM based running linux 2.6.11 with 32 MB of RAM 4) Crash Dump : - As below. Isolation of code causing the crash:- ___ The target on which it

Re: lirc and Linux 2.6.11

2005-04-21 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:26:37PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I was using lirc 0.7.0 with Linux 2.6.8.1. Upon upgrading to Linux > 2.6.11, I recompiled the lirc 0.7.0 hauppauge (lirc_i2c) modules for > the new kernel. This did not work. I then tried compiling the lirc > 0.7.1 mod

lirc and Linux 2.6.11

2005-04-21 Thread Shaun Jackman
I was using lirc 0.7.0 with Linux 2.6.8.1. Upon upgrading to Linux 2.6.11, I recompiled the lirc 0.7.0 hauppauge (lirc_i2c) modules for the new kernel. This did not work. I then tried compiling the lirc 0.7.1 modules for the new kernel. This didn't work either. The error message lircd giv

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-08 Thread Richard B. Johnson
It wasn't the kernel. Many thanks to those who helped me track down this problem. It seems that the 'C' runtime library was trapping the call to reboot() which probably should have been _reboot() in earlier code to prevent this. Anyway, the fix is to call the kernel directly so it doesn't get blame

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-08 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. Can't do it anymore.

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:50:32PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > >>In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. > >>Can't do it anymore. > >... > >>Observe that rebo

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Jan Harkes wrote: On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. Can't do it anymore. ... Observe that reboot() returns 0 and `strace` understands what parameters were passed. The result is that, if

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | > | > | | > | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | >

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Jan Harkes
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 11:16:14AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. > Can't do it anymore. ... > Observe that reboot() returns 0 and `strace` understands what > parameters were passed. The result is that, if I hit Ctl-Alt-Del, > `init` w

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:46:20 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: | | > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | > | > | | > | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | > | Can't do it anymore. | > | > What s

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | Can't do it anymore. What should disabling C_A_D do? | Script started on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:58:11 AM EDT | [SNIPPED leading stu

Re: Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Randy.Dunlap
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 11:16:14 -0400 (EDT) Richard B. Johnson wrote: | | In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. | Can't do it anymore. What should disabling C_A_D do? | Script started on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:58:11 AM EDT | [SNIPPED leading stuff...] | | mprotect(0xb7fe4000, 286

Linux-2.6.11 can't disable CAD

2005-04-07 Thread Richard B. Johnson
In the not-too distant past, one could disable Ctl-Alt-DEL. Can't do it anymore. Script started on Thu 07 Apr 2005 10:58:11 AM EDT [SNIPPED leading stuff...] mprotect(0xb7fe4000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0 brk(0) = 0x804a000 brk(0x8053000)

RE: mmap/munmap on linux-2.6.11

2005-03-28 Thread Aleksey Gorelov
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of linux-os >Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 1:19 PM >To: Linux kernel >Subject: mmap/munmap on linux-2.6.11 > >Memory gurus, > >We have an application where a driver allocates D

mmap/munmap on linux-2.6.11

2005-03-25 Thread linux-os
Memory gurus, We have an application where a driver allocates DMA-able memory. This DMA-able memory is mmap()ed to user-space. To conserve DMA memory only single pages are obtained using __get_dma_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1) (one page at a time). These pages, that may be scattered all about, are mmap()ed

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-21 Thread George Georgalis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 02:25:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 >> kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not >> clear exactly where the problem is, seems like sa >> but it might be 2.6.

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-21 Thread Andrew Morton
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 > kernel and my spamassassin setup. However, it's not > clear exactly where the problem is, seems like sa > but it might be 2.6.11 with daemontools + qmail + > QMAIL_QUEUE. > > A sure sign of it i

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-16 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 05:37:59PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >>> To simplify, what about these two: >>> mplayer foo.mpg >>> mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt >> >> The particular host does not

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Jarc
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >> To simplify, what about these two: >> mplayer foo.mpg >> mplayer foo.mpg < mediafiles.txt > > The particular host does not have X support so mpg is out. Well, use any one of the files list

Linux 2.6.11-ac4

2005-03-16 Thread Alan Cox
2.6.11-ac4 o Merge with 2.6.11.4 2.6.11-ac3 o Make SATA AHCI error recovery work (Brett Russ) o Watchdog link order (Dave Jones) o Ressurect the epca driver (Alan Cox) o Merge with 2.6.11.3 2.6.11-ac2 o

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread linux-os
ired, maybe I can copy this string to others variables. Yes... sure" $ export VAR2=$VAR1 $ export VAR3=$VAR1 $ export VAR4=$VAR1 $ export VAR5=$VAR1 Then check your env size is large enough $ env|wc -c 4508 $ ./xxx ./xxx 2>/dev/null Apparently the kernel thinks 4096 is a good leng

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread Eric Dumazet
ge enough $ env|wc -c 4508 $ ./xxx ./xxx 2>/dev/null Apparently the kernel thinks 4096 is a good length! So what ? Your program works well now, on a linux-2.6.11 typical machine. Ready to buffer overflow again. Maybe you can pay me $1000 :) Eric Dumazet This is code for which there are no

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread Robert Hancock
linux-os wrote: I don't know how much more precise I could have been. I show the code that will cause the observed condition. I explain that this condition is new, that it doesn't correspond to the previous behavior. Never before was some buffer checked for length before some data was written to it

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread linux-os
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 07:29 -0500, linux-os wrote: This means that the read() is no longer perfectly happy to corrupt all of the user's memory which is the defacto correct response for a bad buffer as shown. Instead, some added "check in software" claims to

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 07:29 -0500, linux-os wrote: > This means that the read() is no longer perfectly happy > to corrupt all of the user's memory which is the defacto > correct response for a bad buffer as shown. Instead, some > added "check in software" claims to prevent this, but > is wrong an

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread linux-os
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Tom Felker wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:59 am, linux-os wrote: The attached file shows that the kernel thinks it's doing something helpful by checking the length of the input buffer for a read(). It will return "Bad Address" until the length is 1632 bytes. Apparently the

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-16 Thread linux-os
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Robert Hancock wrote: linux-os wrote: The attached file shows that the kernel thinks it's doing something helpful by checking the length of the input buffer for a read(). It will return "Bad Address" until the length is 1632 bytes. Apparently the kernel thinks 1632 is a good l

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-15 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 06:28:35PM -0500, Paul Jarc wrote: >"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs >> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and >> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. > >The /proc/kmsg

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-15 Thread Tom Felker
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 11:59 am, linux-os wrote: > The attached file shows that the kernel thinks it's doing > something helpful by checking the length of the input > buffer for a read(). It will return "Bad Address" until > the length is 1632 bytes. Apparently the kernel thinks > 1632 is a good

Re: Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-15 Thread Robert Hancock
linux-os wrote: The attached file shows that the kernel thinks it's doing something helpful by checking the length of the input buffer for a read(). It will return "Bad Address" until the length is 1632 bytes. Apparently the kernel thinks 1632 is a good length! Likely because only 1632 bytes of me

Bogus buffer length check in linux-2.6.11 read()

2005-03-15 Thread linux-os
The attached file shows that the kernel thinks it's doing something helpful by checking the length of the input buffer for a read(). It will return "Bad Address" until the length is 1632 bytes. Apparently the kernel thinks 1632 is a good length! Did anybody consider the overhead necessary to do th

Linux 2.6.11-ac3

2005-03-14 Thread Alan Cox
Almost entirely the 2.6.11.3 update this time. Nice and simple because the 2.6.11.x is working out wonderfully. Alan 2.6.11-ac3 o Merge in 2.6.11.3 o Make SATA AHCI error recovery work (Brett Russ) o Watchdog link order (Dave Jones) o

[PATCH]: linux-2.6.11-uc0 (MMU-less fixups)

2005-03-13 Thread Greg Ungerer
Hi All, An update of the uClinux (MMU-less) fixups against 2.6.11. Most new changes center around the recent nommu changes to keep the mm list as a vma list. Still a bunch of old changes I need to push up stream in this patch too. http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/uClinux-2.6.x/linux-2.6.11-uc0

[CHECKER] fsync doesn't sync data properly (JFS, Linux 2.6.11)

2005-03-12 Thread Junfeng Yang
Hi, FiSC founds a potential error on JFS (Linux 2.6.11) where fsync doesn't properly flushes out file data. Crash after this fsync causes data loss. The test case can be found at http://fisc.stanford.edu/bug9/crash.c To reproduce it, download and compile crash.c, and run it on a fres

x86-64 linux-2.6.11-mm2 - BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! (ohci_hub_resume)

2005-03-10 Thread Sam Elstob
Just booted 2.6.11-mm2 with a new .config and ran into this BUG(). Here is the snippet from dmesg. [ 25.088135] ohci_hcd :00:02.0: wakeup [ 25.113120] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! [ 25.113128] [ 25.113135] Modules linked in: ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore i2c_nforce2 it87 eeprom i2c

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Alan Cox
On Iau, 2005-03-10 at 09:06, Tupshin Harper wrote: > Alan...since you disagreed with the earlier characterization of what it > would take to get into the mainline kernels, could you let us know what > it would take in your opinion? FWIW, I'm happily using it with a -ac kernel. It needs some smal

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Tupshin Harper
Alan Cox wrote: On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1 p

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-10 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Wednesday 09 March 2005 17:51, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 07:26, CaT wrote: > > > Carried over from 2.6.10-ac > > > > BTW. What's the probability of the ITE driver making it into the stock > > kernel? > > I have given up caring about the base kernel IDE code. I've tried to get > s

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 22:22, CaT wrote: > Argh! Ok. I guess I shouldn't've just bought the card based on this > driver then so that I could better debug my problems with my promise > cards. 8( Its good hardware. It does lots of neat things providing you run -ac anyway. The raid1 performance is ver

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Nix
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, Paul Jarc uttered the following: > "George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs >> back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and >> mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. > > The /proc/kmsg p

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Paul Jarc
"George Georgalis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It (Gerrit Pape's technique) very defiantly stopped working a few revs > back (2.6.7?). I'm seeing a similar failed read from /dev/rtc and > mplayer with 2.6.10, now too. The /proc/kmsg problem happens because the kernel now checks for permission at

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-09 Thread CaT
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:43:02PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:38:43 +, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 16:26, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > It can be merged if somebody fix it to always force controller into > > > non-

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-09 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:38:43 +, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 16:26, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > It can be merged if somebody fix it to always force controller into > > non-RAID mode and remove RAID mode support (which currently > > does nothing more besid

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 16:26, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > It can be merged if somebody fix it to always force controller into > non-RAID mode and remove RAID mode support (which currently > does nothing more besides complicating the driver and making special > commands unusable). Incorrect

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-09 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:26:46 +1100, CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:34:22PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this > > diff should actually apply to either right now. > > > > 2.6.11-ac1 > > o Fix jbd race in

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-09 Thread Alan Cox
On Mer, 2005-03-09 at 07:26, CaT wrote: > > Carried over from 2.6.10-ac > > BTW. What's the probability of the ITE driver making it into the stock > kernel? I have given up caring about the base kernel IDE code. I've tried to get stuff submitted and failed. I've no plan to waste further time on i

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread George Georgalis
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 01:06:11PM +, Nix wrote: >> An interesting technique that allows a program (such as a log writer) >> to run as an unprivileged user, while receiving privileged data. (taken >> almost verbatim from Gerrit Pape's socklog) >> >> #!/bin/sh >> exec > exec 2>&1 >> exec softl

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-09 Thread Nix
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, George Georgalis announced authoritatively: > Here's what I'm doing that is broken. I use tcpserver (functionally > similar to inetd) to receive an incoming smtp connection. While the > smtp session is still open, the message is piped to a temp file which > is then scanned for s

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-08 Thread CaT
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:34:22PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this > diff should actually apply to either right now. > > 2.6.11-ac1 > o Fix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) > > Carried over from 2.6

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread Andre Tomt
George Georgalis wrote: Here is a problem with 2.6.10: while read file; do mplayer $file ; done or tail -n93 mediafiles.txt | while read file; do mplayer $file ; done for each file path in that text file I get: Failed to open /dev/rtc: Permission denied (it should be readable by the user.) ^- Thi

[PATCH] relayfs for linux-2.6.11-mm2

2005-03-08 Thread Tom Zanussi
Hi Andrew, Here's the latest version of relayfs, against linux-2.6.11-mm2. I'm hoping you'll consider putting this version back into your tree - the previous rounds of comment seem to have shaken out all the API issues and the number of comments on the code itself have also st

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0500, George Georgalis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote: > >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: > >>> I recall a problem a while

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +, Nix wrote: >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: >>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from >>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a >>> use

Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-08 Thread George Georgalis
falseys rm "$tmp" exit 31 ;; *) # spamc error, echo "$0 error, spamc exit $sce" exit 71 esac exit 81 # Internal bug >If you can reproduce it consistently, *please* report >this to the linux-kernel list! I did, but have had no response to my

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-08 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 06:49, Chris Wright wrote: > Yes, we are intending to pick up bits from -ac (you might have missed > that in another thread). There's actually a successor patch to that which I'm just about to get feedback on here and on ext2-devel. It's higher-risk than the one Alan h

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-08 Thread Andre Tomt
Alan Cox wrote: Functionality o PWC USB camera driver o Working ULI526X support (added to base in .11 but broken) o ATP88x support o Intelligent misrouted IRQ handlers o Fix PCI boxes that take minutes IDE probing o Remove bogus confusing XFree86 keyboard messag

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2005 03:49 PM, Chris Wright wrote: > * Clemens Schwaighofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>2.6.11-ac1 >>>oFix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) >> >>will that patch actually appear in 2.6.11.2? At least it loo

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Chris Wright
* Clemens Schwaighofer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > --On Monday, March 07, 2005 09:34:22 PM + Alan Cox > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this > >diff should actually apply to either right now. > > > >2.6.11-ac1 > >oFix jb

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Clemens Schwaighofer
--On Monday, March 07, 2005 09:34:22 PM + Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this diff should actually apply to either right now. 2.6.11-ac1 o Fix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) will that

Re: Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Indrek Kruusa
Yes yes yes! It almost seemed that your work on thesis stuff will kill -ac :( Thank you! Indrek - 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.org/majordomo-info.html Please read th

Linux 2.6.11-ac1

2005-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
For a couple of reasons I've not yet merged Greg's 2.6.11.1 yet but this diff should actually apply to either right now. 2.6.11-ac1 o Fix jbd race in ext3(Stephen Tweedie) Carried over from 2.6.10-ac Security o AF_ROSE security hole fix - still missing fro

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-05 Thread Neil Brown
On Sunday March 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > su den 06.03.2005 Klokka 00:19 (+) skreiv J.A. Magallon: > > > static int __init init_nfsd(void) > > { > > ... > > if (proc_mkdir("fs/nfs", NULL)) { > > struct proc_dir_entry *entry; > > entry = create_proc_entry("fs/nfs/exports

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-05 Thread Trond Myklebust
su den 06.03.2005 Klokka 00:19 (+) skreiv J.A. Magallon: > static int __init init_nfsd(void) > { > ... > if (proc_mkdir("fs/nfs", NULL)) { > struct proc_dir_entry *entry; > entry = create_proc_entry("fs/nfs/exports", 0, NULL); > if (entry) > entry->proc_

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-05 Thread J.A. Magallon
le!es \ It's better when it's free Mandrakelinux release 10.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.6.11-jam1 (gcc 3.4.3 (Mandrakelinux 10.2 3.4.3-3mdk)) #1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-04 Thread George Georgalis
.6.10 fix this behavior? > > Yes, actually I revert to 2.6.8.1; will try 2.6.10 today... I did make oldconfig (n,n,n) with my 2.6.11 .config and seems to be working normal. Could CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y have anything to do with it? http://galis.org/linux-2.6.11-sta.config http://galis.org/linux

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-04 Thread George Georgalis
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 23:37:06 -0500, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > > /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a > > user uid. The fix was to run the logging pr

Re: problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:57:28PM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from > /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a > user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as > root. Has that protected pipe method been extended > since 2.6.8.1? >

problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as root. Has that protected pipe method been extended since 2.6.8.1? I'm very defiantly seeing a problem with the 2.6.11 kernel and my spamassassin

problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa

2005-03-03 Thread George Georgalis
Please keep me in cc as I'm not presently subscribed to lkml) I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as root. Has that protected pipe method been extended since 2.6.8.1? I'm very defia

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-03 Thread Matthias Andree
Ryan Anderson schrieb am 2005-03-03: > Is there some reason why > bk changes -aem -rv2.6.10..+ | shortlog > isn't sufficient? For some reason, this omits some changes, perhaps from sibling branches, I haven't checked. A similar change however warrants for a huge speedup of the changelog sc

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:26:18 -0800 (PST), Joshua Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No obvous reason. Works fine with kernel 2.6.10 Does it work with i8042.noacpi kernel boot parameter? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Ryan Anderson
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:46:05AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > (In contrast the full ChangeLog was missing because the generation script > I use is not exactly the smart way, so it's O(slow(n)), where slow is n**3 > or worse, so the log from the last -rc release is fast, but going back all > t

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Marcus Furlong
Joshua Hudson wrote: > No obvous reason. Works fine with kernel 2.6.10 > > Result of lspci: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82852/855GM Host Bridge (rev 02) > 00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 855GM/GME GMCH Memory I/O Control > Registers (rev 02) > 00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corp.

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:02, Joshua Hudson wrote: > ACPI: PS/2 Keyboard Controller [KBC] at I/O 0x60, 0x66, irq 1 > ACPI: PS/2 Mouse Controller [PS2M] at irq 12 > i8042.c: Can't read CTR while initializing i8042. Ok, your BIOS is also reporting incorrect port values for the keyboard controlle

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Joshua Hudson
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present) ACPI: Lid Switch [LID] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN] ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Joshua Hudson
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:26:18 -0800 (PST), Joshua Hudson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No obvous reason. Works fine with kernel 2.6.10 > > Does it work with i8042.noacpi kernel boot parameter? > Yes, it does. I never heard of that option before, or a

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:01, Joshua Hudson wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:26:18 -0800 (PST), Joshua Hudson > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No obvous reason. Works fine with kernel 2.6.10 > > > > Does it work with i8042.noacpi kernel boo

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 21:27, Joshua Hudson wrote: > i8042: ACPI detection disabled > i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active. I really need dmesg when booting _without_ the option, i.e. non-working case. Thanks! -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Joshua Hudson
Relevent messages (erring on the heavy side) ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fdf00 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELLCPi R 0x27d4061d ASL 0x0061) @ 0x1fef ACPI: FADT (v001 DELLCPi R 0x27d4061d ASL 0x0061) @ 0x1fef0400 ACPI: DSDT (v001 INT430 SYSFexxx 0

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Joshua Hudson
> > > Does it work with i8042.noacpi kernel boot parameter? > > > > > Yes, it does. > Btw, when it boots _without_ this option is there any messages from > i8042 or ACPI? > A few. I'll go back and catch them for you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Jan Dittmer
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Ok, > there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 > appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code > checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds). > > So it's now _officially_ all bug-free. At least

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:06:36PM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Herbert Poetzl wrote: > [] > >BUG_ON() and friends are still broken (at least on x86) > [] > >Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed > >[ cut here ] > >kernel BUG at :9377! > > ~~~

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150 (and 5150)

2005-03-02 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:16:43 +, Marcus Furlong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the diff of dmesgs between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 > > 2.6.10 > >i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active. > >serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 > >serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 > > 2.6.11 > < ACPI: PS/2 Ke

Re: Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150 (and 5150)

2005-03-02 Thread Marcus Furlong
Here's the diff of dmesgs between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11 2.6.10 i8042.c: Warning: Keylock active. serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 2.6.11 < ACPI: PS/2 Keyboard Controller [KBC] at I/O 0x60, 0x66, irq 1 < ACPI: PS/2 Mouse Controller [PS2M] at irq 12 < i80

Bug report -- keyboard not working Linux 2.6.11 on Inspiron 1150

2005-03-02 Thread Joshua Hudson
- linux-2.6.10/.config2005-02-19 18:33:49.00000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6.11/.config2005-03-02 12:11:54.0 -0800 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # # Automatically generated make config: don't edit -# Linux kernel version: 2.6.10 -# Sat Feb 19 17:34:02 2005 +# Linux kernel version: 2.6.11 +#

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > > Is the master side a hidden host rather than ftp.kernel.org? Yes. The private keys etc used to generate the signatures are not on the public sites, which is what I assume your question _really_ is. > > (In contrast the full ChangeLog was missing b

Patch Linux-2.6.11 jiffies.h uses shadowed variable names.

2005-03-02 Thread linux-os
Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.--- linux-2.6.11/include/linux/jiffies.h.orig 2005-03-02 11:29:27.0 -0500 +++

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 doesn't seem to carry a crypto > > signature for the patch, patch-2.6.11.gz.sign > > It's there now (along with the ChangeLog). > The signatures are automaticall

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread John Cherry
Linux 2.6 Compile Statistics (gcc 3.4.1) Web page with links to complete details: http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/ Kernel bzImagebzImage bzImage modules bzImage modules (defconfig) (allno) (allyes) (allyes) (allmod) (allmod) --- --- --

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > > ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6 doesn't seem to carry a crypto > signature for the patch, patch-2.6.11.gz.sign It's there now (along with the ChangeLog). The signatures are automatically generated at the master site, and the mirroring out t

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Michael Tokarev
Herbert Poetzl wrote: [] BUG_ON() and friends are still broken (at least on x86) [] Freeing unused kernel memory: 244k freed [ cut here ] kernel BUG at :9377! ~~~ Have you tried compiling with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y ? (Looks like CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVE

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Herbert Poetzl
> o [IPV6]: Unregister per-device snmp6 proc entry earlier > > Jens Axboe: > o [PATCH] Fix bounced bio and dm panic > > Kenji Kaneshige: > o [IA64] pci_irq.c: need signed variable to handle error return from > acpi > > Linus Torvalds: > o Fix pos

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 > > appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code > > checkers (like fixed init sections, and some cover

Re: Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > there it is. Only small stuff lately - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 > appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code > checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds). ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/v2.

Linux 2.6.11

2005-03-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
cpi Linus Torvalds: o Fix possible pty line discipline race o Properly limit keyboard keycodes to KEY_MAX o Make pipe "poll()" take direction of pipe into account o Linux 2.6.11 Nishanth Aravamudan: o [PKTGEN]: Replace interruptible_sleep_on_timeout() Olaf Hering: o Fix incorre

Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

2005-02-27 Thread Peter Chubb
> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andrew> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> $ ulimit -m 10 bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify >> limit: Function not implemented Andrew> I don't know about this. The change could cause existing Andrew> applications and scripts

Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

2005-02-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ulimit dont enforce RLIMIT_RSS now,while sys_setrlimit() pretend > it(RLIMIT_RSS) is enforced. > > This may cause confusion to users, and may lead to un-guaranteed > dependence on "ulimit -m" to limit users/applications. > > The patch fixed the pr

Re:Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

2005-02-27 Thread stone_wang
imit might be a historical issue, with already many applications depending on it :( Stone Wang - Original Message - From: Andrew Morton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;[EMAIL PROTECTED] ;linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c

Re: [PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

2005-02-27 Thread Andrew Morton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > $ ulimit -m 10 > bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify limit: Function not implemented I don't know about this. The change could cause existing applications and scripts to fail. Sure, we'll do that sometimes but this doesn't seem important enough. - To

[PATCH] Linux-2.6.11-rc5: kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup

2005-02-27 Thread stone_wang
kbytes, -v) unlimited file locks (-x) unlimited $ ulimit -m 10 bash: ulimit: max memory size: cannot modify limit: Function not implemented - patch: 2.6.11-rc5 kernel/sys.c setrlimit() RLIMIT_RSS cleanup Signed-Off-By: Stone Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urpN linux-2.6

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