Re: [Crosspost] GNU/Linux userland?

2005-04-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John Lenz wrote: On 04/13/05 14:40:31, Oliver Korpilla wrote: You might also look at www.openembedded.org It has support for cross compiling, and with one command can build an entire userland. Not sure if it is exactly a fit for what you want to do, but it seems very close. Thanks, this sound

[PATCH 1/2 RESEND - 2.6.11.7] x25 : Selective subaddress matching with call user data

2005-04-14 Thread Shaun Pereira
Hi Again I think I stuffed up a bit on the format with the last submit. Hence the resend, sorry for this. Hi This is the first (independent of the second) patch of two that I am working on with x25 on linux (tested with xot on a cisco router). Details are as follows. Current state of module: A s

Re: SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK

2005-04-14 Thread tsuchiya yoshihiro
Arjan van de Ven wrote: (B (B>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:42 +0900, tsuchiya yoshihiro wrote: (B> (B> (B>>Hi, (B>>In Fedora Core3, interruptible_sleep_on() checks if the system is (B>>lock_kernel()'ed (B>>by SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK. Same thing is done in RedHatEL4. (B>>Also I found a patch includ

Re: SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK

2005-04-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 04:17:34PM +0900, tsuchiya yoshihiro wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:42 +0900, tsuchiya yoshihiro wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >>In Fedora Core3, interruptible_sleep_on() checks if the system is > >>lock_kernel()'ed > >>by SLEEP_ON_BKLCHECK. Sam

Re: [patch] sched: fix active load balance

2005-04-14 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Siddha, Suresh B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your suggestion also looks similar to my patch. You are also breaking > on the first one. yeah. > We want the first domain spanning both the cpu's. That is the domain > where normal load balance failed and we restore to active load > balance.

Kernel messages

2005-04-14 Thread Iwan Sanders
Can someone explain to me what just happend? I would really like to know :-) I think that the machine ran out of memory and the OOM killer shot some processes, this is what I found in my logfiles: 1 Time(s): Active:48588 inactive:152 dirty:0 writeback:7 unstable:0 free:502 slab:13664 mapped:48

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:51:25AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > This solution is all wrong. > > > > If you want security of the suspend image while "suspended", encrypt > > with dm-crypt. If you want security of the swap image after resume, > > zero out the portion of swap used. If you want bo

Re: Kernel messages

2005-04-14 Thread Coywolf Qi Hunt
On 4/14/05, Iwan Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can someone explain to me what just happend? I would really like to know > :-) > I think that the machine ran out of memory and the OOM killer shot some > processes, this is what I found > in my logfiles: > > 1 Time(s): Active:48588 inactive:

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ät 14-04-05 03:13:41, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > The dmcrypt swap can only be unlocked by the user with a passphrase, > > which is analogous to how you unlock your ssh private key stored > > on the disk using a passphrase. > > We talk about the unlock

Re: swsuspend scheduling while atomic

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > i am playing a little with swsuspend and getting > "scheduling while atomic: bash/0x0001/5244" > messages while the system is resuming. > Apparently the resume work correctly. > Do i have to fear for my data? It should be ok. > Some data about my system: > ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link

Re: [PATCH 6/6]suspend/resume SMP support

2005-04-14 Thread Li Shaohua
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:32, Pavel Machek wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1# dmesg | tail -25 > [] activate_task+0x1/0xa0 > [] resched_task+0x68/0x90 > [] try_to_wake_up+0x2aa/0x2f0 > [] fbcon_cursor+0x19a/0x270 > [] hide_cursor+0x18/0x30 > [] vt_console_print+0x24f/0x26

Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

2005-04-14 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 06:35:49PM +0200, Eric Rannaud wrote: > Simply put, the best known attack of SHA-1 takes 2^69 hash operations. > ( http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/02/sha1_broken.html ) > The attack is still only an unpublished paper and has not yet been > implemented. An attack i

encrypted swap (was Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality)

2005-04-14 Thread Andy Isaacson
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:39:04AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > Andreas is right. They are encrypted in swap, but they should not be > > there at all. And they are encrypted by key that is still available > > after resume. Bad. > > The dmcrypt swap can only be unlocked by the user with a passphras

Re: encrypted swap (was Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality)

2005-04-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 01:31:19AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > > Does dmcrypt have a simple operation mode like OpenBSD's encrypted swap? > I want to be able to 'sysctl -w kernel.swap_crypt=1' and get It's not that easy however the distros can make it so that it's as simple as running one comma

Re: [PATCH 6/6]suspend/resume SMP support

2005-04-14 Thread Li Shaohua
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:27, Li Shaohua wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:32, Pavel Machek wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1# dmesg | tail -25 > > [] activate_task+0x1/0xa0 > > [] resched_task+0x68/0x90 > > [] try_to_wake_up+0x2aa/0x2f0 > > [] fbcon_cursor+0x19a/0x270 >

Re: encrypted swap (was Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality)

2005-04-14 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > > * the key is automatically regenerated every 2 hours (or whatever); as > >pages encrypted under the old key age out, it can be freed eventually > > This'll require changes to dmcrypt but it's doable. but it's not useful since linux actually generally keeps the pages also in swap even

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Thursday, 14 of April 2005 10:08, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:51:25AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > This solution is all wrong. > > > > > > If you want security of the suspend image while "suspended", encrypt > > > with dm-crypt. If you want security of the swap i

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
On Ät 14-04-05 18:08:37, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:51:25AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > This solution is all wrong. > > > > > > If you want security of the suspend image while "suspended", encrypt > > > with dm-crypt. If you want security of the swap image after resume

Re: Further copy_from_user() discussion.

2005-04-14 Thread Catalin Marinas
Vadim Lobanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Would it be possible to eliminate the might_sleep() call in > copy_from_user()? It seems that, very soon after, the __copy_from_user() > macro does another might_sleep(), with very few instructions in between. > But there might be some trick here that I

need advice about wait queue usage

2005-04-14 Thread Thomas Koeller
Can anybody on this list answer the following question: My code contains a call to wait_event_interruptible_exclusive(). This results in the current task going to sleep on a wait queue. It builds a wait_queue_t struct in its current stack frame, setting the .func member to autoremove_wake_function

Re: [patch] genalloc for 2.6.12-rc-mm3

2005-04-14 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Christoph> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:51:20AM -0400, Jes Sorensen Christoph> wrote: >> > "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> +#include Christoph> this will break on all plattforms except alph

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: Compose key doesn't work

2005-04-14 Thread Domen Puncer
On 10/04/05 11:52 +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > Hi Vojtech. > > I have mapped my right windows key to "Compose" in X: ... > > This worked fine upto 2.6.11.7, but doesn't under 2.6.12-rc2. The key > doesn't seem to be doing anything anymore: "Compose-'-e" just gets me > "'e" and so on. I can con

Re: [patch 134/198] officially deprecate register_ioctl32_conversion

2005-04-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:02:42AM +, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > > +Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method > > + vecors. > > vectors ? Yes. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: encrypted swap (was Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality)

2005-04-14 Thread Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Andy Isaacson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * the key is automatically regenerated every 2 hours (or whatever); as >pages encrypted under the old key age out, it can be freed eventually Changing the key would not help, since if you can get the swap pages on a running system, you can also get

Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] [ANNOUNCE] open-iscsi and linux-iscsi project teams have merged!

2005-04-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:30:58PM -0400, linux-iscsi development team wrote: > The linux-iscsi and open-iscsi developers would like to announce > that they have combined forces on a single iSCSI initiator effort! What SCM will the code be in? I must admit I really, really prefer the SVN hosting

Re: 2.6.12-rc2: Compose key doesn't work

2005-04-14 Thread Kees Bakker
Rene Herman wrote: > Hi Vojtech. > > I have mapped my right windows key to "Compose" in X: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "XkbModel" "pc104" > Option "XkbLayout" "us" > Option

[patch 1/1] nbd: Don't create all MAX_NBD devices by default all the time

2005-04-14 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patches adds the "nbds_max" parameter to the nbd kernel module, which limits the number of nbds allocated. Previously, always all 128 entries were allocated unconditionally, which used to waste resources and needlessly flood the hotplug system with

[OOPS] on usb removal, and minicom closing 2.6.11.7

2005-04-14 Thread Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
So, I plugged in e680 motorola phone, played a bit with minicom on /dev/ttyACM0, and when I closed minicom, got this oops. USB is useless, got to reboot computer to use it again! it's vanilla 2.6.11.7 oops attached. ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.6.11.7. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/

Re: incoming

2005-04-14 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > As the commits list probably isn't working at present I'll cc linux-kernel > on this lot. Fairly cruel, sorry, but I don't like the idea of people not > knowing what's hitting the main tree. Is it me, or were really only 117 mails of the 198 sent to lkm

Re: [patch 1/9] GFP_ZERO fix

2005-04-14 Thread Manfred Spraul
Andrew Morton wrote: Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: #define GFP_LEVEL_MASK (__GFP_WAIT|__GFP_HIGH|__GFP_IO|__GFP_FS| \ - __GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT| \ - __GFP_NOFAIL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NO_GROW|__GFP_COMP) + __GFP_COLD|__GFP_NOWARN|__GFP_REPEAT|__GFP_NOFAIL| \ + __GFP_

Re: incoming

2005-04-14 Thread Paulo Marques
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: As the commits list probably isn't working at present I'll cc linux-kernel on this lot. Fairly cruel, sorry, but I don't like the idea of people not knowing what's hitting the main tree. Is it me, or were really only 117 mails of

Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB problems 2.6.10

2005-04-14 Thread Wakko Warner
Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 08:00:46AM -0500, Wakko Warner wrote: > > I have a system that I just updated to 2.6 and USB fails to work after some > > time (~6-8 hours) giving me the "irq 11:nobody cared" message. > > > > This system is a supermicro p3tdde (via chipset) > > I have ACPI

Re: [OOPS] on usb removal, and minicom closing 2.6.11.7

2005-04-14 Thread JustMan
> So, > > I plugged in e680 motorola phone, played a bit with minicom on > /dev/ttyACM0, and when I closed minicom, got this oops. USB is useless, > got to reboot computer to use it again! > it's vanilla 2.6.11.7 > > oops attached. > Try attached patch... (nasty solution, but it work for my C35

Re: Kernel messages

2005-04-14 Thread Diego Calleja
El Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:03:24 +0200, Iwan Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Can someone explain to me what just happend? I would really like to know > :-) > I think that the machine ran out of memory and the OOM killer shot some > processes, this is what I found > in my logfiles: This is

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-14 Thread Humberto Massa
David Schwartz wrote: >> >Would you agree that compiling and linking a program that >> >uses a library creates a derivative work of that library? > > >>No. Compiling and linking are mechanical, >>non-intellectually-novel acts. At most, you have a >>collective work where the real intellectually-nove

Re: [OOPS] on usb removal, and minicom closing 2.6.11.7

2005-04-14 Thread Grzegorz Piotr Jaskiewicz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Works great, I would like to ask everyone here on lkml to consider adding this patch to mainline. This ain't naughty solution, checking for object/pointer/whatever if exists before doing anything with it, is good. Anyone? Buy the way, I am also looki

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:47:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: You're not. Complain to nvidia - using both email and snailmail. If everybody with such problems did that, chances are they see the light someday. Oh, and complain to the guy handing out nvidia cards like con

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:59:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nope. No go. The kernel log getsb these 4 lines: > Apr 13 22:08:30 tippex SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x802 > Apr 13 22:08:30 tippex sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error > Apr 13 22:08:36 tippex SCSI error : <0 0 0 0

Re: AOE and large filesystems?

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Dan Stromberg wrote: > >Some questions for the list: > > > >1) Is anyone on the list using AOE in production? > > > >2) Is anyone on the list using AOE in combination with md and/or > >LVM2? > > > >3) Is anyone on the list using AOE on a 64 bit platform? > > While I think AoE is "neat", IM

Re: [PATCH] Updated: Dynamic Tick version 050408-1

2005-04-14 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > I think I have an idea on what's going on; Your system does not wake to > > > > APIC interrupt, and the system timer updates time only on other > > > > interrupts. > > > > I'm experiencing the same on a loaner ThinkPad T30. > > > > > > > > I'll try to do another patch today. Meanwhil

Re: [OSS] Add CXT48 to modem black list in ac97

2005-04-14 Thread Herbert Xu
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:59:24PM +0200, SuD (Alex) wrote: > > As a result, if i insert "snd-intel8x0" it will detect a soundcard (pci > 0:0:1f.5), but if insert instead > "snd-intel8x0M" it will detect a modem (pci 0:0:1f.6). > If a modem is detected i get errors like: "MC'97 0 converters and G

Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Rannaud
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 01:30 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: > In particular, your defense here is specious. I agree that second > preimage is an unmanagably large problem for SHA1 for the forseeable > future (say, 8 years out), but collision results almost always result in > partially-controlled attac

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread aeriksson
> > What brand/model drive is this? > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR http://usa.aopen.com/products/dvd+rw/DUW1608ARR.htm Should I consider changing it? (I got an 'if this doesn't run on Linux I can trade it in' warranty at the shop) > It is possible to get very weird errors if you have unsupporte

[PATCH] [2.4.30] New NVIDIA device IDs

2005-04-14 Thread Andy Currid
This patch against kernel 2.4.30 adds PCI device IDs for future NVIDIA silicon, and patches the amd74xx IDE and sata_nv SATA drivers to support them. Andy -- Andy Currid, NVIDIA Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 566 6743 -- diff -pur linux-2.4.30/drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.c patch-2.4.30/driver

[PATCH] [2.6.11] New NVIDIA device IDs

2005-04-14 Thread Andy Currid
This patch against kernel 2.6.11 adds PCI device IDs for future NVIDIA silicon, and patches the amd74xx IDE and sata_nv SATA drivers to support them. Andy -- Andy Currid, NVIDIA Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] 408 566 6743 -- diff -pur linux-2.6.11/drivers/ide/pci/amd74xx.c patch-2.6.11/driver

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

2005-04-14 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > I realised today that this happens every time X starts up for > > the first time. I did some experiments, and found that with 2.6.12rc1 > > it's gone. Either it got fixed accidentally, or its hidden now > > by one of the many changes i

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Chris Friesen wrote: Lennart Sorensen wrote: Graphics card companies don't realize they are hardware companies not software companies and that it is hardware they make their money from? Oh and they have too many lawyers? This has been mentioned before, but I'll say it again. Nvidia has intellectua

Re: Why system call need to copy the date from the userspace before using it

2005-04-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Tomko wrote: Catalin Marinas wrote: No, it is because this function checks whether the access to the user space address is OK. There are situations when it can also sleep (page not present). what u means "OK"? kernel space should have right to access any memory address , can u expained in deta

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
Just to refersh everyone's memory as to the strengths and weaknesses of Fortuna... First, a reminder that the design goal of /dev/random proper is information-theoretic security. That is, it should be secure against an attacker with infinite computational power. If you want a weaker guarantee, u

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:35:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR > http://usa.aopen.com/products/dvd+rw/DUW1608ARR.htm > > Should I consider changing it? (I got an 'if this doesn't run on Linux > I can trade it in' warranty at the shop) Well there is a cdwrite mai

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread Jean-Luc Cooke
Thanks for the post. Waiting for 256bits of entropy before outputting data is a good goal. Problem becomes how do you measure entropy in a reliable way? This had me lynched last time I asked it so I'll stop right there. Info-theoretic randomness is a strong desire of some/many users, and they t

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread Jeremy Muise
> > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR I just thought I should chime in because I have the same burner running under a 2.6.11 kernel, and using ide-cd. The drive burns just fine, linux support was good, but I did run into two problems: 1) I had to shop around till I found a brand of DVD-R (I haven't tried

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:02:14PM -0300, Jeremy Muise wrote: > > > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR > I just thought I should chime in because I have the same burner running > under a 2.6.11 kernel, and using ide-cd. The drive burns just fine, linux > support was good, but I did run into two problems: >

Re: iproute/iptables best?

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Friesen
bert hubert wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:35:12PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: How can we make the reply to an action go back out through the route it came in on? Sometimes Linux can't (and shouldn't) figure out the "right" interface. In this case, you need policy routing: Yep. iproute2 with po

Re: incoming

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:48 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > As the commits list probably isn't working at present I'll cc linux-kernel > > on this lot. Fairly cruel, sorry, but I don't like the idea of people not > > knowing what's hitting the main

Re: ACPI/HT or Packet Scheduler BUG?

2005-04-14 Thread Tarhon-Onu Victor
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Tarhon-Onu Victor wrote: So the problem should be looked in that changes to the pkt sched API, the patch containing only those changes is at The bug is in this portion of code from net/sched/sch_generic.c, in the qdisc_destroy() function: == list_for_each_entry(cq, &c

Re: Call to atention about using hash functions as content indexers (SCM saga)

2005-04-14 Thread Eric D. Mudama
I hold my breath for weeks at a time, just incase something like this happens! I thought I was the only one! On 4/12/05, Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So past a certain point, there is a probability that all of molecules > of oxygen in the room will suddenly migrate outdoors, and you

Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] [ANNOUNCE] open-iscsi and linux-iscsi project teams have merged!

2005-04-14 Thread Dmitry Yusupov
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 13:16 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 10:30:58PM -0400, linux-iscsi development team wrote: > > The linux-iscsi and open-iscsi developers would like to announce > > that they have combined forces on a single iSCSI initiator effort! > > What SCM will

Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] [ANNOUNCE] open-iscsi and linux-iscsi project teams have merged!

2005-04-14 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:18:32AM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > Consider linux-iscsi-5.x CVS branch as a "mainline". Current open-iscsi > SVN repository is the place where all hard-core development will happen > at least for the nearest future. > > I really hope sf.net will provide SVN hosting v

poor SATA performance under 2.6.11 (with < 2.6.11 is OK)?

2005-04-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I have a Silicon Image SIL3112A SATA PCI controller + 2x 200GB, 8MB Barracuda drives. The performance under 2.6 kernels is *very* poor (Timing buffered disk reads never more than 20 MB/sec); under 2.4 it runs quite fine (Timing buffered disk reads around 60 MB/sec). Below three hdparm reads on thr

poor SATA performance under 2.6.11 (with < 2.6.11 is OK)?

2005-04-14 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
I have a Silicon Image SIL3112A SATA PCI controller + 2x 200GB, 8MB Barracuda drives. The performance under 2.6 kernels is *very* poor (Timing buffered disk reads never more than 20 MB/sec); under 2.4 it runs quite fine (Timing buffered disk reads around 60 MB/sec). Below three hdparm reads on thr

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread aeriksson
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:35:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well there is a cdwrite mailing list hosted on lists.debian.org which is > a great place to figure out what weird errors are and such, and the > authors of the programs used for writing discs are on thoses lists too, > so you ma

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

2005-04-14 Thread aeriksson
> > > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR > I just thought I should chime in because I have the same burner running > under a 2.6.11 kernel, and using ide-cd. The drive burns just fine, linux > support was good, but I did run into two problems: > 1) I had to shop around till I found a brand of DVD-R (I have

Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3

2005-04-14 Thread Stas Sergeev
Hello. Ingo Molnar wrote: does the patch below fix the problem for you? Works perfectly, thankyou! - 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 t

Heads up on 2.6.12-rc1 and later

2005-04-14 Thread James . Smart
Folks, FYI: In testing with 2.6.12-rc1 and -rc2, we've been encountering an issue on SMP machines with the loading of scsi_mod and sd_mod modules. The sd_mod load fails with unresolved symbols. It appears to be a race condition based on how quickly the modules load. This works fine on uni syst

Re: [linux-iscsi-devel] [ANNOUNCE] open-iscsi and linux-iscsi project teams have merged!

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 18:19 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:18:32AM -0700, Dmitry Yusupov wrote: > > Consider linux-iscsi-5.x CVS branch as a "mainline". Current open-iscsi > > SVN repository is the place where all hard-core development will happen > > at least for the

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
David Lang wrote: some config changes are additions, some redefine things. you are mistakeing the .config file for a symbol table. No I'm not confusing. As long as the .config has an influence on the makefiles I get different symbols names. for example if you compile a kernel with SMP=y you get d

Re: poor SATA performance under 2.6.11 (with < 2.6.11 is OK)?

2005-04-14 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:23:30PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > I have a Silicon Image SIL3112A SATA PCI controller + 2x 200GB, 8MB > Barracuda drives. Bad combination. > The performance under 2.6 kernels is *very* poor (Timing buffered disk > reads never more than 20 MB/sec); under 2.4 i

Re: OOM problems with 2.6.11-rc4

2005-04-14 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:47:40PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 11:12:18AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > Well, that's certainly an interesting question. The filesystem is IBM's > > JFS. If you tell me that's part of the problem, I'm not likely to > > disagree. 8^)

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

2005-04-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> It looks very much as if the mm being created has for pmd a page > which was used for user stack in the outgoing mm; but somehow exec's > exit_mmap TLB flushing hasn't taken effect. I only now noticed this > patch where you fix just such an issue. Thanks for the analysis. However I doubt the lo

Re: Further copy_from_user() discussion.

2005-04-14 Thread Vadim Lobanov
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Catalin Marinas wrote: > Vadim Lobanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. Would it be possible to eliminate the might_sleep() call in > > copy_from_user()? It seems that, very soon after, the __copy_from_user() > > macro does another might_sleep(), with very few instructions in

screensaver

2005-04-14 Thread sauro
Greetings. I am using a 2.4 Linux workstation in text mode (no graphic interface). After some time, Linux activates the "screensaver" and the monitor goes blank on "stand by" mode until activity is detected from the mouse or keyboard. Is it possible to disable this screensaver, so that the monit

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Yes, but you still can't change .config. You enable SMP, your binary compatibility is history. You _have_to_ be able to enable SMP and _you_have_ to be able to disable it. The following kernel packages are parts of Fedora Core 3: kernel-2.6.9-1.667.i586.rpm kernel-2.6.9-1.66

Re: [PATCH encrypted swsusp 1/3] core functionality

2005-04-14 Thread Matt Mackall
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:04:39AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Thursday, 14 of April 2005 10:08, Herbert Xu wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:51:25AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > > This solution is all wrong. > > > > > > > > If you want security of the suspend image

spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7

2005-04-14 Thread Lee Revell
I get this message occasionally on both my machines. I googled and saw some references to this message on 2.4 but nothing for 2.6. Some of the references were to APIC, which I don't have enabled. Both machines are using VIA chipsets and display the "VIA IRQ fixup" message on boot. I think this

Re: Heads up on 2.6.12-rc1 and later

2005-04-14 Thread Tom Duffy
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In testing with 2.6.12-rc1 and -rc2, we've been encountering an issue > on SMP machines with the loading of scsi_mod and sd_mod modules. The > sd_mod load fails with unresolved symbols. It appears to be a race > condition based on how qu

Re: Heads up on 2.6.12-rc1 and later

2005-04-14 Thread K.R. Foley
Tom Duffy wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:29 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In testing with 2.6.12-rc1 and -rc2, we've been encountering an issue on SMP machines with the loading of scsi_mod and sd_mod modules. The sd_mod load fails with unresolved symbols. It appears to be a race condition based

[PATCH 2.6.11.7] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module

2005-04-14 Thread Chris_Poblete
This patch supersedes the one submitted earlier with title "[PATCH 2.6.11.6] Add power cycle to ipmi_poweroff module". Below is a patch to add "power cycle" functionality to the IPMI power off module ipmi_poweroff. It also contains changes to support absence of procfs feature. Files affected by

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-14 Thread Ross Biro
On 4/13/05, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we have a situation where we screw a subset of users with the > config option =y and a different subset with =n, how is this improving > the situation any over what we have today ? This is exactly the case and this is better than what we have

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 02:15:38PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've heard a suggestion that something like /dev/urandom, but which blocks > until it has received a minimum amount of seed material at least once, > would be a nice thing. So boot-time crypto initialization can stall > until it

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-14 Thread Tim Hockin
On 4/13/05, Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If we have a situation where we screw a subset of users with the > config option =y and a different subset with =n, how is this improving > the situation any over what we have today ? Dave, What's a good alternative? Do we need to keep a white

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

2005-04-14 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Thanks for the analysis. However I doubt the load_cr3 patch can fix > it. All it does is to stop the CPU from prefetching mappings (which > can cause different problem). I thought that the leave_mm code (before your patch) flushes the TLB, but restores c

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (2.6.12-rc2-mm2)

2005-04-14 Thread Daniel Ritz
On Thursday 14 April 2005 00:41, Peter Baumann wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:24:04PM +0200, Daniel Ritz wrote: > > On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:09, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread Franco \"Sensei\"
Adrian Bunk wrote: When a new component is added to the kernel, let's say support for a new file system, a .config entry is created (CONFIG_MYFS=y|m). Why is this entry breaking compatibility? I mean, symbols still remains the same. The addition of symbols is not a breaking point. That's clear.

Re: Disc driver is module, software suspend fails

2005-04-14 Thread Jim Carter
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Pavel Machek wrote: > > This patch makes software_resume not a late_initcall but rather an > > external subroutine similar to software_suspend, and calls it at the > > beginning of mount_root (in init/do_mounts.c), just _after_ the initrd > > (if any) and its driver have been

[PATCH] generate hotplug events for cpu online

2005-04-14 Thread Nathan Lynch
We already do kobject_hotplug for cpu offline; this adds a kobject_hotplug call for the online case. This is being requested by developers of an application which wants to be notified about both kinds of events. Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2-mm3/driver

Re: PCI interrupt problem: e1000 & Super-Micro X6DVA motherboard

2005-04-14 Thread Ganesh Venkatesan
Ben: Have you checked if the BIOS on the super micro machine is the latest and greatest. I have had interrupt routing issues very similar to the one you are describing due to a BIOS Interrupt Routing issue. Moving to newer BIOS fixed it. ganesh. On 3/24/05, Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [INFO] Kernel strict versioning

2005-04-14 Thread David Lang
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Franco "Sensei" wrote: Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:52:50 -0500 From: Franco "Sensei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [INFO] Kernel stric

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> What if it was always on, except when the commandlien was passed > (eliminate the CONFIG option)? Really 'leet hacks could tweak a #define > if they don't like the command line option.. That is basically what I suggested. But test it for a month in -mm* first and figure out if it needs more bla

Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-14 Thread Marco Colombo
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 21:47 +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:53:56PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > > > > This is different. They are not giving the source at all. The licence > > > > for those object files _has_ to be different. _They_ want it to be > > > > different. > > > >

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6

2005-04-14 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:34:58PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > Thanks for the analysis. However I doubt the load_cr3 patch can fix > > it. All it does is to stop the CPU from prefetching mappings (which > > can cause different problem). > > I though

Re: screensaver

2005-04-14 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, sauro wrote: Greetings. I am using a 2.4 Linux workstation in text mode (no graphic interface). After some time, Linux activates the "screensaver" and the monitor goes blank on "stand by" mode until activity is detected from the mouse or keyboard. Is it possible to disable th

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6 II

2005-04-14 Thread Andi Kleen
> I will take a closer look at the rc1/rc2 patches later this evening > and see if I can spot something. Can only report back tomorrow though. Actually itt started in .11 already - sigh - on rereading the thread. That will make the code audit harder :/ -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-14 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 15:02 -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > >Call pci_enable_device() before looking at IRQ and resources. > >The driver requires this fix or the "pci=routeirq" workaround > >on 2.6.10 and later kernels. >

Re: screensaver

2005-04-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
> Is it possible to disable this screensaver, so that the monitor keeps on > all the time? $ setterm -blank 0 -- Manuel Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.80686-net.de/ -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCM d-- s:- a? C++$ UL P+> L+++>$ E- W+++$ N+ o-- K- w--$ O+ M+ V PS+ PE-

{PATCH] Fix IBM EMAC driver ioctl bug

2005-04-14 Thread Geoff Levand
Fix IBM EMAC driver ioctl bug. I found IBM EMAC driver bug. So mii-tool command print wrong status. # mii-tool eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link I can get correct status on fixed kernel. # mii-tool eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link okZZ eth1:

RE: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice.

2005-04-14 Thread David Schwartz
> That is the point: the result is not a single work. It is a > collection or compilation of works, just like an anthology. If > there is any creativity involved, is in choosing and ordering > the parts. The creation of works that "can be linked together" > is not protected by copyright: the liter

Re: x86-64 bad pmds in 2.6.11.6 II

2005-04-14 Thread Chris Wright
* Andi Kleen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I will take a closer look at the rc1/rc2 patches later this evening > > and see if I can spot something. Can only report back tomorrow though. > > Actually itt started in .11 already - sigh - on rereading the thread. > That will make the code audit harde

Re: [PATCH] PC300 pci_enable_device fix

2005-04-14 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Germano, can you give this patch a try before merging, please. On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 04:45:31PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:02:43PM -0700, Ashok Raj wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:31:43PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > > > > >Call pci_enable_device()

Re: [RFC/Patch 2.6.11] Take control of PCI Master Abort Mode

2005-04-14 Thread Dave Jones
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 08:02:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > What if it was always on, except when the commandlien was passed > > (eliminate the CONFIG option)? Really 'leet hacks could tweak a #define > > if they don't like the command line option.. > > That is basically what I suggested

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