Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-07-07 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Gross writes: > > > + > > +/* 0 = Dynamic allocation of the major device number */ > > +#define TLCLK_MAJOR 252 > > Enums, please. > But not here - it is a single constant, not a value of a distinct type. -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-07-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Dmitry, Mark Gross writes: > > + > > +/* 0 = Dynamic allocation of the major device number */ > > +#define TLCLK_MAJOR 252 Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enums, please. > Dmitry Torokhov writes: But not here - it is a single constant, not a value of a distinct type. Fai

Re: PREEMPT_RT and mptfusion

2005-07-07 Thread Serge Noiraud
Le mer 06/07/2005 à 16:31, Ingo Molnar a écrit : > * Serge Noiraud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yes it was 50-47. > > > CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC is not present in my .config > > > CONFIG_PCI_MSI is set to yes. > > > > > > I'll try with CONFIG_PCI_MSI=n > > It's OK for me. good job. > > good. B

Re: Disturbing wide variation in execution time

2005-07-07 Thread David S. Miller
From: Sheo Shanker Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 23:44:53 -0700 > I will appreciate your help in eliminating a disturbing wide variation (by a > factors of 2 to 2.5) in the execution time of a test (execution benchmark) > program under identical conditions even when the machin

Re: Fedora core 3 Version magic error..

2005-07-07 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:12:12PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > Dear all, > ? > I have a problem loading the rpm build locally on Fedora core 3, linux kernel > 2.6.10. > ? > After building the rpm file from the available sources on the Linux kernel > 2.6.10 which was D/W from kernel.org and build,

Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-07-07 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
Hi Pekka, Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > Mark Gross writes: > > > > + > > > > +/* 0 = Dynamic allocation of the major device number */ > > > > +#define TLCLK_MAJOR 252 > > Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Enums, please. > > > > > Dmitry Torokhov wri

Re: WARNING : kernel 2.6.11.7 (others) kills megaraid 4e/Si dead

2005-07-07 Thread Jussi Hamalainen
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Thomas Backlund wrote: I could check the firmware versions if you want. Yes thanks, please do. megaraid: fw version:[516A] bios version:[H418] megaraid: fw version:[513O] bios version:[H418] At least these versions seem to work just fine. -- -=[ Count Zero / TBH - Jussi

Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-07-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Dmitry, Pekka J Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fair enough, "static const int" would work here too. Defines should be > avoided because they allow you to override a value without ever noticing it. Dmitry Torokhov writes: Would not this cause compiler to allocate memory for the consta

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Mon, Jul 04 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > > It isn't too pretty to rely on such unreliable timing anyways. I'm > > > not too crazy about spinning the disk

Re: Disturbing wide variation in execution time

2005-07-07 Thread Sheo Shanker Prasad
Dear David, The program is an atmospheric chemistry-transport modeling code that computes the distributions of atmospheric species (e.g., ozone) as a function of latitude and altitude and how that changes with time. Thanks for taking time to think about my problem. I greatly appreciate it. I h

SATA: Assertion failed! qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_ACTIVE,drivers/scsi/libata-core.c,ata_qc_complete,line=3052

2005-07-07 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
Hi Jeff, I am using your ata-passthru patch http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/libata/2.6.12-git4-passthru1.patch.bz2 with hddtemp regularly polling for the temperature state together with libsata from kernel 2.6.12 on a promise tx2. The disk is set to go to sleep mode (hd

Re: Patch of a new driver for kernel 2.4.x that need review

2005-07-07 Thread moreau francis
Pekka J Enberg wrote: > Hi Willy, > Willy Tarreau writes: > >> I dont agree with you here : enums are good to simply specify an ordering. >> But they must not be used to specify static mapping. Eg: if REG4 *must* be >> equal to BASE+4, you should not use enums, otherwise it will render the >> code

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Duncan Sands
> I've seen similar hehaviour (machine halts) with a BT848 on a VT82C686 > board while displaying the picture on a radeon card under X.org 6.8.1. I have the same problem with a Bt878 on a VT82C686 board with a Radeon 7500 card. The problem predates X.org. > Heavy HDD IO almost certainly caused s

Re: sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a broadcast: 0.0.0.0 on lo?

2005-07-07 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 20:27, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Only the 127.0.0.0 network should be routed through the loop-back > device. This is the normal dose of disinformation embedded into otherwise useful reply from Richard. Sometimes I wonder whether he does this for fun for for some other d

Message Delivery Failure

2005-07-07 Thread Delivery Subsystem
MailEnable: Message could not be delivered to some recipients. The following recipient(s) could not be reached: [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 550 unknown user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message headers follow: Received: from squ.edu.om ([172.18.1.27]) by squ.edu.om w

Re: How do you accurately determine a process' RAM usage?

2005-07-07 Thread P
Andrew Morton wrote: Calculating this stuff accurately is very expensive. You'll get a better answer using proc-pid-smaps.patch from -mm, but even that won't tell you things about sharing levels of the pages. Great, thanks! I'll play around with this: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Laine
> Try without loading all those proprietary modules (vmmon, vmnet, nvidia). Done, sorry about not doing it from the onset. I reproduced the OOPS using the "vesa" driver of XFree86. Below is the OOPS as well as environment information: Jul 6 22:57:29 sharky kernel: tuner 2-0060: TV freq (0.00) ou

Re: OOPS: frequent crashes with bttv in 2.6.X series (inc. 2.6.12)

2005-07-07 Thread Jeremy Laine
> Heavy HDD IO almost certainly caused soon death (recognizable by heavy > picture distortion), while an idle system lasted one evening. It did not > happen with kernel 2.4 and a NVidia card on XF86. You are very probably onto something there, the latest OOPS I sent (the 2AM one) occurred while my

Re: SATA: Assertion failed! qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_ACTIVE,drivers/scsi/libata-core.c,ata_qc_complete,line=3052

2005-07-07 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:04, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > with hddtemp regularly polling for the temperature state together with > libsata from kernel 2.6.12 on a promise tx2. The disk is set to go to > sleep mode (hdparm -S 35 /dev/sda). And after a couple of hours the > machine oopsed (the disk

Re: How do you accurately determine a process' RAM usage?

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Morton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Calculating this stuff accurately is very expensive. You'll get a better > > answer using proc-pid-smaps.patch from -mm, but even that won't tell you > > things about sharing levels of the pages. > > Great, thanks! I'll play around with this:

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > ATA7 defines a park maneuvre, I don't know how well supported it is > yet though. You can test with this little app, if it says 'head > parked' it works. If not, it has just idled the drive. Great! Thanks for digging this u

Re: SATA: Assertion failed! qc->flags & ATA_QCFLAG_ACTIVE,drivers/scsi/libata-core.c,ata_qc_complete,line=3052

2005-07-07 Thread Soeren Sonnenburg
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 12:43 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:04, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote: > > with hddtemp regularly polling for the temperature state together with > > libsata from kernel 2.6.12 on a promise tx2. The disk is set to go to > > sleep mode (hdparm -S 35 /dev

[PATCH] reset real_timer target on exec leader change

2005-07-07 Thread Roland McGrath
When a noninitial thread does exec, it becomes the new group leader. If there is a ITIMER_REAL timer running, it points at the old group leader and when it fires it can follow a stale pointer. The timer data needs to be reset to point at the exec'ing thread that is becoming the group leader. Thi

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Lenz Grimmer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > ATA7 defines a park maneuvre, I don't know how well supported it is > > yet though. You can test with this little app, if it says 'head > > parked' it works. If not, i

Re: reiser4 plugins

2005-07-07 Thread Markus Törnqvist
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:54:46PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote: > >Which would neither need VFS changes nor be dependent on Reiser4 in >any way, so I don't see why this thread lives on. Just get down to >business and implement this metafs =) I've been gone for a while and suddenly drowning in ma

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Pekka Enberg
Jens Axboe wrote: > > ATA7 defines a park maneuvre, I don't know how well supported it is > > yet though. You can test with this little app, if it says 'head > > parked' it works. If not, it has just idled the drive. On 7/7/05, Lenz Grimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great! Thanks for digging th

USB bugs in 2.6.11.8, 2.6.11.10 and 2.6.12.2

2005-07-07 Thread Markus Törnqvist
Hi! I got some weird badness on two Dell PowerEdge 2850 (64-bit SMP Xeon) boxes. One of them is all identical with one that runs ok, so I attached that one's ksymoops information in this message. The one that works just fine was installed locally (iirc) so this may be an issue with Dell's Remote

Re: [PATCH] [37/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 613-pageflags.patch

2005-07-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 22:01, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 7/6/05, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > diff -ruNp 614-plugins.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend2_core/plugins.c > > 614-plugins.patch-new/kernel/power/suspend2_core/plugins.c > > --- 614-plugins.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend

Re: Kernel Oops with dual core athlon 64

2005-07-07 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Thursday, 7 of July 2005 07:58, Jon Schindler wrote: > The dmesg is below. After I get this Oops, I am unable to use my (PS/2) > keyboard, and had to ssh to my machine in order to save a copy of dmesg > before rebooting the machine. I've seen a couple of other users of dual > core mach

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc2

2005-07-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Jul 2005 08:51:03 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:42:16AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > > > > > CC [M] sound/pci/bt87x.o > > > sound/pci/bt87x.c: In function `snd_bt87x_detect_card': > > > sound/pci/bt87x

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 21:44, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > here's an updated patch - it will print out all timestamps too. (you'll > > > have to revert all previous softlockup patches first, via patch -R.) > > > > Yep, thanks, that fixed it. I don

Re: Disturbing wide variation in execution time

2005-07-07 Thread Eric Piel
(please do not top-post) 07.07.2005 10:03, Sheo Shanker Prasad wrote/a écrit: Dear David, The program is an atmospheric chemistry-transport modeling code that computes the distributions of atmospheric species (e.g., ozone) as a function of latitude and altitude and how that changes with time.

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 hangs at boot

2005-07-07 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:27:11PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > I'm dead on a Dell PE400SC without reverting this. Jon, can you try this one instead: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/6/273 If it doesn't help, I'd like to see 'lspci -vv' from your machine. Ivan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

[1/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions generic changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi, Please provide your feedback on this kprobes patch set. Thanks Prasanna There are possible race conditions if probes are placed on routines within the kprobes files and routines used by the kprobes. For example if you put probe on get_kprobe() routines, the system can hang while inserting p

Re: [2/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions i386 changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the i386 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c | 29 +-- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/i386/kernel/tra

Re: [3/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions x86_64 changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the x86_64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/x86_64/kernel/kprobes.c | 35 +- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/x86_64/ker

Re: [4/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions ppc64 changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the ppc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/ppc64/kernel/kprobes.c | 29 +- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/ppc64/kernel/m

Re: [5/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions ia64 changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c | 57 ++- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/ia64/kernel/tra

Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Lenz Grimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Jens Axboe wrote: > Very cool, I wasn't sure if this was a 'new' feature waiting to be > implemented in drives or if ata7 just documented existing use in some > drives. > > How long did the park take? Spec states it can take up to 500ms. Hard

Re: [6/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions sparc64 changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
This patch contains the sparc64 architecture specific changes to prevent the possible race conditions. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/sparc64/kernel/kprobes.c | 36 +- linux-2.6.13-rc1-mm1-prasanna/arch/sparc64/k

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Michal Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote: > >I see the same thing. "CONFIG_PRINTK_IGNORE_LOGLEVEL is not set" but > >still printk ignores the loglevel (I commented out the #ifdef in > >kernel/printk.c to make the spurious messages go away). > > The condition is

Re: [1/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions generic changes

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are possible race conditions if probes are placed on routines within the > kprobes files and routines used by the kprobes. So... don't do that then? Is it likely that anyone would want to stick a probe on the kprobe code itself? > -kpr

Re: OOPS in 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- EIP is at sysfs_release+0x49/0xb0

2005-07-07 Thread Dave Airlie
On 7/3/05, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mtrr: base(0xe802) is not aligned on a size(0x3c) boundary > [drm:drm_unlock] *ERROR* Process 4470 using kernel context 0 > mtrr: 0xe800,0x800 overlaps existing 0xe800,0x100 > Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtua

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 hangs at boot

2005-07-07 Thread Tero Roponen
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:27:11PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > I'm dead on a Dell PE400SC without reverting this. > > Jon, can you try this one instead: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/7/6/273 > > If it doesn't help, I'd like to see 'lspci -vv' from your ma

RE: Fedora core 3 Version magic error..

2005-07-07 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear sam, I was using an automated script to build the module sources. I failed noticing the module build failing due to some modifications. And the script was using the old version of object file to build the rpm. That's the problem. It is rectified now. Thanks for the response. Regards, Mukund

Re: [1/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions generic changes

2005-07-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:25:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There are possible race conditions if probes are placed on routines within > > the > > kprobes files and routines used by the kprobes. > > So... don't do that then? Is it l

Re: [PATCH] Run PCI driver initialization on local node

2005-07-07 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:33:51PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > That depends on the architecture. Some do round robin allocs for periods > > > of time during bootup. I think it is better to explicitly place control > > > > slab will usually do

Re: How do you accurately determine a process' RAM usage?

2005-07-07 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Looks like it's been stable for 4 months? > > yup, although I don't think it's been used much. Just a sidenote to say I should be sending you an update to it (the /proc/$pid/smaps code) in the next couple of days, but mere

Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24

2005-07-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* William Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Still looking into this issue on -51-06. Found something really odd: > SCHED_NORMAL tasks will start to inherit the priority value of some > other SCHED_FIFO task. If JACK is started at a given SCHED_FIFO > priority, X and all of its children wil

Re: Linux 2.6.12.1 gives panic with ata_piix (irq 11: nobody cared!)

2005-07-07 Thread Meelis Roos
MR> This seems very similar to the following irq disabling reports: MR> http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jun/0526.html MR> http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg377160.html MR> http://www.usenetlinux.com/archive/index.php/t-437740.html Forgot another one: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hyperma

[PATCH] joydev.c: Digital joysticks on analog ports

2005-07-07 Thread Thomas Richter
Hi folks, hi Vojtech, the following is a patch to drivers/input/joydev.c and include/linux/joystick.h that allows you to connect the "traditional" digital joysticks for C64, Atari, Amiga... on analog input ports by means of a minimalistic self- made adapter board ("ElCheapo", schematics below). T

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 10:46, Alistair John Strachan wrote: [snip] > > Okay, when I brought my laptop back into work today for audio work, it > locked up again within two minutes. I realise now what the problem is, but > I don't have a serial cable here, so I'll have to rely on capturing the > oop

Out of office response from Tana Wuliji

2005-07-07 Thread twuliji
Thank you for your message. I will be away from the 5th - 10th of July in London and will reply to your message as soon as possible. Please contact Mr Scott Dalgliesh if your enquiry is urgent on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternatively you can send me a text message on +31 615634665. Thank you for

[patch 0/5] autoparam v0.2: generating parameter descriptions on compile

2005-07-07 Thread domen
Hi! The purpose of autoparam is to generate boot parameter descriptions from sources. It does that by creating a new section called __param_strings. (The interesting bits here are from Magnus Damm.) It fills a gap about undocumented boot options from modules. It consists of 5 patches: autoparam_

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> - Anything which you think needs to go into 2.6.13, please let me know. FUSE? I don't see any advantage of holding it off any more. I feel the slightest of distrust towards the usefulness or quality of FUSE. Anyway if the users aren't interested enough to complain about inclusion, it's not re

[patch 1/5] autoparam: includes

2005-07-07 Thread domen
From: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The code of autoparam - modified include files. Stores parameter name, type and description in a section called __param_strings. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> include/linux/init.h|

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, since this is called when the kernel crashes, it's > impossible for me to capture any messages prior to this spam, if there > even are any. this is where serial logging (or netconsole/netlogging) may be useful. do you have D

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 07.07.2005 13:00, Andrew Morton a écrit : > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc2/2.6.13-rc2-mm1/ > > (kernel.org seems to be stuck again - there's a copy at > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6.13-rc2-mm1.gz) CC kernel/power/disk.o ke

[patch 4/5] autoparam: af_unix workaround

2005-07-07 Thread domen
From: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is a quick fix that removes the "KBUILD_MODNAME -> unix -> 1" conflict. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> net/unix/af_unix.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+) Index: a/net/unix/af

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 12:29, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Unfortunately, since this is called when the kernel crashes, it's > > impossible for me to capture any messages prior to this spam, if there > > even are any. > > this is where serial logging

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > do you have DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW and latency tracing still enabled? The > > combination of those two options is pretty good at detecting stack > > overflows. Also, you might want to enable CONFIG_4KSTACKS, that too > > disturbs the stack lay

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Goglin
Le 07.07.2005 13:32, Brice Goglin a écrit : > Le 07.07.2005 13:00, Andrew Morton a écrit : > >>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc2/2.6.13-rc2-mm1/ >> >>(kernel.org seems to be stuck again - there's a copy at >>http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/2.6

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> I'm inclined to just give up on the permissions thing - if someone comes up > with something better then fine. > > But I do wonder whether v9fs would be a better place to be concentrating > the development effort. v9fs is a network filesystem. And it's a network filesystem that's not even very

Re: RFC: Hugepage COW

2005-07-07 Thread David Gibson
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:49:27AM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 15:55 +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_WRITE mappings of hugetlbfs. Because the pool of > > hugepages is limited, a write to a MAP_PRIVATE hugepage region may > > result in a SIGBUS, if a new huge

Re: time

2005-07-07 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 16:44:53 +0530 raja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would you please tell how to caliculate the time taken to execute a c > program in unix environment. raja, this has nothing to do with Linux Kernel. PS: see "man time" -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.12.2 on x86_64

Re: Linux 2.6.13-rc2 - Inconsistent kallsyms data

2005-07-07 Thread Paulo Marques
Alexis Ballier wrote: Yes, that fixed it. Ok, it is probably the same problem, then. However, there was no problem with rc1 with the same .config. That's just the nature of it. It only triggers if you're unlucky. For more details check these threads: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/10/70 ht

Re: sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a broadcast: 0.0.0.0 on lo?

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Tokarev
Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> kernel: 192.168.4.2 sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a >> broadcast: 0.0.0.0 on lo [] >> All the IP addresses mentioned are local to this box. [] > Are you sure `lo` is configured properly, i.e. Yes. More,

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - Anything which you think needs to go into 2.6.13, please let me know. > > FUSE? I'm inclined to just give up on the permissions thing - if someone comes up with something better then fine. But I do wonder whether v9fs would be a better place to

Re: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > ATA7 defines a park maneuvre, I don't know how well supported it is > > > yet though. You can test with this little app, if it says 'head > > > parked' it works. If not, it has just idled the drive. > > On 7/7/05, Lenz Grimmer <[EM

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Morton
Brice Goglin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le 07.07.2005 13:00, Andrew Morton a écrit : > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.13-rc2/2.6.13-rc2-mm1/ > > > > (kernel.org seems to be stuck again - there's a copy at > > http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches

Re: [0/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12

2005-07-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been thinking about this some more and wondering whether I should > just replace swsusp. I really don't want to step on your toes though. > What would you like to see happen? Do you implement the entire swsusp userspace interface? If not, removin

Re: [PATCH] joydev.c: Digital joysticks on analog ports

2005-07-07 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:14:58PM +0200, Thomas Richter wrote: > > Hi folks, hi Vojtech, > > the following is a patch to drivers/input/joydev.c and > include/linux/joystick.h that allows you to connect the "traditional" > digital joysticks for C64, Atari, Amiga... on analog input ports by > mean

[patch 5/5] autoparam: ide workarounds

2005-07-07 Thread domen
From: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains quick fixes that prevents KBUILD_MODNAME conflicts. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drivers/ide/ide-disk.c |2 ++ drivers/ide/ide-floppy.c |2 ++ drivers/ide/ide-t

Re: ipc

2005-07-07 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:01:51 +0530 raja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > While working with posix ipc i used the function mq_open. > When i compiled using gcc i am getting error as > > : undefined reference to `mq_open' > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > will you please tell me how to

Re: [0/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12

2005-07-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:04, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been thinking about this some more and wondering whether I should > > just replace swsusp. I really don't want to step on your toes though. > > What would you like to see happen? > >

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 12:42, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > do you have DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW and latency tracing still enabled? The > > > combination of those two options is pretty good at detecting stack > > > overflows. Also, you might want to ena

Re: [0/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12

2005-07-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:40, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > On 7/6/05, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As requested, here are the patches that form Suspend2, for review. > > > > I've tried to split it up into byte size chunks, but please don't expect > > that these will

Re: ipc

2005-07-07 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:13:02PM +0200, Paolo Ornati wrote: > You need to tell GCC to use "libmqueue"... something like this: > > gcc -Wall -O2 -o prog prog.c -lmqueue If you have glibc 2.3.4 or later, you should use -lrt instead. Jakub - To unsubscribe from this list: send the l

Re: 64bit PCI IORESOURCE_MEM bugs

2005-07-07 Thread Andi Kleen
"Thomas Crowley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1) in arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.cthe e820_reserve_resources function > the line if (e820.map[i].addr + e820.map[i].size > 0x1ULL) > makes it so any region that > starts below the 4Gig mark but ends above 4Gig mark is ignored. That is

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-07 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 13:15, Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 12:42, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > do you have DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW and latency tracing still enabled? > > > > The combination of those two options is pretty

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 hangs at boot

2005-07-07 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:33:46PM +0300, Tero Roponen wrote: > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (AGP > disabled) (rev 02) > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- > Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF

Re: sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a broadcast: 0.0.0.0 on lo?

2005-07-07 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Michael Tokarev wrote: Richard B. Johnson wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Michael Tokarev wrote: kernel: 192.168.4.2 sent an invalid ICMP type 11, code 0 error to a broadcast: 0.0.0.0 on lo [] All the IP addresses mentioned are local to this box. [] Are you sure `lo` is co

Re: empty_zero_page

2005-07-07 Thread Gerald Schaefer
On 7/5/05, David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why does mm/filemap_xip.c make an explicit reference to > "empty_zero_page"? That's bogus, and ZERO_PAGE() is how > generic code should get at this thing. > > In fact, what the mm/filemap_xip.c code wants is the page > struct, not the add

Re: [PATCH] [46/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 622-swapwriter.patch

2005-07-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:33, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 7/6/05, Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > diff -ruNp 623-generic-block-io.patch-old/kernel/power/suspend_block_io.c > > 623-generic-block-io.patch-new/kernel/power/suspend_block_io.c > > --- 623-generic-block-io.patch-old/ker

Re: Thread_Id

2005-07-07 Thread Benedikt Spranger
Hi, > Can anyone suggest me how to get the threadId using 2.6.x kernels. > pthread_self() does not work and returns some -ve integer. Let me guess: You are looking for get_tid() :-) Bene - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [0/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12

2005-07-07 Thread Matthew Garrett
Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:04, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Do you implement the entire swsusp userspace interface? If not, removing >> it probably isn't a reasonable plan without fair warning. > > I'm not suggesting removing the sysfs interface or replacin

Re: sata_sil 3112 activity LED patch

2005-07-07 Thread Jens Axboe
On Wed, Jul 06 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Aric Cyr wrote: > >After finally getting fed up with not having my activity light working > >for my SATA drives, I came up with a small patch (more like hack) to > >make it work. It works quite well, but I'm afraid that there are many > >restriction that t

Re: RFC: Hugepage COW

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 19:24:25 +1000 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's not necessarily possible. On some archs - ppc64 for one - > the mmu has to be set up for hugepages on a granularity greater than > the hugepage size. So you can just arbitrarily substitute normal

Re: ipc

2005-07-07 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 08:27:48 -0400 Jakub Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have glibc 2.3.4 or later, you should use -lrt instead. Yes... I was just saying that he forgot to add "-lLIBRAY_NAME" :) -- Paolo Ornati Linux 2.6.12.2 on x86_64 - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [0/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12

2005-07-07 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:49, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Nigel Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:04, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> Do you implement the entire swsusp userspace interface? If not, removing > >> it probably isn't a reasonable plan without fair warning.

Re: [1/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions generic changes

2005-07-07 Thread Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Hi Andrew, I have modified the patch as per your comments. As Andi mentioned, this patch set provides safety for kprobes and avoids possible kernel crash I think this safety feature will helps tools like systemtap which are uses kprobes mechanism. Also kprobes cleanup patch to cleanup the codin

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 hangs at boot

2005-07-07 Thread Tero Roponen
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Ivan Kokshaysky wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:33:46PM +0300, Tero Roponen wrote: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge > > (AGP disabled) (rev 02) > > Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- > > Step

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] move truncate_inode_pages() into ->delete_inode()

2005-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:18:03PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Resending this series as I haven't heard anything back from anyone... > If there's no objections, can we get this into -mm for some additional > review and testing? The patches are fine, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: 2.6.13-rc2 hangs at boot

2005-07-07 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:47:28 +0300 (EEST), Tero Roponen wrote: >my computer (a ThinkPad 380XD laptop) hangs at boot in 2.6.13-rc2. >When I revert the patch below everything seems to be fine. Same here: my Targa Visionary 811 Athlon64 laptop hangs during boot with 2.6.13-rc2, unless I revert the pat

Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Knoblauch
On Thu, Jul 07 2005, Pekka Enberg wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > > > ATA7 defines a park maneuvre, I don't know how well supported it is > > > yet though. You can test with this little app, if it says 'head > > > parked' it works. If not, it has just idled the drive. > > On 7/7/05, Lenz Grimmer <[EMA

Re: Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 622-swapwriter.patch

2005-07-07 Thread Pekka J Enberg
Hi Nigel, On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:33, Pekka Enberg wrote: > You're hardcoding sector size here, no? Nigel Cunningham writes: As others do. Even so, please use a constant. Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Re: [2/6 PATCH] Kprobes : Prevent possible race conditions i386 changes

2005-07-07 Thread Andi Kleen
> -fastcall void do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code) > +fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, > + unsigned long error_code) That's not enough. You would need to change entry.S too. Same on x86-64. And how about gene

Re: 2.6.13-rc2-mm1

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Krufky
Andrew Morton wrote: - I seem to have quite a bit of material here which is appropriate to 2.6.13: - all the DVB patches - all the v4l patches - Anything which you think needs to go into 2.6.13, please let me know. dvb-frontend-add-driver-for-lgdt3302.patch dvb: frontend: add driver for

Can Linux remain to be general purpose OS ?

2005-07-07 Thread SVR Anand
Hi, I have been following Linux kernel development for many years. Of late there seems to be a general trend in expecting Linux kernel to do specialized tasks to cater to specific end-user applications. This could even mean that the kernel algorithms that make Linux a generic OS may have to be

Re: [RFC] Atmel-supplied hardware headers for AT91RM9200 SoC processor

2005-07-07 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:58:39AM +0200, Andrew Victor wrote: > While he seems generally happy with most of the code, he has doubts > about merging the Atmel-supplied headers and suggested I post this to > the linux-kernel list for a wider review. > > While I agree that their usage of structs/cod

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