Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-08 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:44, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:30:23AM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Tony said he had it lying around somewhere and needed to find time to dust > > it > > off and get it up to speed. > > PPC64 is on my ToDo list as well. Will take it up a

Re: x86_64 frame pointer via thread context

2005-08-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>> Am I doing something wrong, or is this intended to be this way on >> x86_64, or is something incorrect in the kernel? This method works >> fine on i386. Thanks for any help! > >I just tested your program on SLES9 with updated kernel and RBP >looks correct to me. Probably something is wrong with

Re: Inclusion order patch

2005-08-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>This patch lets this header stand alone, since I can never remember >which other headers to include, or in which order. I have seen the same in a lot of other places. For some self-baked patch, I added to the front of includes and promptly got flooded with warnings. IMO, every H (and every C

Re: [patch] i386 dynamic ticks 2.6.13-rc4 (code reordered)

2005-08-08 Thread Stefan Seyfried
Con Kolivas wrote: >> When I enabled dynamic tick using: >> >> echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/timer/timer0/dyn_tick_state >> >> The number of ticks dropped down to 60-70 HZ, bus mastering activity >> jumpped up to being almost always active, > > Anyone know why this would happen? This is just

Re: Any access control mechanism that allow exceptions?

2005-08-08 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>Hi, > >I want to lock down a directory to be read-only, say, /etc, for system >security. Unfortunately, some valid system tools might need to >create/modified files like "/etc/dhclient-eth0.conf". To avoid >disrupting the normal running of those tools, I might have to allow >certain files to be c

Re: overcommit verses MAP_NORESERVE

2005-08-08 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 12:49 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2005-08-06 at 20:52 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > Why does overcommit in mode 2 (OVERCOMMIT_NEVER) explicitly force > > MAP_NORESERVE mappings to reserve memory? > > > > My understanding is that MAP_NORESERVE is a way for apps to stat

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050805 05:37]: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 06:05:28AM +, Con Kolivas wrote: > > This is the dynamic ticks patch for i386 as written by Tony Lindgen > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Tuukka Tikkanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > Patch for 2.6.13-rc5 > > > > There

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Fawad Lateef
On 8/8/05, Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIRC 2.4.21 has some highmem bugs that have since been fixed. But, it > sounds like you might be doing something quite unusual. Code would > definitely give people a better idea of what might be wrong. I think you overlooked what i ment

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 5

2005-08-08 Thread Tony Lindgren
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [050807 09:58]: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 03:12:21PM +1000, Con Kolivas wrote: > > Respin of the dynamic ticks patch for i386 by Tony Lindgen and Tuukka > > Tikkanen > > with further code cleanups. Are were there yet? > > Con, > I am afraid until SM

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Zachary Amsden
Fawad Lateef wrote: if ((unsigned long)(page - mem_map) > 0x8) { SetPageReserved(page); set_bit(PG_highmem, &page->flags); atomic_set(&page->count, 0xC4); That seems like a hackish thing to do. Could you mistake other pages with

Re: [2.6 patch] arch/sh64/Kconfig: doesn't need it's own LOG_BUF_SHIFT

2005-08-08 Thread Paul Mundt
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The LOG_BUF_SHIFT from lib/Kconfig.debug is sufficient. > Yes, looks good, thanks. pgpnWELFEEFdt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Highmemory Problem with RHEL3 .... 2.4.21-5.ELsmp

2005-08-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 08:50 +0500, Fawad Lateef wrote: > Hello, > > I m facing a problem in RHEL3 (2.4.21-5.ELsmp) kernel while using > kmap_atomic on the pages reserved at the boot time > > At the boot time I reserved pages above 2GB for later use by my module > . And when I was using t

Re: Regression: radeonfb: No synchronisation on CRT with linux-2.6.13-rc5

2005-08-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 02:06 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > The wrong values are constant across reboots (see my first mail), and I > have a CRT. > > Can you tell me where the timing values are read? radeon_write_mode() programs the mode. The monitor timing infos are read by the various bits of cod

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-08 Thread Hugo Mills
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:38:01AM +0900, Chris White wrote: > > Sorry, I didn't even check the link. Try the driver from: > > > > http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ > > > > Which seems to work better. > > Err, mine's a logitech camera, why is everyone recommending philips > drivers :P? Beca

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew Morton
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't think it was supposed to do that. > > > > Quite possibly it's something to do with the new debugging code - could you > > please take a copy of the offending config, send it over and then try > > removing debug options, see if the cr

Re: [2.6 patch] fix drivers/s390/net/ compilation

2005-08-08 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/08/2005 12:12:18 AM: > Looking at Jan Dittmer's crosscompile site [1], one of the two > architectures where defconfig compiled in 2.6.12.4 but does no longer > compile in 2.6.13-rc6 is s390. > > Looking at the build error, it seems s390-use-klist-in-qeth

Re: [PATCH] Export handle_mm_fault to modules.

2005-08-08 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sünnavend 06 August 2005 01:43, Linus Torvalds wrote: > diff --git a/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c b/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c > --- a/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c > +++ b/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c > @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__res); >   >  EXPORT_SYMBOL(next_mmu_context); >  EXPORT_SYM

Re: [PATCH] remove warning about e1000_suspend

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:09, Nikhil Dharashivkar wrote: > Hi Martin, > But e1000_notify_reboot () function calls this e1000_suspend() > function irrespective of CONFIG_FM is defined or not. So according to > your soution, what if CONFIG_FM is not defined. Does it? I can't find it. Martin's patc

[patch] VIA VT8235 PCI quirk

2005-08-08 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Like many other southbridges from different manufacturers, VIA VT8235 chip has two non-standard BARs for power management and SMBus registers (see the datasheet at http://www.via.com.tw). This new quirk routine fixes boot problem with 2.6.13-rc2/rc6 kernels on Targa Visionary 811 Athlon64 laptop, a

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-08 Thread christos gentsis
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 11:38 +0900, Chris White wrote: > Err, mine's a logitech camera, why is everyone recommending philips > drivers :P? > > Chris White what happens with the most of the computer peripherals the company that sell it is different with the company that produce it... in this case p

Re: [patch] IPV4 spinlock_casting

2005-08-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fix a compile error in net/ipv4/route.c when RT patch is applied: > Index: linux-2.6.13-rc4-RT-V0.7.52-14/net/ipv4/route.c are you sure you are seeing this with the -52-14 patch? If yes then please send me your .config. the build error sho

Re: [patch] IPV4 spinlock_casting

2005-08-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fix a compile error in net/ipv4/route.c when RT patch is applied: > > > Index: linux-2.6.13-rc4-RT-V0.7.52-14/net/ipv4/route.c > > are you sure you are seeing this with the -52-14 patch? If yes then > please send me your .config. > > the build erro

[PATCH] spi

2005-08-08 Thread dmitry pervushin
Hello all, Here is the spi core patch (slightly redesigned again). Now it operates with three abstractions: a) the spi bus, which is registered in system and is resposible for general things like registering devices on it, handling PM events for entire bus, providing bus-wide operations; b) the

RE: Unable to mount the SD card formatted using the DIGITAL CAMREA on Linux box

2005-08-08 Thread Mukund JB.
Dear Erik & all, Sorry for the delay in my latest updates. I was required to fix the partition problem first. I have an update in gathering some partition info about in SD cards formatted in windows and Camera. I tried printing data from the ox1BE offset of 0th sector on windows formatted SD c

Re: Logitech Quickcam Express USB Address Aquisition Issues

2005-08-08 Thread Chris White
> Does that thing work with Windows? > > I strongly suspect that it's simply broken at this point. > > -- Pete > And that is the final answer for $14,000. Looks like I got Yet Another Large Paperweight(tm) to deal with. Yup, this thing is broken. I tried it on my dad's machine today, and Wi

Re: Bug#321442: kernel-source-2.6.8: fails to compile on powerpc (drivers/ide/ppc/pmac.c)

2005-08-08 Thread Horms
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 05:15:57PM +0200, LT-P wrote: > Package: kernel-source-2.6.8 > Version: 2.6.8-16 > Severity: normal > > The kernel-source-2.6.8 sources fail to compile on powerpc (PowerMac 4400). > > ___ > CC drivers/ide/ide.o > CC drivers/ide/ide-default.o > CC drivers/ide

Re: [PATCH 2/4] Task notifier against mm: Implement todo list in task_struct

2005-08-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Got a new suspend patchsset at > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/christoph/suspend/2.6.13-rc4-mm1 > > Check the series file for the sequence of patches. Something still goes very wrong after first resume. It seems to work ok for few seconds, then console switch takes 10 s

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-08 Thread David Teigland
On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:44:06AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > +uint32_t gfs2_hash(const void *data, unsigned int len) > > +{ > > + uint32_t h = 0x811C9DC5; > > + h = hash_more_internal(data, len, h); > > + return h; > > +} > > Is there a reason why you cannot use or ? See gfs2_h

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1

2005-08-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - This kernel is broken on ia64: the spinlock consolidation patch > needs fixing. ia64 had a couple of other compilation problems as well. The patch below fixes the spinlock-type issues and 3 other types of build errors. The patched kernel builds

[PATCH] Removes documentation about non-existent functions

2005-08-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
This removes very old functions from pci docs, which aren't no longer in kernel. It is against 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -266,20 +266,6 @@ por

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Pekka J Enberg
David Teigland writes: > > +static int ea_set_i(struct gfs2_inode *ip, struct gfs2_ea_request *er, > > + struct gfs2_ea_location *el) > > +{ > > + { > > + struct ea_set es; > > + int error; > > + > > + memset(&es, 0, sizeof(struct ea_set));

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:57 +0800, David Teigland wrote: > > > > Please drop the extra braces. > > Here and elsewhere we try to keep unused stuff off the stack. Are you > suggesting that we're being overly cautious, or do you just dislike the > way it looks? nice theory. In practice gcc 3.x sti

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

2005-08-08 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 6 Aug 2005 17:09:40 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:52:32AM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > >... > > --- 2.6.orig/mm/slab.c > > +++ 2.6/mm/slab.c > > @@ -2555,6 +2555,20 @@ void kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache_t *cache > > EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_free); > > > > /**

Re: overcommit verses MAP_NORESERVE

2005-08-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-08-08 at 00:22 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > I don't think you can forcibly reclaim MAP_NORESERVE objects (I'm > assuming you mean completely throwing away dirty pages). In which case there is no real difference between MAP_NORESERVE and not setting it when doing zero overcommit as w

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Pekka J Enberg
David Teigland writes: > > +#define RETRY_MALLOC(do_this, until_this) \ > > +for (;;) { \ > > + { do_this; } \ > > + if (until_this) \ > > + break; \ > > + if (time_after_eq(jiffies, gfs2_malloc_warning + 5 * HZ)) { \ > > + printk("GFS2: out of memory: %s, %u\n

Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Jörn Engel
On Mon, 8 August 2005 12:05:25 +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 17:57 +0800, David Teigland wrote: > > > > > > Please drop the extra braces. > > > > Here and elsewhere we try to keep unused stuff off the stack. Are you > > suggesting that we're being overly cautious, or do

Re: [PATCH 8/8] ALSA: convert kcalloc to kzalloc

2005-08-08 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Sat, 06 Aug 2005 15:37:24 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Hi, > > Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > Have you seen the following in include/sound/core? > > > > > > ... > > > #define kmalloc(size, flags) snd_hidden_kmalloc(size, flags) > > > #define kcalloc(n, size, flags) snd_hidden_kcalloc(n, size,

Re: [PATCH C&C] gdth: remove GDTIOCTL_OSVERS

2005-08-08 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:40:27AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:28:29AM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > - case GDTIOCTL_OSVERS: > > - { > > -gdth_ioctl_osvers osv; > > - > > -osv.version = (unchar)(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 16); > > -osv.s

[PATCH -mm] i6300esb.c uses pci_find_device

2005-08-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
This patch changes pci_find_device to pci_get_device (encapsulated in for_each_pci_dev) with appropriate adding pci_dev_put. Generated in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/char/watchdog/i6300esb.c b/drivers/char/watchdog/i6300esb.c --- a/drivers/

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Pekka J Enberg
David Teigland writes: > Is there a reason why you cannot use or ? See gfs2_hash_more() and comment; we hash discontiguous regions. jhash() takes an initial value. Isn't that sufficient? Pekka - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: 2.6.13-rc5-mm1: oops when starting nscd on AMD64

2005-08-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > > I don't think it was supposed to do that. > > > > > > Quite possibly it's something to do with the new debugging code - could > > you > > > please take a copy of the offending config, send it over and then try > > > removing debug options, see if the crash goes away? CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEM

Re: [PATCH] spi

2005-08-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
dmitry pervushin napsal(a): Index: linux-2.6.10/drivers/spi/Makefile === --- linux-2.6.10.orig/drivers/spi/Makefile 1970-01-01 00:00:00.0 + +++ linux-2.6.10/drivers/spi/Makefile 2005-07-15 06:57:39.0 +000

Re: pselect() modifying timeout

2005-08-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Gwe, 2005-08-05 at 12:42 +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > 1. POSIX made the behaviour of pselect() explicit -- the >timeout must not be modified. The idea was to avoid the >vagueness of the select() specification; it had to be vague >because of existing implementations. By contras

[PATCH] CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-08 Thread Karsten Wiese
Hi Ingo, This version of the patch has better coding style thanks to comments from Ingo Oeser. Please comment or pass it on as appropriate. Patch is for mainline 2.6.13-rc6. Thanks, Karsten -- From: Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures. This

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:18:45PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > gfs2-02.patch:+ RETRY_MALLOC(ip = kmem_cache_alloc(gfs2_inode_cachep, > -> GFP_NOFAIL. Already gone, inode_create() can return an error. if (create) { RETRY_MALLOC(page = grab_cache_page(aspace->i_mapping, index),

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Pekka J Enberg
David Teigland writes: > but why can't you return NULL here on failure like you do for > find_lock_page()? because create is set Yes, but looking at (some of the) top-level callers, there's no real reason why create must not fail. Am I missing something here? > gfs2-02.patch:+ RETRY_MALL

Re: [PATCH] CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid dead code in __do_IRQ()

2005-08-08 Thread Alexander Nyberg
> > IRQ_PER_CPU is not used by all architectures. > This patch introduces the macros > ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU and CHECK_IRQ_PER_CPU() to avoid the generation of > dead code in __do_IRQ(). > > ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU is defined by architectures using > IRQ_PER_CPU in their > include/asm_ARCH/ir

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Danny ter Haar wrote: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2.6.13-rc5 seemed to kill a scsi disk (sdb) for me, where 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 have no problems with the same disk. Sort of same with me: 2.6.12-mm1 runs for _weeks_ where others

Re: local DDOS? Kernel panic when accessing /proc/ioports

2005-08-08 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Martin Loschwitz wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 03:40:26PM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: >> >> On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Martin Loschwitz wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I just ran into the following problem: Having updated my box to 2.6.12.3, >>> I tried to start YaST2 an

[PATCH -mm] parport_pc.c uses pci_find_device

2005-08-08 Thread Jiri Slaby
This patch changes pci_find_device to pci_get_device (encapsulated in for_each_pci_dev). Generated in 2.6.13-rc5-mm1 Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c --- a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c +++ b/drivers/parport/p

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread David Teigland
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 01:57:55PM +0300, Pekka J Enberg wrote: > David Teigland writes: > >> but why can't you return NULL here on failure like you do for > >> find_lock_page()? > > > >because create is set > > Yes, but looking at (some of the) top-level callers, there's no real reason > why c

Re: [PATCH] MMC host class

2005-08-08 Thread Pierre Ossman
Russell King wrote: > >I still don't like the needless duplication. How about doing it this >way (see the attached patch.) > >Note: I also intend to move MMC over to using an IDR for the host >numbers, which is why we need to setup the name at registration >time, not allocation time. > > > Thi

[PATCH] Typofix_i82559_to_i8259

2005-08-08 Thread Karsten Wiese
The legacy PIC's name is "i8259". Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -upr linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c --- linux-2.6.13-rc6/arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c 2005-08-08 11:46:00.0 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.13/arch/i386/kernel

New asynchronous crypto subsystem [acrypto] release.

2005-08-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
I'm pleased to announce new acrypto release. It now supports nice scatterlist walkers, usage can be found in async_provider.c [bridge to the sync API]. By design acrypto provides whole scatterlists array to the driver so it can optimize it's processing. This is _probably_ the last release, due to

[HELP] How to get address of module

2005-08-08 Thread Hiroki Kaminaga
Hi! I'm looking for *nice* way to get address of loaded module in 2.6. I'd like to know the address from driver. In 2.4, I wrote something like this: * * * (in kernel src) --- kernel/module.c +++ kernel/module.c struct module *module_list = &kernel_module; + struct module *get_module_queue(

Re: [HELP] How to get address of module

2005-08-08 Thread Stephen Rothwell
On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:40:22 +0900 (JST) Hiroki Kaminaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for *nice* way to get address of loaded module in 2.6. > I'd like to know the address from driver. Maybe explaining why you need the address of a module would help. -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell

Re: Lost Ticks on x86_64

2005-08-08 Thread Andi Kleen
> Some BIOSes do not lock SMM, and you *could* turn it off at the chipset > level. Doing so would be wasteful though. Both AMD and Intel CPUs need SMM code for the deeper C* sleep states. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: [HELP] How to get address of module

2005-08-08 Thread Hiroki Kaminaga
> > I'm looking for *nice* way to get address of loaded module in 2.6. > > I'd like to know the address from driver. > > Maybe explaining why you need the address of a module would help. I'm currently writing a driver to diagnose/monitor the error, such as core dump. I inserted some hook in ker

Re: rc5 seemed to kill a disk that rc4-mm1 likes. Also some X trouble.

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Danny ter Haar wrote: >>What i dont "get" is that ethernet also goes down when the scsi >>controller goes bezerk. >>I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem since 2.6.12-mm1 survives >>and brings this usenet host in the worldwide top 1000. >Interesting.

Re: [PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: some bug fixes & add lgdt3303 support

2005-08-08 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
This should't be applied to 2.6.13. It does contain a hack at V4L code, since mute_tda9887 is implemented outside tda9887.c module and could potentially cause troubles since there are some work to provide it on a correct way. It should be applied to -mm and go to mainstream only af

Re: [2.6 patch] arch/cris/Kconfig.debug: use lib/Kconfig.debug

2005-08-08 Thread starvik
Acked-by: Mikael Starvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This patch converts arch/cris/Kconfig.debug to using lib/Kconfig.debug. > > This should fix a compile error in 2.6.13-rc4 caused by a missing > CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT definition. > > While I was editing this file, I also converted some spaces to tabs

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IB/cm]: Correct CM port redirect reject codes

2005-08-08 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
Quoting r. yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 8/3/05, Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoting yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IB/cm]: Correct CM port redirect reject codes > > > > > > Roland, > > > > > > In LinuxBIOS, If I enable the prefmem64 to use real 64

[PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT

2005-08-08 Thread Hiroyuki Machida
Ogawa-san and FAT developpers, Here is a patch to enable posix file attribute mapping to VFAT attributes, with restrictions. Main purpose of this patch is to build root file system with VFAT for small embedded device. FAT is widely used for embedded device to exchange data, and also small embedde

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread John Stoffel
Linus> James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after Linus> 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's Linus> fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. This might explain why my DLT7000 has been dropping off the bus at times and requiring a full

I can not build a new kernel image with a assembly module

2005-08-08 Thread mhb
Hi I had added an assembly program to the networking section of kernel linux 2.2.16 without any problem. But when I add it to kerenel 2.4.1 I could build that kernel, but I faced with kernel panic error when I boot system with new builded image. I use the following Make file to build It in the 2.4

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] Fix handling in parport_pc init code

2005-08-08 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
parport_pc_find_ports(): r = pci_register_driver (&parport_pc_pci_driver); if (r) return r; The only caller of parport_pc_find_ports() is parport_pc_init(), which has: count += parport_pc_find_ports (irqval[0], dmaval[0]); return 0; This

Re: I can not build a new kernel image with a assembly module

2005-08-08 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 06:02 -0700, mhb wrote: > Hi > > I had added an assembly program to the networking > section of kernel linux 2.2.16 without any problem. > But when I add it to kerenel 2.4.1 I could build that > kernel, but I faced with kernel panic error when I > boot > system with new build

Unreliable Guide to Locking - Addition?

2005-08-08 Thread Kedar Sovani
Hi Rusty, I was going through the splendidly written document, "Unreliable Guide to Locking". I thought of something that should be mentioned in the section "Using Atomic Operations For The Reference Count" (link : http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/kernel-locking/x352.

Re: [PATCH] spi

2005-08-08 Thread Mark Underwood
--- dmitry pervushin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > > Here is the spi core patch (slightly redesigned > again). Now it operates > with three abstractions: > a) the spi bus, which is registered in system and is > resposible for > general things like registering devices on it, > han

Re: [PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: some bug fixes & add lgdt3303 support

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Krufky
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: This should't be applied to 2.6.13. It does contain a hack at V4L code, since mute_tda9887 is implemented outside tda9887.c module and could potentially cause troubles since there are some work to provide it on a correct way. It should be applied to

Re: Is it a process?

2005-08-08 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 08:39 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> when linux kernel receives a packet from the netcard and the forwards it . > >> the process can be viewed as a kernel process ? > >> and if this process can be interrupted ? > > > >When a packet is received from the kernel, this is first

Re: [HELP] How to get address of module

2005-08-08 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Maandag 08 August 2005 14:06, Hiroki Kaminaga wrote: > If the cause is in some insmod'ed module, then I would like to get > info of that module. If I get the address of that module, I can get > info such as symbol name defined by that module, etc. Then I could say > in module mmm, at func fff,

[PATCH 0/3] New system call, unshare

2005-08-08 Thread Janak Desai
Patch Summary: This patch implements a new system call, unshare. unshare allows a process to disassociate parts of the process context that were initially being shared using the clone() system call. The patch consists of two parts: [1/2] Implements the system call handler function sys_unshare.

[PATCH 1/2] New system call, unshare

2005-08-08 Thread Janak Desai
[PATCH 1/2] unshare system call: System Call handler function sys_unshare Signed-off-by: Janak Desai fork.c | 202 +++-- 1 files changed, 196 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff -Naurp 2.6.13-rc5-mm1/kernel/fork.c 2.6.13-rc5-mm1+

[PATCH 2/2] New system call, unshare

2005-08-08 Thread Janak Desai
[PATCH 2/2] unshare system call: System Call setup for i386 arch Signed-off-by: Janak Desai arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S |1 + include/asm-i386/unistd.h|3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -Naurp 2.6.13-rc5-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/syscall_table.S 2

Re: [2.6 patch] fs/Kconfig: quota help text updates

2005-08-08 Thread Jan Kara
Looks fine. Giving CC to Andrew to queue it for inclusion. Andrew, can you please also add Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks Honza > This patch contains t

Re: [PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: some bug fixes & add lgdt3303 support

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Krufky
Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: This should't be applied to 2.6.13. It does contain a hack at V4L code, since mute_tda9887 is implemented outside tda9887.c module and could potentially cause troubles since there are some work to provide it on a correct way. This patch removes the tda988

Re: EXPORT_SYMBOL generates "is deprecated" noise

2005-08-08 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Sünndag 07 August 2005 20:26, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Oh, I'm being an idiot and looking at the wrong tree. It's __deprecated, > but I still can't think of a clean way to locally undefine that for > just EXPORT_SYMBOL. We could in theory create a new EXPORT_SYMBOL variant that does not referen

Re: [HELP] How to get address of module

2005-08-08 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Hiroki Kaminaga wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm looking for *nice* way to get address of loaded module in 2.6. > I'd like to know the address from driver. > > In 2.4, I wrote something like this: > > * * * > > (in kernel src) > --- kernel/module.c > +++ kernel/module.c > > struct modul

[PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup"

2005-08-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
At present the configuration items for initramfs is located in: Device drivers | Block Drivers | xxx This is maybe not the most natural place to have it. So with the following patch it is moved below "General setup", and relevant config items are collected in a file with a new home in usr/. The o

Re: kernel status, 4 Aug 2005

2005-08-08 Thread Zilvinas Valinskas
Hello Andrew, > [Bugme-new] [Bug 4992] New: Power off stops > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4992 Works for me now. I've tested with 2.6.13-rc6 a few hours again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: two 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 oddities

2005-08-08 Thread Dipankar Sarma
I am ccing this to linux-kernel for a wider audience. On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 09:56:44AM +1000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Subject: two 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 oddities > > Just wanted to record a couple of oddities I noticed with 2.6.13-rc3-mm3 > (maybe there before: I hardly tested -mm1 and didn't even d

pci_update_resource() getting called on sparc64

2005-08-08 Thread David S. Miller
Some recent change last week causes pci_update_resource() to be invoked on sparc64 now, and this is why my workstation couldn't cleanly boot into current 2.6.13 when I tried to remotely try out some new kernels while I was in the UK. This thing is supposed to only be invoked if you support power

Re: GFS

2005-08-08 Thread Pekka J Enberg
David Teigland writes: +static ssize_t walk_vm_hard(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t size, + loff_t *offset, do_rw_t operation) +{ + struct gfs2_holder *ghs; + unsigned int num_gh = 0; + ssize_t count; + + { Can we please get rid of the extra braces e

Re: 2.6 select doesn't notify readablity of /proc/loadavg.

2005-08-08 Thread Alan Cox
Yes I can duplicate that - it appears that proc_file_operations is acquiring a poll method from somewhere. All the simple create_proc_read* files hang on a poll() or select() call. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:14:43AM +0300, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: > ??n data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: > > Luming Yu: > > [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) > > [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now "n" by default > > IMHO yo

Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup"

2005-08-08 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Sam Ravnborg wrote: At present the configuration items for initramfs is located in: Device drivers | Block Drivers | xxx This is maybe not the most natural place to have it. So with the following patch it is moved below "General setup", and relevant config items are collecte

Re: I can not build a new kernel image with a assembly module

2005-08-08 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, mhb wrote: > Hi > > I had added an assembly program to the networking > section of kernel linux 2.2.16 without any problem. > But when I add it to kerenel 2.4.1 I could build that > kernel, but I faced with kernel panic error when I > boot > system with new builded image. I us

Re: [PATCH] 5/8 Move descriptor table management into the sub-arch layer

2005-08-08 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > i386 Transparent paravirtualization subarch patch #5 > > This change encapsulates descriptor and task register management. > > Diffs against: 2.6.13-rc4-mm1 > > Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Index: linux-2.6.13/include/asm-i386/desc.h > =

cifs kernel module and MS DFS shares [2.6.12-1.1411_FC4]

2005-08-08 Thread Thomas Chiverton
(I was referred here by Thomas Anders over on the Samba list, as apparently it's the cifs kernel module at fault ?). I am having problems mounting a DFS share using mount.cifs, even though it works in smbclient fine. After mounting, each top-level directory contains a copy of the top level dire

[PATCH] Update my contact info

2005-08-08 Thread James Morris
Please apply. --- diff -urN a/CREDITS b/CREDITS --- a/CREDITS 2005-08-07 14:18:56.0 -0400 +++ b/CREDITS 2005-08-08 10:03:56.0 -0400 @@ -2380,8 +2380,8 @@ D: bug fixes, documentation, minor hackery N: James Morris -E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -W: http://www.intercode.com.au/jmorri

Re: [PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: some bug fixes & add lgdt3303 support

2005-08-08 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Seg, 2005-08-08 às 09:51 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > This should't be applied to 2.6.13. It does contain a hack at V4L code, > >since mute_tda9887 is implemented outside tda9887.c module and could > >potentially cause troubles since there are some wo

Re: [klibc] Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup"

2005-08-08 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Aug 08, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: > >From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use > initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate file > by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel. The file passed from the bootloader to the

Re: [PATCH 1/2] New system call, unshare

2005-08-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Llu, 2005-08-08 at 09:33 -0400, Janak Desai wrote: > > [PATCH 1/2] unshare system call: System Call handler function sys_unshare Given the complexity of the kernel code involved and the obscurity of the functionality why not just do another clone() in userspace to unshare the things you want

Re: [Fwd: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-01]

2005-08-08 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:05:35PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > zOn Fri, 2005-08-05 at 12:59 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > ok, looks good - i've applied it and released the -52-14 PREEMPT_RT > > patch. > > > > Does not compile if RCU stats are enabled but torture test disabled. My bad. Updated R

Timertop - update

2005-08-08 Thread Daniel Petrini
Hi, Here we have a slightly update for timertop script, it now shows the ticks in Hz (borrowed from Tony's pmstats - let me know if I shouldn't :-) ) and some cleanups. The timertop kernel patch is the same, tested for 2.6.13-rc5-dtck-5.patch. I'm open to suggestions on what to aggregate in that

Re: [PATCH] DVB: lgdt330x frontend: some bug fixes & add lgdt3303 support

2005-08-08 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em Seg, 2005-08-08 às 09:20 -0400, Michael Krufky escreveu: > Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > The tda9887 stuff is disabled inside the code with #ifdefs. Ok, you removed on your latest patch. > Most of our correspondence have been short little emails and we > have been communicating in pvt

[patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.13-rc4-V0.7.52-16

2005-08-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Updated RCU-only portion of the patch included below, applies to > 2.6.13-rc4. [...] thanks - i've put it into the -RT tree and have released the -52-16 patch, which can be downloaded from the usual place: http://redhat.com/~mingo/realtime-

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-08 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:26:01AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Good point, and it would be nice to have it resolved for systems that support > idling individual CPUs. The current setup was done because when I was > tinkering > with the amd76x_pm patch a while a back, I noticed that idling the cp

Re: [klibc] Re: [PATCH - RFC] Move initramfs configuration to "General setup"

2005-08-08 Thread Grzegorz Kulewski
On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, Olaf Hering wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote: From my recent experiments it looks like in order to be able to use initramfs not compiled into the kernel image but loaded from separate file by GRUB or LILO one must also build initrd into the kernel. The file

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