Re: Mounting NFS root FS

2006-12-04 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Trond Myklebust wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 22:05 +0200, Janne Karhunen wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 20:21, Trond Myklebust wrote: 2) NFS provides persistent storage. To me this sounds like a chicken and an egg problem. It both depends and provides this at the same time :/. But hey, if

Re: [PATCH] prune_icache_sb

2006-12-04 Thread Wendy Cheng
Russell Cattelan wrote: Wendy Cheng wrote: Linux kernel, particularly the VFS layer, is starting to show signs of inadequacy as the software components built upon it keep growing. I have doubts that it can keep up and handle this complexity with a development policy like you just described (f

Re: reiserfs NET=n build error

2006-12-04 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:47:57 -0800 Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:32:11 -0500 Jeff Mahoney wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Al Viro wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 11:04:33AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > >> Andi Kleen wrote: > > > I

Re: [PATCH] Add __GFP_MOVABLE for callers to flag allocations that may be migrated

2006-12-04 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Hi, your plan looks good to me. some comments. On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 23:45:32 + (GMT) Mel Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Use lumpy-reclaim to intelligently reclaim contigous pages. The same > logic can be used to reclaim within a PFN range > 2. Merge anti-frag to help high-order allo

Re: reiserfs NET=n build error

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday December 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ingo, Neil: > > Al has summarized that csum_partial() is arch-specific. > However, drivers/md/md.c uses it. Yep. > > Does that mean that RAID volumes are not portable across > (some) architectures? Yep. version-0.90 superblocks are already n

Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Horst H. von Brand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2006/12/04/18:00 CST > > Building modules, stage 2. > Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) > MODPOST 1256 modules > WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! > make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 > make: *** [modules] Error 2 Also

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Wednesday November 29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc6/2.6.19-rc6-mm2/ > > md-change-lifetime-rules-for-md-devices.patch gives me the following early > during boot (first W

Re: Why SCSI module needed for PCI-IDE ATA only disks ?

2006-12-04 Thread Ed Sweetman
Jeff Garzik wrote: Bernard Pidoux wrote: I am asking why need to compile the following modules while I do not have any SCSI device ? libata uses SCSI to provide a lot of infrastructure that it would otherwise have to recreate. Also, using SCSI meant that it automatically worked in existing

Re: [rfc] possible page manipulation simplifications?

2006-12-04 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 03:55:52PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hi Mel, > > I think you're right about the leakage, thanks for catching it. Yeah, it caused oom storm here. The pagevec simplification looks nice. I've ported it to -mm, hope it is useful. I'm prepared to test your revised patch :)

[PATCH] Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver

2006-12-04 Thread Martin Bligh
Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c 2.6.19-megaraid/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c --- linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c2006-12-04 17:52:00.0 -0

Re: [patch 2.6.19-rc6] fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers

2006-12-04 Thread David Brownell
On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:04 pm, Greg KH wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:27:31PM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 3:02 pm, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > > > Here's my fix. ... > > > > ... I audited all the drivers using the relevant APIs, and I can't > > > >

Re: [2.6 patch] USB_RTL8150 must select MII

2006-12-04 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 04 December 2006 3:13 pm, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:02:06 +0100 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > USB_RTL8150 must select MII to avoid link errors. > > > > Stolen from a patch by Randy Dunlap. > > > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks, Adrian. > > Dav

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
i know i said i suspected this was another bug, but i have revised my suspecisions, and i do believe its in relation to x86 chroot on x86_64 install, as it has happened with more stuff now, inside the chroot, and only inside the chroot, while the same apps dont do it outside chroot. 2.6.19 release

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-04 Thread Kasper Sandberg
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 03:36 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > i know i said i suspected this was another bug, but i have revised my > suspecisions, and i do believe its in relation to x86 chroot on x86_64 > install, as it has happened with more stuff now, inside the chroot, and > only inside the chro

Re: BUG? atleast >=2.6.19-rc5, x86 chroot on x86_64

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 03:36:09 +0100 Kasper Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i know i said i suspected this was another bug, but i have revised my > suspecisions, and i do believe its in relation to x86 chroot on x86_64 > install, as it has happened with more stuff now, inside the chroot, and >

About watch dog timer limit of CPU (Xscale ->IXP425) How can I set more long time ?

2006-12-04 Thread Bob Zhang
Hello all , My embeded board hardware configuration is like this : # cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : XScale-IXP425/IXC1100 rev 1 (v5b) BogoMIPS: 266.24 Features: swp half thumb fastmult edsp Hardware: Intel IXDP425 Development Platform Revision: Seri

Re: 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 progression

2006-12-04 Thread Larry Finger
Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 17:36:27 +0100 "Benoit Boissinot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/24/06, Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there the equivalent of 'git bisect' for the -mmX kernels? http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/bisecting-mm-trees.txt P

Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Horst H. von Brand wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 2006/12/04/18:00 CST > > > > Building modules, stage 2. > > Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) > > MODPOST 1256 modules > > WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! > > make

Is there way to reserve more MMIO resource for PCIE-hotplug-capable slot?

2006-12-04 Thread Zhao Forrest
Hi, Sometimes we could hotplug a PCIE device, which require more MMIO resource than that reserved by BIOS. My question is: is there a way for kernel to reserved more MMIO resource for a PCIE-hotplug-capable slot? I searched the kernel-parameters.txt, but didn't find any related information. Tha

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Aucoin
> From: Nick Piggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I'd be interested to know how OOM and page reclaim behaves after these > patches > (or with a newer kernel). We didn't get far today. The various suggestions everyone has for solving this problem spurred several new discussions inside the office and

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I notice it says: > | > v > > 090: 6b 6b 6b 6b 6a 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b > > Single bit error detected. Probably bad RAM. > > Run memtest86+ or a similar memory test tool. > > Have you tried

[PATCH] ide-cd: Handle strange interrupt on the Intel ESB2

2006-12-04 Thread Alan
The ESB2 appears to emit spurious DMA interrupts when configured for native mode and handling ATAPI devices. Stratus were able to pin this bug down and produce a patch. This is a rework which applies the fixup only to the ESB2 (for now). We can apply it to other chips later if the same problem is f

Re: [PATCH]: via 6421 PATA support done in a rather cleaner fashion

2006-12-04 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Alan wrote: Wants testing... so test and report Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.19-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/sata_via.c 2006-11-24 13:58:05.0 + +++ linux-2.6.19-rc6-mm1/drivers/ata/sata_via.c 2006-12-04 14:57:34.719099648 + PATA works fine with th

[PATCH] pata_it8213: Add new driver for the IT8213 card.

2006-12-04 Thread Alan
Add a driver for the IT8213 which is a single channel ICH-ish PATA controller. As it is very different to the IT8211/2 it gets its own driver. There is a legacy drivers/ide driver also available and I'll post that once I get time to test it all out (probably early January). If anyone else needs the

Re: [PATCH] pata_it8213: Add new driver for the IT8213 card.

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:49:31 + Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add a driver for the IT8213 which is a single channel ICH-ish PATA > controller. As it is very different to the IT8211/2 it gets its own > driver. There is a legacy drivers/ide driver also available and I'll post > that once I get

Re: [PATCH] pata_it8213: Add new driver for the IT8213 card.

2006-12-04 Thread Alan
> Was the duplication of timings[] deliberate? It's actually duplicated in all the PIIX/ICH-alike drivers. I could move it in them all. Jeff - its copied from your piix driver - shall I move them all ? > diff -puN > include/linux/pci_ids.h~pata_it8213-add-new-driver-for-the-it8213-card-tidy >

Re: [PATCH] pata_it8213: Add new driver for the IT8213 card.

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Alan wrote: Was the duplication of timings[] deliberate? It's actually duplicated in all the PIIX/ICH-alike drivers. I could move it in them all. Jeff - its copied from your piix driver - shall I move them all ? Please do... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

[patch 0/3] Dock patches

2006-12-04 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Hi Len, Here are a set of patches for the dock station driver (drivers/acpi/dock). One makes the dock station driver also a platform driver. The second adds sysfs entries which will be created under /sys/devices/platform/dock.0 to allow the user to read the status of the dock station (1 for docked

[patch 3/3] acpi: Fix symbol conflict between acpiphp and dock

2006-12-04 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
From: Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fix bug which will cause acpiphp to not be able to load when dock.ko cannot load. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/dock.c |8 +++- 1 file changed, 7 in

[patch 1/3] Make the dock station driver a platform device driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
Make the dock station driver a platform device driver so that we can create sysfs entries under /sys/device/platform. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 22 -- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- kristen-2.6

[patch 2/3] acpi: Add a docked sysfs file to the dock driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add 2 sysfs files for user interface. 1) docked - 1/0 (read only) - indicates whether the software believes the laptop is docked in a docking station. 2) undock - (write only) - writing to this file causes the software to initiate an undock request to the firmware. Signe

libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices when not supported

2006-12-04 Thread Darrick J. Wong
The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device" that won't report its LUN

Re: libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices when not supported

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Darrick J. Wong wrote: The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device"

[PATCH v2] libata: Simulate REPORT LUNS for ATAPI devices

2006-12-04 Thread Darrick J. Wong
The Quantum GoVault SATAPI removable disk device returns ATA_ERR in response to a REPORT LUNS packet. If this happens to an ATAPI device that is attached to a SAS controller (this is the case with sas_ata), the device does not load because SCSI won't touch a "SCSI device" that won't report its LUN

[PATCH 4/4] UML - Use get_random_bytes after random pool is seeded

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
When the UML network driver generates random MACs for its devices, it was possible for a number of UMLs to get the same MACs because the ethernet initialization was done before the random pool was properly seeded. This patch moves the initialization later so that it gets better randomness. Signe

[PATCH 2/4] UML - Include asm/page.h in order to get PAGE_SHIFT

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
Include the proper header to get a definition of PAGE_SHIFT. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/stub.h === --- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/stub.h2006

[PATCH 1/4] UML - include stddef.h correctly

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
We were not including stddef.h in files that used offsetof. One file was also including linux/stddef.h for no perciptible reason. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/sys-i386/ldt.c === --- lin

[PATCH 3/4] UML - Size register files correctly

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Dike
We were using the wrong symbol to size register files. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.18-mm/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/ptrace.h === --- linux-2.6.18-mm.orig/arch/um/include/sysdep-i386/ptrace.h 2006-

[git patches] ocfs2 and configfs updates

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Fasheh
Hi Linus, This patch set comprises the bulk of my 2.6.20 features which need to be pushed upstream. My description of the changes is below: * Various ocfs2 cleanups, including a patchset by me intended to clean up some of the internal ocfs2 journal api. Mostly this revolves around removing

Re: What's in ocfs2.git

2006-12-04 Thread Mark Fasheh
Hi Steve, On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions > > in the manner described by Valerie Henson at: > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/25/380 > > > I'd like to second that. [adding Val Henson

Re: [PATCH] Centralise definitions of sector_t and blkcnt_t

2006-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > CONFIG_LBD and CONFIG_LSF are spread into asm/types.h for no particularly > good reason. Centralising the definition in linux/types.h means that arch > maintainers don't need to bother adding it, as well as fixing the problem > with x86-64 users bei

Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions > > > in the manner described by Valerie Henson at: > > > > > > http://lkml

Re: Relative atime (was Re: What's in ocfs2.git)

2006-12-04 Thread Valerie Henson
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:36:20PM -0800, Valerie Henson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:10:07PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 10:54:53AM +, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > > > In the future, I'd like to see a "relative atime" mode, which functions >

Re: 2.6.19: OOPS in cat /proc/fs/nfs/exports

2006-12-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Monday December 4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is 100% reproducible. It hangs exportfs on shutdown. > > Dec 4 19:50:13 glotze kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > dereference at virtual address 0040 > Dec 4 19:50:13 glotze kernel: printing eip: > Dec 4 19:50:13 glotz

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Aucoin wrote: > > If I'm going to go through all the trouble to change the kernel and maybe > create a new proc file how much code would I have to touch to create a proc > file to set something like, let's say, effective memory and have all the vm > calculations use effective

[patch] optimize o_direct on block device - v2

2006-12-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
This patch implements block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through generic direct_io_worker for block device. direct_io_worker is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection, extents file on write

Re: [PATCH] Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin Bligh wrote: Fix up compiler warnings in megaraid driver Signed-off-by: Martin J. Bligh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -aurpN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude linux-2.6.19/drivers/scsi/megaraid.c 2.6.19-megaraid/drivers/s

[PATCH] Re: 2.6.19 git compile error - "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined

2006-12-04 Thread Frank Sorenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006/12/04/18:00 CST Building modules, stage 2. Kernel: arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage is ready (#2) MODPOST 1256 modules WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost]

[patch] add an iterator index in struct pagevec

2006-12-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
pagevec is never expected to be more than PAGEVEC_SIZE, I think a unsigned char is enough to count them. This patch makes nr, cold to be unsigned char and also adds an iterator index. With that, the size can be even bumped up by 1 to 15. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Nurp li

[PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Hi, I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on the last few weeks. I'm aiming to implement feature parity with the current firewire stack, but not necessarily interface compatibility. For now, I have the low-level OHCI driver done, the mid-level transaction logic done,

[PATCH 3/3] Import fw-sbp2 driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Pull in the fw-sbp2 driver for firewire storage devices. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c |2 drivers/fw/fw-sbp2.c | 1083 ++ 2 files changed, 1084 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/driver

[PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Add the OHCI driver to the stack and build system. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c | 1334 ++ drivers/fw/fw-ohci.h | 152 ++ 2 files changed, 1486 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/driver

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Paul Mackerras
Andrew Morton writes: > ppc-m48t35-add-missing-bracket.patch > powerpc-replace-kmallocmemset-with-kzalloc.patch These are already in Linus' tree. > Am holding onto these until the powerpc git tree gets un-messied up. It should be fine now. Linus has pulled it, so there are currently no change

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 00:22 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on > the last few weeks. I'm aiming to implement feature parity with the > current firewire stack, but not necessarily interface compatibility. > For now, I ha

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:14:03 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch > > > > There's no reason to merge this yet. > > We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a > per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let us get

Re: [patch] add an iterator index in struct pagevec

2006-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:21:31 -0800 "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pagevec is never expected to be more than PAGEVEC_SIZE, I think a > unsigned char is enough to count them. This patch makes nr, cold > to be unsigned char Is that on the right side of the speed/space tradeoff? > an

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Paul Mackerras wrote: Andrew Morton writes: radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch There's no reason to merge this yet. We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let us get rid of that array. I'd like to get another

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Pete Zaitcev
On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:22:45 -0500, "Kristian Høgsberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your wonderful crossed-o might be ok here (or it would've been if only your mailer worked -- notice that the name is right in the "On" tag line above): > Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ---

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 16:14:03 +1100 Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: radix-tree-rcu-lockless-readside.patch There's no reason to merge this yet. We want to use it in some powerpc arch code. Currently we use a per-cpu array of spinlocks, and this patch would let

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Add the OHCI driver to the stack and build system. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c | 1334 ++ drivers/fw/fw-ohci.h | 152 ++ 2 files changed, 1486 insertions(+), 0 deleti

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives

2006-12-04 Thread Kurtis D. Rader
On Sat, 2006-12-02 17:17:37, Kurtis D. Rader wrote: > I'm also experiencing silent data corruption on writes to SATA disks > connected to a Nvidia controller (nForce 4 chipset). The problem is > 100% reproducible. Details of my configuration (mainboard model, lspci, > etc.) are near the bottom of t

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Import fw-ohci driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> > +struct descriptor { > > + u32 req_count:16; > > + > > + u32 wait:2; > > + u32 branch:2; > > + u32 irq:2; > > + u32 yy:1; > > + u32 ping:1; > > + > > + u32 key:3; > > + u32 status:1; > > + u32 command:4; > > + > > + u32 data_address; > > + u32 branch_address; > > + > > +

Re: [PATCH 3/3] Import fw-sbp2 driver.

2006-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Pull in the fw-sbp2 driver for firewire storage devices. Signed-off-by: Kristian Høgsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/fw/fw-ohci.c |2 drivers/fw/fw-sbp2.c | 1083 ++ 2 files changed, 1084 insertions(+), 1 delet

Re: 2.6.18-rc7-git1: AHCI not seeing devices on ICH8 mobo (DG965RY)

2006-12-04 Thread Kurtis D. Rader
On Sun, 2006-09-17 16:49:29, Tejun Heo wrote: > Can you please try the attached patch? I'm seeing the same problem reported by Robin Johnson: that is, the first two SATA disks are seen by the Linux kernel but the third is not. The third drive is seen by the BIOS. I attempted to apply the patch po

RE: [patch] add an iterator index in struct pagevec

2006-12-04 Thread Chen, Kenneth W
Andrew Morton wrote on Monday, December 04, 2006 9:45 PM > On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 21:21:31 -0800 > "Chen, Kenneth W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > pagevec is never expected to be more than PAGEVEC_SIZE, I think a > > unsigned char is enough to count them. This patch makes nr, cold > > to be unsign

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 00:22 -0500, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: Hi, I'm announcing an alternative firewire stack that I've been working on the last few weeks. I'm aiming to implement feature parity with the current firewire stack, but not necessarily interface compati

[PATCH 0/2] fw-core resend

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
Oops, looks like the fw-core patch was to big for the list. I've split it into two parts: fw-core which is the transaction logic and bus reset handling and fw-device which is device probing and sysfs integration. cheers, Kristian - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

[PATCH 2/2] Add device probing, sysfs interface and char device code.

2006-12-04 Thread Kristian Høgsberg
This patch add code to probe devices and integrate with the device model, adds minimal sysfs structure and implements a char device for user space control. --- drivers/fw/Makefile |3 drivers/fw/fw-device-cdev.c | 580 + drivers/fw/fw-device-c

Re: mmc: pxamci compilation fix

2006-12-04 Thread Pierre Ossman
Sascha Hauer wrote: > Hi Pierre and all, > > since commit fcaf71fd51f9cfc504455d3e19ec242e4b2073ed > struct mmc_host does not have a dev field. Retrieve the device with > mmc_dev() instead. > > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bad Greg ;) Applied, thanks. Rgds -- -- Pie

RE: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Aucoin
> From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question. > Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area? Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is

in HP nx8220 S3 resume does not work in stock kernels 2.6.15-2.6.19. Ide light stays on.

2006-12-04 Thread Honkala Mikko
Hi, in HP nx8220 S3 resume does not work in stock kernels 2.6.15-2.6.19. Ide light stays on. The attached patch for ide.c for 2.6.18.2 fixes this for me, but the patch does not apply anymore in 2.6.19. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2039 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5

Re: v2.6.19-rt1, yum/rpm

2006-12-04 Thread Karsten Wiese
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2006 01:19 schrieb Karsten Wiese: > Am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 09:33 schrieb Ingo Molnar: > > i have released the 2.6.19-rt1 tree, which can be downloaded from the > > Hi Ingo, > > here comes a freerunning trace explaining the weirdness I see here. > I tried max_lat

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Aucoin wrote: From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I actually suspect you should be _fairly_ close to such a situation We run with min_free_kbytes set around 4k to answer your earlier question. Louis, exactly how do you allocate that big 1.6GB shared area? Ummm, shm_open, ftrun

Re: [PATCH 0/3] New firewire stack

2006-12-04 Thread David Miller
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:42:42 +1100 > - It's horribly broken in at least two area : > > DO NOT USE BITFIELDS FOR DATA ON THE WIRE !!! > > and > > Where do you handle endianness ? (no need to shout for > that one). > > (Or in general, do n

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Rene Herman
Nick Piggin wrote: Aucoin wrote: Ummm, shm_open, ftruncate, mmap ? Is it a trick question ? The process responsible for initially setting up the shared area doesn't stay resident. The issue is that the shm pages should show up in the active and inactive lists. But they aren't, and you seem

[PATCH] CPEI gets warning at kernel/irq/migration.c:27/move_masked_irq()

2006-12-04 Thread Hidetoshi Seto
Hi, While running my MCA test (hardware error injection) on 2.6.19, I got some warning like following: > BUG: warning at kernel/irq/migration.c:27/move_masked_irq() > > Call Trace: > [] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 > sp=e0006b2578d0 bsp=e0006b2510b0 > [] dump_sta

Re: [PATCH] mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page

2006-12-04 Thread Matt Reimer
In light of James Bottomsley's commit[1] declaring that kmap() and friends now have to take care of coherency issues, is the patch "mm: D-cache aliasing issue in cow_user_page"[2] correct, or could it potentially cause a slowdown by calling flush_dcache_page() a second time (i.e. once in an archit

Re: PMTMR running too fast

2006-12-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:14 -0800, john stultz wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 19:40 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 11:19 -0800, john stultz wrote: > > > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 13:50 +, Ian Campbell wrote: > > > > In older kernels arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_pm.c:verify_pm

Re: 2.6.19-rc6-mm2

2006-12-04 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Neil Brown wrote: > As Andrew correctly pointed out, this bit error is not a RAM problem. It > is actually the low bit of a counter a spinlock that was decremented > just before the WARN_ON. So it simply indicates that the inode had > already been freed, which I think we kn

RE: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Lu, Yinghai
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c | 574 + > drivers/usb/host/ehci.h |8 + > include/asm-x86_64/fixmap.h |1 Can you separate usbdebug handle out from early_pr

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:18:30PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c | 574 > + > > drivers/usb/host/ehci.h |8 + > > include/asm-x86_64

RE: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Lu, Yinghai
Eric, Please check the version I modified for LinuxBIOS from your usbdebug_direct. Put the related info in struct ehci_debug_info { void *ehci_base; void *ehci_op_base; void *ehci_debug_base; unsigned devnum; unsigned endpoint_out; unsigned endpoint

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:18:30PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >arch/x86_64/kernel/early_printk.c | 574 >> + >> > drivers/usb/host/ehc

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:26:52PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:18:30PM -0800, Lu, Yinghai wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> >arch/x86_64/kernel/early_p

RE: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_64: earlyprintk usb debug device support.

2006-12-04 Thread Lu, Yinghai
-Original Message- From: Greg KH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 4:45 PM To: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Lu, Yinghai; USB development list; Stefan Reinauer; Peter Stuge; linuxbios@linuxbios.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/2] x86_

Status of buffered write path (deadlock fixes)

2006-12-04 Thread Nick Piggin
Hi, I'd like to try to state where we are WRT the buffered write patches, and ask for comments. Sorry for the wide cc list, but this is an important issue which hasn't had enough review. Well the next -mm will include everything we've done so far. I won't repost patches unless someone would like

Re: [RFC] rfkill - Add support for input key to control wireless radio

2006-12-04 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Dan, > 3) How does this interact with HAL? What's the userspace interface that > HAL will listen to to receive the signals? NetworkManager will need to > listen to HAL for these, as rfkill switches are one big thing that NM > does not handle now due to lack of a standard mechanism. > > In an

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 04:49:58PM -0600, Steve Wise ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > +static int send_halfclose(struct iwch_ep *ep, gfp_t gfp) > +{ > + struct cpl_close_con_req *req; > + struct sk_buff *skb; > + > + PDBG("%s ep %p\n", __FUNCTION__, ep); > + skb = get_skb(NULL, sizeof(*

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Roland Dreier
> Could you convince network core developers that it is not own TCP > implementation which will mess with existing one? I'm not qualified to comment on this... > This and a lot of other changes in this driver definitely says you > implement your own stack of protocols on top of infiniband har

Re: [PATCH v2 04/13] Connection Manager

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Wise
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 07:45 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Could you convince network core developers that it is not own TCP > > implementation which will mess with existing one? > > I'm not qualified to comment on this... > I don't understand your question? > > This and a lot of other chan

Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] 2.6.20 Chelsio T3 RDMA Driver

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Wise
> >> > > > > I understood that Stephen expressed some doubts regarding the inclusion > > of TOE enabled features. > > > > Was his point addressed ? > > > > > > My comments were about different hardware. Just to clarify: Stephen is working on the Chelsio T2 HW driver. The drivers Di

Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Wise
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 13:07 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 16:49 -0600, Steve Wise wrote: > > > + > > +static struct ib_ah *iwch_ah_create(struct ib_pd *pd, > > + struct ib_ah_attr *ah_attr) > > +{ > > + return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS); > > +} > >

Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures

2006-12-04 Thread Roland Dreier
> Roland, I think at one time we were talking about changing the Core to > better handle this? Either with attributes/capabilities that the low > level driver can set, or by set these method ptrs to NULL and the core > should handle it in the wrapper function... Yes, it would make sense to ch

Re: [PATCH v2 03/13] Provider Methods and Data Structures

2006-12-04 Thread Steve Wise
On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 08:45 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Roland, I think at one time we were talking about changing the Core to > > better handle this? Either with attributes/capabilities that the low > > level driver can set, or by set these method ptrs to NULL and the core > > should hand

Re: Network virtualization/isolation

2006-12-04 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 08:02:48PM +0300, Dmitry Mishin wrote: > On Monday 04 December 2006 19:43, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:19:00PM +0300, Dmitry Mishin wrote: > > > On Sunday 03 December 2006 19:00, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > Ok. Just a quick summary of where I s

[PATCH 4/10] cxgb3 - HW access routines - _REAL_ part 2

2006-12-04 Thread divy
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements the HW access routines for the Chelsio T3 network adapter's driver. This patch is split. This is the second part. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- +/** + * t3_sge_cqcntxt_op - perform an operation on a completion que

[PATCH 6/10] cxgb3 - on board memory, MAC and PHY

2006-12-04 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements on board memory, MAC and PHY management for the Chelsio T3 network adapter's driver. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/ael1002.c | 231 ++ drivers/net/cxgb3/mc5.c | 456 +

[PATCH 8/10] cxgb3 - offload capabilities

2006-12-04 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements the offload capabilities of the Chelsio network adapter's driver. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_offload.c | 1219 + drivers/net/cxgb3/l2t.c | 4

[PATCH 9/10] cxgb3 - register definitions

2006-12-04 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements the registers definitions for the Chelsio network adapter's driver. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/regs.h | 2177 ++ 1 files changed, 2177 insertions(+),

[PATCH 10/10] cxgb3 - build files and versioning

2006-12-04 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch implements build files and versioning for the Chelsio T3 network adapter's driver. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/Kconfig | 18 ++ drivers/net/Makefile|1 + drivers/net/cxgb3/

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