Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf: core dump masking support

2006-12-18 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hello Andrew, Thank you for your reply and advice. I'll send the revised patchset after I fix what you pointed out. Andrew Morton wrote: > Regarding the implementation: if we add > > unsigned char coredump_omit_anon_memory:1; > > into the mm_struct right next to `dumpable' then we avoid

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-18 Thread Haar János
- Original Message - From: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Haar János" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 7:24 AM Subject: Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug? > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:56:41AM +0100, Haar

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:52 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Perhaps forwarding this to fs-devel would be good also. > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back

Linux 2.4.34-rc3

2006-12-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi, Two changes before -final. The first one fixes a race where one can hit a BUG(), the second one fixes CVE-2006-4814. -final is just a few days ahead (it scares me, I'll have to check my scripts to ensure everything's OK). If you have important fixes you want to see in, or if it does not work

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matters is that the page eventually gets marked dirty. But the point being that "try_to_

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:35:29PM +0900, Ian Kent wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 08:52 +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > > > > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > Perhaps forwarding this to fs-devel would be goo

ebtables problems on 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread Santiago Garcia Mantinan
Hi! When trying to upgrade a machine from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19.1 I found that it crashed when loading the ebtables rules on startup. This is an example of the crash I get: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e081e004 printing eip:

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

2006-12-18 Thread Laurent Riffard
Le 17.12.2006 12:07, Damien Wyart a écrit : Also, I got panics when unmounting reiser4 filesystems with 2.6.20-rc1-mm1 but I guess this is related to your waring about reiser4 being broken in 2.6.19-mm1 (even if it is not listed in notes for 2.6.20-rc1-mm1)... I attach dmesg and config, but the r

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the problem Andrew identified is real. I don't. In fact I don't think I described any problem (well, I tried to, but then I contradicted myself). By saying that there shouldn't be any d

Re: [PATCH] fallout from atomic_long_t patch

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 10:08:49AM -0800, Linus Torvalds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > So with that out of the way, I'll just expect that I'll get whatever you > decide on through Davem's git tree, once his drunken holiday revelry is > over ;) This is important process - never interrupt it for t

s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Paolo Ornati
Hello, I'm using uswsusp and with commit 3592695c363c3f3119621bdcf5ed852d6b9d1a5c uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode") My PC power-light starts flashing during s2disk as expected (comment from the commit that fixes the same thing in in-kernel

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 > > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I think the problem Andrew identified is real. > > > > > > I don't. In fact I don't think I described

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me what to do. On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 21:50 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > I can't see how that's exactly

Linux 2.4.33.6

2006-12-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
Same fixes as in 2.4.34-rc3. This one fixes CVE-2006-4814. Willy Summary of changes from v2.4.33.5 to v2.4.33.6 Hugh Dickins (1): zeromap may find a pte Linus Torvalds (1): Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore() (CVE-2006-4

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:18 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:51:52 +1100 > > > Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>I think the problem Andrew ide

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This > project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, sync > with actual distributions and kernel and make development more transparent

Re: s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Seyfried
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:06:12AM +0100, Paolo Ornati wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using uswsusp and with commit > > 3592695c363c3f3119621bdcf5ed852d6b9d1a5c > uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode") > > > My PC power-light starts flashing during s2disk

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 Andrei Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file > content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me > what to do. Can you please tell us all the steps which we need to take

Re: [BUG] 2.6.19-rt14 does not compile with CONFIG_NO_HZ

2006-12-18 Thread Remy Bohmer
Hello Ingo, -rt15 is indeed better... Thanks! Remy 2006/12/16, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: * Remy Bohmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > For your Information, I get the following compile error when > CONFIG_NO_HZ is NOT configured on 2.6.19.1-rt14: does -rt15 work any better?

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: > > i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch > > that uses the kbuild "menuconfig" feature to make numerous entries > > under the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. > > Works for me,

[DLM] Fix compile warning [1/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From c80e7c83d56866a735236b45441f024b589f9e88 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:31:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] fix compile warning This patch fixes a compile warning in lowcomms-tcp.c indicating that kmem_cache_t is deprecated. Sign

bcm43xx not properly working with 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread t u
Hi, I filed this to the bugzilla, but all the documentation I read about the kernel recommends posting to the mailing lists so here I go: I'm using Ubuntu 6.06 and after booting with the 2.6.19.1 kernel from kernel.org, the wireless card that uses bcm43xx driver does not work properly. It fails w

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-18 Thread Bernd Petrovitsch
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 21:20 +, James Porter wrote: > I think some kernel developers take to much responsibility, is there a bug in > a > binary driver? Send it upstream and explain to the user that it's a closed Plaese name them. AFAICS if there is a response, it is similar to "your kernel is

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote on 2006-12-14: > > i've posted on this before so here's a slightly-updated patch that > > uses the kbuild "menuconfig" feature to make numerous entries under > > the Device drivers menu selectable on the spot. > > Works for me,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 18 December 2006 08:52, Karel Zak wrote: > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). Fork? Are you saying that you just didn't take over maintainership and now we will have two versions of util-linux!? :/ >

[GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 1003f06953472ecc34f12d9867670f475a8c1af6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 10:16:25 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix Kconfig Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Here is a patch to fix up the Kconfi

[GFS2 & DLM] Pull request

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Please consider pulling the following two compile fixes for GFS2/DLM, Steve. -- The following changes since commit d1998ef38a13c4e74c69df55ccd38b0440c429b2: Ben Collins: ib_verbs: Use explicit i

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 > Andrei Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file > > content corruption. If I can help you further debug the problem tell me > >

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Brendan Scott
> It's just that I'm so damn tired of this whole thing. I'm tired of > people thinking they have a right to violate my copyright all the time. > I'm tired of people and companies somehow treating our license in ways > that are blatantly wrong and feeling fine about it. Because we are a > loose ba

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
On Monday 18 December 2006 10:33, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. > > This project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, > > sync with actual

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 12:00 +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 01:38 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:19:04 +0200 > > Andrei Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I tried latest git with the patch from this email and it still get file > > > content

Re: s2disk curiosity :)

2006-12-18 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 10:36:24 +0100 Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It depends on the BIOS. Many BIOSes have a setting where you can set the > "power fail mode" to "on", "off" or "as before". Ok, I've found the BIOS setting: Restore on AC Poer Loss = {Power Off, Power On, Last State}.

[PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Remove Kconfig comparisons of the form FUBAR || FUBAR=n, since they appear to be superfluous. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- based on what i read in kconfig-language.txt, it would *appear* that those comparisons are redundant, but i'm willing to be convinced otherwi

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. This fixes drivers/connector/connector.c to cope... Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:24AM +, David Woodhouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. > > This

Re: [PATCH 1/2] WorkStruct: Add assign_bits() to give an atomic-bitops safe assignment

2006-12-18 Thread David Miller
From: David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 08:56:24 + > On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > This uses "atomic_long_t" for the workstruct "data" field, which shares > > the per-cpu pointer and the workstruct flag bits in one field. > > This fixes

Re: [PATCH 2/2] cciss: fix XFER_READ/XFER_WRITE in do_cciss_request

2006-12-18 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Dec 15 2006, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote: > Patch 2 of 2 > > This patch fixes a stupid bug. Sometime during the 2tb enhancement I ended up > replacing the macros XFER_READ and XFER_WRITE with h->cciss_read and > h->cciss_write respectively. It seemed to work somehow at least on x86_64 and >

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:50:43 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Nick Piggin wrote: I can't see how that's exactly a problem -- so long as the page does not get reclaimed (it won't, because we have a ref on it) then all that matter

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: fix email for S3C2410 and S3C2440

2006-12-18 Thread Ben Dooks
Change the email address for the S3C2410 and S3C2440 maintainer. The old addresses have been deleted due to spam issues. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc1/MAINTAINERS2006-12-17 23:04:58.0 + +++ linux-2.6.20-rc1-fix2/MAINTAINERS 2006-12-18 10:2

Re: [PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-18 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:14:01AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Remove Kconfig comparisons of the form FUBAR || FUBAR=n, since they > appear to be superfluous. config FOO tristate 'foo' depends on BAR || BAR=n is not superfluous. The allowed states for FOO with the above co

Re: [PATCH] microcode: Fix mc_cpu_notifier section warning

2006-12-18 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Jean, Ok, your patch is correct, although I assume you realize that it does nothing --- both the function and the data it operates on are inside CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU and checking include/linux/init.h I see that __cpuinitdata is nothing in this case. E.g. msr_class_cpu_notifier in the msr dri

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-18 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 18/12/06, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Catalin Marinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could also use a simple allocator based on alloc_pages since > kmemleak doesn't track pages. [...] actually, i'm quite sure we want to track pages later on too, any reason why kmemleak shouldnt

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Dec 14 2006 09:52, Chris Wedgwood wrote: >>On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 05:38:27PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> >>> Yes, EXPORT_SYMBOL_INTERNAL would make a lot more sense. >> >>A quick grep shows that changing this now would require updating >>near

[PATCH] watchdog: cleanup s3c2410_wdt probe and release

2006-12-18 Thread Ben Dooks
Cleanup the s3c2410_wdt driver's exit point by using labels instead of multiple returns. Also remove the checks for the resources having been allocate in the exit, as we will now either have fully allocated or not allocated the resources at-all. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -

Re: [PATCH] Remove logically superfluous comparisons from Kconfig files.

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:14:01AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Remove Kconfig comparisons of the form FUBAR || FUBAR=n, since they > > appear to be superfluous. > > config FOO > tristate 'foo' > depends on BAR || BAR=n > > is not supe

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:22:42 +1100 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Yes I could believe it the corruption is caused by something else >>completely. > > > Think so. We do have a problem here, but only on threaded apps, I believe. > rtorrent doesn't appear to be thre

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
> OK, I'll try this on a ext3 box. BTW, what data mode are you using ext3 > in? > ordered > > Also, for testings sake, could you give this a go: > It's a total hack but I guess worth testing. > > --- > mm/rmap.c |2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > Index: linux-2.6-

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Matthias Koenig
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This >> project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). >> >> The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, sync >> with actual distributions an

Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Things we can say without being hypocrites and without getting into legal theory: Kernel modules without source, or that don't have a GPL compatible license are inconsiderate and rude. Please don't be rude. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-git4: drivers/connector/connector.c doesn't build due to work_struct changes

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 23:48 +0100, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > CC [M] drivers/char/hangcheck-timer.o > CC drivers/clocksource/acpi_pm.o > LD drivers/clocksource/built-in.o > CC [M] drivers/connector/cn_queue.o > CC [M] drivers/connector/connector.o > drivers/connector/connecto

Re: [GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Dec 18 2006 09:57, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM > tristate "GFS2 DLM locking module" >- depends on GFS2_FS >+ depends on GFS2_FS && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) What is this supposed to do? IPV6 || IPV6=n is a tautology AFAICS. -`J' -- - T

2.4.28: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) ?

2006-12-18 Thread rrcwjpgr
Hello, first thanks for your great support on the Linux kernel. I have a problem with kernel 2.4.28 and maybe somebody has an idea about my problem. When I type dmesg, I get this error messages: __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x1d2/0) VM: killing process python For any kind

Re: [ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng

2006-12-18 Thread Ian Kent
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2006 08:52, Karel Zak wrote: > > I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This project > > is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > Fork? Are you saying that you just didn't take over maintainers

Re: [GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 11:50 +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 18 2006 09:57, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM > > tristate "GFS2 DLM locking module" > >-depends on GFS2_FS > >+depends on GFS2_FS && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) > > What is this suppose

Re: [GFS2] Fix Kconfig [2/2]

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Dec 18 2006 09:57, Steven Whitehouse wrote: > > config GFS2_FS_LOCKING_DLM > > tristate "GFS2 DLM locking module" > >-depends on GFS2_FS > >+depends on GFS2_FS && NET && INET && (IPV6 || IPV6=n) > > What is this supposed to do? IPV6 ||

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Catalin Marinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] It could be so simple that it would never need to free any > >> pages, just grow the size as required and reuse the freed memleak > >> objects from a list. > > > >sounds good to me. Please make it a per-CPU pool. > > Isn't there a risk for

Re: amd64 agpgart aperture base value

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 06:35:30PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: > > > So, you think that the aperture moving to a different location on every > > boot is what the BIOS desires? Is it normal for it to move so much? > > Beats me. I gave up trying to understa

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> > Can we achieve smooth write times in Linux? if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the kernel will favor those. to get smooth writes you'll need to do a threaded setup where you do an msync/fdat

[PATCH] lockdep: returns after DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ONs etc.

2006-12-18 Thread Jarek Poplawski
Hello, If any of this proposals should be omitted or separated let me know. Regards, Jarek P. --- [PATCH] lockdep: returns after DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ONs etc. lockdep.c changes: - returns after DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON added in 3 places - debug_locks checking after lookup_chain_cache() added in __

OOPS: divide error while s2dsk (2.6.20-rc1-mm1)

2006-12-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
Hi. I got this oops while suspending: [ 309.366557] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... [ 309.386563] CPU 1 is now offline [ 309.387625] CPU1 is down [ 309.387704] Stopping tasks ... done. [ 310.030991] Shrinking memory... -<0>divide error: [#1] [ 310.456669] SMP [ 310.456814] last sysfs file:

Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc1 00/10] Kernel memory leak detector 0.13

2006-12-18 Thread Catalin Marinas
On 18/12/06, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Catalin Marinas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [...] It could be so simple that it would never need to free any > >> pages, just grow the size as required and reuse the freed memleak > >> objects from a list. > > > >sounds good to me. Pleas

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

2006-12-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 22:18 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > One of the touted benefits of Linux is that we run on old hardware. > > Unless the driver is demonstrably wrong (and they do become so as the > > APIs evolve) > > Sure, I expect they do

[PATCH] IA64: virt_to_page() can be called with NULL arg

2006-12-18 Thread Kirill Korotaev
[IA64] virt_to_page() cannot be called with NULL (mainstream bug) It does not return NULL when arg is NULL. Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linus-2.6.git/include/asm-ia64/pgalloc.h.orig 2006-12-18 14:59:09.

[PATCH] IA64: alignment bug in ldscript

2006-12-18 Thread Kirill Korotaev
[IA64] bug in ldscript (mainstream) Occasionally, in mainstream number of fsys entries is even. In OpenVZ it is odd and we get misaligned kernel image, which does not boot. Signed-Off-By: Alexey Kuznetsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-Off-By: Kirill Korotaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -urp ../linux-2

Re: [PATCH 4/4] Add MMC Password Protection (lock/unlock) support V8: mmc_sysfs.diff

2006-12-18 Thread Anderson Briglia
ext Russell King wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 04:13:39PM -0400, Anderson Briglia wrote: >> Implement MMC password force erase, remove password, change password, >> unlock card and assign password operations. It uses the sysfs mechanism >> to send commands to the MMC subsystem. > > Sorry, this

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Manish Regmi
On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the kernel will favor those. to get smooth writes you'll need to do a threaded setup where you do an ms

State of Serial Attached SCSI in linux?

2006-12-18 Thread Maciej Sołtysiak
Hello, I am choosing hardware for new servers that will run Linux hence I would like to ask whether current SAS support is production grade ? Any comments on the state of the thing? Best regards, Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a m

Detecting disk I/O errors

2006-12-18 Thread Olivier Galibert
Is there a way to know if there has been I/O error(s) on a specific disk or partition since boot other than parsing dmesg and hoping it's both still there and in the expected format? Of course that's if the error didn't kill the system in the first place :-) OG. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Manish Regmi wrote: On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the kernel will favor those. to get smooth writes you'll need to do a threaded se

Re: [PATCH 1/2] kill_something_info: misc cleanups

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 12/17, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> I am sitting here wondering why we bother to ignore init, as init >> is protected from all signals it doesn't explicitly setup a signal >> handler for. >> ... >> So I believe we can delete we

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Tobias Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> Your dmesg is kind of interesting: >> >> ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0 enabled(7)APIC error on CPU0: > 04(40) >> .. failed >> >> where that APIC error on CPU0 seems to be a "Send accept error" and "Send >

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:24:39PM +0545, Manish Regmi wrote: > On 12/18/06, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >if you want truely really smooth writes you'll have to work for it, > >since "bumpy" writes tend to be better for performance so naturally the > >kernel will favor those. > >

[-mm patch] kill pxa2xx Kconfig warning

2006-12-18 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:59:13PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc1/2.6.20-rc1-mm1/ > git-alsa.patch Hi, The following patch silences the following Kconfig warning: scripts/kconfig/conf -s arch/i386/Kconfig sound/soc/p

Re: Detecting disk I/O errors

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Mouw
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:05:41PM +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > Is there a way to know if there has been I/O error(s) on a specific > disk or partition since boot other than parsing dmesg and hoping it's > both still there and in the expected format? Use smartctl. It can be started in a monito

Re: [Fwd: escape key]

2006-12-18 Thread Stephen Clark
James Cloos wrote: "Jan" == Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jan> HOWEVER, unix people probably _had a reason_ to make ESC generate Jan> part of what function keys do. You are looking at it backwards. The Escape key generates an ASCII escape. The funtion keys (includi

[PATCH] incorrect direct io error handling

2006-12-18 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
This patch is result of discussion started week ago here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/11/66 changes from original patch: - Update wrong comments about i_mutex locking. - Add BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(..)) for non blkdev. - vmtruncate call only for non blockdev LOG: If generic_file_direct_write()

[patch] lockdep: also check for freed locks in kmem_cache_free()

2006-12-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
Subject: [patch] lockdep: also check for freed locks in kmem_cache_free() From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kmem_cache_free() was missing the check for freeing held locks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/slab.c |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: linux/mm/s

Re: [PATCH] Add PCI class ID for firewire OHCI controllers.

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > Pull this define out of drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c and rename to match > other PCI class defines. Committed to linux1394-2.6.git. -- Stefan Richter -=-=-==- ==-- =--=- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-18 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:59:43PM +, Alan wrote: > 3DFx invented SLI many years ago. The SLI programming information for the > 3DFx cards is public. Nvidia are a bit late to the party except on the PR > front. Well they do work differently. 3Dfx just did alternate line rendering, while nvidi

Re: Binary Drivers

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Tomas Carnecky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexey Dobriyan wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:20:58PM +, James Porter wrote: >>> For what it's worth, I don't see any problem with binary drivers from > hardware >>> manufacturers. >> >> Binary drivers from hardware manufacturers are crap. Le

[patch] lockdep: more unlock-on-error fixes

2006-12-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Jarek Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > If any of this proposals should be omitted or separated let me know. thanks for the fixes, they look good to me. I have reorganized the __lock_acquire() changes a bit. Plus i dropped the check_locks_freed() changes: there's no reason l

Re: util-linux: orphan

2006-12-18 Thread Karel Zak
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 10:33:33AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > after few weeks I'm pleased to announce a new "util-linux-ng" project. This > > project is a fork of the original util-linux (2.13-pre7). > > > > The goal of the project is to move util-linux code back to useful state, > > syn

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: >> Works for me, but I don't see a lot of benefit from it. Actually I see >> two disadvantages of the patch: > > ... snip ... > >> - There are two out-of-tree FireWire drivers for special purposes ^^

Re: Task watchers v2

2006-12-18 Thread Matt Helsley
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 13:44 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 16:07 -0800, Matt Helsley wrote: > > plain text document attachment (task-watchers-v2) > > Associate function calls with significant events in a task's lifetime much > > like > > we handle kernel and module init/exit f

[PATCH] Make JFFS depend on CONFIG_BROKEN

2006-12-18 Thread Josh Boyer
Mark JFFS as broken and provide a warning to users that it is deprecated and scheduled for removal in 2.6.21 Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index b3b5aa0..4ac367d 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1204,13 +1204,16 @@ config EFS_FS c

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

2006-12-18 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > if a tree falls in a forest but there's nobody around to hear it, does > it make a sound? > > This sort of heisenbug questions aren't solved by "nobody hears it so > lets chop down the forest to make houses out of the wood" answers... Does that mean

Re: [2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_SEAGATE driver

2006-12-18 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:48 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > if a tree falls in a forest but there's nobody around to hear it, does > > it make a sound? > > > > This sort of heisenbug questions aren't solved by "nobody hears it so > > lets chop do

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Tobias Diedrich
Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Tobias Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > >> Your dmesg is kind of interesting: > >> > >> ..TIMER: trying IO-APIC=0 PIN=0 with 8259 IRQ0 enabled(7)APIC error on > >> CPU0: > > 04(40) > >> .. failed > >> > >> where that APIC error o

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 December 2006 05:49, Andrei Popa wrote: >> OK, I'll try this on a ext3 box. BTW, what data mode are you using >> ext3 in? > >ordered > >> Also, for testings sake, could you give this a go: >> It's a total hack but I guess worth testing. >> >> --- >> mm/rmap.c |2 +- >> 1 file chan

[BUG] Linux 2.6.19.1 - "page_mapcount(page) went negative (-1)"

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I just tripped this bug when compiling xine-lib on 2.6.19.1. This is on a dual P4, SMP and HT, 2 GB RAM, compiled with gcc-4.1.1. Cheers, Chris Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1) page->flags = 14 page->count = 0 page->mapping = [ cut here ]

bug: depca_module_init() cleanup error

2006-12-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
while doing an allyesconfig bootup on a PC the depca driver triggered the crash below. Ingo --> Calling initcall 0xc1ea0506: depca_module_init+0x0/0xd7() PM: Adding info for platform:depca.0 depca: probe of depca.0 failed with error -16 PM: Removing info for platform:dep

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:24 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 18 December 2006 05:49, Andrei Popa wrote: > >> OK, I'll try this on a ext3 box. BTW, what data mode are you using > >> ext3 in? > > > >ordered > > > >> Also, for testings sake, could you give this a go: > >> It's a total hack but I

bug: crash in adummy_init()

2006-12-18 Thread Ingo Molnar
crash in adummy_init() - allyesconfig bootup. Ingo > Calling initcall 0xc1eb1f7e: adummy_init+0x0/0xb9() adummy: version 1.0 swapper/1[CPU#0]: BUG in kref_get at lib/kref.c:32 [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x34/0x4a [] show_trace+0x2c/0x2e [] dump_stack+0x2b/0x2d [] __WARN_ON

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Make entries in the "Device drivers" menu individually selectable

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > [...] > > in any event, as i mentioned earlier, i'm just trying to find a > > way to make the menu entries more obvious and more easily > > selectable, without having to enter each submenu to see what it > > represents. > [...

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Tobias Diedrich
d to version 0402. In case someone is interested, here is the diff between the dmesg from a boot with version 0402 and version 0609: (Changelogs for BIOS releases would be nice, all they say on the ASUS homepage is "support for new processors"...) --- dmesg-notimes-20061218-2.6.20-rc1

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Neuer
On 12/17/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Linking does have one thing that it implies: it's maybe a bit "closer" relationship between the parts than "mkisofs" implies. So there is definitely a higher _correlation_ between "derived work" and "linking", but it's really a correlation,

Re: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work

2006-12-18 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Tobias Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Could you try removing the clear_IO_APIC_pin from try_io_apic_pin. >> >> This isn't a complete fix but I believe for your hardware it will >> fix the problem and it points at what the real fix is. >> >> Not properly progr

Re: [linux-pm] OOPS: divide error while s2dsk (2.6.20-rc1-mm1)

2006-12-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
Hi, On Monday, 18 December 2006 12:20, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi. > > I got this oops while suspending: > [ 309.366557] Disabling non-boot CPUs ... > [ 309.386563] CPU 1 is now offline > [ 309.387625] CPU1 is down > [ 309.387704] Stopping tasks ... done. > [ 310.030991] Shrinking memory... -<0>

Re: ieee1394 in 2.6.20-rc1 (was Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc1)

2006-12-18 Thread Stefan Richter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 20:05, Stefan Richter wrote: >>What's missing in our implementation is that the use count of ohci1394 >>goes up too once a "high-level driver" uses resources of a host driven >>by ohci1394. > > This needs some tlc then I assume? Yes. It's now logge

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 December 2006 10:32, Peter Zijlstra wrote: [...] >> >> I've not run a torrent app here recently. Should this patch be >> applied to a plain 2.6-20-rc1 before I do run azureas or similar apps? > >depends on what the blue frog does, if it uses MAP_SHARED like rtorrent >does then yeah, p

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