Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 December 2006 15:41, Linus Torvalds wrote: >On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> But at the same time, it's interesting that it still happens when we >> try to re-add the dirty bit. That would tell me that it's one of two >> cases: > >Forget that. There's a third case, which i

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > > > This should be fairly easy to test: just change every single ", 1" case in > > the patch to ", 0". > > > > What happens for you in that case? > > I have file corruption. Magic. And btw, _thanks_ for being such a great tester. So now I have one m

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Scott Preece
On 12/18/06, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Static vs dynamic matters for whether it's an AGGREGATE work. Clearly, > static linking aggregates the library with the other program in the same > binary. There's no question about that. And that _does_ have meaning from > a copyright law

Re: kernel-parameters.txt: expand APIC

2006-12-18 Thread Dan Jacobson
>> kernel-parameters.txt says what ACPI and APM stand for, but not APIC. J> Advanced PIC, most likely. Also say what PIC means. J> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIC will tell more. Not when one is having booting problems and can't connect their modem. >> Also there give some basic apm related para

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

2006-12-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Monday, 18 December 2006 18:02, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > 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 > >> [

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-18 Thread David Chinner
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Haar János wrote: > From: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The NBD serves through eth1, and it is on the CPU3, but the ide0 is on > the > > > CPU0. > > > > I'd say your NBD based XFS filesystem is having trouble. > > > > > > Are you using XFS on a

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

2006-12-18 Thread Scott Preece
On 12/18/06, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In other words, it means that we are pushing a agenda that is no longer neither a technical issue (it's clearly technically _worse_ to not be able to do something) _nor_ a legal issue. So tell me, what does the proposed blocking actually do

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

2006-12-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:38 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Monday, 18 December 2006 18:02, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Monday, 18 December 2006 12:20, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > >> Hi. > > >> > > >> I got this oops while suspending: > > >> [ 309.3

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > No idea whether this can be a data point or not, but > here it goes... my P2P box is about to turn 5 days old > while running nonstop one or both of aMule 2.1.3 and > BitTorrent 4.4.0 on ext3 mounted w/default options > on both IDE and USB disks.

Re: bio pages with zero page reference count

2006-12-18 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 05:21:09PM -0500, Ed L. Cashin wrote: > (This email is a followup to "Re: [PATCH 2.6.19.1] fix aoe without > scatter-gather [Bug 7662]".) > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 12:53:00PM -0500, Ed L. Cashin wrote: > ... > > This patch eliminates the offset data on cards that don't su

Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell

2006-12-18 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Saturday 16 December 2006 09:03, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > @@ -273,10 +284,13 @@ > if (ret) > goto error; > } > +   atomic_inc(&memory_hotadd_count); >   > /* call arch's memory hotadd */ > ret = arch_add_memory(nid, start, siz

Re: [PATCH] ppc : Use syslog macro for the printk log level.

2006-12-18 Thread David Rientjes
Remove the remaining hard-coded printk levels. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/arm/lib/io-acorn.S |4 +++- arch/arm/vfp/vfphw.S|8 +--- arch/arm26/lib/io-acorn.S |4 +++- drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_bsdcomp.c |4 ++-- drivers/net/

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 23:44, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:38 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Monday, 18 December 2006 18:02, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > On Monday, 18 December 2006 12:20, Jiri Slaby w

Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Hansen
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:54 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_MEMMAP_INIT > #define memmap_init(size, nid, zone, start_pfn) \ > - memmap_init_zone((size), (nid), (zone), (start_pfn)) > + memmap_init_zone((size), (nid), (zone), (start_pfn), 1) > #endif This is what I was

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

2006-12-18 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 00:09 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Monday, 18 December 2006 23:44, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 23:38 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Monday, 18 December 2006 18:02, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > > > Rafael J. Wysocki wr

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

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:38:23 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like we have a problem with slab shrinking here. > > > > > > Could you please use gdb to check what exactly is at shrink_slab+0x9e? > > > > Sure, but not till Friday, sorry (I am away). > > I reproduce

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Char: isicom, fix probe race

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:09:48 +0100 (CET) Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > isicom, fix probe race > > Fix two race conditions in the probe function with mutex. > > ... > > static int __devinit isicom_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, > const struct pci_device_id *ent) > { > + static

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 18, 2006, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> > In other words, in the GPL, "Program" does NOT mean "binary". Never has. >> Agreed. So what? How does this relate with the point above? > Here's how it relates: > - if a program is n

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Junio C Hamano writes: > Excuse me, but are you two discussing "ld"? ;-) Oops. Yes. :) Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the

Re: [patch] debugging feature: SysRq-Q to print timers

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:56:58 +0100 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -> > Subject: [patch] debugging feature: SysRq-Q to print timers > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > add SysRq-Q to print pending timers and other timer info. I must say that I've never needed thi

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 11:36 PM Subject: Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug? > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Haar

Re: [patch] debugging feature: SysRq-Q to print timers

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:31:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:56:58 +0100 > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -> > > Subject: [patch] debugging feature: SysRq-Q to print timers > > From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > add SysRq

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:32 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > > > > > This should be fairly easy to test: just change every single ", 1" case > > > in > > > the patch to ", 0". > > > > > > What happens for you in that case? > > > > I have file corrupti

Re: [PATCH 2/5] Char: isicom, fix probe race

2006-12-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 02:09:48 +0100 (CET) > Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> isicom, fix probe race >> >> Fix two race conditions in the probe function with mutex. >> >> ... >> >> static int __devinit isicom_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, >> const struct pci_devi

[PATCH] procfs: export context switch counts in /proc/*/stat

2006-12-18 Thread David Wragg
The kernel already maintains context switch counts for each task, and exposes them through getrusage(2). These counters can also be used more generally to track which processes on the system are active (i.e. getting scheduled to run), but getrusage is too constrained to use it in that way. This p

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: > "Derivation" has nothing to do with "linking". Either it's derived or it > is not, and "linking" simply doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether > it's static or dynamic. That's a detail that simply doesn't have anythign > at all to do with "derivative work". There is

Re: [PATCH] RTC classdev: Add sysfs support for wakeup alarm (r/w)

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello David, Monday, December 18, 2006, 6:28:58 AM, you wrote: > On Sunday 17 December 2006 11:30 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: >> Small battery-powered systems, like PDAs, need a way to be >> suspended most of the time and woken up just from time to time to >> process pending tasks. > Sounds

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > There is in fact a pretty substantial non-technical difference between > static and dynamic linking. If I create a binary by static linking > and I include some library, and I distribute that binary to someone > else, the recipient doesn't need to h

Re: [patch] debugging feature: SysRq-Q to print timers

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:45:49 -0500 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:31:03PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:56:58 +0100 > > Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -> > > > Subject: [patch] debugging feature: S

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > > > There's exactly two call sites that call "page_mkclean()" (an dthat is the > > only thing in turn that calls "page_mkclean_one()", which we already > > determined will cause the corruption). > > > > Can you just TOTALLY DISABLE that case for the

[PATCH 1/1] Char: isicom, correct probing/removing

2006-12-18 Thread Jiri Slaby
isicom, correct probing/removing Don't forget to decrease card_count in fail paths and in remove function. Also null board->base in such cases to point out, that this structure is unused and thus can be reassigned. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- commit ab95fdae2db7f8fded639796

Re: [patch 2/2] agpgart - Remove unnecessary flushes.

2006-12-18 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 07:24:37PM +0100, Thomas Hellström wrote: > This patch is to speed up flipping of pages in and out of the AGP > aperture as needed by the new drm memory manager. > > A number of global cache flushes are removed as well as some PCI posting > flushes. > The following

Re: Open letter to Linux kernel developers (was Re: Binary Drivers)

2006-12-18 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 18/12/06, Hannu Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Marek Wawrzyczny wrote: > Dear Linux Kernel ML, > > I am writing as a Linux-only user of over 2 years to express my concern with > the recent proposal to block out closed source modules from the kernel. > > While, I understand and share you

Re: [solved] Yenta Cardbus allocation failure

2006-12-18 Thread Markus Rechberger
I went on with investigating that problem and found the problem, though I'm not sure if that solution is acceptable.. seems like the memory range gets preallocated in setup-bus.c, and CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE defines that size. I changed #define CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE(32*1024*1024) to #define CARDBUS_

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:45 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > > > > No idea whether this can be a data point or not, but > > here it goes... my P2P box is about to turn 5 days old > > while running nonstop one or both of aMule 2.1.3 and > > BitTorren

Re: [PATCH] Fix sparsemem on Cell

2006-12-18 Thread KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:16:20 -0800 Dave Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > enum context > { > EARLY, > HOTPLUG > }; I like this :) Thanks, -Kame - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush_workqueue()

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:34:16 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remove ->remove_sequence, ->insert_sequence, and ->work_done from > struct cpu_workqueue_struct. To implement flush_workqueue() we can > queue a barrier work on each CPU and wait for its completition. Seems sensible. I

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

2006-12-18 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:59:13 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: Got this on booting up on x86_64 test box. Didn't happen on next boot. BUG: scheduling while atomic: hald-addon-stor/0x2000/3300 Call Trace: [] show_trace+0x34/0x47 [] dump_stack+0x12/0x17 [] __sched_text_start+0x5d/0x7ba [] __cond

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > the corrupted file has a chink full with zeros > > http://193.226.119.62/corruption0.jpg > http://193.226.119.62/corruption1.jpg Thanks. Yup, filled with zeroes, and the corruption stops (but does _not_ start) at a page boundary. That _does_ look v

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:04 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > > > > > There's exactly two call sites that call "page_mkclean()" (an dthat is > > > the > > > only thing in turn that calls "page_mkclean_one()", which we already > > > determined will cau

FYI: [patch 2.6.20-rc1 0/6] I2C driver model updates, part II

2006-12-18 Thread David Brownell
This is just a heads-up to the folk who read LKML more than more specialized Linux lists ... there's work afoot to clean up the I2C core and make it fit the driver model better. (Some would say "overdue work...".) The most interesting/useful part (IMO) is summarized in the appended message; you c

Re: 2.6.20-rc1-mm1

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:29:02 -0800 Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:59:13 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote: > > Got this on booting up on x86_64 test box. > Didn't happen on next boot. > > > BUG: scheduling while atomic: hald-addon-stor/0x2000/3300 > > Call Trace:

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: > > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Paul Mackerras wrote: > > > > There is in fact a pretty substantial non-technical difference between > > static and dynamic linking. If I create a binary by static linking > > and I include some library, and I distribute that binary to someone >

Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush_workqueue()

2006-12-18 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 12/18, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:34:16 +0300 > Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > NOTE: I removed 'int cpu' parameter, flush_workqueue() locks/unlocks > > workqueue_mutex unconditionally. It may be restored, but I think it > > doesn't make much sense, we take t

Linux 2.6.18.6

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Wright
We (the -stable team) are announcing the release of the 2.6.18.6 kernel. An assortment of important fixes with one security related fix that is associated with less common bluetooth hardware: 1dca7c28: Bluetooth: Add packet size checks for CAPI messages (CVE-2006-6106) The diffstat and short summ

Re: Linux 2.6.18.6

2006-12-18 Thread Chris Wright
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 85d8009..c8b2f7e 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 18 -EXTRAVERSION = .5 +EXTRAVERSION = .6 NAME=Avast! A bilge rat! # *DOCUMENTATION* diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/calls.S b/arch/arm/kernel/calls.

Re: libata and sata?

2006-12-18 Thread John Richard Moser
Alan wrote: >> I no longer have two kernels to test through; I can't tell if the speed >> is back or not. Nothing in dmesg tells me if SATA is using DMA or >> 32-bit IO support though, so I don't know... lack of knowledge over here >> is killing me for troubleshooting this on my own. > > The dm

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

2006-12-18 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 19 December 2006 00:17, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:38:23 +0100 > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Looks like we have a problem with slab shrinking here. > > > > > > > > Could you please use gdb to check what exactly is at shrink_slab+0x9e? >

Re: [PATCH, RFC rc1-mm1] implement flush_work()

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:17:14 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add ->current_work to the "struct cpu_workqueue_struct", it points to > currently running "struct queue_work". When flush_work(work) detects > ->current_work == work, it inserts a barrier at the _head_ of ->worklist > (a

Re: [PATCH] RTC classdev: Add sysfs support for wakeup alarm (r/w)

2006-12-18 Thread David Brownell
Hi Paul, On Monday 18 December 2006 3:58 pm, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Monday, December 18, 2006, 6:28:58 AM, you wrote: > > On Sunday 17 December 2006 11:30 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > >> Small battery-powered systems, like PDAs, need a way to be > >> suspended most of the time and woken u

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > > > > > nope, no file corruption at all. > > > > Ok. That's interesting, but I think you actually #ifdef'ed out too > > much: > > > > It was really just the _inner_ "if (mapping_cap_account_dirty(.." > > statement that I meant you should remove. >

Re: [PATCH] RTC classdev: Add sysfs support for wakeup alarm (r/w)

2006-12-18 Thread David Brownell
On Monday 18 December 2006 4:54 pm, David Brownell wrote: > > http://handhelds.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/linux/kernel26/drivers/rtc/rtc-sa1100.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6&f=h > > That patch you applied looks right to me -- why don't you forward it > to Alessandro as a bugfix for 2.6.20-rc2, and save me the

Re: [PATCH, RFC] reimplement flush_workqueue()

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:43:19 +0300 Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/18, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:34:16 +0300 > > Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > NOTE: I removed 'int cpu' parameter, flush_workqueue() locks/unlocks > > > workqueue_mutex

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:38:54AM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Does acrypto still have the same size restrictions > I ran into with the last release? Actually I do not recall what is 'size retrictions' - if you talk about possibility to use software crypto provider, wh

Re: [BUG KERNEL 2.6.20-rc1] ftp: get or put stops during file-transfer

2006-12-18 Thread Komuro
> > What network cards are in the client and the server? DL10022-based pcmcia network card(both client and server) The driver name is pcnet_cs. > Are there any error messages your client gives or in the log files? no error messages. I capture the packet of ftp transfer by ethereal. I found t

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-18 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Actually I do not recall what is 'size retrictions' - if you talk about possibility to use software crypto provider, which supports one cipher in a time, then yes, but it is intended to be used with hardware though. Otherwise I do not recall any problems pointed to me. s

Re: [ANN] Acrypto asynchronous crypto layer 2.6.19 release.

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Andreas Jellinghaus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > >Actually I do not recall what is 'size retrictions' - if you talk about > >possibility to use software crypto provider, which supports one cipher > >in a time, then yes, but it is

Re: bcm43xx: iwlist scan: "no scan results" with 2.6.19.1

2006-12-18 Thread Larry Finger
I read your message on LKML and the bugzilla entry. For best results with bcm43xx problems, please post to the bcm43xx mailing list or to the netdev mailing list (both are on the CC list here). Unfortunately, you built your 2.6.19.1 system with bcm43xx debugging disabled. It is impossible to sa

Re: [2.6 patch] kconfig: remove the unused "requires" syntax

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > Remove the note in the documentation that suggests people can use > > "requires" for dependencies in Kconfig files. > >... > > Considering that noone uses it, what about the patch

Re: [2.6 patch] kconfig: remove the unused "requires" syntax

2006-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:41:59AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > > Remove the note in the documentation that suggests people can use > > > "requires" for dependencies in K

Re: [2.6 patch] kconfig: remove the unused "requires" syntax

2006-12-18 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > p.s. i didn't look closely enough to see if your patch took out > > support for both "depends" *and* "requires". at this point, > > neither of those are necessary anymore -- it's all

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 18 December 2006 18:48, Andrei Popa wrote: >On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:32 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: >> > > This should be fairly easy to test: just change every single ", 1" >> > > case in the patch to ", 0". >> > > >> > > What happens for you i

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

2006-12-18 Thread David Rientjes
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~shrink_all_memory-fix-lru_pages-handling mm/vmscan.c > --- a/mm/vmscan.c~shrink_all_memory-fix-lru_pages-handling > +++ a/mm/vmscan.c > @@ -1484,6 +1484,16 @@ static unsigned long shrink_all_zones(un > return ret; > } > > +

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:30 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happens if you only ifdef out that single thing? > > The actual page-cleaning functions make sure to only clear the TAG_DIRTY > bit _after_ the page has been marked for writeback. Is there some ordering >

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

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:18:12 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~shrink_all_memory-fix-lru_pages-handling mm/vmscan.c > > --- a/mm/vmscan.c~shrink_all_memory-fix-lru_pages-handling > > +++ a/mm/vmscan.c > >

RE: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread David Schwartz
> > It's also not clear that an aggregate work is in fact > > a single work for any legal purpose other than the aggregator's claim to > > copyright. > Not sure what you're trying to say there - what are we talking about > here other than the copyright? We are talking about two different possibl

RE: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread David Schwartz
> For both static and dynamic linking, you might claim the output is an > aggregate, but that doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not > the output is a work based on the program, and whether the "mere > aggregation" paragraph kicks in. > > If the output is not an aggregate, which is quite

RE: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread David Schwartz
Combined responses: > So therefore I don't think you can reasonably claim that static > vs. dynamic linking is only a technical difference. There are clearly > other differences when it comes to distribution of the resulting > binaries. We're only talking about the special case of GPL'd works.

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:30 -0800 (PST) > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What happens if you only ifdef out that single thing? > > > > The actual page-cleaning functions make sure to only clear the TAG_DIRTY > > bit _af

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 16:57 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andrei Popa wrote: > > > > > > > > nope, no file corruption at all. > > > > > > Ok. That's interesting, but I think you actually #ifdef'ed out too > > > much: > > > > > > It was really just the _inner_ "if (mappi

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:44:51 +0200 Andrei Popa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:21 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:57:30 -0800 (PST) > > Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What happens if you only ifdef out that single thing? > > > >

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Andrei Popa
> > > If all of test_clear_page_dirty() has been commented out then the page > > > will > > > never become clean hence will never fall out of pagecache, so unless > > > Andrei > > > is doing a reboot before checking for corruption, perhaps the underlying > > > data on-disk is incorrect, but we c

Odd system lock up

2006-12-18 Thread Erik Ohrnberger
OK, got the 2.6.19 kernel installed and running OK, full libata wrapping of existing IDE controllers and hard disks. I'm experiencing some odd, random periodic system lockups without any sort of debugging information being captured in the system message log. Perhaps it's a hard disk that's causin

Re: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value

2006-12-18 Thread Robert Hancock
kyle wrote: Hi, Recently my mysql servershows something like: Dec 18 18:24:05 sql kernel: schedule_timeout: wrong timeout value from c0284efd Dec 18 18:24:36 sql last message repeated 19939 times Dec 18 18:25:37 sql last message repeated 33392 times from syslog every 1 or 2 days. Whe

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-18 Thread David Chinner
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:39:46AM +0100, Haar János wrote: > From: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Haar János wrote: > > > From: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Ok, I've never heard of a problem like this before and you are doing > > >

[RFC][PATCH] Fix area->nr_free-- went (-1) issue in buddy system

2006-12-18 Thread Aubrey
Hi all, When I setup two zones (NORMAL and DMA) in my system, I got the following wired result from /proc/buddyinfo. - root:~> cat /proc/buddyinfo Node 0, zone DMA 2 1 2 1 1

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread D. Hazelton
On Monday 18 December 2006 14:41, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > On Dec 17, 2006, Kyle Moffett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the other hand, certain projects like OpenAFS, while not license- > > compatible, are certainly not derivative works. > > Certainly a big chunk of OpenAFS might not be, just li

Re: [take28-resend_2->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-18 Thread Ulrich Drepper
It would help if one could actually get hold of the changes. Neither at home nor on my gmail account did I get them all. The gmane also only has 5 of the 9 mails or so. Your archive only has sources from a couple of versions back. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mounta

[PATCH] libata-scsi: ata_task_ioctl should return ATA registers from sense data

2006-12-18 Thread David Milburn
User applications using the HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl through libata expect specific ATA registers to be returned to userspace. Verified that ata_task_ioctl correctly returns register values to the smartctl application. Signed-off-by: David Milburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/drivers/ata/lib

Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

2006-12-18 Thread Hawk Xu
Hi! Our server(running Oracle 10g) is having a kernel panic problem: Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo 80582000, task 80464300) Stack: 0296 8013f325 81007f7f54d0 0100 0001 000e 8053e098 8013f3a5

Re: [take28-resend_2->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-18 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:47:21 -0800 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > It would help if one could actually get hold of the changes. > > Neither at home nor on my gmail account did I get them all. The gmane > also only has 5 of the 9 mails or so. Your archive only has sources > from a couple of versions b

[2.6 patch] powerpc: remove the broken Gemini support

2006-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 12:49:35AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > I just saw the commit message below. > > There seems to have been some although unmerged work on APUS support by > Roman, but I didn't find any recent work on bringing the GEMINI support > back into life. > > Is this a wrong impress

[-mm patch] drivers/pci/quirks.c: cleanup

2006-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - move all EXPORT_SYMBOL's directly below the code they are exporting - move all DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_*'s directly below the functions they are calling Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/pci/pci.c|4 drivers/pci/qui

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread D. Hazelton
On Monday 18 December 2006 20:35, David Schwartz wrote: > > For both static and dynamic linking, you might claim the output is an > > aggregate, but that doesn't matter. What matters is whether or not > > the output is a work based on the program, and whether the "mere > > aggregation" paragraph k

Re: GPL only modules

2006-12-18 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Static vs dynamic matters for whether it's an AGGREGATE work. Clearly, > static linking aggregates the library with the other program in the same > binary. There's no question about that. And that _does_ have meaning from > a copyright law angle, sin

unreapable zombies, maybe futex+ptrace+exit

2006-12-18 Thread Albert Cahalan
I have a fun little test program for people to try. It creates zombies that persist until reboot, despite being reparented to init. Sometimes it creates processes that block SIGKILL, sit around with pending SIGKILL, or both. You'll want: a. either assembly skills or the ability to run 32-bit x86

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix area->nr_free-- went (-1) issue in buddy system

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Aubrey wrote: Hi all, When I setup two zones (NORMAL and DMA) in my system, I got the following wired result from /proc/buddyinfo. - root:~> cat /proc/buddyinfo Node 0, zone DMA 2 1 2

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-18 Thread David Chinner
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:52:29PM +1100, David Chinner wrote: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 12:39:46AM +0100, Haar János wrote: > > From: "David Chinner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > #define POISON_FREE 0x6b > > > > > > Can you confirm that you are running with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y? > > > > Yes, i build

Re: [take28-resend_2->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-18 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:47:21PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > It would help if one could actually get hold of the changes. > > Neither at home nor on my gmail account did I get them all. The gmane > also only has 5 of the 9 mails or so. Your archive only has sources >

Re: 2.6.19 file content corruption on ext3

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Peter Zijlstra wrote: This should be safe; page_mkclean walks the rmap and flips the pte's under the pte lock and records the dirty state while iterating. Concurrent faults will either do set_page_dirty() before we get around to doing it or vice versa,

[patch] search a little harder for mkimage

2006-12-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
this small patch checks to see if `${CROSS_COMPILE}mkimage` exists and if not, fall back to the standard `mkimage` the Blackfin toolchain includes mkimage, but we dont want to namespace collide with any of the user's system setup, so we prefix it with our toolchain name -mike Check to see if the

[PATCH] noinitramfs: correct initcall return type

2006-12-18 Thread Randy Dunlap
From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Use expected function return type to fix warning. init/noinitramfs.c:42: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- init/noinitramfs.c |3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Re: [PATCH] incorrect direct io error handling

2006-12-18 Thread Dmitriy Monakhov
David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:22:44PM +0300, Dmitriy Monakhov wrote: >> diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c >> index 8332c77..7c571dd 100644 >> --- a/mm/filemap.c >> +++ b/mm/filemap.c >> @@ -2044,8 +2044,9 @@ generic_file_direct_write(struct kiocb * >

Re: RFC: PCI quirks update for 2.6.16

2006-12-18 Thread Sergio Monteiro Basto
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 00:47 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > So we have the following situation: > - 2.6.16- 2.6.16.16 : problems for Chris > (and possibly many other people) > - 2.6.16.17 - 2.6.16.35 : problems for many other people > (I remember

Re: [RFC][PATCH] Fix area->nr_free-- went (-1) issue in buddy system

2006-12-18 Thread Aubrey
Hi Nick, Thanks for your reply again, ;-). On 12/19/06, Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This should not happen because the pages are checked to ensure they are from the same zone before merging. How? page_is_buddy() only check if the buddy has the buddy flag and has the same order. Wh

OSS driver removal, 3nd round

2006-12-18 Thread Adrian Bunk
Now that the second round of removing options for OSS drivers where ALSA drivers without regressions exist for the same hardware got included in Linus' tree, it's time for a third round amongst the remaining drivers. Removing OSS drivers where ALSA drivers for the same hardware exists has two r

Re: Task watchers v2

2006-12-18 Thread Paul Jackson
Matt wrote: > - Task watchers can actually improve kernel performance slightly (up to > 2% in extremely fork-heavy workloads for instance). Nice. Could you explain why? -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Pau

Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.20

2006-12-18 Thread Nick Piggin
Dave Jones wrote: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-2) Hmm, probably happened once before, too. page->flags = 404 What's that? PG_referenced|PG_reserved? So I'd say it is likely that some driver has got its refcounting wrong. Unfortunately, this debugging output is almost usele

Re: [take28-resend_2->0 0/8] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

2006-12-18 Thread Ulrich Drepper
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: I've uploaded the latest changes to the homepage. Thanks. But could you now update the patch so that it can be compiled with the current upstream kernel? At least has problems because of file->st accesses. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Moun

Re: Linux disk performance.

2006-12-18 Thread Manish Regmi
On 12/18/06, Erik Mouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...snip...> > > But isn't O_DIRECT supposed to bypass buffering in Kernel? It is. > Doesn't it directly write to disk? Yes, but it still uses an IO scheduler. Ok. but i also tried with noop to turnoff disk scheduling effects. There was stil

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