Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 00:39:20 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > >On 2007.01.20 22:34:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >>Robert Hancock wrote: > >>>change in 2.6.20-rc is either causing or triggering this problem. It > >>>would be useful if you could try git bisect between 2.6.19 and

[Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
This hopefully is pretty much it for 1.5.0 modulo potential bugs especially in newer topics. Aside from many bugfixes, changes since -rc1 are: - 'git log' is now reflog aware, and 'git show-branch' which knew about reflog already has become much more useful with reflogs. - the porcelain/

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-21 Thread Ivan Ukhov
Could I ask you what precisely is the driver you are talking about doing? Why is it not going to be a part of mainline kernel (i.e. being able to be put on blacklist easily). It's a tiny driver and it hardy can be a part of the mainline kernel because of its useless for everyone but me, bes

Re: Realtime-preemption for 2.6.20-rc5 ?

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 00:39 +0100, Pavel Pisa wrote: > Hello Sunil and Ingo, > > Date: 2007-01-20 02:56:40 GMT (20 hours and 26 minutes ago) > > 2007-01-20, Sunil Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I did refer the same. Is it necessary to use only base kernel, say > > 2.6.19? Or, can I go ahead

Re: unable to mmap /dev/kmem

2007-01-21 Thread Hugh Dickins
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > On 1/19/07, Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That said, it's really confusing to pass a virtual address as an > offset because: > >(a) mmap() has always worked with offset not addresses; mmap maps some offset down a backing object to so

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-21 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/21/07, Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The overhead of timer interrupts at this low clockrate is significant so I recommend to minimize the timer interrupt rate as far as possible. This is really a tradeoff between latency and overhead and matters much less on hardcores which run at

Re: [patch] remove __devinit markings from rtc_sysfs_add_device()

2007-01-21 Thread Alessandro Zummo
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:11:02 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the sysfs interface from the rtc framework seems to incorrectly label the add > function with __devinit ... the proc and dev interfaces do not have this > label on their add functions > > ive been trying to develop a

[PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Introduce the TRUE and FALSE boolean macros so that everyone can stop re-inventing them, and remove the one occurrence in the source tree that clashes with that change. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- once this patch is applied, others can remove all of the superfluo

Re: [patch] KVM: do VMXOFF upon reboot

2007-01-21 Thread Avi Kivity
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So i think we should do the patch below - this makes reboot work even in atomic contexts. [...] hm, this causes problems if KVM is not active on a VT-capable CPU: even on CPUs with VT supported, if a VT context is not actual

2.6.19.2 -> 2.6.20-rc5 libata regression

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
2.6.19.2: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: WDC WD740GD-00FLC0: 27C 2.6.20-rc5: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD740GD-00FL: S.M.A.R.T. not available - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at ht

Re: 2.6.19.2 -> 2.6.20-rc5 libata regression

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 05:16:21AM -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > 2.6.19.2: > # hddtemp /dev/sda > /dev/sda: WDC WD740GD-00FLC0: 27C > > 2.6.20-rc5: > # hddtemp /dev/sda > /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD740GD-00FL: S.M.A.R.T. not available Subject: `hddtemp' no longer works References : http://lkml.org/

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Bodo Eggert
Tony Foiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "David" == David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just last night I formatted some new "500GB" drives, and they > eventually came back with 465GB as the displayed capacity. Wouldn't > it make more sense to display that as "465GiB"? [...] > Dav

Bug with video cards.

2007-01-21 Thread paul.van-de-velde
Dear reader, I would like to report a bug with video cards of which I guess it is located in the kernel (but not certain). It is only happening in FC6 not in Suse 10.2). However I like FC6 better as Suse 10.2 and I would like to see this bug fixed. I tried to install a bluecherry PV149 video cap

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Bodo Eggert [Sun, Jan 21 2007, 11:40:40AM]: > Tony Foiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "David" == David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Just last night I formatted some new "500GB" drives, and they > > eventually came back with 465GB as the displayed capacity. Wouldn

Re: [-mm patch] drivers/mtd/ubi/: possible cleanups

2007-01-21 Thread Artem Bityutskiy
On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 19:40 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: This patch contains the following possible cleanups: - make needlessly global code static - remove the following unused variable: - debug.c: alloc_prints Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I've committed this. BTW: Do you rea

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-21 Thread Kevin D. Kissell
> > The overhead of timer interrupts at this low clockrate is significant > > so I recommend to minimize the timer interrupt rate as far as possible. > > This is really a tradeoff between latency and overhead and matters > > much less on hardcores which run at hundreds of MHz. For power sensitive

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it would help people to try out and find wrinkles before the real thing for me to cut a tarball and a set o

Re: KVM: vmwrite error in

2007-01-21 Thread Avi Kivity
Thomas Meyer wrote: Hi. I have a few of these entries in my log buffer: vmwrite error: reg 6802 value d19e0464 (err 26626) [...] Look's like a stack trace, but no oops. What does this mean? this happens with kernel 2.6.20-rc4-gd39c9400 (two commits missing before rc5, nothing kvm related, s

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-21 Thread Michael Tokarev
Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Saturday 20 January 2007 21:55, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> Denis Vlasenko wrote: >>> On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: example, which isn't quite possible now from userspace. But as long as O_DIRECT actually writes data before returning f

XFS or Kernel Problem / Bug

2007-01-21 Thread Stefan Priebe - FH
Hello! I've 3 Servers which works wonderful with 2.6.16.X (also testet the latest 2.6.16.37) but with 2.6.18.6 i get these errors: "general protection fault: [#1]" "Modules linked in:" "CPU:0" "EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI" "EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.18.6 #1) " "EIP is at xfs_bmap_

Re: Realtime-preemption for 2.6.20-rc5 ?

2007-01-21 Thread Pavel Pisa
On Sunday 21 January 2007 10:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > I preffer > > to stay on "stable" kernel on boxes which I use daily until next stable > > appears. > > This is a very weird statement, the -rt kernel includes so much > experimental work it cannot be called 'stable' by a long shot. > > Sure

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-21 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Ivan Ukhov wrote: > It's a tiny driver and it hardy can be a part of the mainline kernel > because of its useless for everyone but me, beside I don't want to make > someone modify the kernel code. Then, when this is a non-standard situation anyway, would calling hid_disco

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-21 Thread Pavel Machek
HiQ > this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically > it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is > detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be > successively > grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such

[PATCH] drivers/scsi/BusLogic: Replace 'boolean' by 'bool'

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Knutsson
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- "sed s/boolean/bool/" and remove "typedef bool boolean". Minor comment-alignment fixes. BusLogic.c includes FlashPoint.c. Compile-tested with "allyes" and "allmod" on i386. BusLogic.c | 42 BusLogic.h | 300

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Power S3 Resume Optimization Patch. Request for Comment

2007-01-21 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > [RFC][PATCH] Power S3 Resume optimisation > Here is a simple patch for optimising the S3 resume. With this > patch the resume time is 0.85. Given the fact that device initialisation > on the resume takes almost 70% of time, By executing the whole > "device_resume()" function on a sepe

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Junio ! On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of > surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old > git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it > would help people to

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Bill Lear
Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? Bill On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 07:42:56 (-0600) Bill Lear writes: >On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 03:20:06 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >>BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >>surface cha

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: BUG: lock held at task exit time! (pm_mutex){--..}, at: [] enter_state+0x3f/0x170

2007-01-21 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 16 January 2007 23:29, Len Brown wrote: > On Tuesday 16 January 2007 13:22, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > I have Toshiba Portege 4000 that almost always hangs dead resuming from > > STR. This was better before 2.6.18, since then STR is unusabl

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Bill Lear
On Sunday, January 21, 2007 at 03:20:06 (-0800) Junio C Hamano writes: >BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old >git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it >would help people to try out

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-21 Thread Ivan Ukhov
Jiri Kosina wrote: Then, when this is a non-standard situation anyway, would calling hid_disconnect() for the usb_interface of your driver be enough? I can't even imagine how to call this very function. Could you give me an example? After all, this function and friends of its aren't EXPORTED

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:05:57AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:54:56AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:36:44PM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > > > Now he must be careful about avoiding busy loops in the rest of the > > > program, or he will

SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Paolo Ornati
Sorry for starting a new thread, but I've deleted the messages from my mail-box, and I'm sot sure it's the same problem as here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/14/108 Today I've decided to try XFS... and just doing anything on it (extracting a tarball, for example) make my SATA HD go crazy ;)

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Benny Amorsen
> "BE" == Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BE> 1) This change isn't nescensary - any sane person will know that BE> it's not a SI unit. You wouldn't talk about megabananas == 100 BE> bananas and expect to be taken seriously. What about megaparsec? I have also seen graphs delimited

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:50:32PM +0100, Grzegorz Ja?kiewicz wrote: > funny, how even very fast box can be useless for such activities with modern > kernels, such as linux. After all, serial ports don't require too much > horsepower to be highly accurate. > >From designer perspective, I would rath

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Heikki Orsila
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:40:40AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > 1) This change isn't nescensary - any sane person will know that it's not a >SI unit. You wouldn't talk about megabananas == 100 bananas and >expect to be taken seriously. I've met quite a few non-sane persons then. I find

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 03:20:06AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of >> surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old >> git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it >> woul

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread thunder7
From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 > > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back > to 2.6.17.13 as it does not recognize the NICs in my machine correctly and > the Alsa Intel HD Audio driver has bugs etc, I guess

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 > > > > > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back > > to 2.6.17.13 as it does not recognize the NICs in my machine correctly

Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
Security fixes since 2.6.16.37: - CVE-2006-4814: Fix incorrect user space access locking in mincore() - CVE-2006-5173: i386: save/restore eflags in context switch - CVE-2006-5749: Call init_timer() for ISDN PPP CCP reset state timer - CVE-2006-5755: x86_64: Don't leak NT bit into next task - CVE-20

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread S.Çağlar Onur
21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > RSS feed of the git tree: > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but still all RSS feeds gaves "Internal Server Error" -- S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Leon Woestenberg
David, On 1/20/07, David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [Leon said:] > One way of getting rid of those inconsistencies would be to follow IEC > 60027-2 for those cases where SI is inappropriate. Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB flash cards coul

Re: Possible ways of dealing with OOM conditions.

2007-01-21 Thread Rik van Riel
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:36:03PM -0500, Rik van Riel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 01:53:15PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Even further development of such idea is to prevent such OOM condition at all -

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-21 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > It's a tiny driver and it hardy can be a part of the mainline kernel > > because of its useless for everyone but me, beside I don't want to > > make someone modify the kernel code. > Then, when this is a non-standard situation anyway, would calling >

Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Hancock
Paolo Ornati wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:29:32 +0100 Paolo Ornati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for starting a new thread, but I've deleted the messages from my mail-box, and I'm sot sure it's the same problem as here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/14/108 Today I've decided to try X

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Chr
On Sunday, 21. January 2007 09:36, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 00:39:20 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Ah, right... sata_nv.c of course interacts with the outside world, d'oh! > > Up to now, I only got bad kernels, latest tested being: > 94fcda1f8ab5e0cacc381c5ca1cc9aa6ad523576 > > Wh

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-21 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 05:03 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > Introduce the TRUE and FALSE boolean macros so that everyone can > stop re-inventing them, and remove the one occurrence in the source > tree that clashes with that change. > If you're going to introduce true and false macros, you sho

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 18:34:40 +0100, Chr wrote: > On Sunday, 21. January 2007 09:36, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > On 2007.01.21 00:39:20 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > > > Ah, right... sata_nv.c of course interacts with the outside world, d'oh! > > > > Up to now, I only got bad kernels, latest tested bei

Re: How to use an usb interface than is claimed by HID?

2007-01-21 Thread Ivan Ukhov
> .. which wouldn't help you either, supposing that you don't want to touch > the kernel sources at all, because this function is unexported and static. > > So I think that there is no straightforward way, sorry. > > Is this a device that doesn't exist anywhere else than on your table? I > still th

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Björn Steinbrink
On 2007.01.21 09:36:18 +0100, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 00:39:20 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > > Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > >On 2007.01.20 22:34:27 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > >>Robert Hancock wrote: > > >>>change in 2.6.20-rc is either causing or triggering this problem. It > >

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-21 Thread Richard Knutsson
Nicholas Miell wrote: On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 05:03 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Introduce the TRUE and FALSE boolean macros so that everyone can stop re-inventing them, and remove the one occurrence in the source tree that clashes with that change. If you're going to introduce true

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 > > > > > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back > > to 2.6.17.13 as it does not recognize the NICs in my machine correctly

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread thunder7
From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:48:07AM -0500 > > What about all of the changes with NAT? I see that it operates on > level-3/network wise, I enabled that and backward compatiblity support as > well, but when my iptables rules kick in, it says no such drive

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:48:07AM -0500 > > > > What about all of the changes with NAT? I see that it operates on > > level-3/network wise, I enabled that and backward compatiblity support as > > we

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible (multi-threaded USB no go)

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > > > Good luck, > > Jurriaan > > -- > > > What does ELF stand for (in respect to Linux?) > > ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in > > the early 1970's. In constrast, a.out is a misspelling of the Fren

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 04:10:58PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > you're right, I used wrong term to describe. > But the problem still exists. Nowadays it should be possible to run many > serial ports fully accurate "at the same time". It is also true that the > same problem exists in windows,

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:05:57AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hmmm the busy loop is dirty as hell, even on SMP, but it works ;-) > I remember is was possible to reprogram the RTC to interrupt at 8192 Hz. > If the task is running with real time prio, it should get this accuracy, > or am I mistake

[2.6 patch] cleanup include/linux/xattr.h

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
- reduce the userspace visible part - fix the in-kernel compilation Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Jan 2007 include/linux/Kbuild |2 +- include/linux/xattr.h |8 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux

[2.6 patch] cleanup include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
- #ifdef guard this header for multiple inclusion - adjust the #include's to what is actually required by this header - remove an unneeded #ifdef - #endif comments Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Jan 2007 include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h |

[BUG] eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-21 Thread Andrei Popa
Hello, It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. ierdnac ~ # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 19690962 21390 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 34666 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 12 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9:

Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Paolo Ornati
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:32:02 -0600 Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like what you're getting is an actual NCQ write timing out. > That makes the bisect result not very interesting since obviously it > wouldn't have issued any NCQ writes before NCQ support was > implemented. S

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 08:05:52PM +0100, Grzegorz Jaśkiewicz wrote: > > But on the other hand, PC nowadays are capable of handling RT tasks + > running multiple programs in background, but OS has to be build from ground > up to handle such conditions (I guess most RTOSes are justa about that, but

Re: [PATCH] Introduce simple TRUE and FALSE boolean macros.

2007-01-21 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 05:03 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > Introduce the TRUE and FALSE boolean macros so that everyone can > > stop re-inventing them, and remove the one occurrence in the > > source tree that clashes with that change. > If you'r

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Robert Hancock
Björn Steinbrink wrote: All kernels were bad using that approach. So back to square 1. :/ Björn OK guys, here's a new patch to try against 2.6.20-rc5: Right now when switching between ADMA mode and legacy mode (i.e. when going from doing normal DMA reads/writes to doing a FLUSH CACHE) we ju

Re: [RFCLUE3] flagging kernel interface changes

2007-01-21 Thread William D Waddington
Jesper Juhl wrote: On 15/11/06, William D Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried submitting a patch a while back: "[PATCH] IRQ: ease out-of-tree migration to new irq_handler prototype" to add #define __PT_REGS to include/linux/interrupt.h to flag the change to the new interrupt handler p

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > David Schwartz wrote: > > Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB > > flash > > cards could be advertised as having 268.4MB? A 512MB RAM stick is > > mislabelled and could correctly say 536.8MB? That's just plain crazine

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-21 Thread Denis Vlasenko
On Sunday 21 January 2007 13:09, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > On Saturday 20 January 2007 21:55, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >> Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >>> On Thursday 11 January 2007 18:13, Michael Tokarev wrote: > example, which isn't quite possible now from userspace. Bu

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Yeah, and Ethernet speed is measured in Mbps, not Mibps. Indeed. -hpa - 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 P

Re: SATA exceptions with 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-21 Thread Chr
On Sunday, 21. January 2007 19:01, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > On 2007.01.21 18:34:40 +0100, Chr wrote: > > I run those two in parallel: > while /bin/true; do ls -lR / > /dev/null 2>&1; done > while /bin/true; do echo 255 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; sleep 1; done > > Not sure if running them in paral

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Junio C Hamano
Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > increase the number of testers. > ... > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > get you a bunch of testers and newcomers. This will give the new do

[2.6 patch] process include/linux/if_{addr,link}.h with unifdef

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
After commit d3dcc077bf88806201093f86325ec656e4dbfbce, include/linux/if_{addr,link}.h should be processed with unifdef. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/Kbuild |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/include/linux/K

[2.6 patch] net/sunrpc/: cleanups

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
This patch contains the following cleanups: - proper prototypes in header files for global variables and functions - make the following needlessly global struct static: - auth_gss/gss_spkm3_seal.c: struct cast5_cbc_oid - make the following needlessly global variables static: - xprtsock.c: xprt_

[-mm patch] remove one remaining "#define BCM_TSO 1"

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 10:26:27PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.20-rc3-mm1: >... > git-netdev-all.patch >... > git trees >... Since it's no longer used, this "#define BCM_TSO 1" can now be removed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.20-rc4-mm1/

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Junio C Hamano wrote: One worry I had about releasing git-1.5.0-rc2-1.rpm and friends just like the "official" ones was that people might have scripts to automate downloading & updating of packages, and they may not like to get "beta" installed for them. I wonder if kernel.org machines are also

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anything you can do to make tester's life easier will always slightly > > increase the number of testers. > > ... > > Pre-release tar.gz and rpms coupled with a freshmeat announcement should > > get you a bunc

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Horst H. von Brand
Junio C Hamano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, as the upcoming v1.5.0 release will introduce quite a bit of > surface changes (although at the really core it still is the old > git and old ways should continue to work), I am wondering if it > would help people to try out and find wrinkles before

2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this happens every time! Anything to try? Any other output needed? Can someone shed some light on this situ

[2.6 patch] make seagate_st0x_detect() static

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
seagate_st0x_detect() can become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This patch was already sent on: - 6 Jan 2007 --- linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1/drivers/scsi/seagate.c.old 2007-01-05 22:53:13.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1/drivers/scsi/seagate.c 2007-01-05 22:57:

[2.6 patch] SCSI seagate.c: remove SEAGATE_USE_ASM

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
Using assembler code for performance in drivers might have been a good idea 15 years ago when this code was written, but with today's compilers that's unlikely to be an advantage. Besides this, it also hurts the readability. Simply use the C code that was already there as an alternative. Signe

[RFC: 2.6 patch] remove the broken SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Adrian Bunk
The SCSI_ACORNSCSI_3 driver: - has been marked as BROKEN for more than one year and - is still marked as BROKEN. Drivers that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seem to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is stil

Re: SATA exceptions triggered by XFS (since 2.6.18)

2007-01-21 Thread Chr
On Sunday, 21. January 2007 20:25, Paolo Ornati wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:32:02 -0600 > Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks like what you're getting is an actual NCQ write timing out. > > That makes the bisect result not very interesting since obviously it > > wouldn't

Re: Serial port blues

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
H. Peter Anvin wrote: So write a kernel driver. It's not like we're locking anybody out. There is certainly enough Amateur Radio/Linux crossover that a kernel enhancement to support Amateur Radio is going to get frowned upon. Argh! Not only did the message go out twice, but that should h

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
S.Çağlar Onur wrote: 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: RSS feed of the git tree: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but still all RSS feeds gaves "Internal Server Error" We're aw

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:37:24PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: > 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: > > RSS feed of the git tree: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r > > I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but still all

Re: Linux 2.6.16.38

2007-01-21 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ralf Baechle wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 06:37:24PM +0200, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: 21 Oca 2007 Paz tarihinde şunları yazmıştınız: RSS feed of the git tree: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=r I already mailed to webmaster _at_ kernel.org 2 days ago but s

Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 19 2007 10:11, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically >> it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is >> detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be >> successively >> grab

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
>How fast is your Ethernet port? 100Mbps or 95.37Mbps? Same lie like with harddrives. It's around 80, not 100. But it depends on how you look at it. 80 for Layer3, possibly a little more for Layer2/1. -`J' -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

status of: tasklet_unlock_wait() causes soft lockup with -rt and ieee1394 audio

2007-01-21 Thread Pieter Palmers
Dear all, What is the status with respect to this problem? I see that in the current -rt patch the problematic code piece is different. I personally haven't tried to reproduce this myself on a more recent kernel, but I just got a report from one of our users who experienced the same problem w

Re: [BUG] eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-21 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: > It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. > Hi, The e100_resume() function should be calling netif_device_detach and free_irq. Could you try the following (compile tested) patch? Regards, Frederik Signed-off

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 21 2007 17:06, Heikki Orsila wrote: > >> 2) No sane person would say kibibyte as required by the standard. You'd need >>a sppech defect in order to do this, and a mental defect in order to try. >>So why should anybody adhere to the rest of this bullshit? > >I think I'm not sane then

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 21 2007 00:14, Ralf Baechle wrote: >On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:42:37PM +, sathesh babu wrote: > >> I am trying to run Linux-2.6.18.2 ( with preemption enable) >> kernel on FPGA board which has MIPS24KE processor runs at 12 >> MHZ. Programmed the timer to give interrupt at every 10

Re: Weird XFS slowness

2007-01-21 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Jan 21 2007 02:29, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: >After switching ext3 to xfs, i realize system starts to _really_ >unresponsive and extracting tarballs, Please have a look at http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/22/278 -`J' --

Re: [PATCH] Undo some of the pseudo-security madness

2007-01-21 Thread Samium Gromoff
At Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:16:04 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:37 +0300, Samium Gromoff wrote: > > This patch removes the dropping of ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE upon execution of > > setuid > > binaries. > > > > Why? The answer consists of two parts: > > > > Firstly, there are val

[PATCH 0/4] atl1: Attansic L1 ethernet driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
This is the latest submittal of the patchset providing support for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter. This patchset is built against kernel version 2.6.20-rc5. This version incorporates all comments from: Christoph Hellwig: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/11/43 http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/

[PATCH 1/4] atl1: Build files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the build files for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Kconfig | 11 ++

[PATCH 2/4] atl1: Header files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains the header files needed by the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- atl1.h| 288 +++

[PATCH 4/4] atl1: Ancillary C files for Attansic L1 driver

2007-01-21 Thread Jay Cliburn
From: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch contains auxiliary C files for the Attansic L1 gigabit ethernet adapter driver. Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- atl1_ethtool.c | 436 +++

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? Direct your browser to http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d482af51429f9464125621b805eb5f BTW please don't top post. It uses bandwidth unnecessarily (both in terms

Re: [Announce] GIT v1.5.0-rc2

2007-01-21 Thread Jakub Narebski
Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Bill Lear wrote: > >> Also (apologies for the ignorance), how do I get the 1.5.0-rc2 release? > > Direct your browser to > > http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=snapshot;h=eaf6459e4d482af51429f9464125621b805eb5f Better URL is http://repo.or.cz/w/g

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.{h,c}: remove kernel 2.4 code

2007-01-21 Thread Samuel Ortiz
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:56:13PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch removes kernel 2.4 compatibility code. Looks correct to me, thanks. > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Samuel Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > drivers/net/irda/vlsi_ir.c | 16 --

Re: [BUG] e100: eth0 appers many times in /proc/interrupts after resume

2007-01-21 Thread Auke Kok
Frederik Deweerdt wrote: On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 09:17:41PM +0200, Andrei Popa wrote: It's the 10th resume and in /proc/interrupts eth0 appers 10 times. The e100_resume() function should be calling netif_device_detach and free_irq. Could you try the following (compile tested) patch? I just f

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