Re: [PATCH 4 of 4] Introduce aio system call submission and completion system calls

2007-01-31 Thread Andi Kleen
Zach Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This finally does something useful with the notion of being able to schedule > stacks as fibrils under a task_struct. Again, i386-specific and in need of > proper layering with archs. > > sys_asys_submit() is added to let userspace submit asynchronous sys

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-01-31 Thread Len Brown
On Tuesday 30 January 2007 04:26, Andrew Morton wrote: > Len, what was in that merge anyway? Lots of renaming and shuffling things > around - the sorts of things which are safe as long as they compile OK. But > was there much substantive material in there as well? The big thing was the new tabl

Re: Google Earth displays improperly - 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Engelhardt
> > When I update my kernel to 2.6.20-rc6, I find I can not move the map smoothly > in the Google Earth (V4). > I do not try any test on this issue. just put it to maillist. More info please, my magic sphere is defunct. * reinstall your binary blob in case you use nvidia/ati and mak

Re: [PATCH] make iunique use a do/while loop rather than its obscure goto loop

2007-01-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:45:54AM -0500, Jeffrey Layton wrote: > While working on a case, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique > ought to be cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch > does that, turning the strange goto loop into a do/while. > > Signed-off-by:

Re: [Ksummit-2007-discuss] Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 10:48:45AM -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, OK, but the next question is that is some form of panel of > outsiders still a useful feature? > > Previous panels we've done have been: > > * Device Drivers - Inputs from vendors trying to get code into the >

Re: Google Earth displays improperly - 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Airlie
When I update my kernel to 2.6.20-rc6, I find I can not move the map smoothly in the Google Earth (V4). I do not try any test on this issue. just put it to maillist. What graphics card? Dave. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > [Added linux-pm to the Cc list, because I'm going to talk about things that > I know only from reading the code.] > > On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 17:50, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2007 17:32 schrieb Rafael J. Wysoc

Re: System crash after "No irq handler for vector" linux 2.6.19

2007-01-31 Thread Eric W. Biederman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have in interesting update, at less I suppose I have. It was, at least as another data point. > I do not know very well what happens with irq stuff migrating shared irq, but > I > suppose this has something to do with this crash. The fact the irq was shared shou

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 09:33 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Generally, you are safe if your driver only calls wake_up() from a process > > context, but not from .resume() or .suspend() routines (or from an > > unfreezeable kernel

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Of course, that used to also be the claim by all the people who > thought we couldn't do native kernel threads for "normal" threading > either, and should go with the n*m setup. Shows how much they knew > ;^] > > But I've certainly _person

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:40, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 09:33 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Generally, you are safe if your driver only calls wake_up() from a process > > > context, but not from .

Re: [ANN] Userspace M-on-N threading model implementation. Alpha release.

2007-01-31 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 01:16:22PM -0800, Kaz Kylheku ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > > I described in details why and how M:N model better, and its drawbacks > > include all issues mentioned by Ulrich Drepper, but nevertheless its > > advantages are far too superiour than th

Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [RFC, PATCH 1/4] Add support to OProfile for profiling Cell BE SPUs -- update

2007-01-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:57:26AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:49 -0800, Carl Love wrote: > > Christoph: > > > > In our earlier work on the PPU profiling patch, Benjamin Herrenschmidt > > said that we should remove macros that are only used once and just put > >

Re: [PATCH 06/23] timekeeping: create kernel/time/timekeeping.c

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Move the generic timekeeping code from kernel/timer.c to > kernel/time/timekeeping.c. [...] please lets not do this just yet. While i have no problems with the change in theory, the time code is in high flux and it's easier to keep things sorted if

Re: question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 09:49 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > On Wednesday, 31 January 2007 09:40, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 09:33 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:32, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > Generally, you are safe if your

Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Andi Kleen
Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair > that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from > kernel development never to be seen again? Doing a from-scratch rewrite of floppy.c only supporting new hardware a

Re: [patch] suspend debugging: simulate suspend-to-RAM

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Will it work with netconsole too? COM port is often missing in notebooks > > today. > > It will work with some luck with firescope (in the worst case you > might need to disable suspend in ochi1394). Ma

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31 Jan 2007 11:08:14 +0100, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > What? Throw a fresh-faced newbie instantly into the tar-pit of despair > that floppy.c is? Do you want everyone just to run screaming from > kernel development never to be seen again? D

fs/ufs/inode.c:817: warning: array subscript is above array bounds

2007-01-31 Thread d binderman
Hello there, I just tried to compile Linux kernel 2.6.19.2 with the new GNU C compiler version 4.3 snapshot 20070126. The compiler said fs/ufs/inode.c:817: warning: array subscript is above array bounds The source code is for (i = 0; i < (UFS_NDADDR + UFS_NINDIR); i++) ufs_

Re: [patch] suspend debugging: simulate suspend-to-RAM

2007-01-31 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 10:12, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Will it work with netconsole too? COM port is often missing in notebooks > > > today. > > > > It will work with some luck with firescop

[patch] update for (kbuild: correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files)

2007-01-31 Thread Oleg Verych
kbuild: finally correctly skip tilded backups in localversion files Signed-off-by: Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Final addition. Why i want to maximize usage of shell, rather, than `make'? Just because i think, it's more portable, clear way. Thanks. --- linux-2.6.20-rc6/Makefile~4tild

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Trent Waddington
On 1/31/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sounds like a fun little project. I'll bite. Let me know when you have something and I'll go buy those floppies, test it and fix a bug or two if I find 'em. Trent - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: Rewriting floppy.c was Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 31/01/07, Trent Waddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/31/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sounds like a fun little project. I'll bite. Let me know when you have something and I'll go buy those floppies, test it and fix a bug or two if I find 'em. Sure. Will do. Thanks. --

Re: [PATCH 07/23] clocksource: rating sorted list

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Converts the original plain list into a sorted list based on the clock > rating. Later in my tree this allows some of the variables to be > dropped since the highest rated clock is always at the front of the > list. This also does some other nice th

Re: [linux-pm] question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Yes, it will. The process freezer can only return success if there are no > > more > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Otherwise it fails (after a timeout). > > So, this means, on suspend(): > > 1. Don't worry about TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE > 2. Do worry about TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE > We have to

Re: O_DIRECT question

2007-01-31 Thread Michael Tokarev
Phillip Susi wrote: [] > You seem to have missed the point of this thread. Denis Vlasenko's > message that you replied to simply pointed out that they are > semantically equivalent, so O_DIRECT can be dropped provided that O_SYNC > + madvise could be fixed to perform as well. Several people inclu

BUG: soft lockup on 2.6.16-xenU kernel

2007-01-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
Just a little mail for your information. Just got this from a kernel running in a Xen virtual machine : BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Pid: 0, comm: swapper EIP: 0061:[] CPU: 0 EIP is at 0xc01013a7 EFLAGS: 0246Not tainted (2.6.16-xenU-ibmx #2) EAX: EBX: 0

C header files for vmware

2007-01-31 Thread Philippe Dhont \(Sea-ro\)
hello, i downloaded latest kernel 2.6.19.2 and installed it and it works fine. Now i am trying to install vmware and it asks the location of the directory of the C header files. So i pointed it to my download/install directory /data/kernel/2.6.19.2/linux-2.6.19.2/include/ and i get the error t

Re: [PATCH 08/23] clocksource: drop duplicate register checking

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is something Thomas already dropped, [...] (i think you forgot to Cc: Thomas here, nor is this something that Thomas' change dropped.) > [...] and I'm just sticking with that .. If you register your > clocksource _twice_ your kernel will likel

[PATCH][Trivial] Remove duplicate listing of Cris arch from README

2007-01-31 Thread Jesper Juhl
Hi Linus, Mikael Pettersson pointed out to me that a recent patch of mine (commit 620034c84d1d939717bdfbe02c51a3fee43541c3), that made some corrections to the README file, accidentally listed the Cris architecture twice. Whoops. This removes the duplicate. Patch against current git tree. Sig

Re: [PATCH 09/23] clocksource: add block notifier

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adds a call back interface for register/rating change events. This is > also used later in this series to signal other interesting events. This patch adds: > +#define CLOCKSOURCE_NOTIFY_REGISTER 1 > +#define CLOCKSOURCE_NOTIFY_RATING2 > +#defin

Re: [linux-pm] question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 10:36 schrieb Pavel Machek: > Hi! > > > > Yes, it will. The process freezer can only return success if there are > > > no more > > > TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE tasks. Otherwise it fails (after a timeout). > > > > So, this means, on suspend(): > > > > 1. Don't worry abou

Re: [linux-pm] question on resume()

2007-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > So, this means, on suspend(): > > > > > > 1. Don't worry about TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE > > > 2. Do worry about TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE > > > We have to cease IO and must not call wake_up_interruptible() > > > > "cease IO"? No, I believe it is enough not to start new I/O. Userspace > > is froze

Re: [PATCH] Add "is_power_of_2" checking to log2.h.

2007-01-31 Thread Vegard Nossum
On Tue, January 30, 2007 3:12 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >>> Why the qualifier? Zero *is* not a power of 2, is it? > > No, it is not: > > In[1]:= Solve[2^n == 0, n] > > Out[1]= {} > > So says Mathematica5. As a side note, I would just like to point out that Mathematica does not deal w

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > Change breaking that was 'introduce suspend early to fix suspend on > > mac mini', by Linus, IIRC. So no, it is not easy to revert this one. > > But it's easy to fix it. Either drivers need suspend routines that Yes, that's right. It is easy to fix, but not as easy as "just revert". > c

Re: [PATCH] pipefs unique inode numbers

2007-01-31 Thread Kirill Korotaev
Linus, >>Also, that patch would break many 32-bit programs not compiled with large >>offsets when run in compatibility mode on a 64-bit kernel. If they were to >>do a stat on this inode, it would likely generate an EOVERFLOW error since >>the pointer address would probably not fit in a 32 bit fiel

[Patch] ia64 enable singlestep on system call

2007-01-31 Thread bibo,mao
hi, As is pointed out in http://www.gelato.org/community/view_linear.php?id=1_1036&from=authors&value=Ian%20Wienand#1_1039, if single step on break instruction, the break fault has higher priority than the single-step trap. When the break fault handler is entered, it advances the IP by 1 instruc

Reiserfs and MMAP (was: How many people are using 2.6.16?)

2007-01-31 Thread Bron Gondwana
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > reiserfs: > commit de14569f94513279e3d44d9571a421e9da1759ae > [PATCH] resierfs: avoid tail packing if an inode was ever mmapped > backport to 2.6.16 required Which would explain the "notail" I've been careful to cargo-cult into every

[PATCH] tty: cleanup release_mem

2007-01-31 Thread Pekka J Enberg
From: Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> release_mem contains two copies of exactly the same code. Refactor these into a new helper, release_tty. The only change in behaviour is that the driver reference count is now decremented after the master tty has been freed instead of before. [EMAIL P

Re: [PATCH 10/23] clocksource: remove update_callback

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uses the block notifier to replace the functionality of > update_callback(). update_callback() was a special case specifically > for the tsc, but including it in the clocksource structure duplicated > it needlessly for other clocks. Firstly, it thi

Re: [PATCH] Add "is_power_of_2" checking to log2.h.

2007-01-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Vegard Nossum wrote: > On Tue, January 30, 2007 3:12 pm, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > >>> Why the qualifier? Zero *is* not a power of 2, is it? > > > > No, it is not: > > > > In[1]:= Solve[2^n == 0, n] > > > > Out[1]= {} > > > > So says Mathematica5. > > As a side note,

Re: [PATCH 0 of 4] Generic AIO by scheduling stacks

2007-01-31 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 19:02 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Btw, this is also something where we should just disallow certain system > calls from being done through the asynchronous method. Does that mean that doing an AIO-disabled syscall will wait for all in- flight AIO syscalls to finish ?

remove_proc_entry and read_proc

2007-01-31 Thread Duncan Sands
Can read_proc still be executing when remove_proc_entry returns? In my driver [*] I allocate some data and create a proc entry using create_proc_entry. My read method reads from my allocated data. When shutting down, I call remove_proc_entry and immediately free the data. If some call to read_pr

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-31 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Is there any hardware independent alternative to turn off USB devices? > Would you test a patch for autosuspension of hid devices? Hi Oliver, do you have such patch already? I would also like to see it; if it looks OK, I will push it to -mm through

2.6.19.2 oops after resume from ram (corruption?)

2007-01-31 Thread Mike Galbraith
Greetings, I received the below upon first poke of firefox icon after a resume. See attachment (evolution refuses to inline it). BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0002 printing eip: c109a7cf *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linke

Re: [PATCH] Fix /sys/device/.../power/state regression

2007-01-31 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Mittwoch, 31. Januar 2007 11:55 schrieb Jiri Kosina: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > > Is there any hardware independent alternative to turn off USB devices? > > Would you test a patch for autosuspension of hid devices? > > Hi Oliver, > > do you have such patch already? I wo

Re: [PATCH 11/23] clocksource: atomic signals

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modifies the way clocks are switched to in the timekeeping code. The > original code would constantly monitor the clocksource list checking > for newly added clocksources. I modified this by using atomic types to > signal when a new clock is added.

Re: [PATCH 12/23] clocksource: add clocksource_get_clock()

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One new API call clocksource_get_clock() which allows clocks to be > selected based on their name, or if the name is null the highest rated > clock is returned. this one (and the dependent APIs utilizations) look a step in the right direction to me

Re: [PATCH 13/23] timekeeping: move sysfs layer/drop API calls

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This moves the timekeeping sysfs override layer into timekeeping.c and > removes the get_next_clocksource and select_clocksource functions, and > their component variables, since they are no longer used. please do these two changes in at least two s

Re: [PATCH 14/23] clocksource: increase initcall priority

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -module_init(init_acpi_pm_clocksource); > +/* > + * This clocksource is removed from the clocksource_initcall > + * macro since it's mandatory for it to be in fs_initcall as the > + * highest initcall level, or else it doesn't work properly with > + *

PROBLEM: ahci SATA with Intel ESB2 on 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-31 Thread James Ray
All, I have tried to follow http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html as closely as possible below. Hope this helps someone pin-point the problem and hopefully provide a fix. I am willing to try testing things out on this system if its of any help. [1.] One line summar

[PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi, I would like to hear your opinions about the patchset below (updated version compared to yesterday, lkml added to the CC list). The Cell Broadband Engine contains a 64-bit PowerPC core with 2 hardware threads (called PPEs) and 8 Synergistic Processing Engines (called SPEs). When booti

Re: [PATCH 16/23] clocksource: arm update for new flags

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update ARM for new flags. > > Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > - .flags = CLOCK_SOURCE_IS_CONTINUOUS, see my general objection to this change (under the [PATCH 22/23] subject), but even looking at the pure patch note

Re: PROBLEM: ahci SATA with Intel ESB2 on 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
James Ray wrote: [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Been having problems with the AHCI driver for this new server for quite some time now, it slowly seems to be getting better as the version numbers increase (2.6.15 seemed fine, though I didn't test much, 2.6.1[7-8] was unusable

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Alan
> Well, I have a long standing issue with pata_ali not detecting CD-ROM in DMA > mode. When I rarely watch DVD I rather boot into legacy IDE kernel ... There is a general problem with some ATAPI devices and the probe logic currently. The old IDE code has some workarounds that the new libata layer

Re: [PATCH 0/7] RFC: Cell SPE logos

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > I attached a PNG version of the helper penguin logo for reference. Of course I forgot the attachment... Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- Sony Network and Software Technology Center

Re: [PATCH 0/4] coredump: core dump masking support v2

2007-01-31 Thread Kawai, Hidehiro
Hi, Robin Holt wrote: >>>Can you make this a little more transparent? Having a magic bitmask does >>>not seem like the best way to do stuff. Could you maybe make a core_flags >>>directory with a seperate file for each flag. It could still map to a >>>single field in the mm, but be broken out fo

[PATCH] x86-64: define dma noncoherent API functions

2007-01-31 Thread Jeff Garzik
x86-64 is missing these: Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/dma-mapping.h b/include/asm-x86_64/dma-mapping.h index be9ec68..49dbab0 100644 --- a/include/asm-x86_64/dma-mapping.h +++ b/include/asm-x86_64/dma-mapping.h @@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ static inline int

Try to fill route cache

2007-01-31 Thread Markus Wenke
Hi, I try to test a programm, that manages ca. 12 connections at the same time. Now I want to test it with a full route cache. I can only test it from some Test-PC's. So the route cache ist nearly empty all the time. I tried to fill the route cache with pktgen amongst others with the append

[PATCH 1/7] fbdev: Avoid vertical overflow when making space for the logo

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
fbcon_prepare_logo(): Avoid vertical overflow when making space for the logo Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c |9 +++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- ps3-linux-2.

[PATCH 2/7] fbdev: fb_do_show_logo() updates

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
fb_do_show_logo() updates: - Use width and height of the passed image instead of the global variable fb_logo - Explicitly pass the number of logos to draw Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/fbmem.c | 34

[PATCH 6/7] fbdev: SPE helper penguin logo

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Add the SPE helper penguin logo Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/logo/Makefile |2 drivers/video/logo/logo_spe_clut224.ppm | 283 include/linux/linux_logo.h

[PATCH 3/7] fbdev: extract fb_show_logo_line()

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Extract the code to draw one line of logos into fb_show_logo_line() Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/fbmem.c | 39 +++ 1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) -

[PATCH 4/7] fbdev: move logo externs to header file

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Move the external declarations for the various linux logo structures to . As a consequence, I had to remove the `const', as `const' is incompatible with `__initdata'. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/prom_init.c |3 --- drivers/video/logo/logo.c

Re: [PATCH 23/23] clocksource tsc: add verify routine

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've included this as another user of the clocksource interface. I > don't see a usage for this across all achitectures. So a fully generic > version isn't needed. well, this implementation is buggy in at least two ways: firstly, it allows a circul

[PATCH 7/7] Cell: Draw SPE helper penguin logos

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Let spu_management_ops.enumerate_spus() return the number of found SPEs and use that information to draw some little helper penguin logos. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spu_base.c |7

[PATCH 5/7] fbdev: Add fb_append_extra_logo()

2007-01-31 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Add fb_append_extra_logo(), to append extra lines of logos below the standard Linux logo. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/video/fbmem.c | 50 + include/linux/linux_

Re: [PATCH 01/23] clocksource: drop clocksource-add-verification-watchdog-helper-fix.patch

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Drop. i'm summarily replying to your 4 'Drop' patches: what you didnt explain is /why/ you dropped these patches. I.e. why you think they are bad and how you think your solution is better. Without doing such analysis you shouldnt just be dropping p

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Hi, I'd really love if the same offer was extended to GPL out-of-tree driver trees. There are many out-of-tree drivers (ivtv, lirc, various webcam drivers, enhanced USB keyboard handlers...) with merging not planified or taking ages. The associated hardware is useful enough someone wrote a drive

Re: [patch-mm] dynticks: Fix one off jiffy update

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sigh. /me wanted to be too clever and needs to order more brown > paperbags now. > > The rework of the jiffy update code introduced a one off error, which > led to a one off accounting error for last_jiffy_update. This made > jiffies lag behind.

RE: fsync occasionally very slow

2007-01-31 Thread Matthew Kirk
>>> Regarding the long fsyncs, here's a trace... >>> >>> I upgraded to a more recent kernel - 2.6.18.6 - and ran it on a >>workstation. >>> This particular box has In this case the elevator is CFQ. >>> >>> This sample came from a stall that lasted about 2.5 minutes(!) - the longest >>> one I've s

[PATCH] Centralize the selection for debugging semaphores.

2007-01-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Centralize the kernel config option for debugging semaphores and modify the macro for frv to use that config option instead. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- at the moment, two architectures have support for debugging semaphores: alpha (with a local Kconfig.debug opt

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-01-31 Thread David Hollis
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 17:41 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > I think this is a quite fair criticism, and I would love to see > someone > step up and help with this sort of organization. > > For example, I didn't know that XGI graphics specs were available at > all, otherwise it might have been som

Re: [PATCH 0/8] readahead updates

2007-01-31 Thread martin
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 16:02 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: > Andrew, > > Here are more updates for adaptive readahead. > > It's not likely to have more big changes, so the next plan is to convert some > accounting items to the statistics infrastructure by Martin Peschke. > [Martin: Sorry for the long

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the selection for debugging semaphores.

2007-01-31 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 31/01/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Centralize the kernel config option for debugging semaphores and modify the macro for frv to use that config option instead. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [..] +config DEBUG_SEMAPHORE + bool "Semaphore debu

[BUG]: 2.6.19.2: Weird serial core issue

2007-01-31 Thread Aubrey Li
I insert one printk into drivers/serial/serial_core.c: uart_set_termios() to describe the issue. static void uart_set_termios(struct tty_struct *tty, struct termios *old_termios) { snip unsigned int cflag = tty->termios->c_cflag; BUG_ON(!kernel_locked()); +++printk("new_term

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-01-31 Thread Tilman Schmidt
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:25:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:16:43 +0100 > Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am 30.01.2007 23:18 schrieb Maciej Rutecki: >> > Second problem, power button doesn't work. When I pressed it, I has this >> > error: >> > >> > ACPI Error

Re: No mptable found (Tyan h1000E)

2007-01-31 Thread Jan Kasprzak
Len Brown wrote: : This board appears to have no APIC (MADT) table -- which is what Linux uses to enumerate processors : in ACPI mode. (doesn't have MPS either, but in ACPI mode you wouldn't use it anyway). : : Are there any BIOS SETUP settings for enabling SMP or ACPI features? : In t

Re: How many people are using 2.6.16?

2007-01-31 Thread David Chinner
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:02:37AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:36:48PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > The issue was somewhat confused by people certainly *reporting* it for > > older kernels. Also, as part of the dirty bit cleanups and sanity > > checkingwe did actual

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-01-31 Thread Maciej Rutecki
Andrew Morton napisaƂ(a): > OK, thanks. That might be due to the time-management updates as well. > I'll see if I can reproduce this. > > If you're keen, you could test just 2.6.19-rc6+origin.patch+git-acpi.patch > from > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc6/

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-01-31 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Tilman Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:25:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 02:16:43 +0100 Tilman Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 30.01.2007 23:18 schrieb Maciej Rutecki: Second problem, power button doesn't work. When I pressed it, I has this error

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Karsten Wiese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Similar weirdness here on rc6-mm2 and rc6-rt*: resume from disk waits > unduly long. i'm wondering whether the jiffies update fix from Thomas fixes this bug for you. If not then do you have a serial console enabled? > Some waiting times from rc6-r

Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: cpu hotplug support

2007-01-31 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:56:16 - > Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > +static void decache_vcpus_on_cpu(int cpu) > > +{ > > + struct kvm *vm; > > + struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; > > + int i; > > + > > + spin_lock(&kvm_lock); > > + list_f

Re: [PATCH 5/5] KVM: Host suspend/resume support

2007-01-31 Thread Avi Kivity
Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:20, Nigel Cunningham wrote: Hi. On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:57 +, Avi Kivity wrote: Add the necessary callbacks to suspend and resume a host running kvm. This is just a repeat of the cpu hotplug/unplug work. Signed-off-by: Avi

Re: [PATCH 4/5] KVM: cpu hotplug support

2007-01-31 Thread Avi Kivity
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:56:16 - Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +static void decache_vcpus_on_cpu(int cpu) +{ + struct kvm *vm; + struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu; + int i; + + spin_lock(&kvm_lock); +

2.6.20-rc6 ramdisk problem

2007-01-31 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi, I want to create a large ramdisk - 1GB CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_COUNT=1 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_BLOCKSIZE=1024 kernel comman line: ramdisk_size=100 $ LANG="c" sudo /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/ram0 mke2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006) Filesystem label= OS type: Linu

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the selection for debugging semaphores.

2007-01-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 31/01/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Centralize the kernel config option for debugging semaphores and > > modify the macro for frv to use that config option instead. > > > > Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the selection for debugging semaphores.

2007-01-31 Thread Michal Piotrowski
On 31/01/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 31/01/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Centralize the kernel config option for debugging semaphores and > > modify the macro for frv to use that config option inst

Re: [PATCH 3/3] cxacru: Store all device status information and report it when atm_proc_read is called.

2007-01-31 Thread Duncan Sands
Hi Simon, > +static int cxacru_proc_read(struct usbatm_data *usbatm_instance, > + struct atm_dev *atm_dev, loff_t * pos, char *page) > +{ > + struct cxacru_data *instance = usbatm_instance->driver_data; > + u32 *cxinf = instance->cxinf_status; > + int left = *pos; if there was no

Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup release_mem

2007-01-31 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Looks good to me. I'd have only kept a pointer to the struct module, but that shouldn't matter for the actual code generated. - 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/major

Re: [PATCH] Centralize the selection for debugging semaphores.

2007-01-31 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > On 31/01/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote: > > > > > On 31/01/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Centralize the kernel config option for debugging semaphor

Re: [PATCH 2/3] cxacru: Poll for device status more frequently.

2007-01-31 Thread Duncan Sands
> The device is only polled for status every 5 seconds yet status updates > occur as often as every second - when the line is down the status changes > between "down" and "attempting to activate" every 2 seconds. How much overhead does polling involve? [A particularly problematic case is when p

How to locate struct file * from a bio?

2007-01-31 Thread Eddie Pettis
Short question: Is it possible to locate the struct file * associated with a bio? If so, how? Longer version: I am working on a project that requires measuring the popularity of each file in a filesystem. I have made several attempts to locate all the file reads by grepping for ->readpage() a

Re: How to locate struct file * from a bio?

2007-01-31 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Eddie Pettis wrote: > Short question: Is it possible to locate the struct file * associated > with a bio? If so, how? Obviously impossible. For one thing, there might very well be no inode, let alone struct file, associated with bio in question (e.g. f

Re: [PATCH 1/3] usbatm: Allow sub-drivers to handle calls to atm_proc_read.

2007-01-31 Thread Duncan Sands
> usbatm only outputs basic information via the per-device /proc/net/atm/ file, > this patch allows the device specific USB ATM drivers to replace the > atm_proc_read function with their own. I'm still meditating on this. The reason I didn't do this originally is because of potential problems w

Re: Linux 2.6.19.2: Freeze with CIFS mount

2007-01-31 Thread Eric Lacombe
First of all, thank you for your answer. On Wednesday 31 January 2007 04:51:35 Steven French wrote: > The cifs entries in the dmesg log do not indicate any errors, much less > show the cause of this > particular problem. ok. > > The repeated entry: > CIFS VFS: Send error in SETFSUnixInfo

Re: How to locate struct file * from a bio?

2007-01-31 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 02:44:23PM +, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 09:34:54AM -0500, Eddie Pettis wrote: > > Short question: Is it possible to locate the struct file * associated > > with a bio? If so, how? > > Obviously impossible. For one thing, there might very well be no in

Linux 2.6.16.39

2007-01-31 Thread Adrian Bunk
Location: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ git tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git RSS feed of the git tree: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.16.y.git;a=rss Changes since 2.6.16.38: Adrian Bunk (4): [Bluet

Re: [PATCH 1/2] core scheduler changes

2007-01-31 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:33:17AM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > This patch does several things: > > - Introduces the notion of control window (current set at 1 > sec - ideally the window size should be adjusted based on > number of users to avoid rapid context switch

Re: [PATCH 06/23] timekeeping: create kernel/time/timekeeping.c

2007-01-31 Thread Daniel Walker
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:59 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Move the generic timekeeping code from kernel/timer.c to > > kernel/time/timekeeping.c. [...] > > please lets not do this just yet. While i have no problems with the > change in theory, the

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