Re: [RFC, PATCH 3/4] SoC base drivers: ASIC3 driver

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 08:09:48 +0300 Paul Sokolovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello linux-kernel, > > Note: This driver depends on ds1wm.h header, recently submitted, and which by > now should be in -mm tree. > - > > asic3_base: SoC base driver for ASIC3 chip. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Soko

[ANNOUNCE][RFC] PlugSched-6.5.1 for 2.6.21

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Williams
The main change in this version is to fix bugs introduced to SPA schedulers during modifications to handle a recent change to the scheduler driver interface to take account of recent changes to the load balancing code. This patch also includes a patch to sis900 code to enable it to boot on my

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi, On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 01:50 -0500, Marcos Pinto wrote: > I'm having the same problem. I think it has to do with timer problems... > Does /sbin/hwclock --show freeze your box? It "sometimes" works on > mine, but it more often than not locks it hard (especially as user, > not root) with no hi

Re: MADV_FREE functionality

2007-05-01 Thread Jakub Jelinek
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:18:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > In short: > > - both MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED only unmap file pages > > - after MADV_DONTNEED the application will always get back > >fresh zero filled anonymous pages when accessing the > >memory > > - after MADV_FREE th

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Rafał Bilski
Hello, >> [...] > > It seems to be repeatedly setting the same duplex setting. The closest > thing I can see in there in recent times is > 68c90166e4aaa15ddcdd4778ad30bfb8b32534be, "Add support for using MII port > with no PHY". I have this terminal only one week, so it doesn't have to be recent

Re: [PATCH] [8/30] x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu

2007-05-01 Thread Andi Kleen
> Use linux/elfnote.h? Good point. Will fix. I just copied it from i386, but it probably should be there fixed too. Actually they are not completely equivalent because the old macro generates the section name differently from the name in the payload (kernelversion, Linux). But I split that up in

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Gerdau
> Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? VMware server 1.0.2 (free edition) is working fine here with 2.6.21.1 using vmware-any-any-update109. System is Intel Core2 T7600 (x86_64) Best, Michael -- Technosis GmbH, Geschäftsführer: Michael Gerdau, Tobias Dittmar Sitz Hamburg; HR

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-05-01 Thread Rusty Russell
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 22:37 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I'm not going to worry about going farther until the patches in flight > > settle down a little bit, but this looks promising. > > > > Is there any value in adding an "early-putchar" function pointer in

Re: VMware, x86_64 and 2.6.21.

2007-05-01 Thread Nigel Cunningham
Hi. On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 09:24 +0200, Michael Gerdau wrote: > > Does anyone have VMware working on x86_64 with 2.6.21? > > VMware server 1.0.2 (free edition) is working fine here with 2.6.21.1 > using vmware-any-any-update109. > > System is Intel Core2 T7600 (x86_64) Ok. Maybe I'll try the any

Re: Linux 2.6.21: pmtmr losing time

2007-05-01 Thread Joerg Sommrey
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:38:34PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:39 +0200, Joerg Sommrey wrote: > > Here it is. Maybe this problem is related to the usage of the > > "experimental" amd76x_pm module? > > Can you please verify what happens w/o that module ? > After reboo

[WATCHDOG] patches for v2.6.22-rc1

2007-05-01 Thread Wim Van Sebroeck
Hi Linus, Please pull from 'master' branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git or if master.kernel.org hasn't synced up yet: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog.git This will update the following files: Docum

[PATCH][RFC] Allow the i386 install.sh script to try the generic installkernel.

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
Allow the install script arch/i386/boot/install.sh to fall back to try the generic "installkernel" command if a CROSS_COMPILE version isn't available. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- the rationale here: after cross-compiling the kernel for x86_64, i (accidentally) lef

Re: [patch] CFS scheduler, -v6

2007-05-01 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 03:37:47PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 05:55 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > > You'll also hit the same holes should you attempt to write such a > > modularity patch for mainline as opposed to porting current mainline to > > the driver API as-

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
Alan Cox napsal(a): >> I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by >> CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream. >> >> The issue is described here: >> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504 >> >> Debian has been shipping the following patch fro

Re: [PATCH] [8/30] x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu

2007-05-01 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Andi Kleen wrote: >> Use linux/elfnote.h? >> > > Good point. Will fix. I just copied it from i386, but it probably > should be there fixed too. > Already has been. I posted a patch a day or so ago (reposted below). > Actually they are not completely equivalent because the old macro > gen

Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default

2007-05-01 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 01 2007, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday April 30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:55:52PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > On Saturday April 28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 21:19 +020

Re: [patches] [PATCH] [21/22] x86_64: Extend bzImage protocol for relocatable bzImage

2007-05-01 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: > Well there aren't that many instructions between startup_32 and > lguest_init at the moment, but I guess if we end up going through > bzImage decompression it makes more sense... Yes, that's what I was thinking. If we boot compressed kernels in a novel environment, there's

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- pfn_valid_within

2007-05-01 Thread Andy Whitcroft
Andrew Morton wrote: > add-pfn_valid_within-helper-for-sub-max_order-hole-detection.patch > anti-fragmentation-switch-over-to-pfn_valid_within.patch > lumpy-move-to-using-pfn_valid_within.patch > > More Mel things, and linkage between Mel-things and lumpy reclaim. It's here > where the patch

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans (RE: input)

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
Dmitry Torokhov napsal(a): > On Monday 30 April 2007 19:20, Andrew Morton wrote: >> input-ff-add-ff_raw-effect.patch >> input-phantom-add-a-new-driver.patch >> > > It looks like Phanotom will not be using input layer... Yes, I have a new version, planning to test it tomorrow when I reach the de

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- pfn_valid_within

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 01 May 2007 09:11:18 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > add-pfn_valid_within-helper-for-sub-max_order-hole-detection.patch > > anti-fragmentation-switch-over-to-pfn_valid_within.patch > > lumpy-move-to-using-pfn_valid_within.patch > > > > More

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Rafał Bilski
Hello again, I have downloaded DP83815 datasheet and I see that > eth0: Wake-up event 0x20a means "broadcast received" and wakup on broadcast and unicast enabled. > eth0: Wake-up event 0x8a Above means "unicast received" and wakup on broadcast and unicast enabled. I will try to check if

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-05-01 Thread Andres Salomon
Jiri Slaby wrote: > Alan Cox napsal(a): >>> I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by >>> CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream. >>> >>> The issue is described here: >>> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504 >>> >>> Debian has been shipp

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 01 May 2007 10:23:38 +0200 Rafał Bilski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello again, > > I have downloaded DP83815 datasheet and I see that > > eth0: Wake-up event 0x20a > means "broadcast received" and wakup on broadcast and > unicast enabled. > > eth0: Wake-up event 0x8a > Above m

Re: 2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
Andrew Morton napsal(a): > I would check the anticipatory scheduler as well, please. I don't know > what no-op would do with a workload like that, but it probably isn't very > good. > > You appear to believe that it's related to the CPU scheduler? Oh, no. I have really no idea, what may cause

"partical" kthread conversion

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > macintosh-mediabay-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > macintosh-adb-convert-to-the-kthread-api.patch > macintosh-therm_pm72c-partially-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > powerpc-pseries-rtasd-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > powerpc-pserie

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- vm bugfixes

2007-05-01 Thread Nick Piggin
Andrew Morton wrote: mm-simplify-filemap_nopage.patch mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch mm-merge-populate-and-nopage-into-fault-fixes-nonlinear.patch mm-merge-nopfn-into-fault.patch convert-hugetlbfs-to-use-vm_ops-fault.patch mm-remove-legacy-cruft.patch mm-debug-c

pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch ... > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. The patch above is the removal of cardmgr support. While I'd love to see this cruft gone it definitively needs maintainer judgement on whether they time has come

pci hotplug patches

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> fix-gregkh-pci-pci-remove-the-broken-pci_multithread_probe-option.patch > remove-pci_dac_dma_-apis.patch > round_up-macro-cleanup-in-drivers-pci.patch > pcie-remove-spin_lock_unlocked.patch > cpqphp-partially-convert-to-use-the-kthread-api.patch > ibmphp-partially-convert-to-use-the-kthread

Re: "partical" kthread conversion

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 09:42:45 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 04:20:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > macintosh-mediabay-convert-to-kthread-api.patch > > macintosh-adb-convert-to-the-kthread-api.patch > > macintosh-therm_pm72c-partially-convert-to-k

cache-pipe-buf-page-address-for-non-highmem-arch.patch

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> cache-pipe-buf-page-address-for-non-highmem-arch.patch I still don't like this one at all. If page_address on x86_64 is too slow we should fix the root cause. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans -- vm bugfixes

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 01 May 2007 18:44:07 +1000 Nick Piggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mm-simplify-filemap_nopage.patch > > mm-fix-fault-vs-invalidate-race-for-linear-mappings.patch > > mm-merge-populate-and-nopage-into-fault-fixes-nonlinear.patch > > mm-merge-nopfn-into-fault.patch > > convert-hugetl

consolidate-generic_writepages-and-mpage_writepages.patch

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
> consolidate-generic_writepages-and-mpage_writepages.patch > > Might merge. I forget what happened to this. ACK from me on this one. - 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.kern

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:46:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch > > ... > > > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. > > The patch above is the removal of cardmgr support. While I'd love to > see this c

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Willy Tarreau
Hi Christoph, On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:46:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch > > ... > > > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. > > The patch above is the removal of cardmgr support. While I'd love

Re: condingstyle, was Re: utrace comments

2007-05-01 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Actually, the latter style (one condition per line and the && or || > operators appearing _before_ the conditions in subsequent lines) > is quite popular for multi-line compound conditions (well, I've seen this > in kernel/workqueue.c, kernel/stop_machine.

Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 5/1/07, Simon Arlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 30/04/07 22:17, Markus Rechberger wrote: > Trent Piepho wrote another patch for it, it just completes Uwe's patch > in the end. > From my side I do not see any problem with that patch, if someone else > has a problem with it please state out t

[PATCH] DOC: Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt

2007-05-01 Thread Tejun Heo
From: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Above and below we talk about my_midlayer_create_something, I assume that is also meant here. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentatio

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm1 BUG at kernel/sched-clock.c:175 init_sched_clock()

2007-05-01 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, Berck E. Nash wrote: > Tejun Heo wrote: > >> Hmmm... Once properly initialized, ahci is highly unlikely to cause >> runaway IRQs which results in nobody cared. It has proper IRQ mask and >> pending bits allowing the driver to reliably detect when and why the >> controller is raising inter

Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:52:43PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > Any idea which would be preferred (smb2 support as part of cifs, or as > a distinct smb2.ko module)? Separate module please. If we grow enough common code as some point we can move it into a smb_common.ko helper library, but given yo

Re: nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
apropos nfsd patches, what's the merge plans for my two export ops patch series? - 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 FAQ at http://

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 10:57:10 +0200 Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:46:23AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch > > > > ... > > > > > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send the

Re: nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 1 May 2007 10:08:43 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apropos nfsd patches, what's the merge plans for my two export ops > patch series? box:/usr/src/25/patches> grep -l '^From:.*hch' $(cat-series ../series ) dvb_en_50221-convert-to-kthread-api.patch simplify-the-stackt

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread Ben Dooks
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:08:06AM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello linux-kernel, > > > In contemporary systems, lots of functionality oftentimes handled by various > kinds of SoCs (system-on-chip), representing a number of deversified > controllers packaged in one chip. Handling them is arg

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch > > ... > > > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. > > The patch above is the removal of cardmgr support. While I'd love > to see this cruft gone it definitivel

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Pekka Enberg
On 5/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: revoke-special-mmap-handling.patch [snip] Hold. This is tricky stuff and I don't think we've seen sufficient reviewing, testing and acking yet? Agreed. While Peter and Nick have done some review of the patches, I would really like VFS ma

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:55:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:58:47 +0200 Rafał Bilski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ezri user.info kernel: eth0: DSPCFG accepted after 0 usec. > > > ezri user.notice kernel: eth0: Wake-up event 0x8a > > > ezri user.info kernel: eth0:

Re: nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:15:25AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007 10:08:43 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > apropos nfsd patches, what's the merge plans for my two export ops > > patch series? This question was directed to Neil, sorry. > box:/usr/src/2

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Critical points about kernel 2.6.21 and pseudo-authorities

2007-05-01 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 01 May 2007 04:19:41 +0400 Von: Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: Uwe Bugla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: [linux-d

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:17:28PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 5/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > revoke-special-mmap-handling.patch > > [snip] > > >Hold. This is tricky stuff and I don't think we've seen sufficient > >reviewing, testing and acking yet? > > Agreed. While P

Re: Serial 8250: clear the lsr_break_flag at open

2007-05-01 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:08:59PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote: > I think I've spotted a bug in the 8250 code, but I'm not really > sure. Yes, clearing lsr_break_flag prior to opening the port is probably a good thing. > I'm having a hard time understanding why the lsr_break_flag > is necessary.

Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module

2007-05-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Apr 30 2007 17:52, Steve French wrote: > > Now that we (Samba team) understand enough about it to implement > prototypes (there is a prototype server in Samba 4, and a userspace > client library for testing), we need to decide whether the kernel > implementation of SMB2 client should be a disti

Re: [linux-dvb] DST/BT878 module customization (.. was: Critical points about ...)

2007-05-01 Thread Uwe Bugla
Original-Nachricht Datum: Tue, 1 May 2007 11:00:44 +0200 Von: "Markus Rechberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: "Simon Arlott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Manu Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 12:17 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On 5/1/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > revoke-special-mmap-handling.patch > > [snip] > > > Hold. This is tricky stuff and I don't think we've seen sufficient > > reviewing, testing and acking yet? > > Agreed. While Peter

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-05-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 07:05:16PM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > I'm currently using 2.6.21 + x86_64-mm-vmalloc-32.patch with the v4l-dvb > drivers. I need to use the v4l-dvb tree in order to get the IR remote > working reliably. This combination compiles and works OK for me. You are lucky :) They

[patch] Add support for picopower irq router

2007-05-01 Thread Thomas Backlund
This patch adds support for PicoPower PT86C523 IRQ router to be used with the in-kernel yenta driver for CardBus. With this patch cardbus works on e.g. Dell Latitude XPi P150CD. Initial patch for kernel 2.4 series by Sune Mølgaard http://molgaard.org/code/linux-2.4.31-picopower.patch Ported

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-05-01 Thread Gregoire Favre
Hello again, just forgot this : ksymoops 2.4.11 on x86_64 2.6.21. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.6.21/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol inf

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:16:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > pcmcia-delete-obsolete-pcmcia_ioctl-feature.patch > > > > ... > > > > > Dominik is busy. Will probably re-review and send these direct to Linus. > > > > The patch above is the

Re: PROBLEM: oops in 2.6.21.1 after bringing up the network

2007-05-01 Thread Manuel Metz
Chuck Ebbert wrote: Manuel Metz wrote: Brett Ryland wrote: Hi, I am consistently getting a kernel oops from a vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. It also occurs in vanilla 2.6.21, but not in 2.6.20.8. The relevant section of the kernel is networking, in particular the sis900 module (I think). The attach

Re: to something appropriate (was Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans)

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> Tejun helpfully posted a bunch of clashing patches for all the ACPI > stuff :) You might be better off dropping and getting a resend after > the dust settles. Agree about the ACPI stuff. > That LED trigger patch seems technically correct, but also filling a > need that few have. IMO it cr

Re: SCSI discover order strangeness [Bug 8412] New: CONFIG_MOUSE_PS2 makes RAID detection fail

2007-05-01 Thread Neil Brown
[Please reply-to-all rather than replying through bugzilla so that people on cc list get to see replies... I hope bugzilla can pick the Bug number out of the middle of the subject line] On Tuesday May 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8412 > >

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> > At the point you abuse these calls you can already just load arbitary > > data from userspace anyway. > > So the possible exploit will only work when run by root, is that what you > mean? If so isn't that still a security problem? To exploit the hole you need CAP_SYS_RAWIO which is the highe

Re: nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday May 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > apropos nfsd patches, what's the merge plans for my two export ops > patch series? Still sitting in my tree - I've had my mind on other things (nfs-utils, portmap) and let them slip - sorry. I think also there was an unanswered question about the s

[GFS2] Patches for the current merge window [0/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
Hi, Following this email are the 34 patches for GFS2 for this merge window. They are mostly cleanups and bug fixes again, although there are one or two new features. The edited highlights are: - Merge lowcomms code in DLM so that the protocol is run-time selectable rather than compile time - Ad

[GFS2] fix bz 231369, gfs2 will oops if you specify an invalid mount option [2/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 5c7342d894973636f03270673e1fb7b908a421a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Whiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 17:09:10 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] fix bz 231369, gfs2 will oops if you specify an invalid mount option If you specify an invalid mount option when trying to mo

Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 5/1/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the point you abuse these calls you can already just load arbitary > > data from userspace anyway. > > So the possible exploit will only work when run by root, is that what you > mean? If so isn't that still a security problem? To exploit the

[DLM] Fix uninitialised variable in receiving [3/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 89adc934f3f96600e7f31447426c7e99d62c5460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:08:45 + Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] Fix uninitialised variable in receiving The length of the second element of the kvec array was not initialised before bei

[GFS2] Fix bz 231380, unlock page before dequeing glocks in gfs2_commit_write [4/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 1de913909263ba7f7054debeda1b79771a7233db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Whiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:55:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix bz 231380, unlock page before dequeing glocks in gfs2_commit_write If we are writing a file, and in the middle of writin

Re: 2.6.21-mm1: many processes end up in D state

2007-05-01 Thread Jiri Slaby
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jiri Slaby napsal(a): > Hi, > > I have a problem with higher disk loads (e.g. running git-log or yum update). > Many processes end up in D state and system is unusable -- I'm not able to run > anything but smooth mouse moving when this happens. > > If I wait for a 20-30sec

[GFS2] Fix bz 224480 and cleanup glock demotion code [5/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 3b8249f6178cb2b68b9d683587797270125cc06a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:40:31 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix bz 224480 and cleanup glock demotion code This patch prevents the printing of a warning message in cases where the f

[GFS2] Fix a bug on i386 due to evaluation order [6/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 420d2a1028b906f24e836e37089a6ad55ab1848f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 16:05:27 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix a bug on i386 due to evaluation order Since gcc didn't evaluate the last two terms of the expression in glock.c:1881

[DLM] Don't delete misc device if lockspace removal fails [7/43]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 254da030dfb1b13d42d07e4292a4790d88c6874f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:23:53 + Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] Don't delete misc device if lockspace removal fails Currently if the lockspace removal fails the misc device associated w

[GFS2] Speed up lock_dlm's locking (move sprintf) [8/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From f35ac346bc48b2086aa94f031baf1f6237a89de6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:04:15 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Speed up lock_dlm's locking (move sprintf) The following patch speeds up lock_dlm's locking by moving the sprintf out fr

[GFS2] Fix log entry list corruption [9/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 6883562588bc6c70776ecc396ee7eda36c2c8da9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Marzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:05:12 + Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix log entry list corruption When glock_lo_add and rg_lo_add attempt to add an element to the log, they check to see i

[GFS2] flush the log if a transaction can't allocate space [10/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 172e045a7fcc3ee647fa70dbd585a3c247b49cb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Marzinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:51:56 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] flush the log if a transaction can't allocate space This is a fix for bz #208514. When GFS2 frees up space, the freed b

Re: [RFC, PATCH 0/4] SoC base drivers

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello Ben, Tuesday, May 1, 2007, 11:39:00 AM, you wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 08:08:06AM +0300, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: [] >> Initial implementation from few years ago registered per-SoC bus >> for the purpose of attaching subdevices, but during LKML reviews it >> was pointed out that there

[GFS2] Red Hat bz 228540: owner references [11/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 04b933f27bc8e7f3f6423020cec58a4eab3bb7a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:05:15 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Red Hat bz 228540: owner references In Testing the previously posted and accepted patch for https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bu

[DLM] fix coverity-spotted stupidity [12/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 032067270295cfca11975c0f7b467244aa170c14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:56:00 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] fix coverity-spotted stupidity Replacement patch to remove redundant code rather than moving it around. Signed-Off-By: P

[DLM] overlapping cancel and unlock [13/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From ef0c2bb05f40f9a0cd2deae63e199bfa62faa7fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:56:46 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] overlapping cancel and unlock Full cancel and force-unlock support. In the past, cancel and force-unlock wouldn't work if t

[GFS2] use log_error before LM_OUT_ERROR [14/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From b9af8a788ade3435b53667873774b5366cf73f58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:08:04 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] use log_error before LM_OUT_ERROR We always want to see the details of the error returned to gfs, but log_debug is often tu

Re: nfsd/md patches Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 07:52:11PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday May 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > apropos nfsd patches, what's the merge plans for my two export ops > > patch series? > > Still sitting in my tree - I've had my mind on other things > (nfs-utils, portmap) and let them

[GFS2] Set drop_count to 0 (off) by default [15/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From f01963f2648cfd708ee8d521b3737cfa55ea8795 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:03:24 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Set drop_count to 0 (off) by default This sets the drop_count to 0 by default which is a better default for most people.

[DLM] split create_message function [16/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 7e4dac33594468153c38b5c94d8ebcafb0e0a68d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 09:06:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] split create_message function This splits the current create_message() function into two parts so that later patches can call

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On May 1 2007 05:16, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >on the other hand, the features removal file contains the following: > >... >What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) >When: November 2005 >... > >in other words, the PCMCIA ioctl feature *has* been listed as obsolete

[DLM] add orphan purging code (1/2) [17/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 8499137d4ef1829281e04838113b6b09a0bf1269 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:02:40 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] add orphan purging code (1/2) Add code for purging orphan locks. A process can also purge all of its own non-orphan locks b

fragmentation avoidance Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans

2007-05-01 Thread Mel Gorman
On (30/04/07 16:20), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: > add-apply_to_page_range-which-applies-a-function-to-a-pte-range.patch > add-apply_to_page_range-which-applies-a-function-to-a-pte-range-fix.patch > safer-nr_node_ids-and-nr_node_ids-determination-and-initial.patch > use-zvc-counters-to-estab

[DLM] interface for purge (2/2) [18/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 72c2be776bd6eec5186e316e6d9dd4aab78d314d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:06:16 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] interface for purge (2/2) Add code to accept purge commands from userland. Signed-off-by: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

2007-05-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 05:16:13AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: ... snip ... > > in other words, the PCMCIA ioctl feature *has* been listed as > > obsolete for quite some time, and is already a *year and a half* > > overdue for removal. > > > > in short

[DLM] change lkid format [19/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From ce03f12b37c0bd81ad707d3642241cc55c944711 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:12:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] change lkid format A lock id is a uint32 and is used as an opaque reference to the lock. For userland apps, the lkid is pass

[DLM] change lkid format [19/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From ce03f12b37c0bd81ad707d3642241cc55c944711 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:12:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] change lkid format A lock id is a uint32 and is used as an opaque reference to the lock. For userland apps, the lkid is pass

GFS2] Fix bz 234168 (ignoring rgrp flags) [20/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From a43a49066d36612f3bb46653cdb265a89c235eff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:48:17 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Fix bz 234168 (ignoring rgrp flags) Ths following patch makes GFS2 use the rgrp flags properly. Although there are also s

[DLM] Remove redundant assignment [21/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From fc7c44f03d95f20b5446d06f5bb9605cddd53203 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Caulfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:40:19 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] Remove redundant assignment This patch removes a redundant (and incorrect) assignment from compat_output Signed-Off-By:

[GFS2] bz 236008: Kernel gpf doing cat /debugfs/gfs2/xxx (lock dump) [24/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 7a0079d9e3fe8826475a08785f3d348c4b509774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:37:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] bz 236008: Kernel gpf doing cat /debugfs/gfs2/xxx (lock dump) This is for Bugzilla Bug 236008: Kernel gpf doing cat /debu

DLM] fs/dlm/ast.c should #include "ast.h" [23/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 8fa1de386f4d72f0710b389ccf96308fef87df78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:25:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] fs/dlm/ast.c should #include "ast.h" Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for it's global functions.

Re: [RFC, PATCH 2/4] SoC base drivers: ASIC3 SoC hardware definitions

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Cox
> > + * Copyright 2001 Compaq Computer Corporation. > > + * > > + * Use consistent with the GNU GPL is permitted, > > + * provided that this copyright notice is > > + * preserved in its entirety in all copies and derived works. > > + * > > + * COMPAQ COMPUTER CORPORATION MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRES

[GFS2] Patch to detect corrupt number of dir entries in leaf and/or inode blocks [25/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From bdd19a22f85a7039e01accd8717eaec4addd9dfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:38:42 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] Patch to detect corrupt number of dir entries in leaf and/or inode blocks This patch detects when the number of entries

[GFS2] lockdump improvements [26/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 5f8820960cf4fb621483d4a37c24939ad831bfe7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:41:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] lockdump improvements The patch below consists of the following changes (in code order): 1. I fixed a minor compiler warn

[DLM] fix mode munging [27/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 7d3c1feb80913ba4253c3517d48b9b3741c44fc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Teigland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:30:41 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] fix mode munging There are flags to enable two specialized features in the dlm: 1. CONVDEADLK causes the dlm to resolve conv

Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

2007-05-01 Thread Rafał Bilski
> [...] > Could you please run "ethtool -s eth0 msglvl 0x" to turn logging > from the driver right up and send a log? This will spam the log if > there is any traffic but should say why the driver is doing this. > OK. Here it is. It is from 2.6.21.1 with Andrew patch applied. I had to d

[DLM] Fix dlm_lowcoms_stop hang [28/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 2439fe50724e8693e8b933b3f8125d870bfbdb25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Bacik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:59:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [DLM] Fix dlm_lowcoms_stop hang When you attempt to release a lockspace in DLM, it will hang trying to down a semaphore that has alre

[GFS2] use lib/parser for parsing mount options [30/34]

2007-05-01 Thread Steven Whitehouse
>From 476c006be009d4121e401a9e9f49a3362a7a272f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josef Bacik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:55:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] use lib/parser for parsing mount options This patch converts the mount option parsing to use the kernels lib/parser stuff like

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