Re: [ckrm-tech] [PATCH 3/9] Containers (V9): Add tasks file interface

2007-05-08 Thread Balbir Singh
Paul Menage wrote: > On 5/1/07, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For the CPU controller I was working on, (a fast access to) such a list would >> have been valuable. Basically each task has a weight associated with it >> (p->load_weight) which is made to depend upon its class limit.

[git pull] jfs update

2007-05-08 Thread Dave Kleikamp
Linus, I added one patch since the last pull request. This fixes a hang that has been seen a few times in recent kernels. Please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6.git for-linus This will update the following files: Documentation/filesystems/jfs.txt |8

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >> +/* Built-in 10/100 Ethernet MAC interfaces */ > >> +static struct mac_plat_info ixdp425_plat_mac[] = { > >> + { > >> + .phy= 0, > >> + .rxq= 3, > >> + }, { > >> + .phy

Re: [PATCH] time locale in gen_initramfs_list.sh

2007-05-08 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hello Peter, This is true. According to GNU fileutils changelog, the nearest Changelog message regarding this option is : 2004-11-19 Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * src/ls.c (usage): Clarified description of --no-group (-G), --human-readable (-h), --inode (-i), --size (

Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory

2007-05-08 Thread Rik van Riel
Nick Piggin wrote: We have percpu and cache affine page allocators, so when userspace just frees a page, it is likely to be cache hot, so we want to free it up so it can be reused by this CPU ASAP. Likewise, when we newly allocate a page, we want it to be one that is cache hot on this CPU. Act

[patch] CFS scheduler, -v11

2007-05-08 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] Values 0x3 and 0xb are merely context switch happy. thanks Mike - value 0x8 looks pretty good here and doesnt have the artifacts you found. I've done a quick -v11 release with that fixed, available at the usual place: http://people.redha

Re: [rfc] lock bitops

2007-05-08 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 01:37:09PM +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > -- > Introduce test_and_set_bit_lock / clear_bit_unlock bitops with lock semantics. > Add non-trivial for powerpc and ia64. Convert page lock, buffer lock, > bit_spin_lock, tasklet locks to use the new locks. The names are a bit clumsy

Re: 2.6.21-git8+ BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU1

2007-05-08 Thread Chuck Ebbert
Michal Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > / filesystem was full > > [39525.46] BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU1, eip 08056990, > registers: > [39525.468000] Modules linked in: loop ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat > autofs4 af_packet nf_conntrack_netbios_ns ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4

Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

2007-05-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > As I wanted to add multithreaded probing for some s390 busses, I > discovered that the commit above removed the multithreaded probing > infrastructure again, while just some days before some of my patches > reworking it had been merged... No. I am *n

Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

2007-05-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Russell King wrote: > > Shall I invent __CPUINIT to mark data to always be thrown away, or are > the x86 folk going to withdraw this patch and do it properly? I can certainly revert the patch, but it would probably be better if you were to just start adding the infrastructu

[PATCH] clocksource: spell error in watchdog code

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Walker
Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/time/clocksource.c |2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6.21/kernel/time/clocksource.c === --- linux-2.6.21.orig/kernel/time/clocksource.

Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

2007-05-08 Thread Prarit Bhargava
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Russell King wrote: Shall I invent __CPUINIT to mark data to always be thrown away, or are the x86 folk going to withdraw this patch and do it properly? I can certainly revert the patch, but it would probably be better if you were to just st

[PATCH Resend] - SN: validate smp_affinity mask on intr redirect

2007-05-08 Thread John Keller
On SN, only allow one bit to be set in the smp_affinty mask when redirecting an interrupt. Currently setting multiple bits is allowed, but only the first bit is used in determining the CPU to redirect to. This has caused confusion among some customers. Signed-off-by: John Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.6.21-mm1 -- x86 verify_cpu.S compile failure

2007-05-08 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:46:20AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > We are seeing the following compile error on older x86 installs: > > arch/i386/kernel/verify_cpu.S: Assembler messages: > arch/i386/kernel/verify_cpu.S:13: Error: `(%esp)' is >not a valid 16 bit base/inde

Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

2007-05-08 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Let's revert it, and I'll then send a new patch containing only the > PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE removal. I really don't want to revert that removal. If somebody wants to resurrect a part of the patch that has nothing to do with PCI, in order to do it for

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"Alexey Zaytsev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What > are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation? Debian is indeed a valid reason. I wonder if it would be much work to create BE Debian as well. Simple aut

Re: [git patches] libata reset sequence update

2007-05-08 Thread Brian King
Jeff Garzik wrote: > This has been testing in -mm for a while, but I wanted to send it > separated from the main libata update, since it has a chance of > breakage. > > Most notably, a cumulative timeout (deadline) helps the code from diving > into overly-long reset sequences. > > Please pull fro

[GIT PULL] hwmon updates for 2.6.22

2007-05-08 Thread Jean Delvare
Linus, Please pull the hwmon subsystem updates for Linux 2.6.22 from: git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 hwmon-for-linus There are 3 new hardware monitoring drivers (ad7418 for the Analog Devices AD7416, AD7417 and AD7418, coretemp for the Intel Core/Core 2 integrated sensors and max6650

Re: [git patches] libata reset sequence update

2007-05-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 10:33 -0500, Brian King wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > This has been testing in -mm for a while, but I wanted to send it > > separated from the main libata update, since it has a chance of > > breakage. > > > > Most notably, a cumulative timeout (deadline) helps the code fro

Re: Getting make net/built-in.o Error with 2.6.21.1 Build

2007-05-08 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > CC init/version.o > > LD init/built-in.o > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > > net/built-in.o: In function `hidp_add_connection': > > (.text+0x8bb08): undefined reference to `hid_ff_init' > > make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > You've got CONFIG

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper

2007-05-08 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:46 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> +static int __logfs_readdir(struct file *file, void *buf, filldir_t > >> filldir) > >> +{ > >> + err = read_dir(dir, &dd, pos); > >> + if (err == -EOF) > >> + break; > > > > -EOF results in a retur

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Lennert Buytenhek
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:28:21PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > I was always curious, why do people want to run ixp4xx in LE mode? What > > are the benefits that overweight the obvious performance degradation? > > Debian is indeed a valid reason. > I wonder if it would be much work to creat

Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

2007-05-08 Thread Russell King
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:19:46AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > >On Tue, 8 May 2007, Russell King wrote: > > > >>Shall I invent __CPUINIT to mark data to always be thrown away, or are > >>the x86 folk going to withdraw this patch and do it properly? > >> > > > >I ca

Re: Please revert 86c0baf123e474b6eb404798926ecf62b426bf3a

2007-05-08 Thread Prarit Bhargava
I'm not sure it'd make much sense for me to test it - I don't have x86 based test boxes here. Assuming your intention is to revert this commit and replace it with your patch which doesn't change the semantics of __INIT, it shouldn't cause me any problems. Okay -- I'll generate a new patch

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mca: mca_pentium_flag no longer used

2007-05-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 22:49 +1000, andrew hendry wrote: > The check for mca_pentium_flag was removed long ago. > This cleans up the flag and documentation. I can't apply this patch ... apparently the email is dual text and html ... we really need text only for patch application. Plus, it looks li

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH -mm] drivers/usb/core/config.c: kzalloc(0, ..)

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Stern
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > The problem was in drivers/usb/core/config.c in function > > usb_parse_interface: > > --- > > num_ep = num_ep_orig = alt->desc.bNumEndpoints; > > ... > > len = sizeof(struct usb_host_endpoint) * num_ep; > > alt->endpoint = kzalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL); >

[PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Cox
The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via sr_ioctl which also doesn't bounce them and SCSI then passes the buffer along to a device with unchecked_isa_dma set which either panics or truncates the buffer to

Re: Getting make net/built-in.o Error with 2.6.21.1 Build

2007-05-08 Thread Satyam Sharma
Hi Jiri, On 5/8/07, Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > CC init/version.o > > LD init/built-in.o > > LD .tmp_vmlinux1 > > net/built-in.o: In function `hidp_add_connection': > > (.text+0x8bb08): undefined reference to `hid_ff_i

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Cox
On Tue, 8 May 2007 17:03:35 +0100 Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and > nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via > sr_ioctl which also doesn't bounce them and SCSI then passes the buffer > along to a d

Re: [PATCH 1/1] vmstat-use-our-own-timer-events-fix

2007-05-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Yes, it helped, thanks. If no objections, please apply the patch below. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo in

Re: 2.6.21-git8+ BUG: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU1

2007-05-08 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > happens when a local process sends packets with invalid IP headers > through raw sockets. [...] > Whatever happens, that printk should be toned down, shouldn't it? We > prefer to not let unprivileged apps spam the logs. Isn't "unprivileged app sendi

ACPI Power Down is broken in 2.6.21.1

2007-05-08 Thread Vladimir Pouzanov
Hi all, I have got a problem with Asus F3T notebook and 2.6.21.1 kernel. When I perform powerdown (with user-space app or alt+sysrq+o) I get "Power Down." message, but the notebook doesn't turn off. Everything is ok on 2.6.20. There seem to be no changes in acpi/sleep/poweroff.c so I don't know w

Re: 2.6.21-mm1

2007-05-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > The SLUB code introduces the config segment below to stop SLUB being > used on powerpc: > > config ARCH_USES_SLAB_PAGE_STRUCT >bool >default y >depends on SPLIT_PTLOCK_CPUS <= NR_CPUS > > However as far as I can kconfig has

[PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Cox
The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via sr_ioctl which also doesn't bounce them and SCSI then passes the buffer along to a device with unchecked_isa_dma set which either panics or truncates the buffer to

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [0/3]

2007-05-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
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Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and > nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via > sr_ioctl which also doesn't bounce them and SCSI then passes the buffer > along to a device with unchecked_isa_dma set w

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On May 8 2007 04:41, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > in my opinion, the config option "EMBEDDED" is just plain silly. as > >i mentioned earlier, there may be other reasons that people want to > >de-activate normally selected features rather than just

[PATCH] clocksource: spelling error in watchdog code

2007-05-08 Thread Daniel Walker
Theres more that need fixing , and fix my own subject spelling error too. Signed-Off-By: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- kernel/time/clocksource.c |6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6.21/kernel/time/clocksource.c =

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: PQ SoC IRDA support

2007-05-08 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Tue, 8 May 2007 07:36:48 -0700 "Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Adds support of IRDA transceiver residing on PowerQUICC processors and > > enabling such on mpc885ads reference board. The driver is implemented > > using of_device concept, hereby implies arch/powerpc suppor

Re: Long file names in VFAT broken with iocharset=utf8

2007-05-08 Thread Bodo Eggert
Albert Cahalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > At two bytes per character, you get 127 characters in a filename. > That's wider than the standard 80-column display, and far wider > than the 28 or 29 characters that an "ls -l" has room for. In a > GUI file manager or file dialog box, you'll have

Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] 8xx: PQ SoC IRDA support

2007-05-08 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:33:19 -0500 Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + [EMAIL PROTECTED] { > > + device_type = "network"; > > + compatible = "fsl,irda"; > > is this specific enough? 52xx also has irda and I'm guessing

Re: Getting make net/built-in.o Error with 2.6.21.1 Build

2007-05-08 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Sure, my aim here was to only solve the _build breakage_ by fixing the > Kconfig for this module (that used code from another kernel module > without listing it in its dependencies). If, as you say, the real > solution is that we should actually be tak

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper

2007-05-08 Thread Evgeniy Polyakov
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 05:54:41PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:46 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > >> +static int __logfs_readdir(struct file *file, void *buf, filldir_t > > >> filldir) > > >> +{ > > >> +err = read_dir(dir, &dd, pos

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Create a top-level "Space-critical features" menu.

2007-05-08 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:06:30AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i've always hated that lower-level menu under "General setup": > > > > Configure standard kernel features (for small systems) ---> > > > > which buries the choice of de-selecting f

Re: [PATCH 3/3] [POWERPC] dts: kill hardcoded phandles

2007-05-08 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:20 -0700 "Loeliger Jon-LOELIGER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > - [EMAIL PROTECTED] { > > > - linux,phandle = ; > > > + pci_pic:[EMAIL PROTECTED] { > > > > I'd like to establish a convention of putting a space after the : and > > using cap

Re: 2.6.21 -- Lid button won't initiate suspend. Also, suspend didn't enter low-power state until I touched my mousepad.

2007-05-08 Thread Miles Lane
Sorry, Rafael. Resending since I forgot to "reply all" before. On 5/8/07, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, On Tuesday, 8 May 2007 08:34, Miles Lane wrote: > Firstly, all my attempts to get suspend to start by pressing my > laptop's lid button are failing. > > Here's the log inf

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Krzysztof, why is LE not supported? I'm not yet sure how to do it best. The trivial way is really trivial, allocate a set of 1536-byte buffers and make a swap+copy on RX and TX, but I want to investigate the data-coherent approach first. > Do you

Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

2007-05-08 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:27:34 -0700 (PDT), Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And no, we should not do it at the device core level. In fact, I don't > think we should do it at that level at all. > > I'm pretty sure that the performance problems are at individual device > drivers, and th

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and > > nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via > > sr_ioctl which also doesn't bounce them and SCSI then passe

Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH -mm] drivers/usb/core/config.c: kzalloc(0, ..)

2007-05-08 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 8 May 2007 11:57:07 -0400 (EDT) Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Greg KH wrote: > > > > The problem was in drivers/usb/core/config.c in function > > > usb_parse_interface: > > > --- > > > num_ep = num_ep_orig = alt->desc.bNumEndpoints; > > > ... > > > len = sizeof(struct usb

Re: [BUG] cpu-hotplug: Can't offline the CPU with naughty realtime processes

2007-05-08 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0900, Satoru Takeuchi wrote: > Sometimes I wonder at prio_array. It has 140 entries(from 0 to 139), > and the meaning of each entry is as follows, I think. > > +---+---+ > | index | usage

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

2007-05-08 Thread yhlu
On 5/2/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:59:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: >> > >> > So the bzImage structure is currently: >> > >> >1. old-style boot sector >> >2. old-st

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 08 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and > > > nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via > > > sr_io

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Mike Christie
James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: >> On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >>> The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and >>> nor should it). However they get injected into the SCSI layer via >>> sr_ioctl which also doesn't bounc

Re: Getting make net/built-in.o Error with 2.6.21.1 Build

2007-05-08 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Jiri, > > Sure, my aim here was to only solve the _build breakage_ by fixing the > > Kconfig for this module (that used code from another kernel module > > without listing it in its dependencies). If, as you say, the real > > solution is that we should actually be taking out the offending ca

Re: Please revert 5adc55da4a7758021bcc374904b0f8b076508a11 (PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE)

2007-05-08 Thread david
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Cornelia Huck wrote: 2. Sheer volume of devices on a bus. Even if the indivdual probing doesn't take long, having all devices probed one after the other may take a lot of time. Putting the actual probe on a thread makes it possible to run several probes in parallel, thereby c

Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-08 Thread Andreas Dilger
On May 07, 2007 21:43 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:15:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Userspace could presumably repair the mess in most situations by truncating > > the file back again. The kernel cannot do that because there might be live > > data in amongst ther

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:40 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, May 08 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and > > > > nor should it)

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 08 2007, Mike Christie wrote: > James Bottomley wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > >> On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce requests for old ISA controllers (and > >>> nor should it). However they get injected into the

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.3 - QMGR

2007-05-08 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See for example arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/core.c, handling of the A/B/F > port GPIO interrupts. > > In a nutshell, it goes like this. Thanks, I will investigate. >> There may be up to 6 Ethernet ports (not sure about hardware >> status, not yet supporte

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [1/3] implements zonelist order selection

2007-05-08 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:16 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v5. > > This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable. > Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based. > > [Default Order] > The kernel

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [2/3] automatic configuration

2007-05-08 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:18 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > Add auto zone ordering configuration. > > This function will select ZONE_ORDER_NODE when > > There are only ZONE_DMA or ZONE_DMA32. > || size of (ZONE_DMA/DMA32) > (System Total Memory)/2 > || Assume Node(A) > Node (A) is enough

Re: [PATCH] x86-64 highres/dyntick support

2007-05-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le lundi 07 mai 2007 à 17:28 +0200, Thomas Gleixner a écrit : > On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 09:16 +, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Thomas Gleixner linutronix.de> writes: > > > > > > > > I'm pleased to announce the first cut of the final x86_64 > > > highres/dyntick support, which I did based on Chris

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [3/3] documentation

2007-05-08 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 20:19 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote: > Patch for documentation. > > Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Will send followup patch with minor editorial changes. Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > Documentation/kernel-parameters.tx

Re: [PATCH] Make bootsector stub 16-bit-only (i386)

2007-05-08 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Andi Kleen wrote: > > You should have put that into a different mail (is there a electron shortage > somewhere now? @) Ok, thanks for the well researched bug report. Will fix > in > my tree. > Nah. Just a brain shortage at 5 in the morning. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in kernel/kexec.c

2007-05-08 Thread Satyam Sharma
On 5/8/07, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shani Moideen wrote: > > ptr = kmap(page); > > - memset(ptr, 0, PAGE_SIZE); > > + clear_page(ptr); On 5/8/07, Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if it's worth to invent kzmap() or so

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The board support code knows such things as that the "front ethernet > port" on the board is connected to the CPU's MII port number #2, but > the board support code does _not_ know that MII port number #2 > corresponds to "ixp4xx hardware queue #5."

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, May 08 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:40 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, May 08 2007, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:14 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 08 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > > The CD-ROM layer doesn't bounce reques

Re: 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 "irqpoll" seems to be broken

2007-05-08 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 12:19:32AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-30 10:48]: > > > > handle_edge_irq() already makes sure that desc->action is not null, still > > note_interrupt() is receiving desc->action as null, that's strange. On my > > system this i

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There _is_ an ARM BE version of Debian. > > It's not an official port, but it's not maintained any worse than > the 'official' LE ARM Debian port is. Hmm... That changes a bit. Perhaps we should forget about that LE thing then, and (at best) put tha

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [1/3] implements zonelist order selection

2007-05-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tested OK on my platform. > Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> So far testing is IA64 only? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

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

2007-05-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric, > > With the latest change that make vmlinux to be elf64 and make bzImage > do switch to 64bit long mode, the kernel started via kexec can not get > VGA console. but the serial console works well. I wonder if the > setup.S is skipped in bzImage via kexec pa

kmem_cache_init failure (was Re: 2.6.21-mm1)

2007-05-08 Thread Frederik Deweerdt
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:49:55AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21/2.6.21-mm1/ > Hi all, My computer fails early at boot with a stack along the lines of: kmem_cache_zalloc kmem_cache_create kmem_cache_init start_kernel eip is

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

2007-05-08 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:41:09AM -0700, yhlu wrote: > On 5/2/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:59:11PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >>> > > >>> > So the bzImage structu

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] atmel_lcdfb: AT91/AT32 LCD Controller framebuffer driver

2007-05-08 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
Hi Antonio, Thanks for the feedback. I'm just going to reply to one of your comments and leave the rest for Nicolas... On Tue, 08 May 2007 05:40:17 +0800 "Antonino A. Daplas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +static int __init atmel_lcdfb_init(void) > > +{ > > + return platform_driver_probe(&atm

Re: [PATCH 1/3] [POWERPC] 8xx: mpc885ads pcmcia support

2007-05-08 Thread Vitaly Bordug
On Tue, 8 May 2007 09:04:22 -0500 Kumar Gala wrote: > > On May 8, 2007, at 4:50 AM, Vitaly Bordug wrote: > > > > > Adds support for PowerQuicc on-chip PCMCIA. The driver is > > implemented as > > of_device, so only arch/powerpc stuff is capable to use it, which > > now implies only mpc885ads r

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Krzysztof Halasa schrieb: Lennert Buytenhek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: There _is_ an ARM BE version of Debian. It's not an official port, but it's not maintained any worse than the 'official' LE ARM Debian port is. Hmm... That changes a bit. Perhaps we should forget about that LE thing then

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

2007-05-08 Thread yhlu
On 5/8/07, Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes. setup.S has always been skipped by bzImage via the kexec path unless you explicitly tell /sbin/kexec to use the 16bit entry point. Is not having a VGA console a new thing, or it something you just noticed? Eric before the changes,

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [1/3] implements zonelist order selection

2007-05-08 Thread Lee Schermerhorn
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 10:22 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > > > Signed-Off-By: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Tested OK on my platform. > > Acked-by: Lee Schermerhorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > So far testing is IA64 only? Yes, so

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

2007-05-08 Thread yhlu
On 5/8/07, Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: setup.S is never executed while doing kexec (unless somebody chooses to do a real mode entry) and these patches don't change this beahviour. Tomorrow I will test VGA behaviour on my machine. Are you using some special frame buffer mode etc? I

Re: Back to the future.

2007-05-08 Thread Disconnect
We used it (with great success) to replace bad UPSs on single-PSU database servers under (light) load. No need for scheduled downtime, etc. The whole point of hibernation (or suspend to disk, or whatever you call it) is that the system goes to a zero-power state and then can be brought back to it

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Cox
> Mike Christie tells me we're missing bouncing by accident in the > scsi_execute path (but not the scsi_execute_async path). He says this > is the fix he proposed: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=115981479822790&w=2 > > Can we just merge this instead? Short answer: No Long answer - it do

Re: [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in kernel/kexec.c

2007-05-08 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Satyam Sharma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 5/8/07, Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Shani Moideen wrote: >> > > ptr = kmap(page); >> > > - memset(ptr, 0, PAGE_SIZE); >> > > + clear_page(ptr); >> >> On 5/8/07, Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > Hmmm ... what if David was German and had a couple of umlauts in his > name :-) One would expect to at least _spell_ his own name properly in > his code. Sources need to take care of that too (but we better stick > to only UTF-8 for source files, wouldn't

Re: [PATCH 4/5] ext4: fallocate support in ext4

2007-05-08 Thread Mingming Cao
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 21:43 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 05:41:39PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > We could check the total number of fs free blocks account before > > preallocation happens, if there isn't enough space left, there is no > > need to bother preallocating. > >

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:42 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Mike Christie tells me we're missing bouncing by accident in the > > scsi_execute path (but not the scsi_execute_async path). He says this > > is the fix he proposed: > > > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=115981479822790&w=2 > > > > Can w

Re: Getting make net/built-in.o Error with 2.6.21.1 Build

2007-05-08 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > Marcel - are you aware of any devices currently supported by USB HID > > force-feedback code, which have a bluetooth version, please? > I haven't looked at all details for the PS3 controller, but that might > be the first one. In theory they can and

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread Alan Cox
> > Long answer - it doesn't take this path. > > > > Different bug, both want fixing I suspect. > > Actually, it does take this path ... one of the things we've been doing > in SCSI is slowly eliminating the old direct submission paths in favour > of sending everything through the correct block l

Re: Getting make net/built-in.o Error with 2.6.21.1 Build

2007-05-08 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Jiri, > > > Marcel - are you aware of any devices currently supported by USB HID > > > force-feedback code, which have a bluetooth version, please? > > I haven't looked at all details for the PS3 controller, but that might > > be the first one. In theory they can and at some point they will en

Re: [PATCH] Intel IXP4xx network drivers v.2 - Ethernet and HSS

2007-05-08 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Tomasz Chmielewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does using ixp4xx on LE have any other drawbacks than inferior network > performance? More memory is needed, something like max 600 KB for 2 Ethernet ports. > And talking about network performance, what numbers are we talking > about (LE vs BE; 30

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread Stephen Clark
Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: Hmmm ... what if David was German and had a couple of umlauts in his name :-) One would expect to at least _spell_ his own name properly in his code. Sources need to take care of that too (but we better stick to only UTF-8 fo

Re: [PATCH 8/8] One Laptop Per Child power/battery driver

2007-05-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:45 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Well, my name has an acute above "o" and a dot above "z", but I do not > have such a high expectation as to have it correctly spelled in comments > and elsewhere within some code before I am able to get it right in > official documen

Re: [PATCH 1/2] LogFS proper

2007-05-08 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:32 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > Please sort includes alphabetically and seperate the > > #include from the #include ones > > Sort: will do. > Seperation: Any particular reason for that? Easier to see the different categories > > > +typedef __be16 be16; > > > +typedef

Re: [PATCH]: Fix old SCSI adapter crashes with CD-ROM (take 2)

2007-05-08 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:53 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The ultimate goal is to be able to eliminate the unchecked_isa_dma flag > > entirely and have the block layer (or device mask allocations) fix all > > of this in every ULD. > > About time ;) Actually, I should point out (before those who did

RE: [PATCH Resend] - SN: validate smp_affinity mask on intr redirect

2007-05-08 Thread Luck, Tony
+#ifndef is_affinity_mask_valid +#define is_affinity_mask_valid() 1 +#endif + int no_irq_affinity; static int irq_affinity_write_proc(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer, unsigned long count, void *data) @@ -42,6 +46,9 @@ static int irq_affinity_writ

Re: [PATCH] change zonelist order v5 [1/3] implements zonelist order selection

2007-05-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Lee Schermerhorn wrote: > > So far testing is IA64 only? > Yes, so far. I will test on an Opteron platform this pm. > Assume that no news is good news. A better assumption: no news -> no testing. You probably need a configuration with a couple of nodes. Maybesomething less

Re: [PATCH] Make bootsector stub 16-bit-only (i386)

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 08 May 2007 04:25:00 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > >> > >># Normalize the start address > >> - jmpl$BOOTSEG, $start2 > >> + jmpw$BOOTSEG, $start2 > > > > Sigh, another blow struck in the ongoing struggle between my Vaio and t

[PATCH] Remove unused variable in get_unmapped_area

2007-05-08 Thread Roland McGrath
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/mmap.c |9 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c index 52646d6..4be69af 100644 --- a/mm/mmap.c +++ b/mm/mmap.c @@ -1366,7 +1366,6 @@ unsigned long get_unmapped_area(struct file

Re: kernel expection generated with 2.6.21-mm1 kernel boot up

2007-05-08 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Srinivasa Ds wrote: > Looks like there is a bug in SLUB implementaion for ppc64 in 2.6.21-mm1. > I unmarked CONFIG_SLUB and build the kernel, its booting cleary now. > > Thanks > Srinivasa DS This is a known issue for PPC with more than 4 processors. Work is in progress for

Re: [PATCH 1/3] kbuild: complain about missing system calls.

2007-05-08 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:51:49PM -0700, Luck, Tony wrote: > > You could add them to scripts/checksyscalls.sh itself -- I think it's > > fairly unlikely that those are syscalls which a new arch port is going > > to 'forget' :) > > Like this? > > diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/ch

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