Michael Neuling wrote:
> Fix a couple of minor issues with the getdelays.c example code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 21 +++--
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6-ozl
* Andi Kleen | 2007-08-15 02:20:35 [+0200]:
>> My config with march=pentium-m and gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2):
>> textdata bss dec hex filename
>> 3434150 249176 176128 3859454 3ae3fe atomic_normal/vmlinux
>> 3435308 249176 176128 3860612 3ae884 atomic_inlineasm/vmlinux
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:27:12 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> This patch allows disabling DNOTIFY with CONFIG_EMBEDDED=n.
>
> I'm currently running a kernel with dnotify disabled and I haven't run
> into any problem. Is there any popular application left that breaks
> without dno
Alan Cox wrote:
Debugging a report of a problem with an ancient solid state disk showed
up some problems in the IORDY handling
1. We check the wrong bit to see if the device has IORDY
2. Even then some ancient creaking piles of crap don't support
SETXFER at all.
I think this s
Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> [Resent with different recipients as [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounced with
> a User unknown]
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch adds all thread accounting stats for the global tgid stats.
> As a shameless plug, this fixes iotop -P
> (http://guichaz.free.fr/misc/iotop.py).
>
Since thi
On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> NULL is not 0 though.
>
>It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
C guarantees that.
>but the constant value 0 when used in pointer context is always a
>null p
Fix off-by-one in month calculations
Add delay for bus accesses to satisfy Tw > 500ns
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
drivers/rtc/rtc-v3020.c |9 +++--
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-v3020.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-v3020.c
index
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> I found that O_NOFOLLOW is used for opened core file in Linux 2.6.10.
I think that is for security reasons, otherwise one has to (atomically)
check who is the owner of the symlink and where it points to. If you dont
have hostile users on your system you
>On 8/12/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:39:33 + Dave Young wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have tried the "slow down printk" , and I have two questions.
> >
> > 1. why it depends the DEBUG_KERNEL? Sometimes we only need boot_delay
> > to see the printk infomations.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> According to git, the only one who touched this file during the last
> 5 years was me when removing drivers...
>
> modinfo offers less ancient information.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For the m68k net drivers:
Acked-by: Geert Uytt
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
Check to see if an ATAPI device supports Asynchronous Notification.
If so, enable it.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Index: 2.6-git/drivers/ata/libata-core.c
===
--- 2.6-gi
Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
I found that O_NOFOLLOW is used for opened core file in Linux 2.6.10.
I think that is for security reasons, otherwise one has to (atomically)
check who is the owner of the symlink and where it points to. If you dont
have
applied the attached slightly modified patch. main changes:
* SCSI stuff has not been applied yet, so libata's notify is a no-op for now
* fixed endian bug in SDB FIS handling
diff --git a/drivers/ata/ahci.c b/drivers/ata/ahci.c
index 757369e..c41bd2c 100644
--- a/drivers/ata/ahci.c
+++ b/dri
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
If a scsi_device supports async notification for media change, then
let user space know this capability exists by creating a new sysfs
entry "media_change_notify", which will be 1 if it is supported, and
0 if not supported. Create a routine which allows scsi device
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> Michael Neuling wrote:
> > Fix a couple of minor issues with the getdelays.c example code.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ---
> > Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 21 +++--
> > 1 file changed, 11
Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
Use a stored value for which interrupts to enable. Changing this allows
us to selectively turn off certain interrupts later and have them
stay off.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
applied, after adding "ahci: " prefix to subject lin
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
Maximum supported UDMA mode for AEC6280[R] is UDMA5 (not UDMA4)
and for AEC6880[R] it is UDMA6 (not UDMA5):
* Fix the problem by adding missing struct ata_port_info to artop_init_one().
* Use the right naming (s/626/628/).
* Bump driver version.
Fixes IDE->lib
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:49:03PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Chris Snook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Because atomic operations are generally used for synchronization, which
> > requires
> > volatile behavior. Most such codepaths currently use an inefficient
> > barrier().
> > Some fo
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:10:38 +0200
Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> >> > Actually I think the entire thing is a
> >> > bad idea but thats another matter.
>
> > Working off the git tree as it shows who actually is making
> > changes/updating stuff recently and why whic
Alan Cox wrote:
>> > Actually I think the entire thing is a
>> > bad idea but thats another matter.
> Working off the git tree as it shows who actually is making
> changes/updating stuff recently and why which is a major clue when
> tracing bugs
Adrian Bunk wrote in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/30
oleg 123 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> There is a bug in __sock_create() function (net/socket.c).
> If an error occur in LSM hook security_socket_post_create, then unneeded
> rcu_read_unlock() is made in __sock_create.
Well spotted! Please cc [EMAIL PROTECTED] for networking
issues.
[NET]: Fix u
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:53:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:37:41PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > static void *ct_seq_next(struct seq_file *s, void *v, loff_t *pos)
> > {
> > loff_t *spos = (loff_t *) v;
> > *pos = ++(*spos);
> > return spos;
> > }
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> My config with march=pentium-m and gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2):
>> textdata bss dec hex filename
>> 3434150 249176 176128 3859454 3ae3fe atomic_normal/vmlinux
>> 3435308 249176 176128 3860612 3ae884 atomic_inlineasm/vmlinux
>
> Wh
On 08/15/2007 09:28 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
NULL is not 0 though.
It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
C guarantees that.
C guarantees what? If you'
I've just released Linux 2.4.35.1.
This version includes some minor build fixes for people using GCC 4.x.
It now successfully builds with 4.2.
Please also note the security update : CVE-2007-3848. Limited impact, but
really depends on the setuid binaries provided by your distribution.
The patch
> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> >> + lock_meta_page(page);
> >> + /*
> >> + * Check if somebody else beat us to allocating the meta_page
> >> + */
> >> + race_mp = page_get_meta_page(page);
> >> + if (race_mp) {
> >> + kfree(mp);
> >> + mp = race_mp;
> >> + atomic_inc
Al Viro,
Does this sounds like a good fix?
===
seq_file version fixes
- f_version is 'unsigned long', it's pointless to do more than that.
- m->version should not be reset when we are bumping up the buf size.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
fs/seq_file.c|1 -
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 10:10:58AM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:27:46PM +0800, WU Fengguang wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:27:52PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > > For some reason my mailer keeps removing you from the cc.
> >
> > Or maybe it's my SMTP server's pr
On 8/14/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > +/**
> > + * Register transfer timing table
> > + */
>
> Libata has a complete set of transfer mode tables and timing functions -
> any reason for not using them ?
>
After a bit investigation, I find the timing paramters difined in
struct ata_tim
proc_mounts.m.buf is not explicitly zeroed at allocation time, which
may later confuse the seqfile code and triggle an kfree(m->buf).
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
--- linux.orig/fs/proc/base.c
+++ linux/fs/proc/base.c
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ static int mounts_open(struct inode
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 09:28:54 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >> NULL is not 0 though.
> >
> >It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
>
> C guarantees tha
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 04:56:37PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> proc_mounts.m.buf is not explicitly zeroed at allocation time, which
> may later confuse the seqfile code and triggle an kfree(m->buf).
It's weird it did not show up in real world. Could I be wrong?
> --- linux.orig/fs/proc/base.c
>
On 8/15/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> proc_mounts.m.buf is not explicitly zeroed at allocation time, which
> may later confuse the seqfile code and triggle an kfree(m->buf).
It's cleared in seq_open().
> --- linux.orig/fs/proc/base.c
> +++ linux/fs/proc/base.c
> @@ -380,7 +380,7 @
There are dozens of calls to seq_open() that need to set m->private.
Introduce seq_open_private() to remove code duplications.
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
Andrew: more conversions will be made if this patch is ok.
fs/nfs/client.c | 24 ++--
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:04:05PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On 8/15/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > proc_mounts.m.buf is not explicitly zeroed at allocation time, which
> > may later confuse the seqfile code and triggle an kfree(m->buf).
>
> It's cleared in seq_open().
So i
At the moment, balance_tasks() provides low level functionality for both
move_tasks() and move_one_task() (indirectly) via the load_balance()
function (in the sched_class interface) which also provides dual
functionality. This dual functionality complicates the interfaces and
internal mechani
The ACLs that were added to Linux were a step in the
right direction but very incomplete. What should be is
a complex permission system that would allow fine
grained permissions and inherentance masks to control
what permission are granted when someone moves new
files into a directory. Instead of
In case bus master driver provided bogus value as its private data,
search can be incorrect. Problem found by Adrian Bunk.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/drivers/w1/w1_int.c b/drivers/w1/w1_int.c
index 2fbd8dd..6840dfe 100644
--- a/drivers/w1/w1_int.c
+++ b/drive
Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
>>On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>>> NULL is not 0 though.
>>
>>It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
>
> C guarantees that.
Linux C does it. But
Update:
1. Condition branch code instead of while loop from Alan Cox.
2. Condtinue in PIO mode after failing to request DMA.
Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ata/Kconfig | 28 +
drivers/ata/Makefile |1
drivers/ata/pata_bf54x.c | 1581
On Aug 15 2007 10:37, Rene Herman wrote:
> On 08/15/2007 09:28 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
>
>> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> > > NULL is not 0 though.
>> > It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bi
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
> git log --since=6.months.ago -- "$@" |
> grep -i '^[-a-z]*by:.*@' |
> sort | uniq -c |
> sort -r -n | head
>
> and it gives you a rather good picture of who is involved with a
> particular subdirectory o
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
NULL is not 0 though.
It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
C guarantees that.
Hmm. It depends on your interpretation of "representa
Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 18:31 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>On the other hand, git-send-email _is_ all about sending it
>>out, and it needs to know who your patch should reach. I
>>think it makes sense to have one script that,
[...]
> Yes please.
>
> The LK MAINTA
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:20:33 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Aug 15 2007 10:37, Rene Herman wrote:
> > On 08/15/2007 09:28 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >> On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
> >
> >> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >> > > NULL is
Please pull from 'upstream-linus' branch of
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev.git
upstream-linus
to receive the following updates:
drivers/ata/ata_piix.c |9 -
drivers/ata/libata-core.c |2 +-
drivers/ata/pata_artop.c | 19 ++---
m68k: needs because of __attribute_const__
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/asm-m68k/page.h |2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/include/asm-m68k/page.h
+++ b/include/asm-m68k/page.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+#include
+
#include
Hi Linus, Andrew,
Here are a few m68k-specific patches for 2.6.23-rc3:
[1] m68k: needs
[2] m68k: Don't include RODATA into text segment
[3] m68k/mac: Make mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() declaration visible
[4] m68k: Kill superfluous extern
[5] m68k: Remove unnecessary m68
From: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Don't include RODATA into text segment as it includes the kallsyms data
and can cause spurious link failures (layout differences can change the
number of symbols in kallsyms, i.e. when a symbol is equal to _etext it's
not included).
Signed-off-by: Roman Zipp
Kill a superfluous extern declaration
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c |6 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c
+++ b/arch/m68k/mm/motorola.c
@@ -210,11 +210,7 @@ void __init paging_init(void)
From: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Remove an unnecessary m68k_memoffset export and initialization
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/m68k/kernel/setup.c |2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/m68k/kern
m68k: Use _AC() instead of #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__ hackery when needed, remove
hackery when unused.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/asm-m68k/page.h |8 +++-
include/asm-m68k/processor.h |4
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a
From: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
m68k/mac: Make mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons() declaration visible
drivers/char/keyboard.c: In function 'kbd_keycode':
drivers/char/keyboard.c:1142: error: implicit declaration of function
'mac_hid_mouse_emulate_buttons'
The forward declaration of ma
zorro: Make the sysfs `config' attribute read-only, as you cannot write to it
(there's no .write function neither).
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c
+++
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add the needed constants and defines to activate the existing code.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/asm-m68k/ioctls.h |8 ++--
include/asm-m68k/termbits.h |5 -
inc
m68k: Fix a few hickups in drivers/scsi/Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/scsi/Kconfig |4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/scsi/Kconfig
@@ -1561,7 +1561,7 @@ config A3000_SCSI
buil
From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
When suspend is ever implemented for pmu68k it really should follow the
generic pm_ops concept and not mirror the platform-specific /dev/pmu
device with ioctls on it. Hence, this patch removes the unused code there;
should the implementers need it they can l
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:14:15 +0800
Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Update:
> 1. Condition branch code instead of while loop from Alan Cox.
> 2. Condtinue in PIO mode after failing to request DMA.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 08/15/2007 11:20 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 15 2007 10:37, Rene Herman wrote:
On 08/15/2007 09:28 AM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 14 2007 16:21, Jason Uhlenkott wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:55:48 -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
NULL is not 0 though.
It is. Its representati
YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
+ lock_meta_page(page);
+ /*
+ * Check if somebody else beat us to allocating the meta_page
+ */
+ race_mp = page_get_meta_page(page);
+ if (race_mp) {
+ kfree(mp);
+ mp = race_mp;
>
On Aug 15 2007 11:58, Rene Herman wrote:
>> > > > > NULL is not 0 though.
>> > > > It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
>> > >
>
> He said the null _pointer_ isn't guaranteed to be all-bits zero. And it
> isn't. Read the standard or the faq.
0 is all-bits-zero.
NULL i
On 08/15/2007 12:20 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Aug 15 2007 11:58, Rene Herman wrote:
NULL is not 0 though.
It is. Its representation isn't guaranteed to be all-bits-zero,
He said the null _pointer_ isn't guaranteed to be all-bits zero. And it
isn't. Read the standard or the faq.
0 is a
Satyam Sharma wrote:
> [ BTW, why do we want the compiler to not optimize atomic_read()'s in
> the first place? Atomic ops guarantee atomicity, which has nothing
> to do with "volatility" -- users that expect "volatility" from
> atomic ops are the ones who must be fixed instead, IMHO. ]
LDD3
Should all go into the next stable release.
Two of the patches (cfi probe and rept fix) are only pending
for mainline (I hope Linus applies them today). They should
not go in before hitting mainline.
-Andi
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
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From: "Jan Beulich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c |4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22-stable/arch/i386/kernel/sysenter.c
===
Very old binutils have .cfi_startproc/endproc, but
no .cfi_rel_offset. Check for .cfi_rel_offset too.
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
arch/i386/Makefile |4 ++--
arch/x86_64/Makefile |4 ++--
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Index: linux-2.6.22-stable/arch/x86_64/Makefile
=
Very old binutils (2.12.90...) seem to have trouble with newlines
in assembler macro invocation. They put them into the resulting
argument expansion. In this case this lead to a parse error because
a .rept expression ended up spread over multiple lines. Change the PMDS()
invocation to a single li
From: Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The new percpu code has apparently broken the doublefault handler
when CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK is set. Doublefault is handled by
a hardware task, making the check
SPIN_BUG_ON(lock->owner == current, lock, "recursion");
fault because it uses the FS re
I got an oops while booting a 32bit kernel on KVM because it doesn't
implement performance counters used by the NMI watchdog. Handle this
case.
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/perfctr-watchdog.c |4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insert
On Mon 13 Aug 2007 22:05, Mike Frysinger pondered:
> would it be possible to get the class of "old and crusty" functions
> permanently ignored ? i'm thinking of course of "uselib" and "sysfs"
> ...
> Blackfin does not implement either of these and i think that's a good
> thing
>
> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton has spoken at different occasions about testing of the
Linux kernel and asked users to test the current development version and
report their findings. For our openSUSE releases we have in general a
frozen version and add only fixes for bugs that are encountered during
testing - but s
On Wednesday, 15 August 2007 04:51, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2007, at 19:24:30, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:22:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:15:41 -0700 (PDT) Linus Torvalds
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>> In other words, it would
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
> (besides those we need for building a RPM).
Are these openSUSE specific or something we ought to apply to mainline?
If I sometimes are a bit reluctant aplying rpm specific patches it
is simply because I do not use the functionality mys
On Tuesday, 14 August 2007 23:26, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> suspend_enter() can now become static.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
>
> This patch has been sent on:
> - 29 Jul 2007
>
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1/kernel/power/main
>> Is this really required? a sleep() in the code. Why do we do multiple
>> send_cmd()'s in the do loop? I'll test and get back.
>
> I needed to send another command to receive more data. Without the per
> loop send_cmd, I never got any more stats.
>
> Should we receive more data without the
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:14:04 +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:08:51PM +0200, Jan Blunck wrote:
>> (besides those we need for building a RPM).
>
> Are these openSUSE specific or something we ought to apply to mainline?
>
If there are patches (at the moment there are none)
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:14:41AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> meth is only used on SGI O2s which are not that slow and unlikely
> to work in tree anyways.
O2 doesn't enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA so there is no point in using GFP_DMA in
an O2-specific device driver. Will send out patch in separate mail
Hi Linus, Al,
Would you object greatly to functions like vfs_mkdir() gaining a security
parameter? What I'm thinking of is this:
int vfs_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
struct security *security)
Where the security context is the state of
On 08/15/2007 11:39 AM, Stefan Richter wrote:
Note, maintainer contacts
- should be available to patch submitters and
- must be available to *problem reporters*
without having to have git and a .git repo.
That "must" seems rather strong. But those few non-developer users that
could care a
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Bodo Eggert wrote:
> > Warning: I'm only looking at the patch.
> >
> > You are supposed to print an error message for a user, not to write in a
> > chat window to a 1337 script kiddie. OK, you just matched the current style,
> > and your patch is IMHO OK
> Interesting, we never used -l that way. We used -l to get data for all
> exiting tasks
>
> ./getdelays -d -l
>
> For the usage you've mentioned, I'd use
>
> while :
> do
> sleep 2
> ./getdelays -p 1 -d
> done
>
> I guess your changes change getdelays and since there are other ways
Hello,
> It is possible to panic the box by a race condition that exists in the
> journalling code where we do not take the j_revoke_lock when traversing the
> journal's revoked record list. This patch has been tested and we haven't seen
> the issue yet, its a rather straightforward and correct
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:37:49PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:14:41AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > meth is only used on SGI O2s which are not that slow and unlikely
> > to work in tree anyways.
>
> O2 doesn't enable CONFIG_ZONE_DMA so there is no point in using GFP_
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:35:31PM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
>
> LDD3 says on page 125: "The following operations are defined for the
> type [atomic_t] and are guaranteed to be atomic with respect to all
> processors of an SMP computer."
>
> Doesn't "atomic WRT all processors" require volatil
b663a79c191508f27cd885224b592a878c0ba0f6 incorrectly removed a comma
from a printf statement. This causes corruption in the output printing
or a seg fault.
Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c |2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 del
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 01:37:37PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > It is possible to panic the box by a race condition that exists in the
> > journalling code where we do not take the j_revoke_lock when traversing the
> > journal's revoked record list. This patch has been tested and we ha
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Satyam Sharma wrote:
> > [ BTW, why do we want the compiler to not optimize atomic_read()'s in
> > the first place? Atomic ops guarantee atomicity, which has nothing
> > to do with "volatility" -- users that expect "volatility" from
> > atomic o
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 07:21:03AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> The following patchset implements recursive reclaim. Recursive reclaim
> is necessary if we run out of memory in the writeout patch from reclaim.
>
> This is f.e. important for stacked filesystems or anything that does
> complica
Andi Kleen schrieb:
Very old binutils (2.12.90...) seem to have trouble with newlines
in assembler macro invocation. They put them into the resulting
argument expansion. In this case this lead to a parse error because
a .rept expression ended up spread over multiple lines. Change the PMDS()
invo
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 02:59:20PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:37:49PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:14:41AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >
> > > meth is only used on SGI O2s which are not that slow and unlikely
> > > to work in tree anyways.
>
Hi,
I noticed that a bad CD of mine makes DMA disabled:
hda: selected mode 0x44
hda: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x40 { LastFailedSense=0x04 }
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> My config with march=pentium-m and gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2):
> >> textdata bss dec hex filename
> >> 3434150 249176 176128 3859454 3ae3fe atomic_normal/vmlinux
> >> 3435308 249176 176
Later on, the paravirt_ops patch will deference the vm_area_struct
in asm/pgtable.h. It means this define must be after the struct
definition
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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include/linux/mm.h | 14 +-
This patch turns the flush_tlb routines into native versions.
In case paravirt is not defined, the natives are defined into
the actually used ones. flush_tlb_others() goes in smp.c, unless
smp is not in the game
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Ros
This patch adds native hooks for debugreg handling functions,
and for the native load_rsp0 function. The later also have its
call sites patched.
[ updates from v2
* there were still a raw reference to cr4 missing
]
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: St
This patch adds the native hook for the functions in system.h
They are the read/write_crX, clts and wbinvd. The later, also
gets its call sites patched.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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arch/x86_64/kernel/tce.c|
Time for the apic handling functions to get their native counterparts.
Also, put the native hook for the boot clocks functions in the apic.h header
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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arch/x86_64/kernel/apic.c|
The interrupt initialization routine becomes native_init_IRQ and will
be overriden later in case paravirt is on.
[ updates from v1
* After a talk with Jeremy Fitzhardinge, it turned out that making the
interrupt vector global was not a good idea. So it is removed in this
patch
]
Signed-o
This patch switches the cli and sti instructions into macros.
In this header, they're just defined to the instructions they
refer to. Later on, when paravirt is defined, they will be
defined to something with paravirt abilities.
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-o
When paravirtualization is disabled, the kernel is always
running at ring 0. So report it in the appropriate macro
Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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include/asm-x86_64/segment.h |4
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