Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-02 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:50:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On 02 Sep 2007 00:08:57 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW string functions are best tested in user space. That's > > a relatively bad example. > > in theory, maybe ... in reality, i really dont think so > > the s

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

2007-09-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Junio C Hamano wrote: * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS. In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, which prevents git from getting upgraded at all by yum. Anyone who

RE: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc5] driver/char/hpet.c: remove clocksourcewarning on !IA64

2007-09-02 Thread Luck, Tony
> This patch eliminates the warnings when the clocksoure isn't used. > It also removes some other unused stuff that goes along with the > clocksource .. > > I don't have access to an ia64 machine, or even a compiler .. So this > one is untested for that. I'm hoping one of the ia64 guys can help > t

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The the patch is near the end of this email.. The most notable thing > about the rediff is the line count, > > 4 files changed, 323 insertions(+), 729 deletions(-) > > That's impressive (assuming my rediff is correct). [...] Yeah, at first glance

Re: [PATCH] Track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Venki Pallipadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > +void tick_nohz_stop_idle(int cpu) > > +{ > > + struct tick_sched *ts = &per_cpu(tick_cpu_sched, cpu); > > + > > + if (ts->idle_active) { > > + ktime_t now, delta; > > + now = k

Re: [PATCH] Track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime

2007-09-02 Thread Andi Kleen
> at least the current out-of-idle code already does what amounts to a > PM-timer read when exiting from C2 or C3 mode. The C2/C3 are already slow. I more worry about C1. Also doing two instead of one can have an impact even on C2+, especially when the operation can be thousands of cycles. -An

ipv4_get_l4proto: Frag of proto 17

2007-09-02 Thread Prakash Punnoor
Hi, since 2.6.23-rc1 my log gets cluttered with ipv4_get_l4proto: Frag of proto 17 What is the reason? Cheers, -- (°= =°) //\ Prakash Punnoor /\\ V_/ \_V signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

2007-09-02 Thread Junio C Hamano
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for >> fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. > > There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS. > > In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, which preve

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

2007-09-02 Thread David Kastrup
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for >> fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. >> > > There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS. > > In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, which pr

video4linux, bttv, vbi and missing lines in teletext...

2007-09-02 Thread Manuel Reimer
Hello, I want to view teletext using my bt878 card. I tried with mtt, but I always had missing lines in the teletext display. As I have been unsure, which is the reason, I also downloaded and compiled alevt. Here, the same lines are missing. Now I used the test tools from the zvbi library, t

Re: [PATCH] docs: ramdisk/initrd/initramfs corrections

2007-09-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007 1:28:17 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > > The old "ramdisk=" has been changed to > > > > "ramdisk_size=" to make it clearer. The or

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Although it _should_ have been a net code size win, because if you look > at the diff you'll see that other useful things were removed as well: > sleeper fairness, CPU time distribution smarts, tunings, scheduler > instrumentation code, etc. To be f

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

2007-09-02 Thread Rob Landley
On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote: > Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for > > space reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful. > > I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this a long ti

Re: [OT] good job guys with the anti-spam !

2007-09-02 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:23:53AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:39:36AM +0200, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > [] > > > > Ehrm, you want everyone who wants to start a new thread to: > > > > - send an email > > - await response from the mail server > > - send the same email

Re: Fork Bombing Patch

2007-09-02 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Aug 29, 2007, at 09:49:01, Chris Snook wrote: Like this there are many cases..(actually these cases has already been discussed On LKML 2 months before in my thread named "fork bombing attack"). in all these cases this printk helps adminstrator a lot. What exactly does this patch help th

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

2007-09-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rob Landley wrote: On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote: Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for space reasons. This would make that noticeably more painful. I had a patch for a sysctl_name(2) for this

2.6.23-rc4-mm1 net bitops compile error

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
defconfig fails with the following error on parisc: <-- snip --> ... CC net/core/gen_estimator.o In file included from include2/asm/bitops.h:111, from /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-rc4-mm1/net/core/gen_estimator.c:18: /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.23-

Re: [PATCH] x86/x86-64 PCI domain support

2007-09-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:32:23AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Now that the dust has settled and the prep work is upstream, adding > PCI edomain support to x86 is a lot more straightforward. > > Targetted for 2.6.24. Looks good to me. Cheers, Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the lin

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > with Peter's queue there are no underflows/overflows either anymore > > in any synthetic corner-case we could come up with. Peter's queue > > works well but it's 2.6.24 material. > > Did you even try to understand what I wrote? I didn't say that it

Re: Linux 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-02 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 2 September 2007 09:54, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Hi, > > 2.6.23-rc5 locks up hard (Magic Syskeys won't even work) after a few minutes > of work on x86_64. 2.6.23-rc4 was fine. I'll try git-bisect to find out what > is causing trouble. Yes, I am using nvidia binary but it didn't make t

Re: BUG POWERPC: snd-powermac hangs since 'Merge 32 and 64 bits asm-powerpc/io.h'

2007-09-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 00:53 -0400, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: > When playing audio with the snd-powermac driver on a PowerMac G4 > Quicksilver (Tumbler audio) the sound hangs after a few seconds. > > - The time before a hang varies from one second to one minute. > - Killing the process playing sound a

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 OOPS in forcedeth?

2007-09-02 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > On this machine (Athlon 64 X2 4600, 4 GiB memory, lots of disks), > > > > 2.6.23-rc1-mm2 runs fine. 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 reproducably dies within > > > > seconds of > > > > starting > > > > a rsync session

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

2007-09-02 Thread H. Peter Anvin
David Kastrup wrote: "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Junio C Hamano wrote: * For people who need to import from Perforce, a front-end for fast-import is in contrib/fast-import/. There seems to be an issue with this and RPMS. In particular, there is no longer a git-p4 RPMS, wh

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Although it _should_ have been a net code size win, because if you > > look at the diff you'll see that other useful things were removed as > > well: sleeper fairness, CPU time distribution smarts, tuni

Re: [PATCH] Track accurate idle time with tick_sched.idle_sleeptime

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > at least the current out-of-idle code already does what amounts to a > > PM-timer read when exiting from C2 or C3 mode. The > > C2/C3 are already slow. I more worry about C1. C2/C3 are only slow in older CPUs - and they are getting faster and faster

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> co-operation. Together we advance our detective work and knowledge of > the Macintosh platforms to the good of all Macintosh users dumped" > > Alan Cox circa 1999. > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027419.html > > "well I'd be quite happy to see X go GPL but I'm aware

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> - If you receive ISC or BSD licensed code, you may not delete the > license. Same principle, since the notice says so. It's the law. > Really. You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there was per

Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3

2007-09-02 Thread Alex Riesen
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz, Sun, Sep 02, 2007 10:43:38 +0200: > *** t0001-init.sh *** > * FAIL 1: plain > > ( > unset GIT_DIR GIT_WORK_TREE && > mkdir plain && > cd plain && > git init >

[PATCH 1/2] net/: all net/ cleanup with ARRAY_SIZE

2007-09-02 Thread Denis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/atm/proc.c |2 +- net/decnet/dn_dev.c |2 +- net/ipv4/af_inet.c |2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/atm/proc.c b/net/atm/proc.c index 99fc1fe..a3e52ff 100644 --- a/net/atm/proc.c +++ b/ne

[PATCH 2/2] drivers/net/: all drivers/net/ cleanup with ARRAY_SIZE

2007-09-02 Thread Denis Cheng
Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/apne.c |2 +- drivers/net/arm/am79c961a.c|2 +- drivers/net/atarilance.c |2 +- drivers/net/atl1/atl1_hw.c |2 +- drivers/net/bnx2.c

Re: libata not working for sis5533

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> i've been out for a week, but found no notice, did i lost any email or > no activity on this issue? I tagged it onto the obscure IDE report pile. It doesn't contain any really useful information and its probably not an IDE layer bug as of itself. But its on the todo list for further investigatio

[-mm PATCH] Memory controller improve user interface (v3)

2007-09-02 Thread Balbir Singh
Changelog for version 3 1. Change memory.limit and memory.usage to memory.limit_in_bytes and memory.usage_in_bytes respectively 2. Remove "Bytes" from the output of the limit and usage counters 3. Remove spurious printk Changelog for version 2 1. Back end tracking is done in bytes, round up v

Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8961] New: BUG triggered by oidentd in netlink code

2007-09-02 Thread Patrick McHardy
Herbert Xu wrote: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks. I'm not sure either, it would require two concurrent requests to be processed, but AFAICS oidentd only uses a single netlink socket. Perhaps multiple running instances or something else using the inet_diag interface?

hang with CONFIG_MCYRIXIII

2007-09-02 Thread Mark Hindley
Hi, I recently been trying 2.6.2{2,3} kernels on a box with a Via C3 processor. It was previously running 2.6.18 without problems. I have been getting random hangs, sysrq unresponsive, nothing in logs or on serial console. Require power cycle to reset. Take between a few minutes and days to occur

Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Deprecate sys_sysctl in a user space visible fashion.

2007-09-02 Thread Rob Landley
On Sunday 02 September 2007 3:54:36 am H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: > > On Saturday 01 September 2007 5:16:03 pm Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Rob Landley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> A lot of embedded people like to configure /proc out of the kernel for > >>> space reasons. This would

[-mm patch] IPV6 must select XFRM

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:58:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >... > Changes since 2.6.23-rc3-mm1: >... > git-net.patch >... > git trees >... This patch fixes the following compile error: <-- snip --> ... LD .tmp_vmlinux1 net/built-in.o: In function `inet6_csk_xmit': (.text+0x72b0f):

Re: [possible regression] 2.6.22 reiserfs/libata sporadically hangs on resume from hibernation

2007-09-02 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Saturday, 30 June 2007 23:34, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > On Sunday 01 July 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Saturday, 30 June 2007 06:59, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > > Since 2.6.18 I do not have suspend to RAM; now I am starting to los

[2.6.22.5] Machine freeze when smartd launches long scans

2007-09-02 Thread Raphael Manfredi
The last messages I have on the netconsole are: hda: lost interrupt hda: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hda: DMA timeout error After that, the machine no longer responds to pings, the keyboard is non-responsive (so I could not see what the local console said, as my X

[OOPS] 2.6.23-rc5 ? network/via-rhine [was: hang with CONFIG_MCYRIXIII]

2007-09-02 Thread Mark Hindley
I have now got an oops trace out of this box, which I presume has been the cause of the previously observed hangs. To my inexperienced eye it looks like it is related to via-rhine. Thanks Mark BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0025 prin

Re: [RFC 18/26] FS: ExtX filesystem defrag

2007-09-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Please add 'slab' to the title, otherwise you conflict with a feature of the > same name... Ok. - 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.ker

Re: [PATCH -mm] net/sched/sch_cbq.c: Shut up uninitialized variable warning

2007-09-02 Thread Patrick McHardy
Satyam Sharma wrote: net/sched/sch_cbq.c: In function 'cbq_enqueue': net/sched/sch_cbq.c:383: warning: 'ret' may be used uninitialized in this function has been verified to be a bogus case. So let's shut it up. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAI

Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

2007-09-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > >From clameter: > > Teach jbd/jbd2 slab management to support >8k block size. Without this, it > > refused to mount on >8k ext3. > > > But the real fix is to kill this code. We can'

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 1 2007 18:36, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of >them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that >is OK. For companies it's ok, but for linux people it is not? (1) You do not know how much of the modifications

Re: [00/36] Large Blocksize Support V6

2007-09-02 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > by mixing large order pages into the regular lru, page aging gets rather > unfair. Not in general, only for particular loads. On average this is okay. It is consistent to age the whole block and not just a part of it. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable (v2)

2007-09-02 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:04:06 +0530 Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:26:57 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a per_cpu variable. This saves si

Re: kconfig/kbuild rewite (Re: What's up with CONFIG_BLK_DEV?)

2007-09-02 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:02:37AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > * Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:08:28 -0500 > * Organization: Boundaries Unlimited > > > [] > > Also "here's a symbol, show me a menu containing everything else that is > > either required by or enabled by this symbol..." That sounds like a mor

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:20:27PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove >> the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there >> was permission to do so. > > There was permissio

Re: 2.6.23-rc3: sysfs_remove_bin_file: bad dentry or inode or no such file: "descriptors"

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:36:32 -0400 (EDT) Gerhard Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > hello, > > Got this when I booted into 2.6.23-rc3: Let me know if more info is > needed. > > Gerhard > > > sysfs_remove_bin_file: bad dentry or inode or no such file: "descriptors" > > Call Trace:

Re: User process freezes on NFSv4 client

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:19:14 -0400 Gabor Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I've got NFSv4 problems on a big partition. Both NFS server and client run > kernel version 2.6.21.6. Exported file system is on an AoE etherdrive > (/dev/etherd/e1.1) device, having no partition table,

Re: NFS client show nothing for "ls" command.

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:49:24 +0800 gshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Recently, I got a funny problem that my NFS client can't show some of > mounted directories. These directories that can't be showed by "ls" > command have great deals of files. > > For example. I have a director

Re: Master volume control broken (regression against 2.6.22)

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:33:32 +0200 Thomas Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This commit broke my master volume control: > > 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 is first bad commit > commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 > Author: Ivan N. Zlatev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue M

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:33 +0200 Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Hi, > > 2.6.22 kernel with hyperthreading enabled only ext3 filesystems (2). > > [ 346.314640] === > [ 346.314758] [ INFO: possible circular locking depen

Re: possible BUG while doing gpg --gen-key

2007-09-02 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:57:17 +0200 Udo van den Heuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > Udo van den Heuvel wrote: > > Now it works: > > Stranger even: > > With audio-entropyd, rngd active and the netdev-random patch working I > cannot reproduce the crash. Even after a fresh boot. It would really

Oops in pwc v4l driver

2007-09-02 Thread Alex Smith
Hi, I found an old Philips Askey VC010 webcam and attempted to get it working on Linux (latest git, x86_64). It worked fine, I could view the camera in mplayer. But, however, when I went to move the camera, I unplugged it and forgot to close mplayer. I didn't notice, moved it, plugged it back in a

Re: Master volume control broken (regression against 2.6.22)

2007-09-02 Thread Michal Piotrowski
Hi Andrew, On 02/09/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:33:32 +0200 Thomas Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This commit broke my master volume control: > > > > 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b92580e7fed6cee1 is first bad commit > > commit 5d5d3bc3eddf2ad97b2cb090b9

[ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Simple Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Your math is fairly simple (and that is _good_, just like CFS's > existing math is simple), it can be summed up in essence as (without > complicating it with nice-level weighting, for easy > understandability): > > " use the already existing p->sum_e

Re: [OOPS] 2.6.23-rc5 ? network/via-rhine [was: hang with CONFIG_MCYRIXIII]

2007-09-02 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Mark Hindley wrote: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address > 0025 > [...] > Call Trace: > [] tcp_rtt_estimator+0xba/0x100 > [...] > EIP: [] tcp_rto_min+0x8/0x12 SS:ESP 0068:c0341dec Third report of this oops within past

[git patches] libata critical fixes

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
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 |5 - drivers/ata/sata_via.c |2 +- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Jeff Garzik (

Re: Oops in 2.6.23-rc5

2007-09-02 Thread Christian Kujau
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Herbert Xu wrote: You want this patch (by davem). I applied the patch and the box is up for 1hr now. Since I was able to reproduce the oops pretty reliable with this bittorrent thingy, I did the same a few times now, but the box did NOT crash :) Unfortunately people are

Re: [jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression

2007-09-02 Thread David Woodhouse
Jason, thank you _so_ much for finding the underlying cause of this. On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 06:20 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hmm, thanks for that. It does sound like it is deadlocking via > commit_write(). OTOH, it seems like it could be using the page > before it is uptodate -- it _may_ only be d

Re: [RFC + PATCH] signalfd simplification

2007-09-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 09/01, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > I'm playing at the moment with this patch, that recall Ben's idea of > attaching to the sighand only during read/poll, and calling dequeue_signal() > only with "current". This simplifies the signalfd logic quite a bit. > If this patch is applied, a task calling

Re: [2/4] 2.6.23-rc4: known regressions

2007-09-02 Thread Jesper Juhl
On 29/08/07, Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:42:56 +0300, > Ivan N. Zlatev wrote: > > > > On 8/29/07, Michal Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > ALSA > > > > > > Subject : Master volume control broken > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkm

[PATCH -mm][resend] softlockup-improve-debug-output.patch fix

2007-09-02 Thread Satyam Sharma
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > --- kernel/softlockup.c~fix 2007-09-02 04:23:49.0 +0530 > +++ kernel/softlockup.c 2007-09-02 04:34:45.0 +0530 ^^ Ick, I botched a trivial patch, it doesn't even apply. Updated one below (with indentation fix as added

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:20:27PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: Reyk code was never dual licensed! His code is under truly free licensing terms (BSD). Jiri's patch touched both files containing BSD-only code by Reyk and code Reyk contributed to leaving the

Re: [PATCH -mm][resend] softlockup-improve-debug-output.patch fix

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > > > --- kernel/softlockup.c~fix 2007-09-02 04:23:49.0 +0530 > > +++ kernel/softlockup.c 2007-09-02 04:34:45.0 +0530 > ^^ > > Ick, I botched a trivial patch, it doesn't e

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove > > the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there > > was permission to do so.

Re: libata / pata drivers and smart , pata_via . pata_pdc202xx_old

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 04:58:11 -0700 "n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > is it possible to get the new libata drivers (pata_via . pata_pdc202xx_old) > to support smart? > i was looking at smartcrl -a and it says Device does not support SMART even > though it does. They support smart. You may need a n

Re: 2.6.23-rc3: sysfs_remove_bin_file: bad dentry or inode or no such file: "descriptors"

2007-09-02 Thread Gerhard Mack
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:36:32 -0400 (EDT) Gerhard Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > hello, > > > > Got this when I booted into 2.6.23-rc3: Let me know if more info is > > needed. > > > > Gerhard > > > > > > sysfs_remove_bin_file: bad de

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Igor Sobrado wrote: When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these licensing terms concurrently. It is easy to understand. Removing (or changing) the conditions that apply to the program from the source code and documentation *without* an authorization from all the autho

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors > agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL for

[PATCH -mm] drivers/char/nozomi.c: __devexit_p usage build fix

2007-09-02 Thread Satyam Sharma
A typo results in build breakage: drivers/char/nozomi.c:2204: error: syntax error before ‘__attribute__’ make[2]: *** [drivers/char/nozomi.o] Error 1 when CONFIG_HOTPLUG=n. This was actually meant to be __devexit_p. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/char/nozomi.c |

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there was permission to do so. There was permission to do so from Reyk Floeter? Really? Your understanding isn't quite r

Re: [PATCH 5/6] Use one zonelist that is filtered by nodemask

2007-09-02 Thread Mel Gorman
On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 17:34 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Good idea. That gets rid of the GFP_THISNODE stuff that I introduced for > the memoryless node patchset. > Yes, I was fairly pleased with that. It makes the split look a little strange as an early patch makes it two zonelists and a la

Re: [RFC + PATCH] signalfd simplification

2007-09-02 Thread Oleg Nesterov
On 09/02, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > Small problem: unless I missed something, signalfd_deliver() and > sys_signalfd() > should use wake_up_all(), not wake_up() which implies nr_exclusive == 1. > > It is possible that we have multiple threads waiting on ->signalfd_wqh with > the the different ->sig

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or they can convey to other parties the right

Re: Oops in pwc v4l driver

2007-09-02 Thread Oliver Neukum
Am Sonntag 02 September 2007 schrieb Alex Smith: > Hi, > > I found an old Philips Askey VC010 webcam and attempted to get it > working on Linux (latest git, x86_64). It worked fine, I could view > the camera in mplayer. But, however, when I went to move the camera, I > unplugged it and forgot to c

2.6.23-rc5: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected

2007-09-02 Thread Christian Kujau
Hi, after upgrading to 2.6.23-rc5 (and applying davem's fix [0]), lockdep was quite noisy when I tried to shape my external (wireless) interface: [ 6400.534545] FahCore_78.exe/3552 just changed the state of lock: [ 6400.534713] (&dev->ingress_lock){-+..}, at: [] netif_receive_skb+0x2d5/0x3c0

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:00:46PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors >>> agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD >> >> Not strictly true. They can either ag

Re: [jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression

2007-09-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:13:23PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > Jason, thank you _so_ much for finding the underlying cause of this. > > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 06:20 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Hmm, thanks for that. It does sound like it is deadlocking via > > commit_write(). OTOH, it seems li

regarding sysfs/kobject separation

2007-09-02 Thread Tejun Heo
Hello, just a note to tell you guys what's going on. It's taking more time than I expected but it's near completion. I'm testing things now. After that, they need to be split and documented. It'll be a BIG change and due to other things including moronic military reserve training, I'll probably

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or > > they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL > > for example does this for version selection. > > So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a > developer to remove the G

Re: [jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression

2007-09-02 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 15:20 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > OK, but then hasn't the patch just made the deadlock harder to hit, > or is there some invariant that says that readpage() will never be > invoked if gc was invoked on the same page as we're commit_write()ing? > The Q/A comments aren't very s

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
IANAL, but: Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a > developer to remove the GPL license itself and release a > single-licensed BSD code if other parties want to do it? Of course. If it wasn't legal, dual BSD/GPL would just b

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Krzysztof Halasa wrote: WRT Atheros driver I'd probably leave the thing as is (i.e., BSD/GPL = in fact BSD), unless something like 50+% of the code is rewritten - it's mostly their hard work after all, isn't it? Not legal requirement, though. Yes. This deserves to be reinforced: There is defi

Re: [jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression

2007-09-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:48:04PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 15:20 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > OK, but then hasn't the patch just made the deadlock harder to hit, > > or is there some invariant that says that readpage() will never be > > invoked if gc was invoked on th

Re: [RFC + PATCH] signalfd simplification

2007-09-02 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > We can optimize this later, using a "clever" wait_queue_func_t if needed. Good idea. Will do ... - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Daniel Walker wrote: > Out of curiosity I was reviewing your patch .. Since you create > kernel/sched_norm.c as a copy of kernel/sched_fair.c it was hard to see > what had changed .. So I re-diffed your patch to eliminate > kernel/sched_norm.c and just make the changes to

Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these > licensing terms concurrently. No. E.g.: If I don't agree to the GPL (or if I had violated it and therefore have lost it's privileges), I MUST NOT redistribute it under the GPL because

Re: [possible regression] 2.6.22 reiserfs/libata sporadically hangs on resume from hibernation

2007-09-02 Thread Kasper Sandberg
Sorry for top posting, but this is MAYBE a related matter, i am not sure. the thing is, i am running with libata and reiserfs on a raid5 with 6 disks, and after i changed to libata it has worked excellently (before it used to give DMA errors and then go boom). however now i sometimes, if theres s

Re: [OT] good job guys with the anti-spam !

2007-09-02 Thread Oleg Verych
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:18:36AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: [] > > Your method as i mentioned > makes it trivial for them to request 1 ticket, then send 1 mails > which will be accepted without ever being filtered. It will result in > an increase of the number of spams and a great annoyanc

[RFD] new syscalls: suspend_other/resume_other?

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi there, at the moment implementing a mark and sweep garbage collection subsystem is quite a hack, because you always have to use up some signals for suspend/resume all threads to implement this. For runtime environments (like D system libraries or JVMs) this is a hack, since you take away fle

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel Walker
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 16:47 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote: > > > (1) time = sum_{t}^{T}(time_{t}) > > > (2) weight_sum = sum_{t}^{T}(weight_{t}) > > > > I read your description, but I was distracted by this latex style > > notation .. Could you walk through in english what these two equat

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 9/2/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:50:30PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On 02 Sep 2007 00:08:57 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > BTW string functions are best tested in user space. That's > > > a relatively bad example. > > > > in the

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote: > And if you look at the resulting code size/complexity, it actually > increases with Roman's patch (UP, nodebug, x86): > > textdata bss dec hex filename > 13420 2281204 148523a04 sched.o.rc5 > 13554 228

Re: [RFD] new syscalls: suspend_other/resume_other?

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> After sucessful return of this call, the affected process > is single threaded and only the calling thread runs > in this process (==MM struct). Not quite - vfork... > This call might be restricted to the main thread. What if differing threads have differing security

Re: [RFC 1/2] JBD: slab management support for large block(>8k)

2007-09-02 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 04:40:21AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:12:18PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > > > >From clameter: > > > Teach jbd/jbd2 slab management to support >8k block size. Without this, > > > it refuse

Re: [ANNOUNCE/RFC] Really Fair Scheduler

2007-09-02 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roman Zippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And if you look at the resulting code size/complexity, it actually > > increases with Roman's patch (UP, nodebug, x86): > > > > textdata bss dec hex filename > > 13420 2281204 148523a04 sched.o.rc5 > > 1355

Re: [PATCH] hwmon coretemp: Remove bogus __cpuinitdata etc cleanup

2007-09-02 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Satyam: * Satyam Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-23 09:14:25 +0530]: > > The CPU hotplug notifier_block coretemp_cpu_notifier is already defined > inside an #ifdef HOTPLUG_CPU, therefore marking it as __cpuinitdata is > quite a pointless thing to do. > > Also, remove duplicate prototype o

[patch] enable userspace cpu core voltage control with acpi-cpufreq

2007-09-02 Thread colin.michael
please add me as CC to any answear to that post. Hello, i want to make a patch known that provides a userspace interface to control the core voltage of a computer processor(s). Some notes about: = The current version patches acpi-cpuf

Re: the Linux kernel, testsuites, and maybe *you*

2007-09-02 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 11:15:23AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > there is still the ABI issue ... code written in kernel space in pure > asm cannot always be compiled in userspace and work properly/the same Is that a blackfin weirdness? > > > The other issue to test some of them properly you n

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