Re: [2.6.22.5] irq X: nobody cared but X is successfully used by libata

2007-09-09 Thread Paul Rolland
Hello Tejun, On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:23:20 +0900 Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My machine (an ASUS P5W-DH-Deluxe, Core2, 4Go RAM, 3 SATA and 2IDE) is > > reporting a : > > irq 23: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) > > together wit

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi James. > > 2.6.23-rc5-git1 builds for me when I follow those steps... > > except for some Section mismatch warnings. > > What is the git project path name for the 2.6.23rc branch, if I wanted > to clone it, to keep up to date? You can find the -gitN trees at frontpage og www.kernel.org. If yo

[PATCH net-2.6.24] cxgb3 - napi update

2007-09-09 Thread Divy Le Ray
From: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Embed napi_struct directly into sge_qset. Use napi_schedule/napi_complete. Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/adapter.h| 20 +++--- drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c | 57 ++ drivers/net

Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 - vdso and gettimeofday issues with glibc

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
> Updating on this issue: Both myself and another person have reported on > the RedHat bugzilla that it's a clocksource issue - if you are using the > hpet clocksource, the time warps, but booting with clocksource=acpi_pm works. > > This ring any bells? Does this patch fix it? -Andi Add miss

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove asm/bitops.h includes

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > remove asm/bitops.h includes > > including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. When does it cause compile errors? It would be probably less intrusive to just fix that case. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

[patch 0/3] Reflect recent changes in kdump documentation

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch series reflects some recent changes that have been made on kdump also in the documentation. See the description of the patches itself. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

[patch 2/3] Express new ELF32 mechanisms in documentation

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch reflects the http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=commit;h=b9c3648e690ad0dad12389659673206213a09760 change in kexec-tools-testing also now in the kernel documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump

[patch 1/3] Express relocatability of kernel on x86_64 in documentation

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adapts the Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt file to express the fact that the x86_64 kernel is now also relocatable. This makes i386 and x86_64 now behave the same, simplifying the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 35

[patch 3/3] Add reset_devices to the recommended parameters

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adds the "reset_devices" option (that's used only by one device driver for now) to the recommended list of command line parameters for kdump. Meaning (Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt): reset_devices [KNL] Force drivers to reset the underlying device during

[patch 0/5] Add extended crashkernel command line syntax

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adds a extended crashkernel syntax that makes the value of reserved system RAM dependent on the system RAM itself: crashkernel=:[,:,[EMAIL PROTECTED] range=start-[end] For example: crashkernel=512M-2G:64M,2G-:128M The motivation comes from distributors that configure thei

[patch 1/5] Extended crashkernel command line

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This is the generic part of the patch. It adds a parse_crashkernel() function in kernel/kexec.c that is called by the architecture specific code that actually reserves the memory. That function takes the whole command line and looks itself for "crashkernel=" in it. If there are multiple occurrence

[patch 2/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on i386

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from arch/i386/kernel/machine_kexec.c and calls the generic function, introduced in the last patch, in setup_bootmem_allocator(). This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be known in this function now because of the new syntax. Signed-off

[patch 5/5] Add documentation for extended crashkernel syntax

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This adds the documentation for the extended crashkernel syntax into Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 26 ++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/D

[patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c and calls the generic function, introduced in the last patch, in setup_bootmem_allocator(). This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be known in this function now because of the new syntax. Signed-o

[patch 4/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on IA64

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
This patch adapts IA64 to use the generic parse_crashkernel() function instead of its own parsing for the crashkernel command line. Because the total amount of System RAM must be known when calling this function, efi_memmap_init() is modified to return its comulated total_memory variable in a poi

Re: Linux' IEEE 1394/ FireWire subsystem TODO list

2007-09-09 Thread Stefan Richter
Natalie Protasevich wrote: > I've seen individual todo lists on some preject pages, wish I was > recording such information, so we could gather all the pointers on the > common page. There is page maintained by Rick An Riel > http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelProjects which is just perfect for > addin

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
"James C. Georgas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > It's 2.6.22.6. I'm thinking a fix would be to add "select PM" to > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA. > > I'm also thinking that maybe K8_NUMA should be changed from "depends on > PCI" to "select PCI", like X86_64_ACPI_NUMA is. That would fix the > pseudo depende

Re: Suspend and hibernation status report

2007-09-09 Thread Maciek Rutecki
Rafael J. Wysocki pisze: > > Well, I am. > > On HPC nx6325 the status of AC adapter after the restore is not reported > correctly if hibernation is done without the ACPI hooks (eg. if you hibernate > with the AC connected and then disconnect it and resume, it will still be > reported as connected

What's in mtd-2.6.git

2007-09-09 Thread David Woodhouse
This is what I intend to push for 2.6.24... The notable parts are LZO compression support in JFFS2, a OneNAND simulator, panic dumps to flash... and a bunch of bug fixes and janitorial stuff. Adrian Bunk (4): [MTD] [MAPS] Cleanup nettel map driver [MTD] [NAND] cafe_nand.c: the OLPC la

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-09-09 Thread Maciek Rutecki
Rafael J. Wysocki pisze: >> Shutdown is completely broken on HP NX6??? laptops. > > It's not completely broken, it just handles disks incorrectly and we are not > sure whether or not there are any serious consequences of that. Moreover, > it has happened for a long time now, AFAICT, so that's not

Health monitor of a multi-threaded process

2007-09-09 Thread Yishai Hadas
Hi List, I'm looking for any mechanism in a multi-threaded process to monitor the health of its running threads - or by a specific monitor thread or by any other mechanism. It includes the following aspects: 1) Threads are running and not stuck on any lock. 2) Threads are running and ha

[PATCH] m68k(nommu): Add missing syscalls

2007-09-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
m68k(nommu): Add missing syscalls Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S | 10 ++ arch/m68knommu/kernel/syscalltable.S | 10 ++ include/asm-m68k/unistd.h| 12 +++- include/asm-m68knommu/unistd.h

[PATCH] checksyscalls.sh: ignore restart_syscall

2007-09-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
checksyscalls.sh: ignore restart_syscall, which is not needed on m68k and blackfin. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- scripts/checksyscalls.sh |1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh +++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ cat << E

Re: [PATCH] checksyscalls.sh: ignore restart_syscall

2007-09-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:34:11AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > checksyscalls.sh: ignore restart_syscall, which is not needed on m68k and > blackfin. If only these archs does not care then just stick that #define __IGNORE_... in the arch specifc unistd.h files. x86_64 and other do this alrea

Re: easy alsa patches for the stable kernel?

2007-09-09 Thread Thorsten Leemhuis
On 08.09.2007 19:49, Stefan Richter wrote: > Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: >> On 08.09.2007 01:38, Takashi Iwai wrote: > [backports to -stable] >>> Linux will suck really if one breaks so-called stable thing easily >>> without actually testing. For stable stuff, "it should be good" isn't >>> enough. I

Re: Problem charging blackberry 8700c with berry_charge (2.6.22.6)

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:02:29PM -0400, Matt LaPlante wrote: > I'm running the 2.6.22.6 kernel with the berry_charge module loaded. > I connect my 8700c via USB, but the blackberry does not appear to > charge. The power icon does not change, and even after staying > connected for an extended peri

[PATCH] Make platform_device.id an int

2007-09-09 Thread Jean Delvare
While platform_device.id is a u32, platform_device_add() handles "-1" as a special id value. This has potential for confusion and bugs. Making it an int instead should prevent problems from happening in the future. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- I still believe that we can fur

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 10:42:20PM -0400, Kyle Rose wrote: > > > You are a regular reader of linux-kernel, and therefore the sk98lin > > removal can hardly be a surprise for you. If you prefer whining over > > helping to improve the kernel that's your choice... > > > In my case the issue is s

Re: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

2007-09-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:05:24PM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: > Subject: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash This patch feels like a huge hack. See below. > This patch removes sysdata from pci_dev struct and creates a new > field called sys_data which is exclusively used by IOM

Re: libata not working for sis5533

2007-09-09 Thread Patrizio Bassi
Jan Engelhardt ha scritto: > On Sep 8 2007 11:38, Patrizio Bassi wrote: > >> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >>> I shall give this a spin too, since I happen to have sis5513. >>> >>> Just booted this fresh ata-enabled system (a matter of mkinitrd). It has >>> not exploded yet. >>> >> don't

Re: Disk spin down issue on shut down/suspend to disk

2007-09-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 9 September 2007 11:20, Maciek Rutecki wrote: > Rafael J. Wysocki pisze: > >> Shutdown is completely broken on HP NX6??? laptops. > > > > It's not completely broken, it just handles disks incorrectly and we are not > > sure whether or not there are any serious consequences of that. Mor

Re: libata not working for sis5533

2007-09-09 Thread Patrizio Bassi
Patrizio Bassi ha scritto: > Jan Engelhardt ha scritto: >> On Sep 8 2007 11:38, Patrizio Bassi wrote: >> >>> Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> I shall give this a spin too, since I happen to have sis5513. Just booted this fresh ata-enabled system (a matter of mkinitrd). It has not

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 08/28/2007 01:41 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Does this went through to your boxes? Any progress, clue, idea? > > Jiri Slaby napsal(a): >> Andrew Morton napsal(a): >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc3-mm1/ >> Hi, >> >> I've found a regression agains

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1

2007-09-09 Thread Mel Gorman
(To list based on CC's in net-add-ath5k-wireless-driver-fix.patch . If that is in error, apologies) On (31/08/07 21:58), Andrew Morton didst pronounce: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc4/2.6.23-rc4-mm1/ > I thought I would give the ath5k driver a shot o

Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 0/3] KVM paravirtualization framework (v2)

2007-09-09 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: This patchset refactors KVM's paravirtualization support to better support guest SMP and cross platform migration. It also introduces a bare-bones KVM paravirt_ops implementation. I've tested this on VT and it works nicely. I'm having trouble getting a bzImage to boot on

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Morton
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:44:56 +0200 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/28/2007 01:41 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Does this went through to your boxes? Any progress, clue, idea? > > > > Jiri Slaby napsal(a): > >> Andrew Morton napsal(a): > >>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/a

[PATCH -mm] Hibernation: Enter platform hibernation state in a consistent way (rev. 4)

2007-09-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make hibernation_platform_enter() execute the enter-a-sleep-state sequence instead of the mixed shutdown-with-entering-S4 thing. Replace the shutting down of devices done by kernel_shutdown_prepare(), before entering the ACPI S4 sleep state, with suspen

Re: [patch 4/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on IA64

2007-09-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:39:18AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Because the total amount of System RAM must be known when calling this > function, efi_memmap_init() is modified to return its comulated accumulated? > total_memory variable in a pointer value. IMO that's better than making the >

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
Removed [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dead e-mail) On 09/09/2007 02:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:44:56 +0200 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 08/28/2007 01:41 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>> Does this went through to your boxes? Any progress, clue, idea? >>> >>> Jiri Slaby nap

[PATCH] KCONFIG: fix pseudo dependency between K8_NUMA and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA config options

2007-09-09 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > "James C. Georgas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > It's 2.6.22.6. I'm thinking a fix would be to add "select PM" to > > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA. > > > > I'm also thinking that maybe K8_NUMA should be changed from "depends on > > PCI" to "select

Re: [RESEND][PATCH] dir_index: error out instead of BUG on corrupt hash dir limit

2007-09-09 Thread Duane Griffin
Hi Eric, On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 09:48:43PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > (resend, this one got lost? Got an acked-by from Andreas > last go-round) Sorry I missed this first time around. I came up with a very similar fix recently, following a gentoo bug report. However there are a few more asser

[PATCH -rc] KVM: MMU: Fix rare oops on guest context switch

2007-09-09 Thread Avi Kivity
A guest context switch to an uncached cr3 can require allocation of shadow pages, but we only recycle shadow pages in kvm_mmu_page_fault(). Move shadow page recycling to mmu_topup_memory_caches(), which is called from both the page fault handler and from guest cr3 reload. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivit

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-09 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 22:00 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > For example, you would only need to specify one "select" directive in > > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, (i.e. to turn on ACPI_NUMA). The configuration system > > would then recursively walk up ACPI_NUMA's dependency hierarchy, turning > > on what it ne

Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: fix pseudo dependency between K8_NUMA and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA config options

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 09:19:05AM -0400, James C. Georgas wrote: > On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 11:07 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > "James C. Georgas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > It's 2.6.22.6. I'm thinking a fix would be to add "select PM" to > > > X86_64_ACPI_NUMA. > > > > > > I'm also thi

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

2007-09-09 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
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 lose > > suspend to disk :) > > > > Environment - vanilla kernel (2.6.22-rc6 currently + squashfs + single > > pata_ali pat

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/09/2007 02:47 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 13:44:56 +0200 Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 08/28/2007 01:41 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: >>> Does this went through to your boxes? Any progress, clue, idea? >>> >>> Jiri Slaby napsal(a): Andrew Morton napsal(a): >>>

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove asm/bitops.h includes

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/09/2007 10:04 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> remove asm/bitops.h includes >> >> including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. > > When does it cause compile errors? It would be probably less > intrusive to just fix that case. On ppc defconfi

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
> Hm, I suspect Andi's x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch or something like that. It > loops in flush_kernel_map in list_for_each_entry on the first CPU. The a->l > list > is somehow corrupted I guess. Does it still happen with the latest version ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64/quilt/patches/cp

Re: [PATCH 0/7] fix setuid/setgid clearing in networked filesystems (take 5)

2007-09-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Looks good content-wise. But please move the patches that make sure we never trip the BUG before the patch introducing them so that we get a cleanly bisectable tree. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordo

Re: [PATCH 1/2] remove asm/bitops.h includes

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:04:25AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > remove asm/bitops.h includes > > > > including asm/bitops directly may cause compile errors. > > When does it cause compile errors? It would be probably less > intrusive to just fix that

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/09/2007 04:17 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Hm, I suspect Andi's x86_64-mm-cpa-clflush.patch or something like that. It >> loops in flush_kernel_map in list_for_each_entry on the first CPU. The a->l >> list >> is somehow corrupted I guess. > > Does it still happen with the latest version I thi

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:26:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > BTW it is reproducible for me on two different machines (i386-x86_64, > radeon-intel), don't you have the problem too? No problems here with a radeon, no. Does your CPU have clflush or not in /proc/cpuinfo? -Andi - To unsubscribe from

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/09/2007 04:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:26:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> BTW it is reproducible for me on two different machines (i386-x86_64, >> radeon-intel), don't you have the problem too? > > No problems here with a radeon, no. > > Does your CPU have clflush

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/09/2007 04:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:26:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> BTW it is reproducible for me on two different machines (i386-x86_64, >> radeon-intel), don't you have the problem too? > > No problems here with a radeon, no. > > Does your CPU have clflush

[GIT PATCH] hwmon update against v2.6.23-rc5-git1

2007-09-09 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Linus: Please pull from: git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6.git release You will get one patch (below), which fixes a potential regression from v2.6.22 (although AFAIK there have been no reports about this one.) commit 15bde2f1a8e819213f54314505a5a0509673109b Author: Jean

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:43:37PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > On 09/09/2007 04:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:26:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: > >> BTW it is reproducible for me on two different machines (i386-x86_64, > >> radeon-intel), don't you have the problem too? > >

Re: [GIT PULL] VESA register clobber paranoia

2007-09-09 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Please pull: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-x86setup.git > for-linus > > H. Peter Anvin (1): > [x86 setup] Don't rely on the VESA BIOS being register-clean > > arch/i386/boot/video-vesa.c | 34 +- > 1 files chang

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

2007-09-09 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2007-09-03 11:24:57, Dave Jones wrote: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > i want to make a patch known that provides a userspace interface to > control the core voltage of a computer processor(s). > > > > That would

Re: [PATCH 16/22] advansys: Eliminate prototypes

2007-09-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Matthew Wilcox wrote: Rearrange a lot of the functions in the file to get rid of all the forward declarations. What thoughts, if any, have been given to post-patch code arrangement, besides eliminating prototypes? This always struck me as a counterproductive exercise when taken by itself.

Re: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

2007-09-09 Thread Keshavamurthy, Anil S
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:16:19PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:05:24PM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: > > > Subject: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash > > This patch feels like a huge hack. See below. You seem to be jumping to conclusion without goin

Re: X freezes kernel during exit [Re: 2.6.23-rc3-mm1]

2007-09-09 Thread Jiri Slaby
On 09/09/2007 05:01 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:43:37PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: >> On 09/09/2007 04:33 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 04:26:22PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote: BTW it is reproducible for me on two different machines (i386-x86_64, radeon

Re: sk98lin for 2.6.23-rc1

2007-09-09 Thread Chris Stromsoe
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:44:20PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: Haven't tried later kernels, don't intend to, while no network is really secure, it not really useful. You are a regular reader of linux-kernel, and therefore the sk98lin removal can hardly

Re: Early userspace, Linux development (Re: perhaps init/ should update the reference to "change floppy")

2007-09-09 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Oleg Verych wrote: > * Sat, 8 Sep 2007 08:08:06 -0400 (EDT) > [] > > from init/do_mounts_rd.c: > > > > ... > [] > > if (rd_prompt) > > change_floppy("root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM > > disk"); > > create_dev("/dev/root", ROOT_DEV); > >

tsc timer related problems/questions

2007-09-09 Thread Dennis Lubert
Hello list, we are encountering a few behaviours regarding the ways to get accurate timer values under Linux that we would call bugs, and where we are currently stuck in further diagnosing and/or fixing. Background: We are developing for SMP servers with up to 8 CPUs (mostly AMD64) and for variou

[PATCH 1/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian McMenamin
This patch adds support for Sega's proprietary Maple bus - which is required to support the Dreamcast's peripherals. This driver represents a substantial re-write of the old 2.4 driver. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/arch/sh/Kconfig b/arch/sh/Kconfig index 54878

Re: tsc timer related problems/questions

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:31:45 +0200 Dennis Lubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > > [105771.523771] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! > [105771.527869] > [105771.527871] Call Trace: > [105771.536079][] _spin_lock+0x9/0xb > [105771.540294] [] softlockup_tick+0xd2/0xe7 > [105771.544359] []

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

2007-09-09 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 9 September 2007 16:00, 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 lose > > > suspend to disk :) > > > > > > Environment - va

[PATCH 2/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast - keyboard support

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian McMenamin
This patch adds support for the SEGA Dreamcast keyboard. Following suggestions from the inout maintainer it has been somewhat rewritten since the previous posting (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/168). It is dependent on patch 1 in this series (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/9/70) - which provides th

[PATCH 3/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast - consequential change to pvr2 driver

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian McMenamin
Make the VBLANK interrupt shareable. This is the third time I have posted this patch. This is required to allow the Maple bus driver to work (Maple hardware is synced with the VBLANK interrupt). Signed off: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/video/pvr2fb.c b/drivers/video/

Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-09 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 9/9/07, Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch removes the crashkernel parsing from > arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c and calls the generic function, introduced > in > the last patch, in setup_bootmem_allocator(). > > This is necessary because the amount of System RAM must be

Re: broken ACPI NUMA config option

2007-09-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
James C. Georgas wrote: On Sat, 2007-08-09 at 22:00 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: For example, you would only need to specify one "select" directive in X86_64_ACPI_NUMA, (i.e. to turn on ACPI_NUMA). The configuration system would then recursively walk up ACPI_NUMA's dependency hierarchy, turning on

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

2007-09-09 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
On Sunday 09 September 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 9 September 2007 16:00, 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

Re: [PATCH 16/22] advansys: Eliminate prototypes

2007-09-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:29:34AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > What thoughts, if any, have been given to post-patch code arrangement, > besides eliminating prototypes? > This always struck me as a counterproductive exercise when taken by > itself. Eliminating prototypes saves me from an extra go

Re: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash

2007-09-09 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:43:59AM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:16:19PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 01:05:24PM -0700, Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote: > > > > > Subject: [RFC][Intel-IOMMU] Fix for IOMMU early crash > > > > This patch f

Re: [PATCH 5/5] Add DMA engine driver for Freescale MPC85xx processors.

2007-09-09 Thread Dan Williams
On 9/7/07, Zhang Wei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The driver implements DMA engine API for Freescale MPC85xx DMA > controller, which could be used for MEM<-->MEM, IO_ADDR<-->MEM > and IO_ADDR<-->IO_ADDR data transfer. > The driver supports the Basic mode of Freescale MPC85xx DMA controller. > The M

Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

2007-09-09 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Friday 17 August 2007 17:48, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > That's not obviously just taste to me. Not when the primitive has many > > (perhaps, the majority) of uses that do not require said barriers. And > > this is not solely about the code generat

Re: tsc timer related problems/questions

2007-09-09 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 9 2007 17:49, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> >> Question: Why are only Intel CPUs considered as stable? Could there be >> implemented a more sophisticated heuristic, that actually does some >> tests for tsc stability? > >on AMD multi-socket systems, afaik the tsc is not synchronized between >p

[2.6 patch] powerpc: proper defconfig for crosscompiles

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian Bunk
The trick for finding the right defconfig is neat, but you forgot to provide an i686_defconfig. ;-) More seriously, cross compiling the defconfig is often useful, e.g. for testing the compilation of patches that touch multiple architectures, and this patch therefore chooses g5_defconfig if $(C

Re: [PATCH 0/24] make atomic_read() behave consistently across all architectures

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 19:02:54 +0100 Denys Vlasenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why is all this fixation on "volatile"? I don't think > people want "volatile" keyword per se, they want atomic_read(&x) to > _always_ compile into an memory-accessing instruction, not register > access. and ... why is

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:46:54 +0100 "Adrian McMenamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds support for Sega's proprietary Maple bus - which is > required to support the Dreamcast's peripherals. Hi, in general the code looks clean; great job on that. A few suggestions and comments to hopef

Re: [PATCH 2/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast - keyboard support

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 18:01:26 +0100 "Adrian McMenamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This patch adds support for the SEGA Dreamcast keyboard. > > Following suggestions from the inout maintainer it has been somewhat > rewritten since the previous posting > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/4/168). Hi, t

Re: tsc timer related problems/questions

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:17:28 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 9 2007 17:49, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > >> > >> Question: Why are only Intel CPUs considered as stable? Could > >> there be implemented a more sophisticated heuristic, that actually > >> does some tests

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian McMenamin
On 09/09/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 17:46:54 +0100 > "Adrian McMenamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch adds support for Sega's proprietary Maple bus - which is > > required to support the Dreamcast's peripherals. > > > First of all, I'm a litt

Re: [2.6 patch] powerpc: proper defconfig for crosscompiles

2007-09-09 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 08:21:17PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The trick for finding the right defconfig is neat, but you forgot to > provide an i686_defconfig. ;-) > > More seriously, cross compiling the defconfig is often useful, e.g. for > testing the compilation of patches that touch multip

Re: [PATCH] KCONFIG: fix pseudo dependency between K8_NUMA and X86_64_ACPI_NUMA config options

2007-09-09 Thread James C. Georgas
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 15:46 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Thanks. How about a fix for the other problem (ACPI_NUMA- PM) too? > I don't want to just hard-select it until I understand what happened between 2.6.22.6 and current git to make ACPI selectable without PM. Personally, I think ACPI should b

Re: [PATCH] checksyscalls.sh: ignore restart_syscall

2007-09-09 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 11:34:11AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > checksyscalls.sh: ignore restart_syscall, which is not needed on m68k and > > blackfin. > > If only these archs does not care then just stick that > #define __IGNORE_... > in the arch

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Maple bus support for the Sega Dreamcast

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 19:36:52 +0100 "Adrian McMenamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fair enough. > > > > + > > > +void maple_add_packet(struct mapleq *mq) > > > +{ > > > + list_add((struct list_head *) mq, &maple_waitq); > > > +} > > > > for example this list.. what makes sure that no 2 pieces

Re: [discuss] [patch 3/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on x86_64

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-09 19:27]: > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC > ... > > CONFIG_KEXEC or CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP? Good question. The crashkernel parameter was CONFIG_KEXEC before, and I also wondered why, but I didn't change this because maybe there's some reason I don't know. Vivek

Re: [patch 1/3] Express relocatability of kernel on x86_64 in documentation

2007-09-09 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 10:06:21 +0200 Bernhard Walle wrote: > This patch adapts the Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt file to express the fact > that the x86_64 kernel is now also relocatable. This makes i386 and x86_64 now > behave the same, simplifying the documentation. > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard

[PATCH] [Bug 8998] Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers in Linux 2.6.23-rc

2007-09-09 Thread Matti Linnanvuori
diff -uprN linux-2.6.23/Documentation/mutex-design.txt linux-2.6.23-patched/Documentation/mutex-design.txt --- linux-2.6.23/Documentation/mutex-design.txt2007-09-09 21:47:10.545275000 +0300 +++ linux-2.6.23-patched/Documentation/mutex-design.txt2007-09-09 21:48:17.935493000 +0300 @@ -90,

Re: [PATCH] [Bug 8998] Mutex documentation is unclear about software interrupts, tasklets and timers in Linux 2.6.23-rc

2007-09-09 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Matti Linnanvuori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, thank you for improving the documentation > diff -uprN linux-2.6.23/Documentation/mutex-design.txt > linux-2.6.23-patched/Documentation/mutex-design.txt --- > > > Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <[EMAIL

Re: [patch 4/5] Use extended crashkernel command line on IA64

2007-09-09 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-09 15:01]: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 10:39:18AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > Because the total amount of System RAM must be known when calling this > > function, efi_memmap_init() is modified to return its comulated > > accumulated? Yes, sorry.

Re: regarding sysfs/kobject separation

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 10:40:58PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > 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 oth

Re: [PATCH] nozomi DTR/RTS

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:02:40PM +0200, Eric Lammerts wrote: > Hi, > I noticed that DTR toggling doesn't work with the nozomi driver > (TIOCMBIS/TIOCMBIC ioctls have no effect). This is a nuisance because that > makes it hard to get the modem back in command mode. > > Attached patch adds a tty_

Re: [PATCH 2/2] ELAN U132 Host Controller Driver: convert scheduler_lock to mutex

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:10:54PM +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > A corrected version of the patch, the first one contained context > removed by the first patch of this serie This patch for some reason did not apply cleanly. Care to redo it after the next -mm releae that has your first patch i

Re: [RFC] disable PCIE 'Enable No Snoop' bit by default

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 05:40:38AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 05:57:31 -0600 > > > I'm not sure your analysis is correct. Here's what my draft copy of > > the pcie 2.0 spec says: > > > > Enble No Snoop ? If this bit is Set, the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc4][reRESEND] irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 10:24:54AM -0700, Gaston, Jason D wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: Gaston, Jason D > >Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 8:34 PM > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; linux- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > >Gaston, Ja

Re: [2.6 patch] drivers/pci/: possible cleanups

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 11:28:22PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch contains the following possible cleanups: > - make the following needlessly global function static: > - pci.c: pci_restore_bars() > - #if 0 the following unused global functions: > - rom.c: pci_map_rom_copy() > - rom.c:

Re: [PATCH] drivers/firmware: const-ify DMI API and internals

2007-09-09 Thread Greg KH
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 12:01:20PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Greg KH wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:27:19AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> commit 457b6eb3bf3341d2e143518a0bb99ffbb8d754c4 >>> Author: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Date: Sat Sep 1 10:16:45 2007 -0400 >>> >>> drivers

[PATCH] Patch Dreamcast AICA driver to handle Maple bus support

2007-09-09 Thread Adrian McMenamin
This patches the AICA sound driver for the Dreamcast to handle the well known flakiness of the Dreamcast's G2 bus. This is dependent on getting Maple bus support (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/9/70) into the kernel. Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/sound/sh/aica

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