Re: 2.6.23-rc7 - _random_ IRQ23 : nobody cared

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Rolland
Hi David, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:56:59 +0930 David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rolland "(???) wrote: > > Hell, IRQ 23 is shared between libata and my modem !!! > > > > Tried using the modem? When no problem is reported, both the libata part and the modem are OK. When the pro

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1: panic in scheduler

2007-09-25 Thread Balbir Singh
On 9/25/07, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exactly same call trace is produced over IA64 Madison (up to 9M cache) with 8 > cpu's. > -- Hi, Kamalesh, Could you please reproduce the problem or share the steps to reproduce the problem? Thanks, Balbir - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [PATCH] Fix CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM for extended crashkernel command line

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:55:29 +0200 Bernhard Walle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > @@ -381,6 +381,20 @@ extern unsigned long __init setup_memory > extern void zone_sizes_init(void); > #endif /* !CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES */ > > + Only one line is needed between functions, please. > +#ifdef CONF

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv,ahci: add the ahci legacy mode support to sata_nv

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Peer Chen wrote: Add the ahci controller legacy mode support to sata_nv. Move the DIDs of legacy mode from ahci.c to sata_nv.c The patch base on kernel 2.6.23-rc8 Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't understand why these are being moved? If an interface can be driven via the

Re: 2.6.23-rc7 + radeonfb/s2ram

2007-09-25 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Monday 24 September 2007, Andreas Herrmann wrote: > Have you tried to boot your kernel with > >video=radeonfb:noaccel > > I usual add this kernel parameter when running radeonfb and X. > > Otherwise I've observed the same symptoms (e.g. with my radeon card > at home: Radeon X300SE, 1002:5

Re: 2.6.22.7 autoconf.h is screwed up

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 24 2007 16:25, Jaswinder Singh wrote: >So it is obsolete for user's point of view, right ? .config is human-readable and serves as input for kconfig, and autoconf.h is kconfig's output for the C binding that you do not mess with. Neither is obsolete, end of story. If Linux were to have

ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Damien Wyart
Hello, After testing rc8, I noticed that I couldn't power off the computer directly, it only got halted and I had to press the power button manually. Just before displaying "System halted", the following message is displayed: ACPI : PCI interrupt for device :02:08.0 disabled I had to first

Re: [PATCH] Patches for tiny 386 kernels, again. Linux kernel 2.6.22.7

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 24 2007 15:09, Dave Jones wrote: > > > +#if defined(__i386__) && defined(CONFIG_DMI) > > dmi_check_system(acpi_dmi_table); > > #endif > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_DMI > > dmi_scan_machine(); > > +#endif > > > > +#ifdef CONFIG_DMI > > /* Check and install the TSC clocksource */ >

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On 9/24/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can your check whether 2.6.23-rc7 + > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc7/patch-2.6.23-rc7-hrt1.patch > > works for you ? Yes, powers off normally. Torsten - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:51:09 +0200 Damien Wyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > After testing rc8, I noticed that I couldn't power off the computer > directly, it only got halted and I had to press the power button > manually. Just before displaying "System halted", the following message

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 08:10 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > no news is good news. Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice 0 pinned to CPU0, and one at nice 19 pinned to CPU1 produced the latencies below for nice -5 Xorg. Didn't kill the box though. se.wait_max

Re: [PATCH 1/1] Kernel compile bug in 2.6.22.6/7 {maybe more} ARM/StrongARM

2007-09-25 Thread Russell King
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:53:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was building a kernel for an iPaq {SA1110} and ran into this. > > linux-2.6.22.7/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/generic.c: > Has a: #include > Then afterwards there is a: #if defined(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_SA1100) || > defined(CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:45:37 +0200 Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The latest sched-devel.git tree can be pulled from: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched-devel.git This doornails the Vaio. After grub handover the screen remains black and the f

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:32 +0200, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On 9/24/07, Thomas Gleixner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can your check whether 2.6.23-rc7 + > > http://tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.23-rc7/patch-2.6.23-rc7-hrt1.patch > > > > works for you ? > > Yes, powers off normally. Ok, so it's

Re: sys_chroot+sys_fchdir Fix

2007-09-25 Thread David Newall
Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Quoting David Newall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): It might be tidy if pivot_root could be used (instead of a hack based on a chroot bug), but it'd still be unportable. It can. Please re-read my previous msg. I read it. Currently pivot_root can't be used to affect a s

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-25 Thread linux
>> Even the "kp_" prefix is actually pretty unnecessary. It's "info" >> and a human-readable string that make it recognizable as a log message. > While I agree a prefix isn't necessary, info, warn, err > are already frequently #define'd and used. > > kp_ isn't currently in use. > > $ egrep -r -l

Re: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv,ahci: add the ahci legacy mode support to sata_nv

2007-09-25 Thread Peer Chen
We have three mode for one controller - IDE/RAID/AHCI, we want sata_nv being load when user select the IDE mode in BIOS, load ahci driver if RAID/AHCI being selected, which will verify if our legacy mode work well and have additional option if there is any bug for the ahci mode. ---

s2ram + usb

2007-09-25 Thread Mihai Donțu
Hi, I've been trying to make suspend-to-ram part of my day-by-day life, but there are still some issues. For example, I did: $ sync && echo "mem" >/sys/power/state (I don't know if sync is needed or helps, but I do it anyway - I *really* love my data) unplugged everything (power, mouse, networ

[PATCH] Fix messed hunks in generic_setlease

2007-09-25 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
I have noticed, that one hunk was lost and one duplicated during merging the fix-potential-oops-in-generic_setlease(-xxx) patches. One of the fixes is already in the hot-fixes, but the second one is still lost. The returned pointer was not the one allocated, but some temporary used to scan throu

Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload()

2007-09-25 Thread Cornelia Huck
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:38:38 +1000, Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you tested that *this* path works? Let's take your first change as > an example: > > + mutex_lock(&gdev->reg_mutex); > + __ccwgroup_remove_symlinks(gdev); > + device_unregister(dev); > + m

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:01:35 +0200 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 03-09-07 05:49:59, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:27:02 +0200 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:33 +0200 Folkert van Heusden <[EMAIL > > > > > PROTECTED]> wrote:

oom on wireless network saturation

2007-09-25 Thread Keith Chew
Hi We are stress testing the wireless network driver on our linux system. We use ping flood to saturate the network, and within 24 hours, we managed to crash the driver. This was a good test, as it hightlighted a timer problem in the driver. After fixing that, we are now getting out of memory err

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1: panic in scheduler

2007-09-25 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Balbir Singh wrote: > On 9/25/07, Kamalesh Babulal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Exactly same call trace is produced over IA64 Madison (up to 9M cache) with >> 8 cpu's. >> -- > > Hi, Kamalesh, > > Could you please reproduce the problem or share the steps to reproduce > the problem? > > Thanks,

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-25 Thread Vegard Nossum
On 9/25/07, Joe Perches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 00:58 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Even the "kp_" prefix is actually pretty unnecessary. It's "info" > > and a human-readable string that make it recognizable as a log message. > > While I agree a prefix isn't necess

Re: rtl8187 driver in 2.6.23-rc6-git5: kernel panic if not used as a module. Works as a module.

2007-09-25 Thread Eric Valette
Rob Hussey wrote: > On 9/15/07, ポール・ロラン Paul Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 20:30:14 +0200 >> Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Rob Hussey wrote: >>> On 9/15/07, Eric Valette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>

Re: [PATCH] Fix messed hunks in generic_setlease

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:57:45 +0400 Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have noticed, that one hunk was lost and one duplicated > during merging the fix-potential-oops-in-generic_setlease(-xxx) > patches. One of the fixes is already in the hot-fixes, but the > second one is still lost.

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > Hello Thomas, Rafael > > > We know, that > > - disabling local apic timers work > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore AMD > processor. Do you have C1E feature enabled? > > i386 kernel disable lapi

Re: [PATCH] sata_nv,ahci: add the ahci legacy mode support to sata_nv

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff Garzik
Peer Chen wrote: We have three mode for one controller - IDE/RAID/AHCI, we want sata_nv being load when user select the IDE mode in BIOS, load ahci driver if RAID/AHCI being selected, which will verify if our legacy mode work well and have additional option if there is any bug for the ahci mod

Re: [patch 6/7] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation

2007-09-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:31:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > looking at Documentation/lguest/ > > Oh wait, nothing to see here. Move along please. lguest is an even bigger nightmare. It's userspace code, but we can't move it because it pokes into non-exported headers. - To unsubscribe fr

Re: [2.6.22] circular lock detected

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Kara
On Tue 25-09-07 10:02:43, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:01:35 +0200 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon 03-09-07 05:49:59, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:27:02 +0200 Jan Kara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:00:33 +0200

Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload()

2007-09-25 Thread Tejun Heo
Rusty Russell wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:36 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Rusty Russell wrote: >>> As stated you cannot protect arbitrary code this way, as you are trying >>> to do. I do not think you've broken any of the current code, but I >>> cannot tell. You're certainly going to surprise

[PATCH] include/linux/mutex.h: unclear reference to convention

2007-09-25 Thread Matti Linnanvuori
If you want to maintain the convention of documenting the interface only in .c files, you should write the convention in so many places in .h files that no one could overlook it. But I think the convention is bad and it would be better to document the interface also in .h files where it is defi

menuconfig idea: lift fs menu

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Lift the FS menu a bit by moving filesystem-specific parts into their own menu. This is an idea I had. Comments please, if any. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/Kconfig | 19 --- fs/gfs2/Kconfig |9 ++--- fs/xfs/Kconfig | 10 +-

[patch 2/2] menuconfig: transform Network Filesystems menu

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Turn Network File Systems into a menuconfig so that it can be disabled at once. (Note: I added a "default y". If you do not like that, speak up.) Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/Kconfig | 16 ++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: l

[patch 1/2] menuconfig: transform NLS and DLM menus

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Changes NLS and DLM menus into a 'menuconfig' object so that it can be disabled at once without having to enter the menu first to disable the config option. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/dlm/Kconfig |8 ++-- fs/nls/Kconfig | 50 +-

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > This doornails the Vaio. After grub handover the screen remains black > and the fan goes whir. > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt This seems to be UP regression. Sorry abt that. I could recreate the problem very e

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 09:35 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice > 0 pinned to CPU0, and one at nice 19 pinned to CPU1 produced the > latencies below for nice -5 Xorg. Didn't kill the box though. > > se.wait_max :

Re: [PATCH] Fix messed hunks in generic_setlease

2007-09-25 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:57:45 +0400 Pavel Emelyanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have noticed, that one hunk was lost and one duplicated >> during merging the fix-potential-oops-in-generic_setlease(-xxx) >> patches. One of the fixes is already in the hot-fixes, but the

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Do you have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP enabled in your .config? Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:51:09 +0200 Damien Wyart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> After testing rc8, I noticed that I couldn't power off the computer >> directly, it only got halted and I had to press the pow

Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload()

2007-09-25 Thread Tejun Heo
Tejun Heo wrote: > Rusty Russell wrote: >> Now, are you sure that calling cleanup_ccwgroup just after >> device_unregister() works? >> >> static void __exit >> cleanup_ccwgroup (void) >> { >> bus_unregister (&ccwgroup_bus_type); >> } > > It should. After ->exit() is called, there can't be an

RE: Problems with 2.6.23-rc6 on AMD Geode LX800

2007-09-25 Thread Joerg Pommnitz
Chuck, Jordan, thanks for taking an interest in this problem. As suggested by Jordan I tried a new BIOS revision from http://www.digitallogic.ch/index.php?id=256&dir=/MSEP800%20-%20SM800PCX%20%20-%20MPC20%20-%20MPC21&mountpoint=23 Unfortunately the kernel still fails to boot in the same way. Do

Re: [PATCH/RFC] video gfx: merge kconfig menus

2007-09-25 Thread Dave Airlie
On 9/25/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there some reason that we don't put all video gfx config in one > place? Is the split just historical, based on subdirectory locations, > or is there a bigger reason for it? > > [to apply cleanly, this patch depends on a patch that was sent

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice > > 0 pinned to CPU0, and one at nice 19 pinned to CPU1 produced the > > latencies below for nice -5 Xorg. Didn't kill the box though. > > > > se.wait_max

Re: [PATCH/RFC] samples/: move kprobes sources to samples

2007-09-25 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:58:28PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > This is RFC patch 2/2. > Patch 1/2 introduces the samples/ infrastructure: > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/24/397 > > > --- > > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Move kprobes source files from Documentation/kprobes.txt

2.6.23-rc8-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc8/2.6.23-rc8-mm1/ - Various fixes against 2.6.23-rc7-mm1. - I repulled the subsystem git trees, but not the subsystem quilt trees. Large amounts of stuff broke as a result - not a bad effort for 24 hours :( - git-sched.pa

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:13:27 +0530 Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This doornails the Vaio. After grub handover the screen remains black > > and the fan goes whir. > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-so

Re: [PATCH 5/4] [-mm patch] Rename macros returning the size.

2007-09-25 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi Satyam, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Ken'ichi Ohmichi wrote: >> >> [PATCH 5/4] [-mm patch] Rename macros returning the size. >> >> The #define SIZE() should be renamed STRUCT_SIZE() since it's always >> >> returning the size of the struct with a given name. This would allo

Re: [PATCH 1/4] module: implement module_inhibit_unload()

2007-09-25 Thread Rusty Russell
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:36 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hmmm There doesn't seem to any reason why the blocking should be > after calling ->exit(). And, yeah, it would be more useful and > intuitive if blocking happens before ->exit(). What do you think? *That* I have no problem with. I was go

Re: [PATCH 6/4] [-mm patch] use the existing offsetof().

2007-09-25 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi Satyam, Satyam Sharma wrote: > > BTW I don't think these macros are such a big win in readability or > > code clarity anyway. And I noticed that there are still some open > > calls to vmcoreinfo_append_str() in kexec.c (such as for the OS_RELEASE > > case) which you haven't macro-ized ... we e

Re: [PATCH/RFC] samples/: move kprobes sources to samples

2007-09-25 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:13:33PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc7/samples/kprobes/jprobe_example.c > @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ > +/*jprobe-example.c */ I don't think we should have this type of comment in any of the files. > +#include > +#include > +#include > +#include

Re: [PATCH 4/4] [-mm patch] Add a prefix "VMCOREINFO_" to the vmcoreinfo macros.

2007-09-25 Thread Ken'ichi Ohmichi
Hi Andrew, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I plan on folding all of > > > > add-vmcoreinfo.patch > > add-vmcore-cleanup-the-coding-style-according-to-andrews-comments.patch > > add-vmcore-add-nodemask_ts-size-and-nr_free_pagess-value-to-vmcoreinfo_data.patch > > add-vmcore-use-the-existing-ia64_tpa-inst

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Holzheu
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:19 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 11:22 +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > Together with the idea of not allowing multiple lines in the kprint_xxx > > functions, that would go with our approach having message numbers to > > identify a message. > > How doe

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:23:29PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice > > > 0 pinned to CPU0, and one at nice 19 pinned to CPU1 produced the > > > latencies

Re: Why do so many machines need "noapic"?

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Chuck, On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:38 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 09/10/2007 03:44 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Yes, it has an hpet. And I tried every combination of options I could > >> think of. > > > >> But, even stranger, x86_64 works (only i386 fails.) > > > > x86-64 has quite different time

Re: Re: [PATCH] sata_nv,ahci: add the ahci legacy mode support to sata_nv

2007-09-25 Thread Peer Chen
Yes,I hear what you are saying but user should know what they are setting in BIOS,there are lots of ways to change the BIOS setting result in unbootable system not only change AHCI/IDE mode. If they encounter booting failure after changing the BIOS setting,they should restore it. Using legacy dr

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:23 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Mike, > Do you have FAIR_USER_SCHED turned on as well? Can you send me > your .config pls? I did have. gzipped config attached.. this is current though, after disabling groups. I'm still beating on the basic changes (boy does

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sched_debug (attached) is.. strange. > > Disabling CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED fixed both. [...] heh. Evil plan to enable the group scheduler by default worked out as planned! ;-) [guess how many container users would do ... interactivity tests lik

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 14:41 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:23:29PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > > > Darn, have news: latency thing isn't dead. Two busy loops, one at nice > > > > 0 pinned to

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > [...] Latencies of up to 336ms hit me during the recompile (make -j3), > > with nothing else running. Since reboot, latencies are, so far, very > > very nice. [...] > > 'very very nice' == 'best ever' ? :-) Yes. Very VERY nice feel.

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* S.Çağlar Onur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like following trivial change needed to compile without > CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6 $ LC_ALL=C make > CHK include/linux/version.h > CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h > CALLscripts/checksyscalls.sh > CHK

Re: Mask Issue?

2007-09-25 Thread Mel Gorman
On (24/09/07 18:07), Chris Holvenstot didst pronounce: > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 16:39 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > > On (19/09/07 17:57), Chris Holvenstot didst pronounce: > > > Still being a little new at this I am not sure if this is an issue at > > > all or not but I noted that while building th

Re: libata broken on Pegasos PPC platform (was: Re: IDE broken on Pegasos PPC platform)

2007-09-25 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Sep 24, Alan Cox wrote: > hopefully that means the hack in the old VIA driver can also be killed > off. Not that I know. But I did not browse the IDE core long enough to figure out how to assign both irqs in a generic way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: IDE broken on Pegasos PPC platform

2007-09-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:27 +0100, Matt Sealey wrote: > Yeah I'll ack it if it matters, although I'd make a nit about the > fixing of device tree entries in prom_init and have it moved to > nvramrc or a Forth script or boot loader.. > > Pegasos IDE quirks have been "fixed" so many times now in Li

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Damien Wyart
Hello, > On 9/25/07, Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP enabled in your .config? * Torsten Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-09-25 11:08]: > I'm answering that too, because I suspect that my "2.6.23-rc7-mm1 does > not power off"-error might have the sa

Re: Xen kernel 2.6.23-rc7 bug at xen_mc_flush (arch/i386/xen/multicalls.c:68)

2007-09-25 Thread osth
>Hm, it just seems that its trying to unpin an mm on the error path of >execve, and so it hasn't been pinned. The simplest way to reproduce is: ... >Anyway, try this patch. Bug is solved by this patch. Thanks! - Maybe this patch can make it into 2.6.23 final? Christian Ostheimer Neu: Das erste

Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 and -rc6-mm1: boot failure on HP nx6325, related to clockevents

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Rafael, On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:07 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:14 +0400, Mikhail Kshevetskiy wrote: > > Hello Thomas, Rafael > > > > > We know, that > > > - disabling local apic timers work > > > > As i can see from the log, you are booting on computer with dualcore

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > ok, i'm too seeing some sort of latency weirdness with > CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, _if_ there's Xorg involved which runs > under root uid on my box - and hence gets 50% of all CPU time. > > Srivatsa, any ideas? It could either

jbd : config_jbd_debug cannot create /proc entry

2007-09-25 Thread richard kennedy
I enabled config_jbd_debug in the hope that it may help track down the lockup I'm seeing, but unfortunately the /proc entry does not get created. any ideas how to fix this ? My machine is an Athlon 64X2 - fedora 7 x86_64 - 2.6.23-rc7 CONFIG_EXT3_FS=m CONFIG_JBD=m CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG=y I added the

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > ok, i'm too seeing some sort of latency weirdness with > > CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, _if_ there's Xorg involved which runs > > under root uid on my box - and hence gets 50%

Re: [patch 1/2] Enable link power management for ata drivers

2007-09-25 Thread Alan Cox
> It converts several macros to inline functions (encouraged), and also > illustrates a nice, clean way of testing an ID word's validity. > [obviously the final implementation varies, depending on that ID word's > history] Its in -mm and I thought you put a copy in your tree after I said it had

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > [...] Latencies of up to 336ms hit me during the recompile (make -j3), > > > with nothing else running. Since reboot, latencies are, so far, very > > > very nice. [...] > > > > 'very ve

kbuild: LDFLAGS_MODULE unusable for external module builds (2.6.23-rc2)

2007-09-25 Thread Henry Nestler
In reference of git 114f51577724b782a30f4f5ceaee9880de93d776: kbuild: use LDFLAGS_MODULE only for .ko links Sam Ravnborg pointed out that Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt already says this is what it's for. This patch makes the reality live up to the documentation. This

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Damien Wyart
> > No, I do not have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP set, > > because I do not have CONFIG_PM_SLEEP set, > > because I do not want SUSPEND and/or HIBERNATION. > Same answer from my side: I do not have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP for the same > reason (and this worked fine without them in rc7). I do not think > these set

Re: [PATCH/RFC] samples/: move kprobes sources to samples

2007-09-25 Thread Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:57:11AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:13:33PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > > +++ linux-2.6.23-rc7/samples/kprobes/jprobe_example.c > > @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ > > +/*jprobe-example.c */ > > I don't think we should have this type of c

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:47 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:13 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > [...] Latencies of up to 336ms hit me during the recompile (make -j3), > > > > with nothing else running. Since reboot, late

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > ok, i'm too seeing some sort of latency weirdness with > > > CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED enabled, _if_ there's Xorg involved which r

Re: kswapd high CPU usage with no swap

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Kundrát
Rik van Riel wrote: > How much memory did you have in "cached" when you looked > with top (and no swap enabled) ? Hi Rik, it was pretty low number (several thousands, or maybe tens of thousands). In the meanwhile, I've come across your patch [1] ("prevent kswapd from freeing excessive amounts of

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Srivatsa Vaddagiri
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:10:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > So the patch below just removes the is_same_group() condition. But i can > still see bad (and obvious) latencies with Mike's 2-hogs test: > > taskset 01 perl -e 'while (1) {}' & > nice -19 taskset 02 perl -e 'while (1) {}' & > > So

Re: s2ram + usb

2007-09-25 Thread Jiri Kosina
(linux-usb-devel added to CC) On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Mihai Don?u wrote: > [1.743528] Restarting tasks ... <3>hub 1-0:1.0: port 5 disabled by hub > (EMI?), re-enabling... > [1.743563] usb 1-5: USB disconnect, address 3 > [1.782485] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and a

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Mel Gorman
On (25/09/07 01:11), Kamalesh Babulal didst pronounce: Hi Kamalesh, > The build fails with following error > > CC drivers/block/ps3disk.o > drivers/block/ps3disk.c: In function ???ps3disk_scatter_gather???: > drivers/block/ps3disk.c:115: error: ???bio??? undeclared (first use in this > function)

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Sep 25 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > On (25/09/07 01:11), Kamalesh Babulal didst pronounce: > > Hi Kamalesh, > > > The build fails with following error > > > > CC drivers/block/ps3disk.o > > drivers/block/ps3disk.c: In function ???ps3disk_scatter_gather???: > > drivers/block/ps3disk.c:115: e

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:10:44PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > So the patch below just removes the is_same_group() condition. But i can > > still see bad (and obvious) latencies with Mike's 2-hogs test: > > > > taskset 01 perl -e 'while (1) {

Re: [PATCH/RFC] samples/: move kprobes sources to samples

2007-09-25 Thread Sam Ravnborg
Hi Ananth. > o Removed samples/Kbuild so the build goes on fine You could have added the obj-y assignment to Kbuild for the same effect. Kbuild is the first filename searched by kbuild, next is Makefile. Sam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [PATCH] Fix messed hunks in generic_setlease

2007-09-25 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > I have noticed, that one hunk was lost and one duplicated > during merging the fix-potential-oops-in-generic_setlease(-xxx) > patches. One of the fixes is already in the hot-fixes, but the > second one is still lost. > > The returned pointer was not the one allocated, bu

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Kamalesh Babulal
Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.23-rc8/2.6.23-rc8-mm1/ Hi Andrew, The build error reported at http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/20/210 for the drivers/ata/pata_scc.c is seen in both 2.6.23-rc7-mm1 and 2.6.23-rc8-mm1. The patch proposed for this

Re: jbd : config_jbd_debug cannot create /proc entry

2007-09-25 Thread Jan Kara
> I enabled config_jbd_debug in the hope that it may help track down the > lockup I'm seeing, but unfortunately the /proc entry does not get > created. > > any ideas how to fix this ? Attached is a patch that should fix it. Andrew, would you queue it up?

[PATCH] Uninline the task_xid_nr_ns() calls

2007-09-25 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Since these are expanded into call to pid_nr_ns() anyway, it's OK to move the whole routine out-of-line. This is a cheap way to save ~100 bytes from vmlinux. Together with the previous two patches, it saves half-a-kilo from the vmlinux. Un-inline other (currently inlined) functions must be done w

Re: [patch 6/7] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation

2007-09-25 Thread Mathieu Desnoyers
* Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > >* Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:08:30 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > >> > >>>* Randy Dunlap ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:56:35 -0700 Randy Dunlap wrote: > >

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Srivatsa Vaddagiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This doornails the Vaio. After grub handover the screen remains black > > and the fan goes whir. > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/config-sony.txt > > This seems to be UP

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel Ritz
does that one help? [ as attachment since i'm on webmail ] ACPI: acpi_sleep_prepare() should not depent on CONFIG_SUSPEND Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ist Ihr Browser Vista-kompatibel? Jetzt die neuesten Browser-Versionen downloaden: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/browser acpi-

Re: jbd : config_jbd_debug cannot create /proc entry

2007-09-25 Thread Aneesh Kumar K.V
Jan Kara wrote: -#define create_jbd_proc_entry() do {} while (0) -#define remove_jbd_proc_entry() do {} while (0) +static ctl_table fs_table[] = { + { +.ctl_name = -1, /* Don't want it */ shouldn't this be CTL_UNNUMBERED ? +.procname =

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:20:58 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Nope, and the stacktrace is utterly puzzling. > > > > > > /me goes read the lkml.org link > > > > > > Kamalesh Babulal: do you still get: > > > BUG: spinlock bad magic on > > > > > > msgs? > > > > > > Because

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Mel Gorman
On (25/09/07 12:31), Jens Axboe didst pronounce: > On Tue, Sep 25 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > > On (25/09/07 01:11), Kamalesh Babulal didst pronounce: > > > > Hi Kamalesh, > > > > > The build fails with following error > > > > > > CC drivers/block/ps3disk.o > > > drivers/block/ps3disk.c: In functi

Re: 2.6.23-rc7-mm1

2007-09-25 Thread Jens Axboe
On Tue, Sep 25 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > On (25/09/07 12:31), Jens Axboe didst pronounce: > > On Tue, Sep 25 2007, Mel Gorman wrote: > > > On (25/09/07 01:11), Kamalesh Babulal didst pronounce: > > > > > > Hi Kamalesh, > > > > > > > The build fails with following error > > > > > > > > CC drivers

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On 9/25/07, Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP enabled in your .config? > > I'm answering that too, because I suspect that my "2.6.23-rc7-mm1 does > not power off"-error might have the same cause. > > No, I do not have CONFIG_AC

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Alexey Starikovskiy
Daniel, thanks for the patch, but patch for solving your issue is already done. And it is different from one we having here. If you feel "patchy" today you may try to remove ACPI_SLEEP from drivers/acpi/sleep/Makefile in the raw of main.o Regards, Alex. Daniel Ritz wrote: > does that one help?

Re: [git] CFS-devel, latest code

2007-09-25 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hm. perhaps this fixup in kernel/sched.c:set_task_cpu(): > > p->se.vruntime -= old_rq->cfs.min_vruntime - new_rq->cfs.min_vruntime; > > needs to become properly group-hierarchy aware? a quick first stab like the one below does not appear to so

Re: [Celinux-dev] Re: [Announce] Linux-tiny project revival

2007-09-25 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:38 -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > > And so far no behavior has changed. But now the _fun_ part is, you can add > > a > > config symbol for "what is the minimum loglevel I care about?" Set that as > > a > > number from 0-9. And t

Re: ACPI power off regression in 2.6.23-rc8 (NOT in rc7)

2007-09-25 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Tuesday, 25 September 2007 11:58, Damien Wyart wrote: > > > No, I do not have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP set, > > > because I do not have CONFIG_PM_SLEEP set, > > > because I do not want SUSPEND and/or HIBERNATION. > > > Same answer from my side: I do not have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP for the same > > reason (

Re: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1: IPC: sleeping function called ...

2007-09-25 Thread Jarek Poplawski
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 11:50:23AM +0200, Nadia Derbey wrote: > Jarek Poplawski wrote: ... > >2. I'm not sure this refcounting with ipc_rcu_getref/putref is SMP > >safe (memory barriers): it's not atomic, so locking is needed, but > >e.g. in do_msgsnd() kern_ipc_perm lock is used for this, while >

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