NPTL support

2007-11-01 Thread veerasena reddy
Hi, I am trying to build the toolchain for MIPS processor using buildroot. I am using gcc version of 3.4.3, binutils-2.15, uclibc-0.9.28 and linux-2.6.18.8 kernel. Basically i need to enable NPTL feature support in my toolchain. does uclibc-0.9.28 has the support for NPTL? If not, how can i get

Re: [PATCH] libata ATAPI transfer size cleanups

2007-11-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Torsten Kaiser wrote: On 11/1/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: + lo = tf->lbam; + hi = tf->lbam; + ibyte = (hi << 8) | lo; + + lo = result_tf->lbam; + hi = result_tf->lbam; That doesn't look right. I suspect this was intended: lo = tf->lbam; hi = tf->lb

[PATCH] Restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Mackerras
Since powerpc started using CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS, the deterministic CPU accounting (CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING) has been broken on powerpc, because we end up counting user time twice: once in timer_interrupt() and once in update_process_times(). This fixes the problem by pulling the code in

[GIT PULL] sh64 updates for 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh64-2.6.git Which contains: Adrian Bunk (1): sh64: fix dma_cache_sync() compilation Paul Mundt (1): sh64: Update defconfigs. Robert P. J. Day (1): sh64: Move DMA macros from pci.h to scatterlist.h.

Re: Differences in bitops argument types

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Mackerras
Jan Kara writes: > I've just found out that operations like constant_test_bit() take pointer > of different types on different architectures. In particular, x86_64, > blackfin and frv take void * while i386, s390 and m68k take unsigned long > *. Is this intended difference? Wouldn't using void *

[GIT PULL] sh updates for 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-01 Thread Paul Mundt
Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.git Which contains: Adrian McMenamin (2): sh: Clean up Kconfig entry for Dreamcast. maple: Fix maple bus compiler warning Alejandro Martinez Ruiz (1): sh: ARRAY_SIZE() cleanup Kaz Kojima (1):

kernel 2.6.24-rc1-git10 crash report

2007-11-01 Thread w.landgraf
A detailed crash report is in your letter box [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It returned steady-steady because was considered como spam by your mailer. w.landgraf www.copaya.yi.org > > On 1/Nov/2007 21:26 werner wrote .. > > > On 1/Nov/2007 15:57 werner wrote .. > > > > Kernel Crash -- Details see below > >

[PATCH 1/4] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver: Add repeat start feature to avoid break of a bundle of i2c master xfer operation.

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan Wu
From: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Create a new mode TWI_I2C_MODE_REPEAT. - No change to smbus operation. Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bfin-twi.c | 179 +++-- 1 files

[PATCH 3/4] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver: add missing pin mux operation

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan Wu
Blackfin TWI controller hardware pin should be requested from GPIO port controller Before BF54x, there is no need to do this. But as long as BF54x and BF52x are supported by this generic driver, the missing pin mux operation should be added. Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- driver

[PATCH 0/4] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver updates and bug fixing according to Jean's review

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan Wu
Still remain in old I2C driver interface. I plan to move to new style I2C API recently. Also intend to using new TWI register accessor functions as Jean's suggestions. Then move that static pin_req setting to our Blackfin board files. But currently version is OK and tested on Blackfin board with

Re: writeout stalls in current -git

2007-11-01 Thread Torsten Kaiser
The Subject is still missleading, I'm using 2.6.23-mm1. On 11/2/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:20:51PM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > On 11/1/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 04:22:10PM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote

Re: writeout stalls in current -git

2007-11-01 Thread Fengguang Wu
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:42:05AM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > The Subject is still missleading, I'm using 2.6.23-mm1. > > On 11/2/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 07:20:51PM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > > On 11/1/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [PATCH] Restore deterministic CPU accounting on powerpc

2007-11-01 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:48 +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote: > This also lets us simplify the s390 code a bit; it means that the s390 > timer interrupt can now call update_process_times even when > CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is turned on, and can just implement a > suitable account_process_tick(). Jus

Re: [PATCH 6/7] d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path

2007-11-01 Thread Bharata B Rao
On 10/29/07, Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you miss the d_path() caller arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c:printk_address() ? Regards, Bharata. -- "Men come and go but mountains remain" -- Ruskin Bond. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bod

Re: 2.6.23 regression: accessing invalid mmap'ed memory from gdb causes unkillable spinning

2007-11-01 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:17:42PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > But we do want to allow forced COW faults for MAP_PRIVATE mappings. gdb > > uses this for inserting breakpoints (but fortunately, a COW page in a > > MAP_PRIVATE mapping is a much

Re: [PATCH] ehea: add kexec support

2007-11-01 Thread Michael Ellerman
On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 20:48 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: > Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30.10.2007 23:50:36: > > > > On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:39 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: > > > > > > Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 28.10.2007 23:32:17: > > > Hope I didn't miss

[PATCH 2/4] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver: Add platform_resource interface to support multi-port TWI controllers

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan Wu
- Dynamic alloc the resource of TWI driver data according to board information - TWI register read/write accessor based on dynamic regs_base - Support TWI0/TWI1 for BF54x Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bfin-twi.c | 269 +++---

[PATCH 4/4] Blackfin I2C/TWI driver: add driver descriptions, versions and some module useful information

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan Wu
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bfin-twi.c | 19 --- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bfin-twi.c b/drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-bfin-twi.c index 727625b..ae41c0b 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/busse

Re: [PATCH 6/7] d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path

2007-11-01 Thread Bryan Wu
On 11/2/07, Bharata B Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/07, Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Did you miss the d_path() caller > arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c:printk_address() ? > Yes, I remember I saw that before. Please send patch again. -Bryan Wu - To unsubscribe from th

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-01 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:09:04 +0200 (CEST) > Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Oct 16 2007 13:06, Mark Gross wrote: >>> base function: >>> Starting from a stock distro (FC, Ubuntu, OpenSuSE...) and put down a >>> kernel.org tree and automatically create a .config

Re: writeout stalls in current -git

2007-11-01 Thread Torsten Kaiser
On 11/2/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 08:00:10PM +0100, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > On 11/1/07, Torsten Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/1/07, Fengguang Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thank you. Maybe we can start by the applied debug patch

[2.6.24-rc1][BUG] Oops on battery removal

2007-11-01 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Hi, this happened while I removed my battery on bootup. Complete dmesg is attached. Kernel is 2.6.24-rc1-git of yesterday (last commit was d919fd433b5823d1cf9d0688eb2eec183de9b74c). Greetings, Eike BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 001c printing eip

Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

2007-11-01 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >> The "fix" I mention is just returning -EINVAL in case user orders >> CLONE_NEWPIDS > > That is the "fix" you were referring to? I was hoping you have a sketch > for a real solution. If nobody

Re: [patch 1/4] x86: FIFO ticket spinlocks

2007-11-01 Thread Nick Piggin
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:19:41PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Larry Woodman managed to wedge the VM into a state where, on his > > 4x dual core system, only 2 cores (on the same CPU) could get the > > zone->lru_lock overnight. The other 6

Re: TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT issues

2007-11-01 Thread Eric Dumazet
Felix von Leitner a écrit : I am trying to use TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT in my web server. There are some operational problems. First of all: timeout handling. I would like to be able to set a timeout in seconds (or better: milliseconds) for how long the socket is allowed to sit there without data comi

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