[PATCH 4/8] Unionfs: mmap updates

2007-11-02 Thread Erez Zadok
Rewrite unionfs_writepage to minimize dependence on AOP_WRITEPAGE_ACTIVEATE, handle memory pressure better, and update documentation. Remove unionfs_sync_page because it's not needed. CC: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROT

[PATCH 8/8] Unionfs/VFS: no need to export 2 symbols in security/security.c

2007-11-02 Thread Erez Zadok
Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- security/security.c |2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/security.c b/security/security.c index 95a6733..0e1f1f1 100644 --- a/security/security.c +++ b/security/security.c @@ -409,7 +409,6 @@ int securi

[PATCH,RFC 1/3] Change CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO to use a git-describe-ish format

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
Change the automatic local version to have the form -n-gSHA1SUMID, where 'n' is the number of commits since the last tag (i.e., 2.6.21-rc7). This makes it much more likely that the package names created for the kernel will look "newer" to a package manager. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o"

[PATCH,RFC 2/3] Fix scripts/setlocalversion to avoid erroneous -dirty tag

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
If git's index file is out of date, and some files have been touched such that their timestamp doesn't what is in the index, "git diff-index HEAD" may show that a particular file is dirty, when in fact it really isn't. Running "git status" will update the index to avoid these false positives. Sig

[PATCH,RFC 3/3] scripts/setlocalversion: Fix false positive -dirty tag caused by make-kpkg

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Ts'o
make-kpkg modifies scripts/package/Makefile and deletes scripts/package/builddeb as part of its build process. Ignore these changes so the tree isn't marked as -dirty, when it is just an artifact of make-kpkg. (make-kpkg clean restores the files to their original state, and these helper scripts w

Re: [PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Ralf Baechle wrote: > > The Jazz machines have to use the PIT timer for dyntick and highresolution > kernels. This may break because currently just like i386 used to do MIPS > uses two separate spinlocks in the actual PIT code and the PC speaker > code. So switch to do it th

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:44:52 EDT, Lennart Sorensen said: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:19:11PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: Sorry for the late reply, it's been a zoo of a week here... ;) > If it doesn't it seems the compression feature is going to be rather > unpredictable and my optimization would

Re: WANTED: kernel projects for CS students

2007-11-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:08:23 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IBM's AIX supported file system compression on the JFS filesystem > years ago. I was able to get up to 30% throughput increases by > converting the /usr filesystem to compressed - because even a 33mhz > Power chipset could read in 5 512

Re: [PATCH] Use i8253.c lock for PC speaker on MIPS, too.

2007-11-02 Thread Paul Mackerras
Linus Torvalds writes: > and wouldn't it be nice if we just changed it to > > #include > > and got rid of one totally unnecessary stupid arch difference? Looks fine to me. I'll do a patch for powerpc & ppc. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

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

2007-11-02 Thread Nick Piggin
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 08:56:46PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On 11/02/2007 07:01 PM, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > In the contended multi-threaded tight loop, the xchg lock is slower than inc > > lock but still beats the fair xadd lock, but that's only because it is > > just as unfair if not more

Re: [PATCH 7/10] 9p: sysfs support for in-kenel servers

2007-11-02 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:05:27AM -0600, Latchesar Ionkov wrote: > Sysfs support for 9P servers. > Every server type is represented as a directory in /sys/fs/9p/srv. Initially > there is a single file in the directory -- 'clone'. Reading from the clone > file creates a new instance of the file ser

Re: [PATCH 6/7] d_path: Make d_path() use a struct path (2nd try)

2007-11-02 Thread Bryan Wu
On 11/3/07, Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > d_path() is used on a pair. Lets use a struct path to > reflect this. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > arch/blackfin/kernel/traps.c | 12 +--- Thanks,Acked-by: Bryan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > drivers/md/bi

[PATCH] NetLabel: Introduce a new kernel configuration API for NetLabel - For 2.6.24-rc-git11 - Smack Version 10

2007-11-02 Thread Casey Schaufler
From: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add a new set of configuration functions to the NetLabel/LSM API so that LSMs can perform their own configuration of the NetLabel subsystem without relying on assistance from userspace. Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Unrelated changes in 2.

Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

2007-11-02 Thread Nicholas Miell
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Dave Hansen wrote: > > > > There are certainly more of these, but here is one In the futex > > userspace address, we install the current pid's vnr into a userspace > > address. > > Now, realistically, why not just

Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

2007-11-02 Thread Ulrich Drepper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Having access to the same IPCs in different pid namespaces won't work. > Having access to the same filesystem in different IPC namespaces won't work. > Having access to the same UID namespace in different VFS namespaces won't

Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] 2.6.23 regression: second access of empty ntfs file leads to D state hang

2007-11-02 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 19:22 +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > Would you be able to test it in your setup? Thanks a lot in advance! Modulo uninitialized vi, works fine. I moved it up, and all is well. Thanks. Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/ntfs/aops.c b/fs/ntfs

[PATCH] ARM: Remove reference to non-existent MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS.

2007-11-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
The CONFIG variable MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS was deleted in commit ba7cc09c9c9e29a57045dc5bbf843ac1cfad3283. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/collie_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/collie_defconfig index 970c8c7..4264e27 100644 --- a/arch/arm/configs

Re: [PATCH] ehea: add kexec support

2007-11-02 Thread Michael Neuling
> Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 02.11.2007 07:30:08: > > > On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 20:48 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: > > > Michael Ellerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30.10.2007 23:50:36: > > If that's really the way it works then eHEA is more or less broken for > > kdump I'm af

Re: Suspend to ram regression (2.6.24-rc1-git)

2007-11-02 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 04:37:08PM -0700, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > Does this patch fix your problem? It seems to get hung up while disabling > DIPM, and after thinking about this a bit, I don't think we really need > to do this anyway. Yep, this fixes suspend/resume on my X61 thinkpad.

Re: [regression] v2.6.24-rc1-497-gb1d08ac: kde battery icon gone

2007-11-02 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
Thomas Meyer wrote: > i just wanted to report this: > > in v2.6.24-rc1-497-gb1d08ac the kde battery icon is no longer displayed. > > with 2.6.23 shows the battery icon. > > current config: > > grep -i acpi .config > # Power management options (ACPI, APM) > CONFIG_ACPI=y > CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y >

Re: 2.6.24-rc1-54866f032307063776b4eff7eadb131d47f9f9b4 fails to boot: kernel BUG at include/linux/scatterlist.h:49!

2007-11-02 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Nov 03 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > I wrote: > > Torsten Kaiser wrote: > >> Both 2.6.24-rc1 and the current git version fail to boot for me: > >> > >> [ 57.182205] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[16] > >> MMIO=[e800-efff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8] >

Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] 2.6.23 regression: second access of empty ntfs file leads to D state hang

2007-11-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Great, thanks! I will submit it to Linus. Best regards, Anton On 3 Nov 2007, at 04:56, Mike Galbraith wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 19:22 +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Would you be able to test it in your setup? Thanks a lot in advance! Modulo uninitialized vi, works fine. I

[PATCH] Fix NTFS reads regression.

2007-11-02 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
Hi Linus, Please apply the below patch which fixes a regression in NTFS reads identified by Mike Galbraith. He also tested the below patch and confirmed that it works. The regression was caused by: commit[a32ea1e1f925399e0d81ca3f7394a44a6dafa12c] Fix read/truncate race This causes ntf

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