Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:34:26 +1100, James Morris said: > Can you post your .config ? The gzip'ed config as of when I quit bisecting is attached. It's probably not directly usable unless you have a quilt tree that's positioned fairly close to git-lblnet.patch. > Also, is that the plain upstream

Re: [PATCH][DOC] Console is utf-8 by default

H. Peter Anvin, le Tue 25 Dec 2007 15:45:21 -0800, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault wrote: > >The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode, so let's document this. > >BTW, document the needed "vt." prefix. > > > >-vt.default_blu= [VT] > >+default_blu=[VT] > > Reverse patch? Erf, yes, it loo

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

There's some section mismatch warnings : MODPOST vmlinux.o WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1685c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'check_dev_quirk' and 'apm_error') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1687b): Section mismatch: reference to .init.data: (between 'check_dev_quirk' and 'apm_er

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:34:26 +1100, James Morris said: > > > Can you post your .config ? > > The gzip'ed config as of when I quit bisecting is attached. It's probably > not directly usable unless you have a quilt tree that's positioned fairly > cl

VGA Drivers

Hi, I want to support a new PCI based VGA card in linux. I want to know what is the VGA driver stack in the Linux. Can any one help me where to start. -Pradeep Pradeep Annavarapu Moschip Semiconductor Hyderabad Forgot the famous last words? Access your message archive online at http:

Re: [x86] is checkpatch.pl broken

On Dec 26, 2007 2:48 AM, H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > by doing cleanup of arch/x86/boot/*.[ch] i found that > > checkpatch does ignore obvious things. For example, > > run it over edd.c showed only one warning: > > > > BTW, is there someone

Re: Circular locking dependency

On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 04:58:42PM +0530, Dhaval Giani wrote: > Hi, > > Just hit this on sched-devel. (not sure how to reproduce it yet, can't > try now. I believe i can hit it on mainline as well as there is nothing > scheduler specific). > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9483 -ane

[PATCH] tpm_bios.c

This trivial patch removes some unused stuffs from tpm_bios.c (against 2.6.24-rc6) Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c index 60a2d26..09bb95a 100644 --- a/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c +++ b/drivers/char/tpm/tpm_b

[PATCH 26/55] KVM: Portability: Move pio emulation functions to x86.c

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch moves implementation of the following functions from kvm_main.c to x86.c: free_pio_guest_pages, vcpu_find_pio_dev, pio_copy_data, complete_pio, kernel_pio, pio_string_write, kvm_emulate_pio, kvm_emulate_pio_string The function inject_gp, which was

[PATCH 29/55] KVM: Simplify decode_register_operand() calling convention

Now that rex_prefix is part of the decode cache, there is no need to pass it along. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c |6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c index

[PATCH 20/55] KVM: Portability: move get/set_apic_base to x86.c

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch moves the implementation of get_apic_base and set_apic_base from kvm_main.c to x86.c Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reviewed-by: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-b

[PATCH 01/55] KVM: Portability: Split kvm_vcpu into arch dependent and independent parts (part 1)

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> First step to split kvm_vcpu. Currently, we just use an macro to define the common fields in kvm_vcpu for all archs, and all archs need to define its own kvm_vcpu struct. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PR

[PATCH 00/55] KVM patch queue review for 2.6.25 merge window (part II)

The second 2.6.25 kvm patch series, for your review. Three more to go. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.

[PATCH 04/55] KVM: Export PIC reset for kernel device reset

From: Eddie Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/i8259.c |6 ++ drivers/kvm/irq.h |1 + 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/i8259.c b/driver

[PATCH 03/55] KVM: Add a might_sleep() annotation to gfn_to_page()

This will help trap accesses to guest memory in atomic context. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c index ff77175..005f2d5 100644 --- a/dr

[PATCH 02/55] KVM: Move vmx_vcpu_reset() out of vmx_vcpu_setup()

Split guest reset code out of vmx_vcpu_setup(). Besides being cleaner, this moves the realmode tss setup (which can sleep) outside vmx_vcpu_setup() (which is executed with preemption enabled). [izik: remove unused variable] Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h

[PATCH 05/55] KVM: Split IOAPIC reset function and export for kernel RESET

From: Eddie Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/ioapic.c | 17 + drivers/kvm/irq.h|1 + 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/io

[PATCH 09/55] KVM: Add kernel-internal memory slots

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reserve a few memory slots for kernel internal use. This is good for case you have to register memory region and you want to be sure it was not registered from userspace, and for case you want to register a memory region that won't be seen from userspace. Sig

[PATCH 07/55] KVM: Unmap kernel-allocated memory on slot destruction

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kvm_vm_ioctl_set_memory_region() is able to remove memory in addition to adding it. Therefore when using kernel swapping support for old userspaces, we need to munmap the memory if the user request to remove it Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Si

[PATCH 12/55] KVM: VMX: Let gcc to choose which registers to save (i386)

From: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we switch to/from a VCPU in the case of intel i386. * Original code saves following registers: eax, ebx, ecx, edx, edi, esi, ebp (using popa) * Patched code: - informs GCC that we modif

[PATCH 08/55] KVM: Export memory slot allocation mechanism

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Remove kvm memory slot allocation mechanism from the ioctl and put it to exported function. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |3 +++ drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 17 ++

[PATCH 17/55] KVM: MMU: Topup the mmu memory preallocation caches before emulating an insn

Emulation may cause a shadow pte to be instantiated, which requires memory resources. Make sure the caches are filled to avoid an oops. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/mmu.c |4 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/mmu.

[PATCH 10/55] KVM: Add ioctl to tss address from userspace,

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Currently kvm has a wart in that it requires three extra pages for use as a tss when emulating real mode on Intel. This patch moves the allocation internally, only requiring userspace to tell us where in the physical address space we can place the tss. Signed

[PATCH 11/55] KVM: VMX: Let gcc to choose which registers to save (x86_64)

From: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we switch to/from a VCPU in the case of intel x86_64. * Original code saves following registers: rax, rbx, rcx, rdx, rsi, rdi, rbp, r8, r9, r10, r11, r12, r13, r14, r15 * Patched code:

[PATCH 16/55] KVM: Move page fault processing to common code

The code that dispatches the page fault and emulates if we failed to map is duplicated across vmx and svm. Merge it to simplify further bugfixing. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/mmu.c | 36 drivers/kvm/svm.c | 33 +--

[PATCH 19/55] KVM: Portability: Move memory segmentation to x86.c

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch moves the definition of segment_descriptor_64 for AMD64 and EM64T from kvm_main.c to segment_descriptor.h. It also adds a proper #ifndef...#define...#endif around that header file. The implementation of segment_base is moved from kvm_main.c to x86.

[PATCH 13/55] KVM: SVM: Let gcc to choose which registers to save (x86_64)

From: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we switch to/from a VCPU in the case of AMD x86_64. * Original code saves following registers: rbx, rcx, rdx, rsi, rdi, rbp, r8, r9, r10, r11, r12, r13, r14, r15 * Patched code: - i

[PATCH 18/55] KVM: Portability: Split kvm_vm_ioctl v3

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch splits kvm_vm_ioctl into archtecture independent parts, and x86 specific parts which go to kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl in x86.c. The patch is unchanged since last submission. Common ioctls for all architectures are: KVM_CREATE_VCPU, KVM_GET_DIRTY_LOG, KVM

[PATCH 14/55] KVM: SVM: Let gcc to choose which registers to save (i386)

From: Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch lets GCC to determine which registers to save when we switch to/from a VCPU in the case of AMD i386 * Original code saves following registers: ebx, ecx, edx, esi, edi, ebp * Patched code: - informs GCC that we modify following registers

[PATCH 21/55] KVM: Portability: Move control register helper functions to x86.c

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch moves the definitions of CR0_RESERVED_BITS, CR4_RESERVED_BITS, and CR8_RESERVED_BITS along with the following functions from kvm_main.c to x86.c: set_cr0(), set_cr3(), set_cr4(), set_cr8(), get_cr8(), lmsw(), load_pdptrs() The static function wrapp

[PATCH 27/55] KVM: x86 emulator: Extract the common code of SrcReg and DstReg

Share the common parts of SrcReg and DstReg decoding. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c | 80 +--- 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c b/drivers/kvm/x86_emula

[PATCH 23/55] KVM: Fix gfn_to_page() acquiring mmap_sem twice

From: Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KVM's nopage handler calls gfn_to_page() which acquires the mmap_sem when calling out to get_user_pages(). nopage handlers are already invoked with the mmap_sem held though. Introduce a __gfn_to_page() for use by the nopage handler which requires the loc

[PATCH 31/55] KVM: x86 emulator: Hoist modrm and abs decoding into separate functions

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c | 337 - 1 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 160 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c b/drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c index b352a6c..64888a6 100644 --- a/drivers/kvm

[PATCH 22/55] KVM: VMX: Enable memory mapped TPR shadow (FlexPriority)

From: Sheng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch based on CR8/TPR patch, and enable the TPR shadow (FlexPriority) for 32bit Windows. Since TPR is accessed very frequently by 32bit Windows, especially SMP guest, with FlexPriority enabled, we saw significant performance gain. Signed-off-by: Sheng Y

[PATCH 25/55] KVM: Portability: Move x86 emulation and mmio device hook to x86.c

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch moves the following functions to from kvm_main.c to x86.c: emulator_read/write_std, vcpu_find_pervcpu_dev, vcpu_find_mmio_dev, emulator_read/write_emulated, emulator_write_phys, emulator_write_emulated_onepage, emulator_cmpxchg_emulated, get_setmen

[PATCH 32/55] KVM: Portability: Make exported debugfs data architecture-specific

From: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |7 +++ drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 25 - drivers/kvm/x86.c | 22 ++ 3

[PATCH 30/55] KVM: Make mark_page_dirty() work for aliased pages too.

From: Uri Lublin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Recommended by Izik Eidus. Signed-off-by: Uri Lublin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kv

[PATCH 06/55] KVM: Per-architecture hypercall definitions

From: Christian Borntraeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Currently kvm provides hypercalls only for x86* architectures. To provide hypercall infrastructure for other kvm architectures I split kvm_para.h into a generic header file and architecture specific definitions. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger

[PATCH 28/55] KVM: x86 emulator: centralize decoding of one-byte register access insns

Instructions like 'inc reg' that have the register operand encoded in the opcode are currently specially decoded. Extend decode_register_operand() to handle that case, indicated by having DstReg or SrcReg without ModRM. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c

[PATCH 40/55] KVM: VMX: Comment VMX primary/secondary exec ctl definitions

From: Eddie Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add comments for secondary/primary Processor-Based VM-execution controls. Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/vmx.h | 10 -- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletion

[PATCH 34/55] KVM: Portability: Move x86 FPU handling to x86.c

From: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |3 + drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 107 +--- drivers/kvm/x86.c | 103 +

[PATCH 39/55] KVM: Fix faults during injection of real-mode interrupts

If vmx fails to inject a real-mode interrupt while fetching the interrupt redirection table, it fails to record this in the vectoring information field. So we detect this condition and do it ourselves. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/vmx.c | 51 +++

[PATCH 35/55] KVM: Portability: Move x86 vcpu ioctl handlers to x86.c

From: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h | 10 + drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 442 +--- drivers/kvm/x86.c | 427 +

[PATCH 33/55] KVM: Portability: Move x86 instruction emulation code to x86.c

From: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |1 + drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 177 +--- drivers/kvm/x86.c | 175 +

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1: some section mismatches on sparc64

Hello, WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x46b04): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sun4v_ktsb_register (between 'smp_callin' and 'smp_fill_in_sib_core_maps') WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x4756c): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:sun4v_register_mondo_queues (between 'after_lock_tlb' and

read-ahead in NFS server

Hi, my NFS server seems not to utilize the read-ahead feature, my exported dir is located on ext3 fs over sata disk. the sata controller can issue commands up to 1MB, also I modified the read ahead under the sys to 1MB. but when the client do reads in 32KB chunks (rsize), I can see in the server si

Re: [PATCH 7/7] sg_ring: convert core ATA code to sg_ring.

Hello, Rusty Russell. Rusty Russell wrote: > ATA relies so heavily on scsi that it needs to be converted at the > same time. > > ATA adds padding to scatterlists in scsi commands, but because there was > no good way of appending to those scatterlists, it had to use boutique > iterators to make su

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 and earlier: "host bus error" after STR

Hello, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> ata3.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO4 >> ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 Sact 0x0 Serr 0x0 action 0x2 >> ata3.00: BMDMA stat 0x6 >> ata3.00: cmd ca/00:08:47:66:6e/00:00:00:00:00/eb tag 0 dma 4096 out >> res 51/84:08:47:66:6e/00:00:00:00:00/eb Emask 0x30 (host bus

[1/4] DST: Distributed storage documentation.

Distributed storage documentation. Algorithms used in the system, userspace interfaces (sysfs dirs and files), design and implementation details are described here. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/Documentation/dst/algorithms.txt b/Documentation/dst/algorithms.

Re: NFS EINVAL on open(... | O_TRUNC) on 2.6.23.9

Hello all, I've seen that Trond and the other guys at Netapp are working hard on the NFS support and there are dozens of patches in latest 2.6.24rcX s kernels regarding both RPC and NFS. I can only hope, as Andrew Morton said, that the policy of new NFS impl was 'dont break'. In the end those

[PATCH 54/55] KVM: VMX: Consolidate register usage in vmx_vcpu_run()

We pass vcpu, vmx->fail, and vmx->launched to assembly code, but all three are fields within vmx. Consolidate by only passing in vmx and offsets for the rest. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/vmx.c | 146 ++-- 1 files

[PATCH 50/55] KVM: Portability: Combine kvm_init and kvm_init_x86

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Will be called once arch module registers itself. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |4 +- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 61

[PATCH 46/55] KVM: Change kvm_{read,write}_guest() to use copy_{from,to}_user()

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This changes kvm_write_guest_page/kvm_read_guest_page to use copy_to_user/read_from_user, as a result we get better speed and better dirty bit tracking. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kv

[PATCH 44/55] KVM: add kvm_is_error_hva()

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Check for the "error hva", an address outside the user address space that signals a bad gfn. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |1 + drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 11 +++

[PATCH 52/55] KVM: x86 emulator: modify 'lods', and 'stos' not to depend on CR2

From: Sheng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The current 'lods' and 'stos' is depending on incoming CR2 rather than decode memory address from registers. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c | 14 ++ 1 fil

[PATCH 48/55] KVM: Portability: Move kvm_x86_ops to x86.c

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |1 - drivers/kvm/x86.c |2 ++ drivers/kvm/x86.h |2 ++ 3 files change

[PATCH 55/55] KVM: Portability: Make kvm_vcpu_ioctl_translate arch dependent

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Move kvm_vcpu_ioctl_translate to arch, since mmu would be put under arch. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |3 +++ drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 24 +-

[PATCH 49/55] KVM: Portability: Add vcpu and hardware management arch hooks

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add the following hooks: void decache_vcpus_on_cpu(int cpu); int kvm_arch_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); void kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); void kvm_arch_vcpu_free(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *

[PATCH 41/55] KVM: VMX: wbinvd exiting

From: Eddie Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add wbinvd VM Exit support to prepare for pass-through device cache emulation and also enhance real time responsiveness. Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/vmx.c | 11 +

[PATCH 37/55] KVM: VMX: Use vmx to inject real-mode interrupts

Instead of injecting real-mode interrupts by writing the interrupt frame into guest memory, abuse vmx by injecting a software interrupt. We need to pretend the software interrupt instruction had a length > 0, so we have to adjust rip backward. This lets us not to mess with writing guest memory, w

[PATCH 15/55] KVM: x86 emulator: don't depend on cr2 for mov abs emulation

The 'mov abs' instruction family (opcodes 0xa0 - 0xa3) still depends on cr2 provided by the page fault handler. This is wrong for several reasons: - if an instruction accessed misaligned data that crosses a page boundary, and if the fault happened on the second page, cr2 will point at the sec

[PATCH 24/55] KVM: Portability: Move kvm_get/set_msr[_common] to x86.c

From: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This patch moves the implementation of the functions of kvm_get/set_msr, kvm_get/set_msr_common, and set_efer from kvm_main.c to x86.c. The definition of EFER_RESERVED_BITS is moved too. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Hollis Blanch

[PATCH 36/55] KVM: Add make_page_dirty() to kvm_clear_guest_page()

From: Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Every write access to guest pages should be tracked. Signed-off-by: Dor Laor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0

[PATCH 42/55] KVM: x86 emulator: remove 8 bytes operands emulator for call near instruction

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it is removed beacuse it isnt supported on a real host Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/x86_emulate.c |3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers

[PATCH 43/55] KVM: Simplify CPU_TASKS_FROZEN cpu notifier handling

Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c |4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c index 302473d..dacdc66 100644 --- a/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c +++ b/drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c @@ -1335,21 +

[PATCH 53/55] KVM: Portability: move KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Make KVM_CHECK_EXTENSION code into a function, all archs can define its capability independently. Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.

[PATCH 38/55] KVM: VMX: Read & store IDT_VECTORING_INFO_FIELD

We'll want to write to it in order to fix real-mode irq injection problems, but it is a read-only field. Storing it in a variable solves that issue. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/vmx.c | 17 - 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) di

[PATCH 45/55] KVM: introduce gfn_to_hva()

From: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Convert a guest frame number to the corresponding host virtual address. Signed-off-by: Izik Eidus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 25 + 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+),

[PATCH 47/55] KVM: Portability: Move some includes to x86.c

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Move some includes to x86.c from kvm_main.c, since the related functions have been moved to x86.c Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm_

[PATCH 51/55] KVM: Portability: Move x86 specific code from kvm_init() to kvm_arch()

From: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Zhang Xiantao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/kvm/kvm.h |5 +++-- drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 26 ++ drivers/kvm/x86.c

[0/4] DST: Distributed storage: Groundhogs strike back: no New Year for humans

Distributed storage: Groundhogs strike back: no New Year for humans I'm pleased to announce the 13'th release of the distributed storage subsystem (DST). DST allows to form a storage on top of local and remote nodes and combine them into linear or mirroring setup, which in turn can be exported t

[2/4] DST: Core distributed storage files.

Core distributed storage files. Include userspace interfaces, initialization, block layer bindings and other core functionality. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig index b4c8319..ca6592d 100644 --- a/drivers/block/Kconf

[3/4] DST: Network state machine.

Network state machine. Includes network async processing state machine and related tasks. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/block/dst/kst.c b/drivers/block/dst/kst.c new file mode 100644 index 000..6d92014 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/block/dst/kst.c @

[4/4] DST: Algorithms used in distributed storage.

Algorithms used in distributed storage. Mirror and linear mapping code. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/drivers/block/dst/alg_linear.c b/drivers/block/dst/alg_linear.c new file mode 100644 index 000..2f9ed65 --- /dev/null +++ b/drivers/block/dst/alg_linear.c

Re: checkpatch false ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 04:50:04PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > Using v2.6.24-rc6-125-g5356f66, code such as this: > > if (is_file)/* dirs can be unlinked but chdir'ed to */ > err = -ESTALE; > > produces this false checkpatch error: > > foo.c:947: ERROR: trailing stat

Re: OOPS: 2.6.23.11 in PadLock-AES when used in LRW-Mode

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 06:22:14PM +, Alexander Eichhorn wrote: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f800 > printing eip: > c03bbc8c > *pde = > Oops: [#1] > PREEMPT > Modules linked in: > CPU:0 > EIP:0060:[]Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 0

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, James Morris wrote: > What does the following say ? > > # sestatus && rpm -q selinux-policy Don't worry about that -- I reproduced it with Paul Moore's git tree: git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/lblnet-2.6_testing (under current -mm, the e1000 driver doesn't find my e

Re: [PATCH 02/16] adapt lguest launcher to per-cpuness

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 00:33:42 Glauber de Oliveira Costa wrote: > > + if (!vcpu_id) { > > + /* > > +* Service input, then unset the BREAK to > > +* release the Waker. > > +

Re: NFS EINVAL on open(... | O_TRUNC) on 2.6.23.9

On Dec 25, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:35:17 +0100 Gianluca Alberici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I can do better. I have investigated a bit the problem: 1) The problem arises only with the userspace nfsd (Universal nfsd 2.2). I have realized that t

Re: Suspend code ordering (again) (was: Re: x86: Increase PCIBIOS_MIN_IO to 0x1500 to fix nForce 4 suspend-to-RAM)

On Wednesday, 26 of December 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > the ACPI specification between versions 1.0x and 2.0. Namely, while ACPI > > 2.0 and later wants us to put devices into low power states before calling > > _PTS, ACPI 1.0x wants us t

Re: [PATCH 0/3] PM: Do not destroy/create devices while suspended

On Wednesday, 26 of December 2007, Alan Stern wrote: > On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > Do we need to worry about the possibility that when the system wakes up > > > > from hibernation, the set of usable CPUs might be smaller than it was > > > > beforehand? > > > > > > Th

Re: [PATCHv2] powerpc: DBox2 Board Support

Hi Arnd, This patch adds device tree source, default config and setup code for DBox2 devices. ia > Cool stuff. I used to have one of these boxes myself, maybe I should get one again when it's hitting mainline. Is this already a complete port, or do you also need some device drivers or boot

[PATCH 1/4] fs/autofs: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ ch

[PATCH 2/4] sound/oss: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ ch

[PATCH 3/4] drivers/scsi/lpfc: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ ch

Re: Suspend code ordering (again)

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Wednesday, 26 of December 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: the ACPI specification between versions 1.0x and 2.0. Namely, while ACPI 2.0 and later wants us to put devices into low power states before calling _PTS, ACPI

[PATCH 4/4] drivers/scsi/u14-34f.c: Use time_before, time_before_eq, etc.

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. A simplified version of the semantic patch making this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ ch

Re: [PATCH 00/63] ide-cd: redux

On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 02:05:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:48:49 +0100 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This patch series is a major rework of the ide-cd driver. > > woo-hoo. > > > PS ide-cd Maintainer position is still open... > > boo-h

[PATCH 1/3] arch/x86: Use offsetof

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the patch cc154ac64aa8d3396b187f64cef01ce67f433324, Al Viro observed that the proper way to compute the distance between two structure fields is to use offsetof() or a cast to a pointer to character. The same change can be applied to a few more files. Th

[PATCH 3/3] drivers/scsi: Use offsetof

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the patch cc154ac64aa8d3396b187f64cef01ce67f433324, Al Viro observed that the proper way to compute the distance between two structure fields is to use offsetof() or a cast to a pointer to character. The same change can be applied to a few more files. Th

[PATCH 2/3] drivers/s390: Use offsetof

From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the patch cc154ac64aa8d3396b187f64cef01ce67f433324, Al Viro observed that the proper way to compute the distance between two structure fields is to use offsetof() or a cast to a pointer to character. The same change can be applied to a few more files. Th

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

As James said I'm away right now and computer access is limited. However, I'm stuck in the airport right now and spent some time looking at the code ... Based on what has been found so far I wonder if the problem isn't a race but a problem of skb->iif never being initialized correctly? To my u

Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - git-lblnet.patch and networking horkage

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:52:56 +1100, James Morris said: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:34:26 +1100, James Morris said: > > > > > Can you post your .config ? > > > > The gzip'ed config as of when I quit bisecting is attached. It's probably > > not dir

Re: Testing RAM from userspace / question about memmap= arguments

On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:09:57 +0100 Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat 2007-12-22 12:09:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:06:24 + > > memtest86+ does various magic to basically bypass the caches (by > > disabling them ;-)... Doing that in a live kernel situat

Re: TOMOYO Linux Security Goal

Quoting Tetsuo Handa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > This document is intended to specify the security goal that TOMOYO Linux is > trying to achieve, so that users can evaluate whether TOMOYO Linux will meet > their needs, and kernel developers can evaluate whether TOMOYO Linux deserved > to be in-tree. >

Re: [PATCH 7/7] sg_ring: convert core ATA code to sg_ring.

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 17:36 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > (PS, I haven't followed the sg chaining discussion. Why is sg chaining > an optional feature? Performance overhead on low end machines?) The idea of SG chaining is to allow drivers that wish to take advantage of it to increase their transfer

Re: list corruption on ib_srp load in v2.6.24-rc5

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 01:41 +0900, FUJITA Tomonori wrote: > transport_container_unregister(&i->rport_attr_cont) should not fail here. > > It fails because there is still a srp rport. > > I think that as Pete pointed out, srp_remove_one needs to call > srp_remove_host. > > Can you try this? Tha

Re: [RFC] sleepy linux

Am Mittwoch, 26. Dezember 2007 00:07:31 schrieb Pavel Machek: > Heute 00:07:31 >   > This is RFC. It does not even work for me... it sleeps but it will not > wake up, because SATA wakeup code is missing. Code attached for illustration. > > I wonder if this is the right approach? What is right in

Re: Suspend code ordering (again)

Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: I don't know. Windows was compliant only with 1.x spec until Vista. With Vista claims are 3.x compliance. In other words, the 1.x spec is the only thing that matters, at least in the short term (*noone* is giving up XP compatibility at this point.) -h

Re: [x86] is checkpatch.pl broken

Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: It's a quite true, sorry for this and thanks for the note. And Peter, the line I marked is not to be splitted even having additional spaces over math operators. Look orig: mbr_base = (buf_base+sector_size-1) & ~(sector_size-1); new (could be): mbr_base = (buf_base + s

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