Re: [PATCH -mmotm] fs/sysfs/file.c d_path fix

2008-02-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:12:05PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c > index 02223e2..a57b024 100644 > --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c > +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c > @@ -329,9 +329,11 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct > file *file) > struct sy

[PATCH] modpost: Fix reversed symbol name order

2008-02-17 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
XXXINIT_TO_INIT and XXXEXIT_TO_EXIT warnings use the reversed symbol name order in the suggestion, e.g.: WARNING: vmlinux.o(.meminit.text+0x36c): Section mismatch in reference from the function free_area_init_core() to the function .init.text:setup_usemap() The function __meminit free_are

Re: Unable to continue testing of 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:25:30AM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: >... > For my work on the Debian Installer I heavily rely on emulators to run test > installs and ATM my emulator of choice is VirtualBox (the fully open "ose" > version). This requires the vboxdrv kernel module, but unfortunately: >... >

Re: [2.6 patch] make vfs_ioctl() static

2008-02-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:18:42AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch makes the needlessly global vfs_ioctl() static. I think the point was toa eventually export it for stackable filesystem use. But until they start using it marking it static seems fine with me. -- To unsubscribe from this l

Re: [19/19] ftrace

2008-02-17 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Paul Jackson wrote: > A week ago, Ingo wrote: > > There's no 19th patch. > > Dang ... and I came here looking for the "latency tracing for dummies" > update to Documentation ;). > > Did I miss its existence elsewhere? I submitted a tutorial to OLS, send them a note saying yo

[PATCH] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/lib/io_64.c

2008-02-17 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
[PATCH] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/lib/io_64.c This simple patch makes the file error free (according to checkpatch.pl) Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/lib/io_64.c | 10 +- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x8

Re: [PATCH 09/27] x86: fix section mismatch warning in setup_64.c:nearby_node

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
on Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > Fix following warnings: > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1baa2): Section mismatch in reference from the > function nearby_node() to the variable .cpuinit.data:apicid_to_node > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1bace): Section mismatch in reference from the > funct

Re: [2.6.25-rc2, 2.6.24-rc8] page allocation failure...

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel J Blueman
I'm still hitting this with e1000e on 2.6.25-rc2, 10 times again. It's clearly non-fatal, but then do we expect it to occur? Daniel --- [dmesg] [ 1250.822786] swapper: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x4020 [ 1250.822786] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.25-rc2-119 #2 [ 1250.822786]

Re: [2.6 patch] remove generic_commit_write()

2008-02-17 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:16:37AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch removes the obsolete and no longer used generic_commit_write(). Given that the APIs these are helpers for are gone this function should go away. ACK. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: [2.6 patch] x86: make mxcsr_feature_mask static again

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > mxcsr_feature_mask needlessly became global. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied along with the other x86 ones. Thanks, tglx > --- > > arch/x86/kernel/i387.c |2 +- > include/asm-x86/i387.h |1 - > 2 files chan

[PATCH] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref in slave_alloc

2008-02-17 Thread Stefan Richter
Fix a kernel bug when running rescan-scsi-bus while a FireWire disk is connected: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10008 Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c |4 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) Index: linux/drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix compile warning building without CONFIG_SYSCTL

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Li Zefan wrote: > building without CONFIG_SYSCTL: > > arch/x86/kernel/nmi_64.c:50: warning: 'unknown_nmi_panic_callback' declared > 'static' but never defined > > This patch also fixes nmi_32.c > > Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. Thanks, tglx

[PATCH 1/2] x86: whitespaces fixes in arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c

2008-02-17 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
[PATCH 1/2] x86: whitespaces fixes in arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c | 77 --- 1 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers

[PATCH] ieee1394: sbp2: fix rescan-scsi-bus

2008-02-17 Thread Stefan Richter
rescan-scsi-bus used to add SBP-2 targets which weren't there. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c |3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c === --- li

[PATCH 2/2] x86: coding style fixes arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c

2008-02-17 Thread Paolo Ciarrocchi
[PATCH 2/2] x86: coding style fixes arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c On top of the previous patch makes the file errors free according to checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c |9 - 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 de

Re: Reducing debuginfo size by removing unneeded includes

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > I'm starting with you because the first file I used to > experiment with this idea was arch/x86/ia32/sys_ia32.c. > > I found it strange that the struct sk_buff definition was found > inside the DWARF debugging sections

Re: [PATCH 1/9] x86: change most X86_32 pt_regs members to unsigned long

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
on Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote: > All but ax and orig_ax can move with no changes. > > Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PATCH] x86: include prototype for no_broadcast in mach-default/setup.c

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote: > Fixes sparse warning: > arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c:19:5: warning: symbol 'no_broadcast' was not > declared. Should it be static? Applied. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [PATCH] lguest: include function prototypes

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Harvey Harrison wrote: > Fix for sparse warning > arch/x86/lguest/boot.c:939:13: warning: symbol 'lguest_init' was not > declared. Should it be static? > > Added a declaration to asm-x86/lguest.h and moved the extern arrays there > as well. As an alternative to including as

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: remove never used nodenumer in pda

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: > we don't need copy too. already have x86_cpu_to_node_map > > Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Applied. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] x86: boot protocol updates.

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: > Updates since last time: > - Rebased to latest x86.git#mm (no changes required). > Applied. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Sergio Luis
Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Rusty Russell wrote: > >> On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:05:51 Ingo Molnar wrote: >>> looks similar to the previous one so i guess my quick fix attempt was a >>> bit too quick. Will turn lguest off again. And i'm willing to test >>> patches as well :)

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: validate against acpi motherboard resources

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: > From: Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This path adds validation of the MMCONFIG table against the ACPI reserved > motherboard resources. If the MMCONFIG table is found to be reserved in > ACPI, we don't bother checking the E820 table. The PCI Expre

Re: [PATCH] [6/8] CPA: Remove BUG_ON for LRU/Compound pages

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > New implementation does not use lru for anything so there is no need > to reject pages that are in the LRU. Similar for compound pages (which > were checked because they also use page->lru) Applied. Removed the now unused variable as well. Thanks,

Re: spi transfer with zero length

2008-02-17 Thread Atsushi Nemoto
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:58:48 -0800, David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2008, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > > Hi. Is it legal to use zero for 'len' field of struct spi_transfer? > > I mean, len=0, tx_buf=rx_buf=NULL, delay_usecs!=0. > > Yes that should work ... it's unco

Re: [build bug] lguest build failure: drivers/lguest/x86/switcher_32.S:(.text+0x3815f8): undefined reference to `LGUEST_PAGES_regs_trapnum'

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Saturday 02 February 2008 04:05:51 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > looks similar to the previous one so i guess my quick fix attempt was a > > bit too quick. Will turn lguest off again. And i'm willing to test > > patches as well :) > > Hi Ingo, > >OK, th

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: reenable support for system without on node0

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote: Applied. Thanks, tglx > > one system doesn't have RAM for node0 installed. > > SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0 -> Node 0 > SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 1 -> Node 0 > SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 2 -> Node 1 > SRAT: PXM 1 -> APIC 3 -> Node 1 > SRAT: Node 1 PXM 1 0-a > SR

Re: [PATCH 0/8][for -mm] mem_notify v6

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Jackson
I just noticed this patchset, kosaki-san. It looks quite interesting; my apologies for not commenting earlier. I see mention somewhere that mem_notify is of particular interest to embedded systems. I have what seems, intuitively, a similar problem at the opposite end of the world, on big-honkin

PROBLEM: Corruption problems in pata_via for Via NanoBook owners (Cloudbook, EasyNote XS etc.)

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Smith
One Line : Changes in 2.24 have rendered the ide handling on the Via NanoBook unstable resulting in data loss under heavy load. Keywords : modules, pata_via, viac82 Kernel version : 2.24 Environment : Packard Bell Easynote XS - based on Via Nanobook reference platform. (same as Everex C

Re: Announce: Linux-next (Or Andrew's dream :-))

2008-02-17 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 16:25 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi James, > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:14:32 -0600 James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Do you have the tree and build logs available anywhere? I'd like to > > turn off the merge tree builds when this is able to replace it.

Re: Geode GX/LX watchdog timer (RESEND)

2008-02-17 Thread Iain Paton
Arnd Hannemann wrote: I can confirm that it is still working fine :-) Hi, Has anyone managed to build this as a module against the full 2.6.24 release ? I am seeing the following error: CC [M] lib/zlib_inflate/infutil.o CC [M] lib/zlib_inflate/inftrees.o CC [M] lib/zlib_inflate/i

Re: Geode GX/LX watchdog timer (RESEND)

2008-02-17 Thread Arnd Hannemann
Hi, Iain Paton wrote: > Arnd Hannemann wrote: > >> I can confirm that it is still working fine :-) > > Hi, > > Has anyone managed to build this as a module against the full 2.6.24 > release ? > > I am seeing the following error: > > CC [M] lib/zlib_inflate/infutil.o > CC [M] lib/zlib_in

Re: Geode GX/LX watchdog timer (RESEND)

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:46:01PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote: > Hi, > > Iain Paton wrote: > > Arnd Hannemann wrote: > > > >> I can confirm that it is still working fine :-) > > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone managed to build this as a module against the full 2.6.24 > > release ? > > > > I am see

Re: [PATCH 09/27] x86: fix section mismatch warning in setup_64.c:nearby_node

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:44:23PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > on Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > Fix following warnings: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x1baa2): Section mismatch in reference from the > > function nearby_node() to the variable .cpuinit.data:apicid_to_node > > WARNI

Re: [PATCH 17/27] acer-wmi: fix section mismatch warnings

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:03:55PM +, Carlos Corbacho wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008 12:22:54 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Fix following warnings: > > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x672615): Section mismatch in reference from the > > function acer_platform_remove() to the function > > .exit.text:ac

Re: [PATCH] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/lib/io_64.c

2008-02-17 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:41:16PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote: > [PATCH] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/lib/io_64.c > > This simple patch makes the file error free (according to > checkpatch.pl) > > > Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > arch/x86/lib/io_64.c | 1

[patch 2/2] x86: lds - Use THREAD_SIZE instead of numeric constant

2008-02-17 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
Though we use PDA for regular task stack but that is not acceptable for init_task wich is special one. We still have to allocate init_task's stack in that manner. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Ingo, Peter, I can be wrong but take a look please to x86/lgest/i386_head.S:41

[patch 1/2] x86: lds - Use PAGE_SIZE instead of numeric constant

2008-02-17 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
It's much better to use PAGE_SIZE then magic 4096 (though it's almost synonym in most cases on x86 but not for *all* cases ;) Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.git/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S ==

Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

2008-02-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:37:53 +0100 "Hans J. Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course there's no driver for the wlan, but that's a different > > story ;) > > I replaced that unsupported Atheros 5007 card with an ipw3945, so I > haven't got that problem. oh but then you have a MUCH bigger pro

2.6.25-rc2, Problem running 'make install' as root with different gcc

2008-02-17 Thread Avi Kivity
Trying to install a built 2.5.25-rc2 on a machine with a different gcc installed fails with LDS arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds cc1: fatal error: opening output file arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds: Permission denied compilation terminated. make[1]: *** [arch/x86/vdso/vdso.lds] Error 1 make: *** [vdso_inst

Re: [PATCH] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/lib/io_64.c

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paolo Ciarrocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [PATCH] x86: coding style fixes in arch/x86/lib/io_64.c > > This simple patch makes the file error free (according to > checkpatch.pl) thanks, applied. (i fixed the other minor style problems in this file too, so that we have it all in a single

Re: PROBLEM: Corruption problems in pata_via for Via NanoBook owners (Cloudbook, EasyNote XS etc.)

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Cox
> In 2.24 the device ID 0x581 for Vendor VIA was added to the pata_via > driver causing some problems. Actually we've had the CX700 supported for a while and as Tejun has fixed other bugs related to it we know its being used and tested. The slave port is a bit quirky but that is purely in the wa

[patch 0/2] x86: vmlinux.lds cleanup

2008-02-17 Thread Cyrill Gorcunov
This patch series replaces numeric constants in vmlinux.lds scripts to appropriate symbolic names. Any comments are highly appreciated. -- -- 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.

Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: sbp2: fix rescan-scsi-bus

2008-02-17 Thread James Bottomley
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 14:57 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > rescan-scsi-bus used to add SBP-2 targets which weren't there. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c |3 +++ > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > Index: linux/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/17/2008 2:20 AM, Paul Jackson wrote: Andrew wrote: (Since there are multiple Andrews on just the LKML, and at least two - one of whom is much more prominent than I am - in the direct address list for this discussion, I'm not sure whether or not this is a sufficient attribution. If it work

Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86: coding style fixes arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Paolo Ciarrocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [PATCH 2/2] x86: coding style fixes arch/x86/lib/csum-wrappers_64.c > > On top of the previous patch makes the file errors free according to > checkpatch.pl thanks Paolo, applied. (i've folded the two patches - as long as a cleanup patch has no

Re: Geode GX/LX watchdog timer (RESEND)

2008-02-17 Thread Iain Paton
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:46:01PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote: Never tried to built it as a module. Probably there are issues with that. If I remember correctly I saw a patch in 2.6.25-rc which mentioned that using mfgpt in modules won't work. Does this apply to 2.6.24 as w

Re: [PATCH] x86: fix cpu info in dmesg

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not sure whether it's the right fix, but it doesn't make sense to call > print_cpu_info without leading printk... thanks, applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

[PATCH] falconide: locking bugfix

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
commit 8ac4ce742c66100931b6f2d7a36b0df08bc721fe ("ide: fix host drivers depending on ide_generic to probe for interfaces (take 2)") moved probing to falconide but forgot to take care of Atari specific locking - fix it. Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [PATCH 3/3] sched: fix signedness warnings in sched.c

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unsigned long values are always assigned to switch_count, > make it unsigned long. > > kernel/sched.c:3897:15: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different > signedness) > kernel/sched.c:3897:15:expected long *switch_count > kernel/sched.c:

Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched: add declaration of sched_tail to sched.h

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Avoids sparse warnings: kernel/sched.c:2170:17: warning: symbol > 'schedule_tail' was not declared. Should it be static? > > Avoids the need for an external declaration in arch/um/process.c thanks, applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from thi

Re: [PATCH] More accessible usage of custom flags

2008-02-17 Thread Nicholas Marquez
On Feb 17, 2008 5:37 AM, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:52:51PM -0500, Nicholas Marquez wrote: > > I submitted this patch to the zen-sources Gentoo community and got > > much praise and has promptly been included. This kind of thing have > > very likely alr

Re: [PATCH 0/2] for sched-devel.git

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ingo, > > Would you stick these into sched-devel. > > The first patch should address the latency isolation issue. While the > second rectifies a massive brainfart :-) hehe :-) applied. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

xfsaild causing 30+ wakeups/s on an idle system since 2.6.25-rcX

2008-02-17 Thread Török Edwin
Hi, xfsaild is causing many wakeups, a quick investigation shows xfsaild_push is always returning 30 msecs timeout value. This is on an idle system, running only gnome, and gnome-terminal. I suggest changing the timeout logic in xfsaild to be more power consumption friendly. See below my origin

Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: validate against acpi motherboard resources

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > linus already apply the the patch to "use MMCONFIG for extended config > space only" to mainline. the last two near 2.6.25-rc1. > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=a0ca9909609470ad779b9b9cc68ce96e975afff7

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc1-git2: GDT SCSI: change drivers/scsi/gdth.c into using pci_get device

2008-02-17 Thread Jeff Garzik
Boaz Harrosh wrote: On Sat, Feb 16 2008 at 18:37 +0200, Matthew Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:57:37AM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: I still don't have a card for testing myself. Again anyone wants to send me a card. Intel people anybody home? Apparently Intel sold t

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on my > > server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy console. > > Please check if this bug report matches the issue you are seeing: > http://bugzil

Re: What's needed for a PCIe card to be recognized?

2008-02-17 Thread Hans J. Koch
Am Sun, 17 Feb 2008 07:29:27 -0800 schrieb Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:37:53 +0100 > "Hans J. Koch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Of course there's no driver for the wlan, but that's a different > > > story ;) > > > > I replaced that unsupported Atheros 5007

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Andrew Buehler
On 2/16/2008 10:35 PM, Alan Stern wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Andrew Buehler wrote: Messages sent to my address directly are explicitly not filtered into the folders I have set up for various mailing lists, so that if someone does send me a "heads up" reply for a specific topic on a list to wh

Re: DMA mapping API on 32-bit X86 with CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

2008-02-17 Thread Bill Waddington
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:16:58 UTC, in fa.linux.kernel you wrote: >I was looking at the out-of-tree driver for a PCI high-security module >(from a vendor who shall remain nameless) today, as we had a problem >reported where the device didn't work properly if the computer had more >than 4GB of RAM

Re: [PATCH] x86_64: get apic_id later in acpi_numa_processor_affinity_init

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > don't need get that at beginning. thanks, applied. Ingo -- 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 P

Re: USB regression (and other failures) in 2.6.2[45]*

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Jackson
Andrew B wrote: > Windows, which is what I have to use for work purposes. aha -- my condolences ;) Take care. Your last reply made as much sense as we're likely to make of this one. Thanks. -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalabilit

Re: [PATCH 1/2] [x86] arch/x86/kernel/signal_32.c: replace !likely(x) by likely(!x)

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - if (on_sig_stack(sp) && !likely(on_sig_stack(sp - frame_size))) > + if (on_sig_stack(sp) && unlikely(!on_sig_stack(sp - frame_size))) hm, what's the purpose of this change? Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: Timer cleanups

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Add anotations, so that timertop produces nicer results. Relative > expiry time can get negative, so it should be signed. > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please do not mix patches for arch / generic code > diff --git a/arch/x86/ke

[GIT pull] timer fixes for 2.6.25

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
Linus, please pull from ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/linux-2.6-hrt.git Thanks, tglx --- Pavel Machek (1): timer_list: print relative expiry time signed kernel/time/timer_list.c |4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a

Re: [PATCH 13/14] kernel/irq/spurious.c: Use time_* macros

2008-02-17 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, S.Çağlar Onur wrote: > The functions time_before, time_before_eq, time_after, and time_after_eq are > more robust for comparing jiffies against other values. > > So following patch implements usage of the time_after() macro, defined at > linux/jiffies.h, which deals with wr

Re: [patch 2/2] x86: apic: Extended interrupt LVT support for AMD Barcelona (32bit)

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Robert Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > /* > + * Setup extended LVT, AMD specific (K8, family 10h) > + * > + * Vector mappings are hard coded. On K8 only offset 0 (APIC500) and > + * MCE interrupts are supported. Thus MCE offset must be set to 0. > + */ thanks, applied. Ingo -- T

Re: PROBLEM: Corruption problems in pata_via for Via NanoBook owners (Cloudbook, EasyNote XS etc.)

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Hi, On Sunday 17 February 2008, Andrew Smith wrote: > One Line : Changes in 2.24 have rendered the ide handling on the Via > NanoBook unstable resulting in data loss under heavy load. > > Keywords : modules, pata_via, viac82 > > Kernel version : 2.24 > > Environment : Packard Bell Easyno

[PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Fix goofups of commit 76166952bbc81dda1c8a8c14e75a2aa06f6c052c (" is not used by kernel code"). Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- include/linux/hdsmart.h |4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Re: [PATCH 03/12] ide: add ide-4drives host driver

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote: [...] > > +You also need to use "probe" kernel paramater for ide-4drives driver > >parameter thanks, fixed in "take 2" -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: [PATCH 1/4] : More use DIV_ROUND_UP

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Julia Lawall wrote: > From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The kernel.h macro DIV_ROUND_UP performs the computation (((n) + (d) - 1) / > (d)) but is perhaps more readable. > > An extract of the semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: > (http://www.

Re: [PATCH 14/27] hwmon: fix section mismatch in coretemp

2008-02-17 Thread Mark M. Hoffman
Hi Sam: * Sam Ravnborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-02-17 13:22:51 +0100]: > Fix following warning: > WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0xebfd04): Section mismatch in reference from the > function coretemp_cpu_callback() to the function > .cpuinit.text:coretemp_device_add() > > coretemp_cpu_callback() are

[PATCH] return useful error when accessing /proc//maps

2008-02-17 Thread Jean-Marc Saffroy
Hello folks, Access to /proc//maps is now restricted to legitimate users, but read(2) simply returns 0 instead of a more explicit error. The patch below fixes this. Signed-off-by: Jean-Marc Saffroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Index: linux-2.6.24.2/fs/proc/base.c

Re: [PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-17 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Fix goofups of commit 76166952bbc81dda1c8a8c14e75a2aa06f6c052c > (" is not used by kernel code"). > > Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > include/linux/hd

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 16, 2008 7:29 PM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Strip all trailing whitespace (such as carriage returns) > when parsing integer writes to cgroup files, not just > one trailing newline if present. Sounds like a good idea to me. Thanks

Re: [PATCH] Configure out TSC support

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following patch allows to remove the code needed to support the > TSC timer on x86 32 bits. The TSC seems to be mandatory on x86 64 > bits. The patch adds a X86_TSC_TIMER option to enable/disable the > support. > > A X86_TSC option already e

Re: [PATCH] kprobes: remove sparse warnings from x86

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ingo, could you take this in x86.git? yeah - and Thomas has beaten me at picking it up :-) Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: xfsaild causing 30+ wakeups/s on an idle system since 2.6.25-rcX

2008-02-17 Thread Oliver Pinter
On 2/17/08, Török Edwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > xfsaild is causing many wakeups, a quick investigation shows > xfsaild_push is always > returning 30 msecs timeout value. > > This is on an idle system, running only gnome, and gnome-terminal. > > I suggest changing the timeout logic in x

Re: [PATCH 14/27] hwmon: fix section mismatch in coretemp

2008-02-17 Thread Sam Ravnborg
> > This rings a bell... hmmm, commit 59a35bafb223bbb0553ba1a3bb9280bda668a8d8. > AFAICT the warning is a false positive, but whatever. Yes it is - the __refdata is there only to silence modpost. > > Applied to hwmon-2.6.git/testing, thanks. Thanks, Sam -- To unsubscribe from this lis

[PATCH] drivers/net/cs89x0.c: compilation warning fix

2008-02-17 Thread Leonardo Potenza
From: Leonardo Potenza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Suppress the warning message about the 'netcard_portlist' defined but not used. Signed-off-by: Leonardo Potenza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- When building cs89x0 as a module, the following warning message is generated: drivers/net/cs89x0.c:198: warning: 'net

Re: [PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > Fix goofups of commit 76166952bbc81dda1c8a8c14e75a2aa06f6c052c > > (" is not used by kernel code"). > > > > Reported-by: "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Signed-off-by: Bartl

Re: Geode GX/LX watchdog timer (RESEND)

2008-02-17 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:10:09 + Iain Paton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:46:01PM +0100, Arnd Hannemann wrote: > >> Never tried to built it as a module. > >> Probably there are issues with that. If I remember correctly I saw a patch > >> in 2.6.2

Re: [PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-17 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:40:31PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > Fix goofups of commit 76166952bbc81dda1c8a8c14e75a2aa06f6c052c > > > (" is not used by kernel code").

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-17 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on > > > my server I don't get the vga console, but only get the dummy > > > console. > > > > Please check i

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Menage
On Feb 17, 2008 9:28 AM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm figuring it would be easiest if you just threw this > little change into your hopper for the bigger changes > you're making OK, will do. Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

[FIXED] Re: kernel 2.6.24{,.1} ahci problem, does not boot

2008-02-17 Thread Malte Schröder
Okay, I updated the BIOS and the problem disappeared. The mainboard is an Asus M2R32-MVP by the way. On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:30:21 +0100 Malte Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > on one of my machines neither 2.6.24 nor 2.6.24.1 work. > The system is 64bit on Athlon X2 and ATI-Chipset (

Re: [PATCH] linux/hdsmart.h: fix goofups

2008-02-17 Thread Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Sunday 17 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:40:31PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > > > Fix goofups of commit 76166952bbc81dda1c8a8c

Re: [RFC][PATCH 7/7] CGroup API: Update cpusets to use cgroup structured file API

2008-02-17 Thread Paul Jackson
> > Strip all trailing whitespace (such as carriage returns) > > when parsing integer writes to cgroup files, not just > > one trailing newline if present. > > Sounds like a good idea to me. Thanks for this. I'm figuring it would be easiest if you just threw this little change into your hopper fo

Re: [PATCH] firewire: fw-sbp2: fix NULL pointer deref in slave_alloc

2008-02-17 Thread Stefan Richter
On 17 Feb, Stefan Richter wrote: > Fix a kernel bug when running rescan-scsi-bus while a FireWire disk is > connected: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10008 > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > drivers/firewire/fw-sbp2.c |4 > 1 file changed, 4 insert

[PATCH 5/7] net/rxrpc: Use BUG_ON

2008-02-17 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ disab

[PATCH 6/7] sound: Use BUG_ON

2008-02-17 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ disab

[PATCH 7/7] net/9p/trans_virtio.c: Use BUG_ON

2008-02-17 Thread Julia Lawall
From: Julia Lawall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> if (...) BUG(); should be replaced with BUG_ON(...) when the test has no side-effects to allow a definition of BUG_ON that drops the code completely. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // @ disab

Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: sbp2: fix rescan-scsi-bus

2008-02-17 Thread Stefan Richter
James Bottomley wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 14:57 +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: >> rescan-scsi-bus used to add SBP-2 targets which weren't there. ... >> +++ linux/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c >> @@ -1974,6 +1974,9 @@ static int sbp2scsi_slave_alloc(struct s >> { >> struct sbp2_lu *lu = (struct s

Re: [PATCH] Configure out doublefault exception handler (Linux Tiny)

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Thomas Petazzoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Enclosed patch allows to configure out the doublefault exception > handler. The original patch of Matt Mackall added the option in > init/Kconfig, but because this is a x86-specific thing, I thought > arch/x86/Kconfig would be a better place. Is

Re: [REGRESSION 2.6.23] no vga console and no messages

2008-02-17 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > On Sunday 17 February 2008, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Frans Pop wrote: > > > Daniel Barkalow wrote: > > > > For some reason I can't see and don't know how to debug, in 2.6.23 on > > > > my server I don't get the vga console, but only ge

Re: [PATCH] Configure out DMI scanning code v2 (Linux Tiny)

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:56:45 -0600 > Matt Mackall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 10:04 +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > > > > Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable option if EMBEDDED is defined, in > > > order to be able to

Re: [PATCH 0/5] Make vsmp a paravirt client

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This series of five patches turns the vsmp architecture support in > x86_64 into a paravirt client. If PARAVIRT is on, the probe function > vsmp_init() is run unconditionally, patching the necessary irq > functions accordingly if running ontop of su

Re: [PATCH 3/5] [PATCH] call vsmp_init explicitly

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c > @@ -346,6 +346,10 @@ #endif > if (efi_enabled) > efi_init(); > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT > + vsmp_init(); > +#endif that #ifdef should be in setup.h,

Re: [PATCH 4/5] [PATCH] introduce paravirt helpers

2008-02-17 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Glauber Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > config X86_VSMP > bool "Support for ScaleMP vSMP" > depends on X86_64 && PCI > - help > + select PARAVIRT > + help hm, what's the idea here? Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: [2.6.25-rc2] stack trace immediately before rebooting/switching off

2008-02-17 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Sunday, 17 of February 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > In 2.6.25 I get stack trace immediately before system is switched off or > reboots. It is too fast to capture it on VGA; netconsole does not capture > it either - probably network is already shutdown at this point. I do > not have serial por

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