Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

2008-02-19 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:13:55PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > + /* > > +* Only need to copy the first 512 bytes from address 0. But since > > +* the compiler emits a warning if src == NULL for memcpy use copy_page

Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

2008-02-19 Thread Heiko Carstens
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:38:56PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:13:55PM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > > + /* > > > + * Only need to copy the first 512 bytes from address 0. But since > > > + * t

Recent driver in linux kernel 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Lukas Hejtmanek
Hello, as of pre 2.6.25 kernels, kismet monitoring tool does not work with the message: # kismet Launching kismet_server: //usr/bin/kismet_server Suid priv-dropping disabled. This may not be secure. No specific sources given to be enabled, all will be enabled. Non-RFMon VAPs will be destroyed on

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, kvm: add ad_mask static inline

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:39 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: > Harvey Harrison wrote: > > Replaces open-coded mask calculation in macros. > > > > > Please regenerate against kvm.git (patch 2 doesn't apply; see > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Code). Also please copy > [EMAIL PROTECTED] on kvm patche

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 6/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Jackson
Thanks for doing this, Nick. One area looks like some details need working. Nick Andrew wrote: > config PROC_PID_CPUSET > bool "Include legacy /proc//cpuset file" > depends on CPUSETS > default y > + help > + This option provides the legacy /proc//cpuset file. > + > +

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Pavel Emelyanov
Nick Andrew wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >> Nick Andrew wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the usefulness and consistency of the help descrip

[PATCH] Tasklets: Avoid duplicating __tasklet_{,hi_}schedule() code

2008-02-19 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
Hi all, Avoid duplicating __tasklet_schedule() and __tasklet_hi_schedule() code in tasklet_action() and tasklet_hi_action() respectively. Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- This also saves a few bytes of image space: textdata bss dec hex filename 3632

[patch 00/13] s390 bux fixes for 2.6.25-rc2.

2008-02-19 Thread Martin Schwidefsky
Greetings, this and that for s390. The shortlog: Cornelia Huck (2): [S390] cio: Remember to initialize recovery_lock. [S390] cio: Do timed recovery on workqueue. Heiko Carstens (6): [S390] Let NR_CPUS default to 32/64 on s390/s390x. [S390] Make sure enabled wait psw is loa

Markers: multi-probe locking fun (was: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Markers Implementation for RCU Tracing - Ver II)

2008-02-19 Thread Jan Kiszka
Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 01:47:31PM +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> K. Prasad wrote: >>> Hi Ingo, >>> Please accept these patches into the rt tree which convert the >>> existing RCU tracing mechanism for Preempt RCU and RCU Boost into >>> markers. >>> >>> These patches ar

Re: [PATCH] Tasklets: Avoid duplicating __tasklet_{,hi_}schedule() code

2008-02-19 Thread Ahmed S. Darwish
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 04:52:52PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > - local_irq_disable(); > > - t->next = __get_cpu_var(tasklet_vec).list; > > - __get_cpu_var(tasklet_vec).list = t; > > - __raise_softirq_irq

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote: > > cmpxchg_local(&c->freelist, object, object[c->offset]) can succeed, > while an interrupt came (on this cpu), and several allocations were done, > and one free was performed at the end of this interruption, so 'object' > was recycled. I think you may

Re: [LTP] [PATCH 1/8] Scaling msgmni to the amount of lowmem

2008-02-19 Thread Nadia Derbey
Subrata Modak wrote: Nadia Derbey wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:16:47 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [PATCH 01/08] This patch computes msg_ctlmni to make it scale with the amount of lowmem. msg_ctlmni is now set to make the message queues occupy 1/32 of the availa

Re: [PATCH] exporting capability code/name pairs (try #5.1)

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:45:46PM +0900, Kohei KaiGai wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > >>> Also, this code can be cleaned up a lot by just using the basic kobject > >>> attributes, and not rolling your own types here. > >> I replaced my own defined capability_attribute by kobj_attribute. > >> > >> It mad

Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ...

2008-02-19 Thread Marcel Holtmann
Hi Andi, If noone in the isdn community step up and take some responsibility for the current isdn drivers in Linux then we should just delete them. So you're saying anything that has no active maintainer should be immediately deleted? You do not recognize a provocation when you see it? I w

Re: [2.6.25-rc2] e100: Trying to free already-free IRQ 11 during suspend ...

2008-02-19 Thread Kok, Auke
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:36:50 +0300 Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ... and possibly reboot/poweroff (it flows by too fast to be legible). >> >> [ 8803.850634] ACPI: Preparing to enter system sleep state S3 >> [ 8803.853141] Suspending console(s) >> [ 8805.28

Re: [PATCH] latencytop: fix kernel panic and memory leak on proc

2008-02-19 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:51:19 -0800 >> Hiroshi Shimamoto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I posted 2 patches to fix kernel panic and memory leak. >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/14/282 >>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008

Re: Ideal Architecture for Linux

2008-02-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
James Crosby wrote: A stack based architecture is best, it makes nested interrupts, and general interruptibility very easy. If you mean stack-based register file, then that's *not* desirable; Linux depends on gcc which prefers a flat register file. 16 registers minimum. Two hardware stack

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x64 thermal build failure)

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:55:02 +0100 Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:13:40 -0800, > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > Option 3 wold be to add more #ifdef CONFIG_DMI lines around the > > place. How ugly would that get? > > Like the attached patch. #ifdef CONFIG_DMI

Re: [PATCH] ufs: [bl]e*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-19 Thread Marcin Slusarz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:22:19AM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:41:44 +0100 Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> you may also want these: > >> --- > >> [bl]e_add_cpu conversion in return > > > upsets powerpc (at least): > > > > fs/ufs/swab.

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

2008-02-19 Thread Kok, Auke
Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:20:59 + "Daniel J Blueman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I'm still hitting this with e1000e on 2.6.25-rc2, 10 times again. are you sure? I don't think that's the case and you're seeing e1000 dumps here... >> It's clearly non-fatal, but then

Re: [PATCH] documentation: move spidev_fdx example to its own source file

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:26:25PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Move sample source code to its own source file so that it can be used > easier and build-tested/check/maintained by anyone. > > (Makefile c

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > The device apparently has four 'interfaces' - whatever that is, see [1]. > It seems like usbhid probes interface 2 (which is the LCD plus a few > buttons, probably the four just under the LCD, as described [1]). > Because usbhid doesn't know how to h

Re: [2.6.25 patch] mips: fix SNI_RM EISA=n compilation

2008-02-19 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 11:59:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch fixes the following build error with CONFIG_EISA=n caused by > commit 231a35d37293ab88d325a9cb94e5474c156282c0: Applied. Thanks, Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Pekka Enberg
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If this (or my other patch) indeed solves the problem i'd still favor a full revert of the SLUB_FASTPATH (commit 1f84260c8ce3b1ce26d4), it looks quite un-cooked and quite un-tested for multiple independent reasons. Sigh, why do i a

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:16:53 +0300 Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Nick Andrew wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > >> Nick Andrew wrote: > >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: > Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intend

Re: LILO fatal error after going from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2

2008-02-19 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Rasmus Andersen wrote: Hello, I have just upgraded from 2.6.22 to 2.6.24.2 and after booting into the new kernel and seeing that everything went right, I wanted to make the new kernel the default boot kernel. But running LILO I got Fatal: Linux experimental device 0x04x needs to be defined.

Re: tsc breaks atkbd suspend

2008-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TSC is used even on machines when CONFIG_X86_TSC is not set (X86_TSC > means _require_ TSC), but it is not properly disabled when it is > unusable, because acpi code understood the config switch as "may use > TSC". > > This actually fixes suspend pr

Re: tsc breaks atkbd suspend

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > TSC is used even on machines when CONFIG_X86_TSC is not set (X86_TSC > > means _require_ TSC), but it is not properly disabled when it is > > unusable, because acpi code understood the config switch as "may

Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86, kvm: add ad_mask static inline

2008-02-19 Thread Avi Kivity
Harvey Harrison wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 10:39 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Harvey Harrison wrote: Replaces open-coded mask calculation in macros. Please regenerate against kvm.git (patch 2 doesn't apply; see http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/Code). Also please copy [EMAIL P

Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 8/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Andrew
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: > Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the > usefulness and consistency of the help descriptions. The patches are > against linux-2.6.24.2. > [...] > Patch 8 > SLUB_DEBUG > SLAB > SLUB >

Re: Plans for mISDN? Was: [PATCH 00/14] [ISDN] ...

2008-02-19 Thread Gregory Nietsky
Sam Ravnborg wrote: I'm not sure either it's a good idea to try to merge mISDN if the maintainers don't think it is ready yet. In the spirit of relase early - relase often we should at least see what is going on. well to add mISDN to the kernel tree is straight forward ./std2kern and the ou

Re: [PATCH] Tasklets: Avoid duplicating __tasklet_{,hi_}schedule() code

2008-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ahmed S. Darwish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - local_irq_disable(); > - t->next = __get_cpu_var(tasklet_vec).list; > - __get_cpu_var(tasklet_vec).list = t; > - __raise_softirq_irqoff(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ); > - local_irq_enable(); > +

Re: 2.6.25-rc1-sha1: WARNING: at lib/kref.c:43 kref_get+0x20/0x30()

2008-02-19 Thread Alexey Dobriyan
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:10:02PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:03 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:19:25AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > On Feb 18, 2008 1:59 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:08:53 +030

Re: [PATCH 1/3] Support arbitrary initial TCP timestamps

2008-02-19 Thread Glenn Griffin
> > Adding yet another member to the already bloated tcp_sock structure to > > implement this is too high a cost. > > Yes, I was worried that would be deemed too high of a cost, but it was > the most efficient way I could think to accomplish what I wanted. > > > I would instead prefer that there

Re: random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Pierre Ossman wrote: Somewhere post 2.6.24, the kernel started getting very temperamentful. I experience random hangs and wedges very often. Primarily, the udev startup locks up. If I abort it, it just locks up on more or less every action after that. Some quick debugging showed that I had a w

Re: 2.6.24 git2/mm1: cpu_to_node mapping to non-existant nodes causing boot failure

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Mike Travis wrote: > Mel Gorman wrote: > >> If you send me patches to apply on top of 2.6.25-rc1, I'll give them a spin >> on the machine in question. Reverting didn't work out very well as there are >> too many collisions with patches that were applied later. I eventually got >> the machine booti

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Chris Mason schrieb: > > On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > >> Theodore Tso schrieb: > >> > >> (...) > >> > >>> The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack > >>> encoded in for maildir directorie

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Pekka Enberg
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, this can happen. Are you saying it is not safe to be in the lockless path when an IRQ triggers? Hmm. The barrier() in slab_free() looks fishy. The comment says it's there to make sure we've retrieved c->freelist before c->page b

Re: [PATCH 0/8] AMD opteron mm config numa etc

2008-02-19 Thread Jeff Garzik
Yinghai Lu wrote: please check some amd opteron related mmconf and numa patches could make up for system that system have acpi problem or still can mmconf and numa when acpi=off ACK for my parts (stuff associated with PCI domain support on x86) Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Earlier today i turned off local-cmpxchg and havent had a crash or > hang since then - but at 200 bootups and 4-5 crashes in a week that's > not conclusive yet. I think others might have workloads that trigger > this bug more often. i mean, today i'v

RE: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: procfs updates to display info about many volumes

2008-02-19 Thread Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Morton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:00 AM > To: Jens Axboe > Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); LKML; LKML-scsi > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cciss: procfs updates to display > info about many volumes > > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:48

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

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Andi Kleen wrote: > Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> we don't need copy too. already have x86_cpu_to_node_map > > That's a regression (probably from Mike's patches?). Until recently it was > used. Yes, I had removed it because I couldn't find any references to it. And reading one's o

Re: inode leak in 2.6.24?

2008-02-19 Thread Ferenc Wagner
David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> 5 days ago I pulled the git tree (HEAD was >> 25f666300625d894ebe04bac2b4b3aadb907c861), added two minor patches >> (the vmsplice fix and the GFS1 exports), compiled and booted the >> ke

Re: Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 3/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Serge E. Hallyn
Quoting Pavel Emelyanov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Nick Andrew wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > >> Nick Andrew wrote: > >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: > Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve

random wedges with 2.6.25-rc*

2008-02-19 Thread Pierre Ossman
Somewhere post 2.6.24, the kernel started getting very temperamentful. I experience random hangs and wedges very often. Primarily, the udev startup locks up. If I abort it, it just locks up on more or less every action after that. Some quick debugging showed that I had a whole bunch of modprobe

Re: [RFC 00/11] possible debugfs/libfs consolidation

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:04:35AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I noticed that there is a lot of duplication in pseudo > file systems, so I started looking into how to consolidate > them. I ended up with a largish rework of the structure > of libfs and moving almost all of debugfs in there as well

Re: [patch 2/3] Convert ccp->readmutex in a mutex

2008-02-19 Thread Daniel Walker
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:45:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > @@ -1391,7 +1391,7 @@ > > /* Initialize device descriptor */ > init_MUTEX( &ccp->mutex); > - init_MUTEX( &ccp->readmutex); > + mutex_init(&ccp->readmutex); > auerbuf_init (&ccp->bufctl); > c

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 (x64 thermal build failure)

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Le Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:13:40 -0800, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > Option 3 wold be to add more #ifdef CONFIG_DMI lines around the > place. How ugly would that get? Like the attached patch. #ifdef CONFIG_DMI everywhere :-( Sincerly, Thomas --- Turn CONFIG_DMI into a selectable

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > Hmm. The barrier() in slab_free() looks fishy. The comment says it's > there to make sure we've retrieved c->freelist before c->page but then > it uses a _compiler barrier_ which doesn't affect the CPU and the > reads may still be re-ordered... Not su

Re: TG3 network data corruption regression 2.6.24/2.6.23.4

2008-02-19 Thread Tony Battersby
Michael Chan wrote: > On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 16:35 -0800, David Miller wrote: > > >> One consequence of Herbert's change is that the chip will see a >> different datastream. The initial skb->data linear area will be >> smaller, and the transition to the fragmented area of pages will be >> quicke

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Chris Mason schrieb: On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: Theodore Tso schrieb: (...) The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. It doesn't work very reliable for me. For some reason, it hangs for m

arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep_32.c not compiled ?

2008-02-19 Thread Thomas Petazzoni
Hi, Maybe I'm missing something completely obvious, but I don't see where the arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep_32.c file gets compiled. The Makefile in that directory compiles sleep.o, but doesn't compile sleep_$(BITS).o: obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI) += boot.o obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP)+= slee

Re: [MIPS] BCM47XX: use new SSB SPROM data structure

2008-02-19 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 11:04:31AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Switch the BCM47XX code to the new SPROM data structure now that > the old one has been removed. Thanks, applied too. Ralf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [E

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: usb 1-2.2: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice HID device claimed by neither input, hiddev nor hidraw input: Logitech Z-10 USB Speaker as /devices/pci:00/:00

Re: ftrace and kexec

2008-02-19 Thread Dhaval Giani
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:22:39PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Dhaval Giani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I've been running ftrace on the sched-devel tree. I just built a > > kernel and tried rebooting using kexec and I get this, > > hm, it's not a good idea to keep using th

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: > usb 1-2.2: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 > usb 1-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > HID device claimed by neither input, hiddev nor hidraw > input: Logitech Z-10 USB Speaker as > /devices/pci:00/:00:02.1/usb1/1

hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
kernel 2.6.25-rc2 usb 1-2.2: new full speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 usb 1-2.2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice HID device claimed by neither input, hiddev nor hidraw input: Logitech Z-10 USB Speaker as /devices/pci:00/:00:02.1/usb1/1-2/1-2.2/1-2.2:1.3/input/input4 in

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:02:30 -0500 Mathieu Desnoyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Pekka Enberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Feb 19, 2008 8:54 AM, Torsten Kaiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > [ 5282.056415] [ cut here ] > > > > > [ 5282.059757] kernel BUG at li

Improve init/Kconfig help descriptions [PATCH 9/9]

2008-02-19 Thread Nick Andrew
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: > Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the > usefulness and consistency of the help descriptions. The patches are > against linux-2.6.24.2. > [...] > Patch 9 > MODULES > MODULE_UNLOAD > MODUL

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Paul Slootman
On Mon 18 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 10:16:32AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:02:36PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > > > I tried to copy that filesystem once (when it was much smaller) with > > > "rsync > > > -a -H", but after 3 days, rsy

Re: Linux 2.6.25-rc2

2008-02-19 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So: > - it might be something else entirely > - it might still be the local cmpxchg, just Torsten didn't happen to >notice it until later. > - it might still be the local cmpxchg, but something else changed its >patterns to actually make

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tomas Carnecky wrote: The device apparently has four 'interfaces' - whatever that is, see [1]. It seems like usbhid probes interface 2 (which is the LCD plus a few buttons, probably the four just under the LCD, as described [1]). Because usbhid doesn't

Re: [PATCH] documentation: move spidev_fdx example to its own source file

2008-02-19 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:47:19PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 04:26:25PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > From: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Move sample source code to its own source file so that it can be

Re: [PATCH 5/8] try parent numa_node at first before using default v2

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:20:41AM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > > in the device_add, we try to use use parent numa_node. > need to make sure pci root bus's bridge device numa_node is set. > then we could use device->numa_node direclty for all device. > and don't need to call pcibus_to_node(). > > S

[PATCH] kvm: make iopm_base static

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
Fixes sparse warning as well. arch/x86/kvm/svm.c:69:15: warning: symbol 'iopm_base' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/x86/kvm/svm.c |2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/svm.c b/arch

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

2008-02-19 Thread Mike Travis
Andi Kleen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:48:54AM -0800, Mike Travis wrote: >> Andi Kleen wrote: >>> Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> we don't need copy too. already have x86_cpu_to_node_map >>> That's a regression (probably from Mike's patches?). Until recently it was >>> used

Re: Intel Core2Duo mobile - how does the VID get set?

2008-02-19 Thread Brian Morrison
Pallipadi, Venkatesh wrote: After a fair bit of Googling and reading around, I'm none the wiser about exactly how Linux 2.6.x sets the processor VID (or for that matter how it decides the FID settings) when using the ondemand governor and cpufreq stuff. Can anyone tell me a) whether this is

Re: USB OOPS 2.6.25-rc2-git1

2008-02-19 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Andre Tomt wrote: > Got this on a serial console today, using 2.6.25-rc2-git1. Machine was > not doing anything interesting at the time, but has its / and kernel on > a usb-storage device (usb pen drive). Can you try this diagnostic patch, to see if it reports any me

Re: linux-next: quilt series

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:40:37AM +0100, Frank Seidel wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Can we write these things down somewhere on the web so that I, and > > others, remember them in a few months? :) > > Although this probably isn't what you were asking for, i anyway started > to put some of the basi

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

2008-02-19 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:48:54AM -0800, Mike Travis wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> we don't need copy too. already have x86_cpu_to_node_map > > > > That's a regression (probably from Mike's patches?). Until recently it was > > used. > > Yes, I h

Re: SMP-related kernel memory leak

2008-02-19 Thread Oliver Pinter
Helló! this patch fixed them http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/405 ? On 2/19/08, Bart Van Assche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I noticed that the amount of memory used by the Linux kernel steadily > increases over time on SMP systems (x86 architecture, 32-bit kernel). > This problem disapp

Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

2008-02-19 Thread Segher Boessenkool
+ /* +* Only need to copy the first 512 bytes from address 0. But since + * the compiler emits a warning if src == NULL for memcpy use copy_page + * instead. Copies more than needed but this code is not performance +* critical. +*/ + copy_page(lowcore, &S39

Re: [PATCH] enclosure: add support for enclosure services

2008-02-19 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2008-02-13 09:45:02, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:28:15 -0600 > James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 11:07 -0800, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > > I understand what you are trying to do - I guess I just doubt the > > > value y

[PATCH] kvm: fix sparse warnings in x86_emulate.c

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
Nesting __emulate_2op_nobyte inside__emulate_2op produces many shadowed variable warnings on the internal variable _tmp used by both macros. Change the outer macro to use __tmp. Avoids a sparse warning like the following at every call site of __emulate_2op arch/x86/kvm/x86_emulate.c:1091:3: warni

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Lord
Mark Lord wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: .. The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. .. Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too when used with "rm -r" on largish directories. I added a bit more d

[PATCH] kvm: sparse fixes for kvm/x86.c

2008-02-19 Thread Harvey Harrison
In two case statements, use the ever popular 'i' instead of index: arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1063:7: warning: symbol 'index' shadows an earlier one arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1000:9: originally declared here arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1079:7: warning: symbol 'index' shadows an earlier one arch/x86/kvm/x86.c:1000:9: origi

[PATCH] hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to buddy

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Whitcroft
When we free a page via free_huge_page and we detect that we are in surplus the page will be returned to the buddy. After this we no longer own the page. However at the end free_huge_page we clear out our mapping pointer from page private. Even where the page is not a surplus we free the page t

Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: ensure we do not reference a surplus page after handing it to buddy

2008-02-19 Thread Adam Litke
Indeed. I'll take credit for this thinko... On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:28 +, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > When we free a page via free_huge_page and we detect that we are in > surplus the page will be returned to the buddy. After this we no longer > own the page. However at the end free_huge_page

Re: hid device not claimed but /dev/input/event exists

2008-02-19 Thread Tomas Carnecky
Jiri Kosina wrote: Does anything appear in dmesg when you press those buttons? There should be messages resembling the one you already have there: drivers/hid/hid-core.c: report (size 8) (unnumbered) drivers/hid/hid-core.c: report 0 (size 8) = 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 and they should react to

Re: [PATCH 0/8] AMD opteron mm config numa etc

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:23:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > please check some amd opteron related mmconf and numa patches > > > > could make up for system that system have acpi problem or still can > > mmconf and numa when acpi=off > > Greg, a

RE: iwl3945 not working properly.

2008-02-19 Thread Chatre, Reinette
On Monday, February 18, 2008 7:47 AM, John W. Linville wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:54:25AM +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a Toshiba Satellite A135-S4427 with and Intel 3945ABG card, >> the driver is not working properly. >> >> When I turn on my PC it works fine, bu

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Lord
Theodore Tso wrote: .. The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. .. Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too when used with "rm -r" on largish directories. I added a bit more debugging to it, an

Re: [PATCH 1/5] signal(x86_32): Improve the signal stack overflow check

2008-02-19 Thread Roland McGrath
This change looks bogus to me. Before I get to the content, there is a nit that annoys me. You changed the punctuation in my comment so that it no longer means what it did, and now the comment is nonsensical. I don't demand decent English from hackers of any linguistic bent, but please don't lou

Re: 2.6.25-rc2-mm1: build failure (x86)

2008-02-19 Thread Russell Leidich
On Feb 17, 2008 1:56 AM, Marcin Slusarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 02:37:09AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Saturday, 16 of February 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 03:09:49AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:59:

[GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git

2008-02-19 Thread Roland Dreier
Linus, please pull from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This tree is also available from kernel.org mirrors at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This will get a couple of small post-2.6.25-rc2 fixe

patch debugfs-fix-sparse-warnings.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

2008-02-19 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: debugfs: fix sparse warnings to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is debugfs-fix-sparse-warnings.patch This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/

RE: [RFC v3 4/7] dmaengine: Add slave DMA interface

2008-02-19 Thread Nelson, Shannon
>From: Haavard Skinnemoen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:30 AM >To: Nelson, Shannon >Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen; Williams, Dan J; >linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; David Brownell; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; Francis Moreau; Paul Mundt; Vladimir A. >Barinov; Pierre Ossman >Subject

[PATCH] export getledstate()

2008-02-19 Thread Karl Dahlke
I write adapters for disabled people, and we often have to do specialized functions based on keystrokes and key chords. I would like to do certain things when keys are hit and num lock is on, but there is no easy way to get the led state. There is a nice function getledstate() in keyboard.c, it jus

Re: very poor ext3 write performance on big filesystems?

2008-02-19 Thread Paulo Marques
Mark Lord wrote: Theodore Tso wrote: .. The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack encoded in for maildir directories, which helps. .. Oddly enough, that same spd_readdir() preload craps out here too when used with "rm -r" on largish directories. From looking at the

[PATCH 1/4] MN10300: Call update_process_times() outside of the xtime_lock

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Call update_process_times() outside of the xtime_lock. Somewhere somewhere inside one of the functions called by that, xtime_lock is readlocked, which ends up in a deadlock situation. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mn10300/kernel/time.c |4 +++- 1 files changed, 3

[PATCH 2/4] MN10300: Introduce barriers to replace removed volatiles in gdbstub

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Introduce into the MN10300 gdbstub a couple of barrier() calls to replace the removed volatility of the input/output index variables for the Rx ring buffer. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mn10300/kernel/gdb-io-ttysm.c |2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 dele

[PATCH 3/4] MN10300: Make the kernel jump into gdbstub on a BUG

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Make the kernel jump into gdbstub (if configured) on a BUG with the register set from the BUG rather than interpolating another illegal instruction and leaving gdbstub's idea of the process counter in unsupported_syscall() where the original BUG was detected. With this patch, gdbstub reports a SIG

[PATCH 4/4] MN10300: Update asb2303_defconfig

2008-02-19 Thread David Howells
Update the ASB2303 default configuration. Signed-off-by: David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- arch/mn10300/configs/asb2303_defconfig | 33 +++- 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mn10300/configs/asb2303_defconfig b/arch/mn10300/c

RE: ioatdma Self-test copy timeout

2008-02-19 Thread Nelson, Shannon
>-Original Message- >From: Tomas Hlavacek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:22 PM >To: Nelson, Shannon; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: ioatdma Self-test copy timeout > >Short description: In 2.6.25-rc2 ioatdma driver fails to >initialize due >to Self-te

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

2008-02-19 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:00:08 -0600 Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Depending on what we're trying to do: > 1) warn applications of swap coming soon (your case), > 2) show how close we are to swapping, > 3) show how much swap has happened already, > 4) kill instantly if try to swap (m

Re: TG3 network data corruption regression 2.6.24/2.6.23.4

2008-02-19 Thread Michael Chan
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:16 -0500, Tony Battersby wrote: > iSCSI > performance drops to 6 - 15 MB/s when the 3Com NIC is doing heavy rx > with light tx, That's strange. The patch should only affect TX performance slightly since we are just turning off SG for TX. Please take an ethereal trace to

Re: [GIT PATCH] split up feature-removal-schedule.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Greg KH
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:13:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > MAINTAINERS is the most frequently patched file > > Almost all of them merge perfectly, with no problems what-so-ever. And the > merge conflicts, when they happen, are generall

Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

2008-02-19 Thread David Brownell
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thing is, this will catch not just regressions ... but cases where > > > STR never worked in the first place.  Video problems, etc.  Also > > > various system startup races, as in the PCMCIA and M

Re: [PATCH] ufs: [bl]e*_add_cpu conversion

2008-02-19 Thread Evgeniy Dushistov
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:45:42PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 12:22:19AM +0100, Roel Kluin wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:41:44 +0100 Roel Kluin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> you may also want these: > > >> --- > > >> [bl]e_add_cp

[PATCH] Add write verify on dataflash.

2008-02-19 Thread michael
Add the write verification buffer to the dataflash. The mtd_dataflash has the CONFIG_DATAFLASH_WRITE_VERIFY so is better a change to Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/jffs2/wbuf.c | 12 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git

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