On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 17:52 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> 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 co
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 01:11:42PM +0100, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > How does the patch below look? I didn't want to remove the whole config
> > > option, as there is more to the logic th
Hi Michael
On Feb 19, 2008 3:41 AM, Michael Buesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [2]
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=7492d4a416d68ab4bd254b36ffcc4e0138daa8ff
> >
>
> That doesn't cause me to magically sign off this sort of patches, too.
> The
This patch fixes a memory leak spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
2d899a9f01001b2210972b199b951b67ed51 diff --git
a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
index bd5cfea..78e845c 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/
* Make m8xx_ide_init_ports() return an error value.
* Update mpc8xx_ide_probe() to setup/probe only ports for which
m8xx_ide_init_ports() succedded.
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ide/ppc/mpc8xx.c | 40 ++
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:59:03AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch fixes an off-by-one spotted by the Coverity checker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> --- linux-2.6/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c.old 2008-02-20 00:26:21
This patch fixes a check-after-use spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
6beeb3ac577d74d72b2f91bd654eecb904c3c17e diff --git
a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index 6e9f619..963630c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++
On Feb 19, 2008 12:44 PM, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:55:55 +0800
>
> > Move hci_dev_put to del_conn to avoid hci dev going away before hci conn.
>
> This looks correct so I have applied it.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Dave You
This patch fixes a check-after-use spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
570462ca4441d8d63dfd46efe6e5b2b1c251a611 diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal.c
b/drivers/thermal/thermal.c
index e782b3e..958654b 100644
--- a/drivers/thermal/thermal.c
+++ b/d
Tell IDE layer to not manage resources by always setting hwif->mmio flag
(resources are handled by a platform device).
Cc: Anton Vorontsov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ide/legacy/ide_platform.c |
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:59:23PM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> That's why I don't understand the need for the pairs: it should be
> done like this.
Yes, except it can't be done like this for xpmem.
> OK, I didn't see the invalidate_pages call...
See the last patch I posted to Andrew, you've prob
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
> > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
> > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalB
* Tell IDE layer to not manage resources by setting
hwif->mmio flag and request resources in bastide_init().
* Use request_mem_region() for resources reservation.
* Use driver name for resources reservation.
Cc: Ben Dooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PRO
* Tell IDE layer to not manage resources by setting
hwif->mmio flag and request resources in falconide_init().
* Use request_mem_region() for resources reservation.
* Use driver name for resources reservation.
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
S
This patch fixes a check-after-use spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
e9468c7fb623f63582f5522493f6a43ab904e061 diff --git
a/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes.c
index 7f8853b..b2112f5 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw
* Tell IDE layer to not manage resources by setting
hwif->mmio flag and request resources in m8xx_ide_init_ports().
* Use request_mem_region() for resources reservation.
* Use driver name for resources reservation.
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
On Monday, 18 of February 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 of February 2008, Len Brown wrote:
> > On Friday 15 February 2008 17:22, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, below is the version that survives checkpatch.pl, compiles on x86-32
> > > and has been successfully tested on
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 11:51, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> 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
This patch fixes two use-after-free's introduced by
commit e78d5b8f1e73ab82f3fd041d05824cfee7d83a2c and spotted by the
Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c |4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
901baeee449
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > > hci_cmd_task: hci0 command tx timeout
> > > BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 6b6b6b6b
> >
> > We got some more info ---
> > #define POISON_FREE 0x6b/* for use-after-free poisoning */
> >
> > S
Tell IDE layer to not manage resources by setting hwif->mmio flag.
Cc: Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/ide/pci/delkin_cb.c |4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Index: b/drivers/ide/pci/delkin_cb.c
=
On Tuesday 19 February 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From: Andre Tomt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:19:08 +0100
>
> > 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-stora
The Coverity checker spotted that less memory than required was allocated.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
c9a5f66eca8484c302f848bb117b0bdb57e9ec42 diff --git a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
b/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
index 9e3d81c..de7a9f5 100644
--- a/net/9p/trans_virtio.c
+++ b/net/9p
Roland McGrath wrote::
> 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 lingui
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:04:27AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:27:25AM -0600, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > > understand the need for invalidate_begin/invalidate_end pairs at all.
> > >
> > > The need of
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 19:47 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > wrote:
> > > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
> > > either an PCI or some Lo
On Feb 16, 2008 5:00 AM, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Also, I've tried CONFIG_DETECT_SOFTLOCKUP=n, but this doesn't fix it either.
>
> Ok, this looks to be something else.
>
> > Here's the last dmesg after suspend-to-disk and hang there...
> >
> > CPU 1 is now offline
> > SMP alternative
Andrew Morton writes:
> Bizarrely, the original author of the patch (Anton) has fallen off the cc.
> Could whoever did that please thwap himself?
>
> Anyway, my head is now officially spinning. Did anyone actually have a
> reason why we shouldn't proceed with Anton's patch?
I was wondering if
Hi Linus,
Please pull the 'agp-patches' branch from
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/agp-2.6.git agp-patches
This contains a patch from Arjan to avoid ioremap stupidities in agp, and
adds a warning to catch any others. It also contains an update for the SiS
chipset driv
Spotted by the Coverity checker.
<-- snip -->
...
static int mini_cm_dec_refcnt_listen(struct nes_cm_core *cm_core,
struct nes_cm_listener *listener, int free_hanging_nodes)
{
int ret = 1;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&cm_core->listen_list_lock,
Hi Greg,
Please consider taking the following fix for 2.6.25.
Thanks,
Rafael
---
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Remove an unnecessary unlocking of dpm_list_mtx in the error path
in drivers/base/power/main.c:dpm_suspend() .
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:57:08PM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> David Chinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:18:58AM +0100, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> So, I loaded the same kernel on a different machine, but that seems to
> exhibit a very similar behaviour. The machine is
On Wednesday, 20 of February 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> I found the same poweroff issue on my T61. It turned out to be related to
> the
> C state code disabling interrupts when it shouldn't iirc. Booting
> with 'idle=poll' seems to work around the problem.
However, this issue is supposed to
This patch fixes a use-after-free spotted by the Coverity checker.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c |6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c.old 2008-02-20
03:02:1
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:11:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Sorry, I realise I still didn't get this through my head yet (and also
> have not seen your patch recently). So I don't know exactly what you
> are doing...
The last version was posted here:
http://marc.info/?l=kvm-devel&m=12032173252
Hi Linus,
Please pull the 'drm-patches' branch from
ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6.git drm-patches
Mainly fixes for i915 suspend/resume issues, sis/radeon pci id addition,
and initial support for the GART on the AMD rs690 chipsets, along with
the final nopage r
Hi,
The attached patch (against current git head) fix the CONWISE
Technology based adapters with buggy SCO support issue (bugzilla
#9027)
Regrads,
Daniel Cheng (SDiZ)
conwise-buggy-sco-support.patch
Description: Binary data
I found the same poweroff issue on my T61. It turned out to be related to the
C state code disabling interrupts when it shouldn't iirc. Booting
with 'idle=poll' seems to work around the problem.
The "green screen" problem should be fixed (see the DRM git tree for details).
Jesse
On Tuesday,
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:08:49AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> You can't sleep inside rcu_read_lock()!
>
> I must say that for a patch that is up to v8 or whatever and is
> posted twice a week to such a big cc list, it is kind of slack to
> not even test it and expect other people to review it.
W
> > Please elaborate on the rationale that justifies this change.
> > I don't see it at all.
>
> I have corrected the comment in the latest patch which has been apllied by
> Ingo.
> Please refer to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/575 and
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/119 .
You have yet to say
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 15:45 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 01:45:45PM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > Sorry for the long delay, I just back from vocation. I fixed all the
> > issues I found in the list (except one hang issue, which should be fixed
> > in specific driver, I'll reply t
Roland McGrath wrote::
>>> Please elaborate on the rationale that justifies this change.
>>> I don't see it at all.
>> I have corrected the comment in the latest patch which has been apllied by
>> Ingo.
>> Please refer to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/18/575 and
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/19/11
Convert sysfs_remove_bin_file() to have a return type of 'void' for
!CONFIG_SYSFS configurations. Also removes unnecessary colons from empty
void functions.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
include/linux/sysfs.h |9 ++---
1 files
From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:19:54 -0800
> On Tuesday 19 February 2008, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Andre Tomt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:19:08 +0100
> >
> > > Got this on a serial console today, using 2.6.25-rc2-git1. Machine was
>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote:
> Michael Chan wrote:
> > 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 p
Hi Ingo,
ftrace-cmd in -w option when being run for sometime cause this.
llm11.in.ibm.com login: [ 1002.937490] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging
request at 285b0010
[ 1002.947087] IP: [] find_next_entry+0x4f/0x84
[ 1002.955091] *pdpt = 2d589001 *pde =
[ 1002.963651]
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 05:04 +0100, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, john stultz wrote:
>
> > If we are building a train station, and each train car is 60ft, it
> > doesn't make much sense to build 1000ft stations, right? Instead you'll
> > do better if you build a 1020ft statio
> You mean the comment?
No, that is trivial and already corrected. I mean the substance of your
most recent patch. I described why I think it is wrong. You did not respond.
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Pavel, responding to pj:
> > There is not much my customers HPC jobs can do with notification before
> > swap. Their jobs either have the main memory they need to perform the
> > requested calculations with the desired performance, or their job is
> > useless and should be killed. Unlike the appl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> (Or is 'df' simply a known way to force execution of a code path that ends up
> fixing the counts as a side-effect?)
Yes. df calls statfs(2), and FAT counts free clusters for ->f_ffree for
it. Then, the free clusters count is fixed as a side-effect.
--
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On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ---
>
> drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_isr.c | 18 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> -
It's possible that the values used in and returned from jiffies_to_usecs() are
incorrect because of truncation when variables of type u64 are involved. So a
function specific to that type is used instead.
This version implements a correction to jiffies_64_to_usecs() based on feedback
from Randy D
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:28:28 +0100
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sounds like a job for memory limits (ulimit?), not for OOM
> notification, right?
I suspect one problem could be that an HPC job scheduling program
does not know exactly how much memory each job can take, so it can
somet
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 08:36 +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 17:52 +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > 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
On Feb 19, 2008 7:12 AM, Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> config CGROUPS
> bool "Control Group support"
> help
> - This option will let you use process cgroup subsystems
> - such as Cpusets
> + Control Groups enables processes to be tracked and group
Roland McGrath wrote::
>> You mean the comment?
>
> No, that is trivial and already corrected. I mean the substance of your
> most recent patch. I described why I think it is wrong. You did not respond.
I spent some time read you mail carefully and dig into the code again.
And yes, you are ri
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote:
>
> I found the same poweroff issue on my T61. It turned out to be related to
> the
> C state code disabling interrupts when it shouldn't iirc. Booting
> with 'idle=poll' seems to work around the problem.
>
> The "green screen" problem should be fixe
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > drivers/scsi/qla4xxx/ql4_isr.c | 18 +--
dev_to_node could return node that without RAM. So check it before use it in
kmalloc_node
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
diff --git a/mm/dmapool.c b/mm/dmapool.c
index 34aaac4..6be5b5a 100644
--- a/mm/dmapool.c
+++ b/mm/dmapool.c
@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ struct dma_pool *dma_pool_crea
Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>From 2.6.25-rc2-mm1.bz2 patch:
>>
>> - .ioctl = tty_ioctl,
>> + .unlocked_ioctl = tty_ioctl,
>
> and this is why this didn't happen before, I guess.
Right. Does anyone know what kind of audit was made of the tty code
to ensure ev
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:35 -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:52:06AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:04:27AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > OK (thanks to Robin as well). Now I understand why you are using it,
> > but I don't understand why you don't defer new TLBs after the point
> > where the linux pte c
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 12:11:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 02:58:51PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:43:57AM +0100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > anything when changing the pte to be _more_ permissive, and I don't
> >
> > Note that in my patch
> I spent some time read you mail carefully and dig into the code again.
>
> And yes, you are right. It's possible that SA_ONSTACK has been cleared
> before the second signal on the same stack comes.
It's not necessary for SA_ONSTACK to have "been cleared", by which I assume
you mean a sigaction
Hi Rik
> > Sounds like a job for memory limits (ulimit?), not for OOM
> > notification, right?
>
> I suspect one problem could be that an HPC job scheduling program
> does not know exactly how much memory each job can take, so it can
> sometimes end up making a mistake and overcommitting the memo
On Feb 19, 2008 1:57 PM, Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Finally, it goes against the one thingie per file (at most, one scalar
> vector) that has worked well for us when tried.
Right, I like the idea of keeping things simple. But if you're going
to accept that a vector is useful, then
On Feb 18, 2008 1:45 AM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
>
> But we don't have /proc/proc.api or /sys/sysfs.api ...
True. And /proc is a bit of a mess. Having a similar API file for
sysfs sounds like a good idea to me.
>
> And is it better to describe the debug subsystem too?
>
Yes, prob
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - replace old name 'cont' with 'cgrp' (Paul Menage did this cleanup for
> cgroup.c in commit bd89aabc6761de1c35b154fe6f914a445d301510)
> - remove a duplicate declaration of cgroup_path()
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 06:04:57PM -0800, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2008 7:12 AM, Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > config CGROUPS
> > [...]
> > + When enabled, a new filesystem type "cgroup" is available
> > + and can be mounted to control cpusets.
> How about:
> ..
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 18:35 -0800, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, James Bottomley wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 21:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > This patch removes dead code spotted by the Coverity checker.
> > > >
> >
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cgroup uses unsigned long for subsys bitops, not unsigned long long.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup.c |4 ++--
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> opts.release_agent is not kfree()ed in all necessary places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Good catch, although hopefully something that would be extremely rare
in practice.
On Feb 18, 2008 12:39 AM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Misc fixes and updates, make the doc consistent with current
> cgroup implementation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks for these cleanups.
Paul
> ---
> Documentation/
From: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Update the Smack LSM to allow the registration of the capability
"module" as a secondary LSM. Integrate the new hooks required for
file based capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 87 +++
On Feb 19, 2008 6:54 PM, Nick Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> config CGROUPS
> bool "Control Group support"
> help
> Control Groups enables processes to be tracked and grouped
> into "cgroups". This enables you, for example, to associate
> cgroups
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:55:20AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 17:49, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > These special additional callbacks are required because XPmem (and likely
> > other mechanisms) do use their own rmap (multiple processes on a series
> > of remote Linux ins
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:00, Robin Holt wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:08:49AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > > Also, how to you resolve the case where you are not allowed to sleep?
> > > I would have thought either
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The list head res->tasks gets initialized twice in find_css_set().
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup.c |1 -
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 dele
On Feb 19, 2008, at 6:30 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:51:37 -0600 (CST)
If we add to an empty lmb region with a non-zero base we will not
coalesce
the number of regions down to one. This causes problems on ppc32
for the
memory reg
On Feb 17, 2008 9:49 PM, Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> fix:
> - comments about need_forkexit_callback
> - comments about release agent
> - typo and comment style, etc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> include/linux/cgroup.h |2 +-
> kernel/cgroup.c| 44
Roland McGrath wrote::
>> I spent some time read you mail carefully and dig into the code again.
>>
>> And yes, you are right. It's possible that SA_ONSTACK has been cleared
>> before the second signal on the same stack comes.
>
> It's not necessary for SA_ONSTACK to have "been cleared", by which
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:08:49AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > You can't sleep inside rcu_read_lock()!
> >
> > I must say that for a patch that is up to v8 or whatever and is
> > posted twice a week to such a big cc list, it is
From: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:02:04 -0600
> np. Are we trying to get this into 2.6.25 or .26?
I'm ambivalent but I would obviously prefer 2.6.25 because
it would allow me to proceed more easily with my sparc64
NUMA work as well as get your bug fixes in more smoot
Jonathan Lim wrote:
It's possible that the values used in and returned from jiffies_to_usecs() are
incorrect because of truncation when variables of type u64 are involved. So a
function specific to that type is used instead.
This version implements a correction to jiffies_64_to_usecs() based on
On Feb 19, 2008 4:54 PM, Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 07:12 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Feb 6, 2008 8:44 PM, Matt Helsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > The kernel implements readlink of /proc/pid/exe by getting the file from
> > > the
> > > first execu
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:36:07AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/pci-acpi.h 2008-02-19 11:03:51.0
> +0800
> +++ linux/include/linux/pci-acpi.h2008-02-20 09:19:15.0 +0800
> @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
> OSC_PCI_EXPRESS_CAP_STRU
Hi,
The next-20080219 kernel oops while booting up on x86_64 box. This bug
was fixed in the 2.6.24-git(s) with the patch posted at
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/11/350
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 80a37b8d
IP: [] ide_device_add_all
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:11:41PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:00, Robin Holt wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 02:00:38AM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:08:49AM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > > > Also, how to you resolve the case
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 14:12, Robin Holt wrote:
> For XPMEM, we do not currently allow file backed
> mapping pages from being exported so we should never reach this condition.
> It has been an issue since day 1. We have operated with that assumption
> for 6 years and have not had issues wit
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:38:55 +1100, Nick Andrew said:
> + Enable an auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
> + kernel subsystem, such as Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux),
> + which requires this option for logging of AVC messages output.
> +
> + AVC refers t
David Rientjes wrote:
Convert sysfs_remove_bin_file() to have a return type of 'void' for
!CONFIG_SYSFS configurations. Also removes unnecessary colons from empty
void functions.
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, David.
Signed-off-by
Linus,
Please do
git pull \
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git merge
to get a few more bug and warning fixes for powerpc. The diffstat is
bloated by the defconfig updates -- the actual code changes are only a
few dozen lines.
Thanks,
Paul.
arch/powerpc/boot/Make
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:14:26PM -0500, Tony Battersby wrote:
>
> Update: when I revert Herbert's patch in addition to applying your
> patch, the iSCSI performance goes back up to 115 MB/s again in both
> directions. So it looks like turning off SG for TX didn't itself cause
> the performance dr
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 EST, Karl Dahlke said:
> Really, /proc is the only place for these virtual files that interact
> directly with the kernel and/or its modules;
> I just wanted a fixed place under /proc for adapters to live,
> like sys ttys scsi net, and so on.
There's an awful lot of s
Rik wrote:
> In that case the user is better off having that job killed and
> restarted elsewhere, than having all of the jobs on that node
> crawl to a halt due to swapping.
>
> Paul, is this guess correct? :)
Not for the loads I focus on. Each job gets exclusive use of its own
dedicated set of
>> If we can have a private member in kobj_attribute, we can found the content
>> to be returned in a single step.
>
> Ok, again, just send me a patch that adds this functionality and we will
> be very glad to consider it.
[1/2] Add a private data field within kobj_attribute structure.
This patc
Greg KH wrote:
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 made the pa
We introduced a bug in fixing lmb_add_region to handle an initial
region being non-zero. Before that fix it was impossible to insert
a region at the head of the list since the first region always started
at zero.
Now that its possible for the first region to be non-zero we need to
check to see if
On Tuesday, February 19, 2008 6:28 pm Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > I found the same poweroff issue on my T61. It turned out to be related
> > to the C state code disabling interrupts when it shouldn't iirc. Booting
> > with 'idle=poll' seems to work around
Thanks, this is already upstream as 51af33e8
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