Re: kswapd0: wxcessive CPU usage

2012-10-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:34:24 +0200, Jiri Slaby said: > On 10/11/2012 03:44 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > So at least we know we're not hallucinating. :) > > Just a thought? Do you have raid? Nope, just a 160G laptop spinning hard drive. Filesystems are ext4 on LVM on a cryptoLUKS partitio

Re: kswapd0: wxcessive CPU usage

2012-10-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 19:59:33 +0200, Jiri Slaby said: > On 10/11/2012 07:56 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 17:34:24 +0200, Jiri Slaby said: > >> On 10/11/2012 03:44 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > >>> So at least we know we're not hallucinating. :) > >> > >> Just a t

Re: [PATCH] iPhone 5 support for ipheth.

2012-10-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
twork people see it. If you fix both of those, feel free to add this as well: Acked-by: Valdis Kletnieks pgpzcDo5A4a0a.pgp Description: PGP signature

CONFIG_MODULE_SIG breaks out-of-tree modules in modpost.

2012-10-12 Thread Valdis Kletnieks
For starters, yes, I *do* understand the security issues involved, and no, I *don't* want to hear about NVidia evilness, because this looks like a modpost problem not an NVidia problem. I built next-20121011 with CONFIG_MODULE_SIG=y, and MODULE_SIG_FORCE=n, so that I could test the feature, and ju

btrfs userspace question - where's the utility to dump/restore?

2013-01-17 Thread Valdis Kletnieks
So I'm looking at playing with btrfs, and I start looking at the userspace pieces I'll need. What I can't find is an equivalent of the ext[34] "dump/restore" package to dump data to an external backup device. Is 'tar cf --acls --selinux --xattrs /external/fs.dump' as good as it gets, or is somethi

[PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
.c already lists mcount as a SYMBOL, not a SYMBOL_GPL - yet another inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/trace/ftrace.c.dist 2008-02-16 23:34:36.0 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.25-rc2-mm1/kernel/trace/ftrace.c 2008-02-25

Re: [PATCH] 2.6.25-rc2-mm1 - fix mcount GPL bogosity.

2008-02-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:27:10 +0200, Adrian Bunk said: > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 06:19:57PM +, Alan Cox wrote: (Following was actually Steve Rostedt writing): > > > The reason I added GPL is not because of some idea that this is all > > > "chummy" with the kernel. But because I derived the mcou

Re: Is there a memory block device?

2008-02-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:53:36 +0100, rzryyvzy said: > I know that tmpfs is a memmory filesystem. Is there a possibility to create > also a memory block device? > Is there a possibility to create for example a 1 GB memory block device (from > the RAM)? A better question would be: What problem are

Re: scheduler went mad?

2001-04-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
, with the following patches: Reiserfs: 2.4.3-3.6.25.quota.bz2 linux-2.4.3-knfsd-6.g.patch.gz linux-2.4.3-reiserfs-20010327.patch.bz2 IPv6: linux24-2.4.3-usagi-20010406.patch.gz Crypto: patch-int-2.4.3.1 am using ReiserFS-on-LVM for basically all filesystems, if that matters... -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: scheduler went mad?

2001-04-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
hen when xscreensaver gets the CPU back, its next call for a page gets wedged up. Would it be worth applying Ed Tomlinson's icache/dcache patches and seeing if that helps? -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Analyst Virginia Tech PGP signature

Re: scheduler went mad?

2001-04-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
once some socket is closed? Oddly enough, while I had 2 programs doing audio wedged, I was still seeing (hearing actually ;) *new* processes open a connection to esd and play sounds. Weird. -- Valdis Kletnieks

Re: scheduler went mad?

2001-04-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 01:02:21 +0200, Szabolcs Szakacsits said: > Not __alloc_pages() calls oom_kill() however do_page_fault(). Not the > same. After the system tried *really* hard to get *one* free page and > couldn't managed why loop forever? To eat CPU and waiting for For what it's worth, this

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

2005-04-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:32:59 BST, John M Collins said: > I wish some kind soul would speak nicely to Nvidia and get them to see > reason on the point but I suspect I'm not the first person to wish that. NVidia is aware, and they're doing the best they can under the circumstances (no, they can't o

Re: Fault tolerance. . .

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 21:59:59 EDT, John Richard Moser said: > I'm thinking of application level fault tolerance using roll-back states > or something weird, to restore the system as affected by that > application to a point before the error. The obvious visual effect > would be that if an applicat

Re: kernel page size explanation

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:12:47 +0530, VASM said: > are there any specific reasons for not using large page size for > userspace processes Assume you can use 4K or 4M page sizes. Compute the total memory usage for a system that has 50 processes running, each 1556K in size pgpcU7vVX9g8Z.pgp De

Re: Problem with Asus P4C800-DX and P4 -Northwood-

2005-07-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:51:49 +0200, Andreas Baer said: > > a reason for what ? the fact that the notebook performs faster than the > > desktop while slower on I/O ? > > No, a reason why the partition with Linux (ReiserFS or Ext3) is always slower > than the Windows partition? My first guess is t

Re: capabilities patch (v 0.1)

2005-08-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 07:26:21 +0200, David Madore said: > * Second, a much more extensive change, the patch introduces a third > set of capabilities for every process, the "bounding" set. Normally > the bounding set has every capability in it How is this different in semantics from the existing '

Re: [Patch] Support UTF-8 scripts

2005-08-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:52:36 EDT, Kyle Moffett said: > > Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !.?| differs from || in > Since when is the string "!.?|" an operator??? I think that was supposed to read: Note that ?^ is functionally identical to !. ?| differs from ?? in that ?| returns (a

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:38:49 CDT, Doug Warzecha said: > > If this is supposed to be used with the RBU code to trigger a BIOS > > update, ... > > This driver is not needed by the RBU code. Documentation/dell_rbu.txt says: > The rbu driver needs to have an application which will inform the BIOS

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:09:28 CDT, you said: > No, dcdbas has nothing to do with this. I'll have to submit a patch > against the docs. The program you need to use already exists and is > open source. You can use libsmbios to do this. > http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main. Now I'm confoozled. May

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:58:43 CDT, Michael E Brown said: > No, this is an _EXCELLENT_ reason why _LESS_ of this should be in the > kernel. Why should we have to duplicate a _TON_ of code inside the > kernel to figure out which platform we are on, and then look up in a > table which method to use fo

Re: [RFC][PATCH 2.6.13-rc6] add Dell Systems Management Base Driver (dcdbas) with sysfs support

2005-08-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:10:23 CDT, Michael E Brown said: > Ok, very nice. Finally some actual code review, thanks. :-) I have to admit I'm not qualified to do a detailed review, but I try.. ;) > These are all just standard CMOS port numbers that pretty much every > chipset uses to access CMOS. T

Re: [PATCH] RLIMIT_NPROC enforcement during execve() calls

2005-04-18 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:07:04 +0200, Lorenzo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hern=E1ndez_?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa-Hierro?= said: > The limit is only checked when process is created on a fork() call, but > during execution it's uid can change, thus, the limit for the new uid > could be exceed. The only two ways

Re: linux-kernel Cannot determine dependencies of module piix

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 12:16:46 +0200, Lance said: > I get the message "Cannot determine dependencies of module piix" > while running mkinitrd. My apologies that this might me a very > "newbie" question. (until now I have compiled upto 2.6.11.12 without > any problems. man depmod You've probably m

Re: The question come again.

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 11:28:20 +0800, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" said: > But I found it may call __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much(). but I can > not get where is > defined. Note that you can only reach it if you have a *compile-time constant* of over 32M or so in size. If it's smaller, it will catch t

Re: Question re the dot releases such as 2.6.12.3

2005-07-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 21:50:50 EDT, Steven Rostedt said: > Someone should also fix the home page of kernel.org. Since there's no > link on that page that points to the full 2.6.12. Since a lot of the > patches on that page go directly against the 2.6.12 kernel and not > 2.6.12.3, it would be nice to

Re: Variable ticks

2005-07-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:43:07 EDT, Lee Revell said: > As far as legacy support, AFAIK esd and artsd both grab the sound device > on startup and never release it. 'man esd' on a FC4 system includes: -as SECS free audio device after SECS of inactivity and has '-as 2' specified in /etc

Re: [PATCH] i386 No-Idle-Hz aka Dynamic-Ticks 3

2005-08-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 14:54:40 CDT, Jeffrey Hundstad said: > BTW: how do you know what HZ your machine is running at? % zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i hz might do what you thought you wanted. What rate you're *actually* running at is probably best done by taking the number of timer interrupts fro

Re: [ANNOUNCE] DSFS Network Forensic File System for Linux Patches

2005-08-31 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:00:45 MDT, "Jeff V. Merkey" said: > There's also a more fundamental problem with the GPL language. The GPL > stated it > confers "RIGHT TO COPY". This is not the same as "RIGHT TO GRANT > LICENSES TO DISTRIBUTE." Under US copyright law, if you confer to any person > the

Re: what will connect the fork() with its following code ? a simple example below:

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:15:51 +0800, "Sat." said: Not a kernel problem, please consult an intro-to-C list next time > if(!(pid=fork())){ > .. > printk("in child process"); > .. > }else{ > . > printk("in father process"); > . > } > > values., and

Re: nfs4 client bug

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:30:08 EDT, "J. Bruce Fields" said: > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 11:21:09AM -0700, Randy.Dunlap wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 08:40:53PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > > > > Pid: 14169, comm: xmms Tainted: G M 2.6.13 > > >

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 21:46:02 +0200, Francois Romieu said: > Miroslaw Mieszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : > > There is a patch to driver of RLT8169 network card. This match make > > possible detection of the link status even if network interface is down. > > This is usefull for laptop users. > > (side

Re: Patch for link detection for R8169

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 22:42:21 +0200, Francois Romieu said: > Currently one can do 'ifconfig ethX up', check the link status, then try > to DHCP or whatever. Apparently a few drivers do not support tne detection > of link as presented above. So is it anything like a vendor requirement/a > standard (

Re: kbuild & C++

2005-09-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 00:20:11 +0200, Esben Nielsen said: > Which is too bad. You can do stuff much more elegant, effectively and > safer in C++ than in C. Yes, you can do inheritance in C, but it leaves > it up to the user to make sure the type-casts are done OK every time. You > can with macros do

Re: kbuild & C++

2005-09-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:13:24 +0200, "Budde, Marco" said: > E.g. in my case the Windows source code has got more than 10 MB. > Nobody will convert such an amount of code from C++ to C. > This would take years. Do you have any *serious* intent to drop 10 *megabytes* worth of driver into the kernel?

Re: kbuild & C++

2005-09-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 11:21:42 +0200, Esben Nielsen said: > I use a RTOS written in plain C but where you can easily use C++ in kernel > space (there is no user-space :-). We use gcc by the way. This isn't RTOS, in case you haven't noticed. ;) > It has been done for Linux as well > (http://netlab

Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

2008-01-03 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:51:32 PST, Eric Anopolsky said: > their own kernels in the first place. IMHO, it's reasonable to expect > the small minority of Linux users who want to compile their own kernels > to learn that "EXPERIMENTAL" means something. And what, exactly, does it mean, given that ther

Re: Do people exaggerate in security advisories?

2008-01-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:21:32 +0100, Manuel Reimer said: > Is it really possible to get root privileges with this bug or are there > people who just write "may be used to escalate privileges" near any bug > which has something to do with "setuid" or "setgid"? It looks like it really *is* possibl

Re: [PATCH] x86: ioport_{32|64}.c unification

2008-01-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:20:45 +0100, Miguel =?utf-8?q?Bot=C3=B3n?= said: > #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 > asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned long regsp) > { > volatile struct pt_regs *regs = (struct pt_regs *)®sp; > unsigned int level = regs->bx; > #else > asmlinkage long sys_iopl(unsigned int le

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:20:00 +0900, Tetsuo Handa said: > --- linux-2.6-mm.orig/fs/ramfs/inode.c > +++ linux-2.6-mm/fs/ramfs/inode.c > @@ -36,6 +36,20 @@ > #include > #include "internal.h" > > +static struct inode *__ramfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, int mode, > +

Re: [patch 3/5] Add the end-of-trace marker and the module list to WARN_ON()

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:04:06 GMT, David Woodhouse said: > > On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 19:10 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Another issue is that, unlike oopses, WARN_ON() doesn't currently > > printk the helpful "cut here" line, > > I'd rather see the 'cut here' line disappear altogether. Often,

Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:08:13 +0100, Willy Tarreau said: > even slightly annoying, we never get it. Have you noticed the number of > "me too" on the list ? Users find any sort of excuse for not having filed > a report in the first time, but are still willing to confirm another > one's bug. That's n

Re: pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 24

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:07:28 +0800, Zhao Yakui said: > The resources of PNP device are obtained by calling the _CRS method. > Maybe some resources has been reserved. For example: Some system will > reserve the following resources. >BIOS-e820: fec0 - fed4 (reserved) >

Re: Re: [patch 1/2] show being-loaded/being-unloaded indicator for modules

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:09:23 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > but i wonder if some mandatory "print a message on init/exit With a 'printk(LOG_DEBUG,...' please. Boot with initcall_debug sometime to see why. ;) pgp3sopHFUC1M.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"

2008-01-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:37:17 MST, Matthew Wilcox said: > If you can reproduce a bug reliably, you can reproduce it without the > nvidia module loaded. Theoretically, at least. Sometimes, in the real world, other constraints enter into it... You're welcome to stop by and figure out why (I've sunk

Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"

2008-01-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:30 MST, Matthew Wilcox said: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:04:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Theoretically, at least. Sometimes, in the real world, other constraints > > enter into it... > > So you're saying that you can't find reliable ways to reproduce problem

Re: [patch] scsi: revert "[SCSI] Get rid of scsi_cmnd->done"

2008-01-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:19:30 MST, Matthew Wilcox said: > So you're saying that you can't find reliable ways to reproduce problems > on demand? Those are some of the lower quality bug reports, so I don't > think we're losing much by having you not report them. And in the next e-mail in my lkml fo

Re: NIC as RS232

2008-01-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:48:35 +0200, Thanasis said: > Is there a kernel driver that would make a NIC's port work as a RS232 > port, using the serial cables that are RJ45 on one side and DB9 or DB25 > on the other? Maybe null modem cables of that type ? Or for example > those used by cisco as consol

Re: [PATCH][RFC] Simple tamper-proof device filesystem.

2008-01-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:50:43 +0900, Tetsuo Handa said: > Yes. It is a line-by-line processable format defined as: > > filename permission owner group flags type [ symlink_data | major minor ] > > where flags are bit-wised combinations of > > * 1: Allow creation of the file. > * 2: Allow

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:21:02 EST, Kyle Moffett said: > lvcreate -s -n "${VOLUME}-snap" "${VG}/${VOLUME}" > Basically you can fsck the offline snapshot in the background. Something the lvcreate manpage is specifically not clear about is: Does this create a snapshot of the *disk* at that moment,

Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck

2008-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:40:12 +0300, Al Boldi said: > But why wouldn't it be possible to do this on the current fs infrastructure, > using just a smart fsck, working incrementally on some sub-dir? If you have /home/usera, /home/userb, and /home/userc, the vast majority of fs screw-ups can't be de

Re: The ext3 way of journalling

2008-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:00:46 +0700, BuraphaLinux Server said: > The help for CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT says it is EXPERIMENTAL (in > 2.6.23.12). So this would mean that there is very high risk of > software failure using snapshots. Would you want to do that for your > fsck? The overall current state of

Re: [PATCH] Change paride driver to use unlocked_ioctl instead of ioctl

2008-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:06:20 GMT, Christoph Hellwig said: > It's generally considered good style to only have as few as possible > return values. And this is especially important when returning from > a section that's under a lock. So in this case it would be much better > if you changes this fu

Re: NIC as RS232

2008-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:29:41 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven said: > We have plenty of DB9-to-RJ45 at work. Very useful when abusing the > Ethernet cabling in the wall for serial connections (also used for > phone). > > Maybe surprisingly to you, I haven't seen the RJ11 variant ;-) I have to admit, th

Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

2008-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:26:44 GMT, Christoph Hellwig said: > > Exactly. In MadWifi, they are inlined on i386 and x86_64, and I cannot > > ask every user with an unsupported card to get a Mac. > > Maybe it's time to do some simple xoring in the ioremap return value > to force them not to do such s

Re: [PATCH][RFC][BUG] updating the ctime and mtime time stamps in msync()

2008-01-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:50:15 EST, Rik van Riel said: > Could you explain (using short words and simple sentences) what the > exact problem is? > > Eg. > > 1) program mmaps file > 2) program writes to mmaped area > 3) ??? <=== this part, in equally simple words :) > 4) data loss

Re: [PATCH][RFC][BUG] updating the ctime and mtime time stamps in msync()

2008-01-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 18:41:41 EST, Rik van Riel said: > I guess a third possible time (if we want to minimize the number of > updates) would be when natural syncing of the file data to disk, by > other things in the VM, would be about to clear the I_DIRTY_PAGES > flag on the inode. That way we do

Re: [patch 02/11] PAT x86: Map only usable memory in x86_64 identity map and kernel text

2008-01-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:15:25 PST, Linus Torvalds said: > Well, I think that /dev/mem should simply give them the right info. That's > what people use /dev/mem for - doing things like reading BIOS images etc. > > So returning *either* a zero page *or* stopping at the first hole is both > equall

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 04:04:20 PST, Andrew Morton said: > > > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc4/2.6.24-rc4-mm1/ > > > > Something in here broke LVM support - an initrd that has worked fine for > > quite some time suddenly couldn't mount /dev/VolGroup0

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:38:43 PST, Greg KH said: > > Would I be remiss in hypothesising that something in gregkh-driver-kobject-* > > changed something, and now we need a agk-dm-dm-kobject-fixupage.patch? > > I don't know, it all depends on what is in the dm patches. Hopefully > everything that I

Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:04:12 +0100, Kay Sievers said: > What's the value of SYSFS_DEPRECATED? Care to set it to yes, if it isn't, > and try again? I *knew* there was a D'Oh! error in here. ;) Bisection is fast closing in on gregkh-driver-block-device.patch, which broke my LVM almost the exact sa

Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:24:04 +0100, Kay Sievers said: > On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:04:12 +0100, Kay Sievers said: > > > > > What's the value of SYSFS_DEPRECATED? Care to set it to yes, if it isn't, > > > and try again? > > > > I *knew* t

Re: git guidance

2007-12-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:56:21 +0300, Al Boldi said: > It probably goes without saying, that gitfs should have some basic > configuration file to setup its transparent behaviour But then it's not *truly* transparent, is it? And that leaves another question - if you make a config file that exclude

Re: [NFS] NFSv2/3 broken exporting/mounting (permission denied) in 2.6.24-rc4

2007-12-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:06:55 EST, "J. Bruce Fields" said: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Erez Zadok wrote: > > commit 2b1e300a9dfc3196ccddf6f1d74b91b7af55e416 > > Author: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Sun Dec 2 00:33:17 2007 +1100 > Those files are actually in a s

Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

2007-12-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:44:29 +0100, Kay Sievers said: > > Anybody got any brilliant ideas? :) > > I guess it's nash again, which version is it? Confirmed - nash again. 6.0.9 does not work, upgrading to 6.0.19 works. init/Kconfig says this for SYSFS_DEPRECATED (which is where I got lead astray,

Re: git guidance

2007-12-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:04:48 +0300, Al Boldi said: > Because WORKFLOW C is transparent, it won't affect other workflows. So you > could still use your normal WORKFLOW B in addition to WORKFLOW C, gaining an > additional level of version control detail at no extra cost other than the > git-engi

Re: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 - SELinux issues

2008-01-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:35:14 PST, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc8/2.6.24-rc8-mm1/ > > - selinux is busted on one of my two selinux-enabled test machines. This problem is fixed in Paul Moore's latest spin of the networking patches - I

[PATCH} 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 - x86_64 PAT issues with vesafb and NVidia cards

2008-01-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
ng cared/flagged before. Pigheaded-and-probably-wrong brute-force fix that works on my laptop, but somebody who actually understands the vesafb code should check that in fact the space *should* be non-caching. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/drivers

Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:38:30 +1100, David Chinner said: > Perhaps instead of swapping immediately, a SIGLOWMEM could be sent > to a processes that aren't masking the signal followed by a short > grace period to allow the processes to free up some memory before > swapping out pages from that proces

Re: CONFIG_MARKERS

2008-01-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:48:12 EST, Mathieu Desnoyers said: > This specific one is a kernel policy matter, and I personally don't > have a strong opinion about it. I agree that you raise a good counter > argument : it can be useful to proprietary modules users to be able to > extract tracing informa

Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable

2008-01-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:25:58 +1100, Nick Piggin said: > > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c > === > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/sched.c > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/sched.c > @@ -4920,8 +4920,7 @@ static void show_task(struct task_struct >

Re: [PATCH] correct inconsistent ntp interval/tick_length usage

2008-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:38:53 PST, john stultz said: > I recently noticed on one of my boxes that when synched with an NTP > server, the drift value reported for the system was ~283ppm. While in > some cases, clock hardware can be that bad, it struck me as unusual as > the system was using the acpi_

2.6.24-rc8-mm1 - Tons of extra interrupts..

2008-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
Dell Latitude D820 laptop, T7200 Core2 Duo, x86_64 kernel built with PREEMPT, NO_HZ, and HZ=1000. It's running basically idle with an X desktop session. I'm seeing large masses of rescheduling interrupts that are basically killing the C3 residency rate for no obvious reason/gain. I'm taking close

Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Support for Proprierary Modules

2008-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:47:04 EST, Mathieu Desnoyers said: > I am throwing this one-liner in and let's see how people react. It only makes > sure that a module that has been "forced" to be loaded won't have its markers > used. It is important to leave this check to make sure the kernel does not > c

Re: [RFC] ext3: per-process soft-syncing data=ordered mode

2008-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:36:00 +0300, Al Boldi said: > data=ordered mode has proven reliable over the years, and it does this by > ordering filedata flushes before metadata flushes. But this sometimes > causes contention in the order of a 10x slowdown for certain apps, either > due to the misuse

Re: [PATCH for mm] Remove iBCS support

2008-01-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:44:05 +1030, David Newall said: > The benefit is not zero. Repeating myself: While the code is there, it > encourages either removal or repair. If the option to remove is taken > off the table then it will eventually be repaired. Well, if the 2.4 version hasn't been porte

Re: [RFC/PATCH -v2] Add sysfs control to modify a user's cpu share

2007-10-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:54:51 +0200, Heiko Carstens said: > > echo 2048 > /sys/kernel/uids/500/cpu_share > > > > this should just work too, regardless of there not being any UID 500 > > tasks yet. Likewise, once configured, the /sys/kernel/uids/* directories > > (with the settings in them) shou

Re: [NFS] What's slated for inclusion in 2.6.24-rc1 from the NFS client git tree...

2007-10-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:00:50 EDT, Trond Myklebust said: > How about a boot/module parameter to turn it on or off? > > I don't see any point in having a sysctl for something like this: either > you have legacy applications or you don't. It is not something that you > switch off as you go off to lu

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Time-based RFC 4122 UUID generator

2007-10-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:53:37 +0200, Helge Deller said: > diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c > index af274e5..c84a385 100644 > --- a/drivers/char/random.c > +++ b/drivers/char/random.c > @@ -239,6 +239,7 @@ > #include > #include > #include > +#include > > #include

2.6.23-rc8-mm[12] - the amazing disappearing MSI IRQ

2007-10-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
Dell Latitude D820, T7200 processor, x86_64 kernel. The MSI IRQs for HDA-Intel evaporate fairly consistently some time after boot. On a few occasions, the MSI IRQ for the ethernet interface also has dropped. 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Cont

Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Time-based RFC 4122 UUID generator

2007-10-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:08:10 +0200, you said: > Thanks that you ask! > I really should have mentioned it in my initial posting. > > Yes, this change was intentional, as it in fact fixes a possible bug in the > original code. > Section 4.1.6 in RFC 4122 states regarding the "NodeID": > : For sy

NAK nettiquete (was Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)"

2007-10-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 13:10:35 +0200, Oleg Verych said: > > > I added comment (like this), so anyone can skip reading body, if > > > headers are "Oleg Verych && NAK". In case if `NAK' have a magic > > > meaning in the LKML, like control characters in the tty, i'm sorry. > > > > yes, a 'NAK' has a

Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)"

2007-10-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
(changing Subject: back again, since Alan's returning to that topic...) On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:12:22 BST, Alan Cox said: > What I would much rather people thought about was > > - Marker modes for translation (so you know which bits of a message are > formatted up) > - More consistency on the use

Re: 2.6.23-rc8-mm[12] - the amazing disappearing MSI IRQ

2007-10-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:51:32 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I've also seen the eth0 MSI IRQ evaporate, leaving *two* 'none-edge' IRQs, > but I can't replicate it at the moment, as it seems to happen pseudo-randomly. Ignore this part - the problem is confined to the HDA-Intel driver. I've verified

Re: [PATCH 1/2] i386: mce cleanup part1: functional change

2007-10-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:32:30 +0200, Oleg Verych said: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:06:05PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote: > > > cpu_has() returns int, > > > but would it be better to have something like > > > > > > if (!mce_disabled && > > > !(c->x86_capability & (X86_FEATURE_MCA | X86

Re: TPM driver changes to support multiple locality

2007-10-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:51:11 PDT, "Agarwal, Lomesh" said: > Current TPM driver supports only locality 0. I am planning to add > support so that it can access any locality. Locality parameter will be > passed as parameter. Will this change be acceptable? If yes then I will > modify the driver and se

Re: [PATCH] Reserve N process to root

2007-10-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:46:22 EDT, Gustavo Chain said: > El Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:14:06 +0930 > David Newall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > That was what I thought you had in mind; it protects from some kind > > of fork bomb, right? But it doesn't seem useful unless you guarantee > > having a pro

Re: [PATCH 1/6] SELinux: change Kconfig to use select instead of depends

2007-10-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:40:31 PDT, Randy Dunlap said: > >>> config SECURITY_SELINUX > >>> bool "NSA SELinux Support" > >>> - depends on SECURITY_NETWORK && AUDIT && NET && INET > >>> + depends on SECURITY > >>> + select SECURITY_NETWORK > >>> + select AUDIT > >>> + select NET > >>> + select INET

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

2007-12-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:56 PST, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/ I've bisected it down this far: kvm-ist-kaput.patch GOOD git-lblnet.patch git-lblnet-fixup.patch git-leds.patch git-libata-all.patch git-libata-all-

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

2007-12-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:34:26 +1100, James Morris said: > Can you post your .config ? The gzip'ed config as of when I quit bisecting is attached. It's probably not directly usable unless you have a quilt tree that's positioned fairly close to git-lblnet.patch. > Also, is that the plain upstream

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

2007-12-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:52:56 +1100, James Morris said: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 18:34:26 +1100, James Morris said: > > > > > Can you post your .config ? > > > > The gzip'ed config as of when I quit bisecting is attached. It's probably > > not dir

2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - drivers/char/tpm/tpm_bios.c oddness?

2007-12-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:56 PST, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/ Looks like an uninitialized variable dereference for SEPARATOR events: # mount -t securityfs none /sys/kernel/security/ # ls /sys/kernel/security/ tpm0

2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - power_supply driver dmesg weirdness?

2007-12-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:56 PST, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/ Happened to be looking more closely than usual at my dmesg looking for something else, and spotted this: [6.079043] power_supply BAT0: 11 dynamic pr

2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - crash in tick_sched_timer/update_process_times

2007-12-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:30:56 PST, Andrew Morton said: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/ I seem to be on a roll here... :) X86_64 kernel, Dell Latitude D820, Core2 T7200 processor... (Yes, I know it's tainted. If I *have* to, I'll try to g

Re: TOMOYO Linux Security Goal

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:32:09 +0900, Tetsuo Handa said: > You can run your system with only policy collected by learning mode. > Thus, you basically don't need manual intervention. > But since there are randomly named files (i.e. temporary files), > you pay a little time to modify policy. > > The

Re: Corrupted Hard Drive after activating intel I/oat dma

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:21:44 +0530, Shourya Sarcar said: > Marek Kierdelewicz wrote: > > > > > I'm a [EMAIL PROTECTED] user myself. This distro is very disk-demanding > > because of the frequent compilations. In my opinion it's not the best > > distro for a mobile system. No wonder your disk gave

Re: [2.6.23(?)=<] X used greatest stack depth: N bytes left

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 01:58:44 +0100, "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Oliver_Pinter_(Pint=E9r_Oliv=E9r)?=" said: > sure, but to 2.6.22 or 2.6.23-rcX (with merged the cfs scheduler) > don't show this warnings, but the CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE is enabled. > And I look in your dmesg-2.6.24-rc6-wifi0, and I see in t

[PATCH] 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 - document 'make prepare' in 'make help'

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
The output of 'make help' covers a lot of options, but doesn't include a listing for 'make prepare'. Here's a one-liner to fix that... Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- --- linux-2.6.24-rc6-mm1/Makefile.prepare 2007-12-28 21:16:18.0

Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote: > + printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal monitoring not " > + "functional.\n", cpu); > > Why is that KERN_CRIT? Does not seem that critical to me. If y

Re: [PATCH] AMD Thermal Interrupt Support

2007-12-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:34:34 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > On Saturday 29 December 2007 03:30:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 03:11:51 +0100, Andi Kleen said: > > > On Friday 28 December 2007 21:40:28 Russell Leidich wrote: > > > > > + printk(KERN_CRIT "CPU 0x%x: Thermal mo

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