Re: [RHSA-2000:108-02] Up2.2.16-22 Kernel Compile errors...

2000-11-17 Thread jeffrey
Hi guys.I just did a clean install(of RedHat 7) on my box.I'm trying to recompile my kernel to support a second NIC(SMC Ultra) and when I do   make zImage the compile process start but immediately stops with the following error message:  make all_targets  > make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src

Re: Undefined Code in .../include/linux.bitops.h

2013-02-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> http://www.tux.org/lkml/ is a tough read, and Item 4, "I think I found >> a bug, how do I report it?" does not tell me how to report this. > > From that page: > | A bug is when so

Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: et131x: Fix 64bit tx dma address handling

2012-10-17 Thread Jeffrey Ladouceur
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Mark Einon wrote: > The driver checks that the device can handle 64bit DMA addressing in > et131x_pci_setup(), but then assumes that the top dword of a tx dma > address is always zero when creating a dma mapping in nic_send_packet(). > Fix the mapping to use the hi

Centos 6.3 (2.6.33) hwclock not defaulting to --directisa mode on select() timeout util-linux

2013-04-21 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
On the older P4 systems from HP, the util-linux hwclock is no longer defaulting to --directisa port setting mode if the select() timeout fails. It only shows up when you have an old PC with a battery that's screwed up on the motherboard and the clock doesn't stay up to date. But whether this is th

[ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger MDB 2.6.37 x86_64

2013-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
CURRENT http://merkeydebugger.googlecode.com/files/mdb-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6-03-16-2013.patch REPOSITORY http://code.google.com/p/merkeydebugger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/merkeydebugger/ FIXES: - port to 2.6.32-279 and test - fix patch delta changes and Fuzz warnings. NOTE: Not tested on x

[ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Linux Kernel Debugger MDB 2.6.32-279.22.1 x86_64 for Red Hat/Centos EL6

2013-03-25 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
Correction to previous email, wrong linux version in title line from previous release CURRENT http://merkeydebugger.googlecode.com/files/mdb-2.6.32-279.22.1.el6-03-16-2013.patch REPOSITORY http://code.google.com/p/merkeydebugger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/merkeydebugger/ FIXES: - port to 2

Re: [PATCH v2] hwspinlock/msm: Add support for Qualcomm MSM HW Mutex block

2013-08-13 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
t;, Maybe you should just say "spinlock not owned by us (actual owner is %d)" so that this driver is agnostic to the processor it runs on? + __func__, lock_owner); + } + + writel_relaxed(0, lock_addr); + smp_mb(); +} Jeffrey Hugo --

Re: Attempted Breakin of Go Daddy by LKML Member (Foiled)

2013-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
et.ro Wonder who on LKML uses this address. Dude, you are nailed. Jeff On 3/27/13, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > After posting the latest MDB version, this linux developer (which I > monitor from San Diego periodically) attempted a break in of godaddy's > servers with an XSS embedded s

Re: Death of Andre Hedrick - A belated birthday present

2013-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
Here is Andre's last gift to me, along with dozens of other attack blogs. I have to wonder if this case was similiar to Aaron Schwart's case since I had filed charges with the FBI about all this that had gone on for years on end and they had notified me they were close to catching him and his budd

Re: Death of Andre Hedrick - A belated birthday present

2013-01-20 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
On 1/20/13, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: Here is Andre's last gift to me, along with dozens of other attack blogs. I have to wonder if this case was similiar to Aaron Schwart's case since I had filed charges with the FBI about all this that had gone on for years on end and they had notifi

Re: [PATCH 1/9] vfs: Handle O_SYNC AIO DIO in generic code properly

2012-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Ellis
Best, J. On Nov 21, 2012, at 4:37 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > On Wed 21-11-12 13:29:01, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:58:05AM -0500, Jeff Moyer wrote: I'd like to use this as a vehicle to revisit how dio completions work. >>> >>> I don't like the sound of that. ;-)

2.4.0 config breaks /dev/fd0* major/minor ?

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Rose
broken something in my 2.4.0 config and how to regain access to my floppy drive. Sincerely thankful, Jeff -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KEYSERVER=wwwkeys.de.pgp.net SEARCH STRING=Jeffrey Rose KEYID=6AD04244 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Problems in 2.4 kernel

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Rose
; KEYSERVER=wwwkeys.de.pgp.net SEARCH STRING=Jeffrey Rose KEYID=6AD04244 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 2.4.0 config breaks /dev/fd0* major/minor ?

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Rose
Christian Gennerat wrote: > > Jeff Garzik a écrit : > > > Jeffrey Rose wrote: > > > I get a wrong major/minor reported when attempting > > > to mount /dev/fd0 ... > > > > Sounds like it can't find the floppy driver, for whatever reason... >

Re: Problems in 2.4 kernel

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Rose
update the modutils? I will double-check. Otherwise, I have noticed that, during reboot, I get a message that my PCI ISDN config shows a conflict with IRQ 3 for devices: 00:01:0 and 01:08.0 which might have some bearing on this problem. TIA, Jeff -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KEYSERVER=wwwkeys

Re: 2.4.0 config breaks /dev/fd0* major/minor ? *not* Fixed

2001-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Rose
Christian Gennerat wrote: > > Jeff Garzik a écrit : > > > Jeffrey Rose wrote: > > > I get a wrong major/minor reported when attempting > > > to mount /dev/fd0 ... > > > > Sounds like it can't find the floppy driver, for whatever reason... >

netatalk refuses to start with ethernet aliasing

2000-11-22 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
range. Thanks for your help, Jeffrey Hundstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota State University, Mankato http://www.mnsu.edu/jeffrey/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: 8% of the Internet unreachable!

2000-09-10 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> Dax Kelson wrote: > > Survey shows 8.3% of websites unreachable from an ECN capable client. > > Notable unreachable sites: > > > > www.amazon.com, www.ibm.com, www.sun.com, www.apple.com, > > > I'm running 2.4.0-test8 and I was able to reach all four of the above sites > using kppp 2.0pre18.

Re: /proc/sys/vm/freepages not writable.

2000-09-17 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> > 1. The inactive_target is 1 second worth of allocations, minus > >the amount of frees in 1 second, averaged over a minute > > So it cannot take load bursts. That's ok for a default, but for special loads > it would be good if there was a way for the administrator to overwrite that, > sim

Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

2000-10-24 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> Multiple event queues are bad, because it completely breaks the notion of > even-driven programming. How do you want to listen to them all? You can't. > You can only listen to one event queue at a time - unless you create some You can listen to one event queue per thread. Maybe in the case pe

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Evan Jeffrey
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > > No. You have to reset the hardware fully each time you load the module. > > Although you _expect_ it to be in the state in which you left it, you can't > > > be sure of that. > > If a reset is needed, I think it should come explicitly fr

Re: About Celeron processor memory barrier problem

2000-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Rose
xsr sse bogomips : 1192.76 Cheers, Jeff -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KEYSERVER=wwwkeys.de.pgp.net SEARCH STRING=Jeffrey Rose KEYID=6AD04244 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

lvm - lvm_map access beyond end of device

2001-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Hello, Vital info: Linux-2.2.18 LVM version 0.9 by Heinz Mauelshagen (13/11/2000) gcc version 2.95.2 GDT7563RN Firmware 2.27.04-R03F After about 27 days of uptime one of our Linux machines that is being used as a Samba, Netatalk, and FTP server; the main data mount went into a

Re: lvm - lvm_map access beyond end of device

2001-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Andreas Dilger wrote: > Jeffrey Hundstad writes: > > After about 27 days of uptime one of our Linux machines that is being > > used as a Samba, Netatalk, and FTP server; the main data mount went into > > a read-only state. > [snip] > > We are mounting that 656GB

poll() behaves differently in Linux 2.4.1 vs. Linux 2.2.14 (POLLHUP)

2001-03-13 Thread Jeffrey Butler
Hi, I've noticed that poll() calls on IPv4 sockets do not behave the same under linux 2.4 vs. linux 2.2.14. Linux 2.4 will return POLLHUP for a socket that is not connected (and has never been connected) while Linux 2.2 will not. The following example program demonstrates the problem when it'

Re: poll() behaves differently in Linux 2.4.1 vs. Linux 2.2.14 (POLLHUP)

2001-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Butler
realize the Solaris versions are a bit out of date. -jeff --- "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jeffrey Butler writes: > > I've noticed that poll() calls on IPv4 sockets > do > > not behave the same under linux 2.4 vs. linux > 2.2.

Re: poll() behaves differently in Linux 2.4.1 vs. Linux 2.2.14 (POLLHUP)

2001-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Butler
Alexy wrote: >> Damn, we did not test behaviour on absolutely new >> clean never connected socket... Solaris really may >> return 0 on it. >> >> However, looking from other hand the issue looks as >> absolutely academic and not related to practice in >> any way. Hi, I'm not sure this issue is r

Re: use the kernel to change an irq?

2001-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Ingber
e Your problem is most likely _not_ an IRQ issue, but a bus mastering issue. Your AGP and PCI most likely share the same busmastering line. The IRQ should not be an issue. -- Jeffrey H. Ingber (jhingber _at_ ix.netcom.com) "Windows 95 is a 32-bit shell for a 16-bit extension to an 8-bi

Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Hello, I'm using Linux-2.4.2-ac27 SMP compiled with gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux). After an "insmod aic7xxx" "cat /proc/bus/pci/devices" works just fine. After an "rmmod aic7xxx" "cat /proc/bus/pci/devices" fails to produce any output and never finishes. Top show the process in

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
aic7xxx_osm.h:#define AIC7XXX_DRIVER_VERSION "6.1.5" "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm using Linux-2.4.2-ac27 SMP compiled with gcc version 2.95.2 2220 > >(Debian GNU/Linux). > > What version of the aic7xxx driver is embedded in 2.4.2-ac27? This > particular issue was fixed ju

Re: Linux-2.4.2-ac27 - read on /proc/bus/pci/devices never finishes after rmmod aic7xxx

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
sh I could ;-) Please ignore this if you get something better. I included Mr. Gibbs changelog (for the changes from 6.1.5 to 6.1.8 his log is QUITE detailed.) Thanks to everyone! -- Jeffrey Hundstad Alan Cox wrote: > > What version of the aic7xxx driver is embedded in 2.4.2-ac27? This >

build of Zoran ZR36060 driver broken in 2.4.3

2001-03-30 Thread Jeffrey Ingber
The build of the Zoran ZR36060 driver appears to be broken when building buz.c. FYI, I don't even have the option "Include Support for Iomga Buz" selected. SuSE 7.1, gcc 2.95.2, on a dual i686 BX make -C video modules make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.3-64GB-SMP/drivers/media/vide

Reasons to honor readonly mount requests

2001-02-02 Thread Jeffrey Keller
On Thu, Jan 04 2001 at 17:49:46 EST, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > I will be adding support for virtual replay for root filesystems to > act as a last-chance way of recovering if you really cannot write to > the root, but journaling filesystems really do expect to be able to > write to the media

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffe000 - in linux-2.6.12.2

2005-07-07 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
0 Call Trace: [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Code: ff ff 21 e0 8b 00 c7 00 00 00 00 00 8b 44 24 10 83 c4 14 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 b8 00 e0 ff ff <21> e0 57 56 53 83 ec 24 8b 00 8b 54 24 3c 8b 6c 24 38 8b 80 54 -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubs

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

2005-08-03 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
this is a badly written program and not a kernel problem. Correct? BTW: how do you know what HZ your machine is running at? -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

[PATCH 1/4] vfs: adds the S_PRIVATE flag and adds use to security

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch adds an S_PRIVATE flag to inode->i_flags to mark an inode as filesystem-internal. As such, it should be excepted from the security infrastructure to allow the filesystem to perform its own access control. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.11

[PATCH 2/4] selinux: internal inode loop needs IS_PRIVATE test

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch applies the IS_PRIVATE test to the selinux internal inode loop. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.9.base/security/selinux/hooks.c linux-2.6.9.private/security/selinux/hooks.c --- linux-2.6.9.base/security/selinux/hooks.c 2004-11-19 14:40:

[PATCH 4/4] reiserfs: change reiserfs to use S_PRIVATE

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch changes reiserfs to use the VFS level private inode flags, and eliminates the old reiserfs private inode flag. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.9.base/include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h linux-2.6.9.private/include/linux/reiserfs_xattr.h --- li

[PATCH 3/4] reiserfs: private inode abstracted to static inline

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch moves the assignment of i_priv_object to a static inline. This is in preparation for selinux support in reiserfs. Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -ruNpX dontdiff linux-2.6.9/fs/reiserfs/inode.c linux-2.6.9.base/fs/reiserfs/inode.c --- linux-2.6.9/fs/reiserfs/inode

[PATCH 0/4] Allow reiserfs to work with selinux

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
Hello all - I sent out these patches in December, but they were dropped somewhere along the way. There was only a simple reject from the switch from dentry to inode in get/set/listsecurity which has been fixed. I'm posting the following patches against 2.6.11-rc5: * 01-vfs-private-flag.diff -

[PATCH 0/3] openfirmware/macio: implements hotplug for macio devices

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
Hello all - I posted these patches a while ago, and let them fall by the wayside. The following 3 patches, combined with the userspace patches referenced below, implement hotplug events for open firmware/macio devices such as apple airport wireless ethernet cards. * 01-openfirmware-device-table

[PATCH 2/3] openfirmware: adds sysfs nodes for openfirmware devices

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch adds sysfs nodes that the hotplug userspace can use to load the appropriate modules. In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to module-init-tools and hotplug must be applied. Those patches are available at: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/linux/macio-hotplug/ Sign

[PATCH 1/3] openfirmware: generate device table for userspace

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch converts the usage of struct of_match to struct of_device_id, similar to pci_device_id. This allows a device table to be generated, which can be parsed by depmod(8) to generate a map file for module loading. In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to module-init-tools

[PATCH 3/3] openfirmware: implements hotplug for macio devices

2005-03-01 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch adds the hotplug routine for generating hotplug events when devices are seen on the macio bus. It uses the attributed created by the sysfs nodes to generate the hotplug environment vars for userspace. In order for hotplug to work with macio devices, patches to module-init-tools and hotp

[PATCH 1/4] vfs: adds the S_PRIVATE flag and adds use to security

2005-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch adds an S_PRIVATE flag to inode->i_flags to mark an inode as filesystem-internal. As such, it should be excepted from the security infrastructure to allow the filesystem to perform its own access control. Changes: - Post-operations for calls that generally instantiate the dentry but

[PATCH] blockdev: fixes race between mount/umount

2005-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
This patch fixes a race between mount and umount in set_blocksize. The results can vary between buffer errors and infinite loops in __getblk_slow, and possibly others. The patch makes set_blocksize run under the bdev_lock if it is the sole holder of the block device. Changes: - Added missing

[PATCH 3/4] reiserfs: private inode abstracted to static inline

2005-03-07 Thread Jeffrey Mahoney
Sorry for the (again) updated diff. This past week doesn't seem to have been my best for quality control; somewhere the xattr disabled case for reiserfs_mark_inode_private was dropped. Here's the updated patch. -Jeff This patch moves the assignment of i_priv_object to a static inline. This is in

2.4.4+fork patch still sluggish

2001-05-03 Thread Jeffrey Kuskin
ky mouse pointer" behavior even with this patch installed, or should I look for other causes? For instance, are there known problems with jerky mouse pointer behavior under heavy swapping load? -- Jeffrey Kuskin Tel: +1-408-773-5256 Senior System Engineer

journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
lk to the powers who be to come up with a strategy to make a report they can use. My guess is we're not sending something that can be used. -- jeffrey hundstad Jakob Oestergaard wrote: On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 01:51:12PM +, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:23:

Re: journaled filesystems -- known instability; Was: XFS: inode with st_mode == 0

2005-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 21:31, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: For more of this look up subjects: Bad things happening to journaled filesystem machines Oops in kjournald That seems to have been due to the xattr problems recently fixed in Linus's tree. The xattr

Re: PCI Quirk / Hidden Bus Report

2007-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
I also have the same type message in my dmesg from a Dell Latitude D820 with the latest BIOS: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH6 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1080-10bf claimed by ICH6 GPIO PCI: Transparent bridge - :00:1e.0 PCI: Bus #04 (-#07) i

"pci=routeirq" on IBM Thinkpad A20m Type 2628-3au fixes wireless card in cardbus/pcmcia slot

2007-08-13 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
pci=routeirq makes my wireless lan card in a cardbus/pcmcia slot work. I'm posting these are requested in the dmesg. (below are lspci and dmesg, more available by request) Here's the lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) Flags: bus

Re: SATA-performance: Linux vs. FreeBSD

2007-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
eneral reading for ya: Troubleshooting Linux Performance Issues: http://www.phptr.com/articles/article.asp?p=481867&seqNum=2&rl=1 -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo

[PATCH] make iunique use a do/while loop rather than its obscure goto loop

2007-01-30 Thread Jeffrey Layton
While working on a case, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that, turning the strange goto loop into a do/while. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c inde

Re: la la la la ... swappiness

2006-12-04 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
to be able to make a wrapper out of this kind of like the fakeroot(1) command like such as: nocachesuck tar xvfz kernel.tar.gz ya know what I mean? -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

2006-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
You can also use fakeroot(1). Start fakeroot. Change all of your permissions as you see fit. make your cpio exit fakeroot. Horst H. von Brand wrote: Marty Leisner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working on an embedded system with the 2.6 kernel -- cpio initrd was a new feature I'm looking

Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

2006-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
hiver. Horst H. von Brand wrote: Jeffrey Hundstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can also use fakeroot(1). I think that is a debianism... not here on Fedora. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: ownership/permissions of cpio initrd

2006-12-05 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
8,1 2006-12-05 14:54 ./dev/sda1 -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
scripts and expecting them to work until the NEXT stable release without changes. It means knowing what things WILL break if and when I do go to the next version. Stable is a CHOICE not a punishment. -- Jeffrey Hundstad PS. Running unstable on my laptop... and running stable on my servers. -

Re: filesystem benchmarking fun

2007-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Jeff Garzik wrote: Jan Engelhardt wrote: On May 16 2007 10:42, Chris Mason wrote: For example, I'll pick on xfs for a minute. compilebench shows the default FS you get from mkfs.xfs is pretty slow for untarring a bunch of kernel trees. I suppose you used 'nobarrier'? [ http://lkml.org/lkml

Re: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 RSDL results

2007-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
happening in a background window Would you please do that same "make -j2" niced. Tell us how that feels. -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http

Re: Multiple instances of program sharing same text segment ?

2007-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Keep in mind that while the text of the program IS SHARED any configuration file that is then loaded into ram after the execution IS NOT SHARED. BTW you can find out what is shared and not by taking a look at the proc files: # ps auxwww | grep emacs | grep -v grep # -- find the pids user

Re: [PATCH] sched: rsdl improvements

2007-03-21 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Artur Skawina wrote: Con Kolivas wrote: Note no interactive boost idea here. Patch is for 2.6.21-rc4-mm1. I have not spent the time trying to bring other bases in sync. I've tried RSDLv.31+this on 2.6.20.3 as i'm not tracking -mm. Further improve the deterministic nature of the R

[PATCH] make iunique use a do/while loop rather than its obscure goto loop

2007-04-11 Thread Jeffrey Layton
A while back, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that, turning the strange goto loop into a do/while. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 23fc1fd..

Re: Recent wireless breakage (ipw2200, iwconfig, NetworkManager)

2007-03-05 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
g to offend people with this patch, it would seem appropriate to call someone's mother a "bad" name. This may be in the style guide; perhaps I should submit a patch. -- Jeffrey Hundstad PS: Humor (really!) relax. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Corrupt XFS -Filesystems on new Hardware and Kernel

2007-03-27 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
good but people who can fix your problem will want the entire .config and dmesg to even guess about what is going on with *your* situation. For more info on XFS. This is a pretty nice FAQ: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html -- Jeffrey Hundstad - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: [PATCH V6] sched/fair: Remove group imbalance from calculate_imbalance()

2017-08-16 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 7/28/2017 12:09 PM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: In summary, our system is harmed by the code branch, and our analysis indicates the branch has no benefit to the scheduler as it sits today, we feel justified in removing it. Ping? Peter, did you find the additional information we provided useful

Re: [PATCH] random: silence compiler warnings and fix race

2017-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >... > Specifically, I added `depends on DEBUG_KERNEL`. This means that these > useful warnings will only poke other kernel developers. This is probably > exactly what we want. If the various associated developers see a warning > coming fr

Re: [PATCH] random: silence compiler warnings and fix race

2017-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 10:53:35AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >> > Suppressing all messages for all configurations cast a wider net than >> > necessary. Configurations that could potentially be detected and fixed >> > likely will go unn

Re: [PATCH V5 0/2] load_balance() fixes for affinity

2017-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 6/13/2017 8:32 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: On 6/7/2017 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: Co-authored-by: Austin Christ Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo [V5] -updated comment to explain the "why" behind the redo check -fixed panic triggered from active_load_balance_cpu_stop() [V4] -restric

Re: [BUG] Deadlock due due to interactions of block, RCU, and cpu offline

2017-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 6/20/2017 5:46 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:17:11AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 12:02:27PM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: Hi Paul. Thanks for the quick reply. On 3/26/2017 5:28 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 05:10:40PM

Re: [PATCH] random: silence compiler warnings and fix race

2017-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 7:38 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 11:49:07AM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: >> ... >>> I more or less agree with you that we should just turn this on for all >>> users and they'll just have to live with the spam and report odd >>> entries, and overti

Filesystem Question

2015-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
So I have been out of circulation for a while. Just thought I'd ask which is the most popular filesystem in terms of usage right now, setting aside android which really doesn't run Linux, but some sort of hybrid Linux/java monstrosity. Is ext4 still the most used these days? I note from EL7 that

Re: Filesystem Question

2015-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
I guess no one can answer that for certain. Oh well.Too many PATCH emails in between on the list. Gets lost in the noise I guess. This list used to be like a wild party. Things sure have changed around the world of Linux. :( Jeff On 8/29/15, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > So I have b

igmp broadcast storm Red Hat EL7 3.1 Kernel

2015-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
When installing Centos 7 running kernel 3.1 (Centos 7 distro) the system generates an igmp broadcast storm which locks up and knocks down a Century Link DSL router. Powering the router off clears the broadcast storm. The bug is kernel related and resembles very closely another bug seen about 10 y

Re: igmp broadcast storm Red Hat EL7 3.1 Kernel

2015-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
Cong Wang wrote: > (Cc'ing netdev) > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Jeffrey Merkey > wrote: >> When installing Centos 7 running kernel 3.1 (Centos 7 distro) the >> system generates an igmp broadcast storm which locks up and knocks >> down a Century Link DS

Re: igmp broadcast storm Red Hat EL7 3.1 Kernel

2015-10-22 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
On 8/31/15, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > I was able to reproduce it last night with 2.6.32 on Centos 6.3 so it > does not seem confined to just the 3.X tree. I think this is > something that's been lurking in the kernel for years and just has a > hard time showing up. Bugs that go

QUestion on x86_64 and i386 for settings of SS segment register

2015-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
I am updating the mdb kernel debugger on 4.2.4 and I noticed that user_mode_vm has been removed from the kernel sources for detecting user space memory addresses for purposes of loading the SS pointer. I am using __KERNEL_DS presently. old code: if (user_mode_vm(regs)) { sf->tSS = regs->ss;

Re: QUestion on x86_64 and i386 for settings of SS segment register

2015-10-24 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
Found the answer in ptrace.h -- the answer is no. never mind. Jeff On 10/24/15, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > I am updating the mdb kernel debugger on 4.2.4 and I noticed that > user_mode_vm has been removed from the kernel sources for detecting > user space memory addresses for purposes o

linux 4.2.4 rcu_sched rolls over and barfs after debugger exits

2015-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
After using the mdb kernel debugger then exiting, the rcu_sched, due to its own internal timers, rolls over and crashes when it does not get the timeout window it likes.Not caused by memory corruption, just caused by the debugger holding the system suspended then when the system is allowed to r

Linux 4.2.4 b43 busted and buggy when hostapd loaded

2015-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
loading hostapd on 4.2.4 results in the driver crashing and failing to load the firmware correctly into the device driver. jeff WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1703 at drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c:2708 b43_upload_microcode+0x492/0x4e0 [b43]() Modules linked in: target_core_iblock target_core_file target_

Re: linux 4.2.4 rcu_sched rolls over and barfs after debugger exits

2015-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
I am calling these functions while polling the keyboard inside the debugger: touch_softlockup_watchdog(); clocksource_touch_watchdog(); touch_nmi_watchdog(); Jeff On 10/25/15, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > After using the mdb kernel debugger then exiting, the rcu_sched, due > to its own in

Re: linux 4.2.4 rcu_sched rolls over and barfs after debugger exits

2015-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
I coded a workaround and tested it. seems to work. Jeff On 10/26/15, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > I am calling these functions while polling the keyboard inside the > debugger: > > touch_softlockup_watchdog(); > clocksource_touch_watchdog(); > touch_nmi_watchdog(); > &

Re: linux 4.2.4 rcu_sched rolls over and barfs after debugger exits

2015-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
because the hardware clock runs over. Jeff On 10/25/15, Jeffrey Merkey wrote: > After using the mdb kernel debugger then exiting, the rcu_sched, due > to its own internal timers, rolls over and crashes when it does not > get the timeout window it likes.Not caused by memory corruption, >

Linux 4.2.4 Wierd Fuse loading and errors with peripherals RH DVD Creator

2015-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
DVD Creator returns intermittent errors saying that the driver will not close properly with 4.2.4. The log shows seeks for block addresses which are out of bounds for the device size. Each time this happens I see a message saying fuse is initing. Same as other traces on previous bugs. For some

Linux 4.2.4 Random ext4 corruption (thinks active inodes are deleted)

2015-10-26 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
Same as before. Strange error with fuse trying to load (I think its related in some way with the writes being made to the /proc/sysrq), then strange errors. I am running on CENTOS 6.3 with 4.2.4 kernel. fsck cleans up the problem so its not a disk error, kernel error of some sort. Jeff Ebtables

[ANNOUNCE] MDB Debugger Linux 4.2.4

2015-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Merkey
maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or the open source license(s) involved. Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Vernon Merkey -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@

Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] API for 128-bit IO access

2018-01-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 4:05 AM, Yury Norov wrote: > > ... > With all that, this example code: > > static int __init 128bit_test(void) > { > __uint128_t v; > __uint128_t addr; > __uint128_t val = (__uint128_t) 0x1234567890abc; > ... In case it matters, you can check for GC

[RFC 0/2] load_balance() fixes for affinity

2017-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
nce() path. Patch 2 removes a branch that does not make sense with the current load_balance() algorithm because it has no scenario where it benifits the "group_imbalance" case in calculate_imbalance() and which causes problems in systems with affined workloads and many idle or lightly loaded

[RFC 2/2] sched/fair: Remove group imbalance from calculate_imbalance()

2017-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
st case, this can result in idle cpus. Since the group imbalance path in calculate_imbalance() is at best a NOP but otherwise harmful, remove it. Signed-off-by: Austin Christ Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo Tested-by: Tyler Baicar --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 9 - 1 file changed, 9 deletions

[RFC 1/2] sched/fair: Fix load_balance() affinity redo path

2017-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
removing cpus not in the current domain and the dst_cpu from considertation, thus limiting the evaluation to valid remaining cpus from which load might be migrated. Signed-off-by: Austin Christ Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo Tested-by: Tyler Baicar --- kernel

Re: [RFC 1/2] sched/fair: Fix load_balance() affinity redo path

2017-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 5/12/2017 11:23 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:01:37AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: Signed-off-by: Austin Christ Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo So per that Chain Austin wrote the patch, who handed it to Dietmar, who handed it to you

Re: [RFC 1/2] sched/fair: Fix load_balance() affinity redo path

2017-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 5/12/2017 2:44 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:29:05AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: On 5/12/2017 11:23 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:01:37AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: Signed-off-by: Austin Christ Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann Signed-off-by

Re: [RFC 1/2] sched/fair: Fix load_balance() affinity redo path

2017-05-12 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 5/12/2017 2:47 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 11:01:37AM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index d711093..8f783ba 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -8219,8 +8219,19 @@ static int load_balance(int

Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: Show correct direction from the beginning

2018-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
ucky I saw this then. I should be able to test within a week. -- Jeffrey Hugo Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies as an affiliate of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.

Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: Show correct direction from the beginning

2018-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 9/27/2018 8:19 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: On 9/27/18 9:04 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: I guess its lucky I saw this then. Did you not get this email: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/989545/#1173771 Apparently I did. I found it in my deleted items. I must have accidentally done that

[PATCH v3 2/2] ACPI/PPTT: Handle architecturally unknown cache types

2018-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
sysfs for such caches, resulting in the information missing from utilities like lstopo and lscpu, thus degrading the user experience. Fixes: 2bd00bcd73e5 (ACPI/PPTT: Add Processor Properties Topology Table parsing) Reported-by: Vijaya Kumar K Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo --- drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 30

[PATCH v3 0/2] PPTT handle Handle architecturally unknown cache types

2018-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
fo per Sudeep's suggestion -Integrated the PPTT fix into existing PPTT code per Sudeep's suggestion Jeffrey Hugo (2): drivers: base: cacheinfo: Do not populate sysfs for unknown cache types ACPI/PPTT: Handle architecturally unknown cache types drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 15

[PATCH v3 1/2] drivers: base: cacheinfo: Do not populate sysfs for unknown cache types

2018-09-27 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
output. lscpu: cannot open /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cache/index3/type: No such file or directory Suggested-by: Sudeep Holla Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo Reviewed-by: Jeremy Linton --- drivers/base/cacheinfo.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/base/cacheinfo.c b

Re: [PATCH v2] gpiolib: Show correct direction from the beginning

2018-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Hugo
On 9/27/2018 8:04 AM, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: On 9/27/2018 6:19 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: On 9/27/18 1:51 AM, Stephen Boyd wrote: Looks OK to me visually. I haven't tested it because I don't have access to the locked down hardware anymore. Same here.  Please wait for Jeff Hugo to test

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