Re: [ 00/45] 3.0.88-stable review

2013-07-27 Thread linux
:54:53 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.0.88-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. We have additional build failures. Total builds: 54 Total

Re: [ 00/59] 3.4.55-stable review

2013-07-27 Thread linux
:48:22 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.4.55-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. Cross platform build looks good: Total builds: 58 Total

Re: [ 00/79] 3.10.4-stable review

2013-07-27 Thread linux
:45:08 UTC 2013. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/stable-review/patch-3.10.4-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. Cross build is ok: Total builds: 64 Total build errors: 3

Re: [ 000/103] 3.10.3-stable review

2013-07-24 Thread linux
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Test - Please Disregard

2001-02-12 Thread linux
Test. - 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://vger.kernel.org/lkml/

DMA and my Maxtor drive

2000-10-20 Thread linux
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2.4.0pre9 and an analog joystick

2000-10-24 Thread linux
A at 0x200 size 8 speed 917 kHz Oct 24 23:15:31 cr753963-a kernel: input0: Analog 2-axis 4-button joystick at gameport0.0 [TSC timer, 463 MHz clock, 1193 ns res] and I can't get any further :[ Dave - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: 2.4.0pre9 and an analog joystick

2000-10-25 Thread linux
C timer, 463 MHz clock, 1193 ns res] > > > > and I can't get any further :[ > > > > Dave > > insmod joydev Ok, I can get it to work with modules, but it will not work if it's directly compiled into the kernel, is this a known bug? Dave - To unsubscribe f

Networking problems with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread linux
probe at 0x220: 00 40 f6 24 34 08 Jan 30 21:26:37 cr753963-a kernel: eth0: NE2000 found at 0x220, using IRQ 5. - 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: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
hat's an entropy measurement problem! Until this cloud is dissipated by further analysis, it's not possible to say "this is shiny and new and better; they's use it!" in good conscience. - 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: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
. If the attacker's uncertainty about the state of some of the subpools increases to the catastrophic reseeding level, then the Fortuna design goal is achieved. If the seed samples are independent, then it's easy to see that the schedule works. But if the seed samples are correlated, it

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-14 Thread linux
n has to hold back entropy for some time. And I think that, even in the absence of special-purpose RNG hardware, synchronization jitter on modern GHz+ CPUs is a fruitful source of entropy. - 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: Fortuna

2005-04-15 Thread linux
s is long enough, and you have the same 0.1 second maximum reseed rate, then 21 pools will have pool 20 added every 29:07:37.6. As I keep saying, the small size of the Fortuna pools is a separate matter, and can be changed without affecting the subpool structure that is Fortuna's real novel con

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-15 Thread linux
s the technical goals? I don't think anyone wants to draw and quarter *you*, but your code is going to get some extremely critical examination. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More major

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
ng is discussing it with someone who doesn't even seem to *see* the issues. > Not to sound like a "I'm taking my ball and going home" - just explaining > that I like the Fortuna design, I think it's elegant, I want it for my > systems. GPL require

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
utput from subsequent /dev/urandom output. That's discussed in section 5.3 of the paper you cited, and has been fixed. There's probably more discussion of the subject in linux-kernel around the time that change went in. Whether the goal is *achieved* is a different issue. random.c tr

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
ou're intimately familiar with the concept, and any discussion can go straight on to more detailed issues. I just hope you'll grant me that understanding the concept is pretty fundamental to any meaningful discussion of information-theoretic security. > I stand by my comments above.

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
elp an attacker). Remiander modulo a uniformly chosen random irreducible polynomial is a well-known ("division hash") family of universal hash functions, but it's a little bit weaker than the above, and I have to figure out of the proof extends. - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-16 Thread linux
rophic reseeder and output function don't waste entropy). > > It's a lot of "ifs" for my taste. /dev/random will output once it has as many bits of entropy as you're asking for. If you do a 20-byte read, it'll output once it has 160 bits. If you do a 1-byte read, it'll output once it has 8 bits. - 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: kernel guide to space

2005-07-13 Thread linux
* &) in both unary and binary forms, so it's not always unambiguous. In such cases, I'll usually move the brace onto its own line to make the end of the condition clearer: if (foobar(.) + barbar * foobar(bar + foo * oof)) {

Re: a 15 GB file on tmpfs

2005-07-22 Thread linux
at offsets 0, 4 GB, 8 GB, and 12 GB separate. Works for me (test code below). > The machine we plan to buy is a HP Proliant Xeon machine and I want to run a > 32 bit linux kernel on it (the xeon we want doesn't have the 64-bit stuff > yet) If you're working with > 4GB d

Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-10 Thread linux
a, or f5 a3 when inverted and converted to bytes. CRC-CCITT of "123456789" is 0x6f91, or 63 90. (When preset to zero, the values are 0x538d and 0x2189, respectively. That would be 8d 53 or 89 21 if *not* inverted.) - 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: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-11 Thread linux
on a modern machine, it's faster to try all 32768 possible polynomials than to write and debug the GCD code.) After that, you can figure out the preset and final inversion, if any. For fixed-length messages, you can merge them into a single 16-bit constant that you can include at the beginni

Re: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-11 Thread linux
opposite bit ordering within bytes, DO NOT ATTEMPT to "fix" lib/crc-ccitt.c. It will break all of the existing users of the code. - 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: CCITT-CRC16 in kernel

2005-08-12 Thread linux
abbing everything on the Web that > could help decipher the CCITT CRC and they all show this > same kind of code and same kind of organization. Nothing > I could find on the Web is like the linux kernel ccitt_crc. > Go figure. Funny, I can find it all over the place: http://www.non

Re: [RFC] [PATCH] cache pollution aware __copy_from_user_ll()

2005-08-15 Thread linux
r the copy_from_user source, prefetchnta is probably indicated. If user space hasn't caused it to be cached already (admittedly, the common case), we *know* the kernel isn't going to look at that data again. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: Fortuna

2005-04-17 Thread linux
ivides up the seed material round-robin among the various subpools. The current /dev/random doesn't do anything like that. (Of course, non-independence affects us by limiting us to the conditional entropy of any given piece of seed material.) > I also don't know whether this is a

Re: enforcing DB immutability

2005-04-20 Thread linux
[A discussion on the git list about how to provide a hardlinked file that *cannot* me modified by an editor, but must be replaced by a new copy.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote all of: >>> perhaps having a new 'immutable hardlink' feature in the Linux VFS >>> would help? I

Re: [patch 2.6.13-rc3a] i386: inline restore_fpu

2005-07-26 Thread linux
nter to current CPU. The UP case just omits the per-thread CPU pointer. (Well, stores it in zero bits.) An alternative SMP thread-creation case would be to have a NULL value for the thread-to-CPU pointer and initialize the thread's CPU pointer to that, but that then complicates the UP case

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-29 Thread linux
instruction decode limits that apply to cold-cache code. - 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: Add prefetch switch stack hook in scheduler function

2005-07-29 Thread linux
de/asm-v850/mmu_context.h |6 ++ > include/asm-x86_64/mmu_context.h|5 + > include/asm-xtensa/mmu_context.h|6 ++ > kernel/sched.c |9 - > 25 files changed, 151 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) I think this pretty clearly points out

Re: How to get dentry from inode number?

2005-07-29 Thread linux
short-sighted design of the NFS protocol. Don't emulate it, or you will be lynched by a mob of angry kernel developers with torches and pitchforks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info

Re: [PATCH] speed up on find_first_bit for i386 (let compiler do the work)

2005-07-31 Thread linux
if (v) return __ffs(v) + x; } while ((x += CHAR_BIT * sizeof *b) < size); return size; } Do we actually store bitmaps on 64-bit machines with 32 significant bits per ulong? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Need better is_better_time_interpolator() algorithm

2005-08-25 Thread linux
ng NUM_FRACTION_BITS to 16 or so would give enough room for reasonable-sized weights and not have the total overflow 32 bits. - 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/

2.6.24-rc6 oops in net_tx_action

2008-01-06 Thread linux
a while ago to get tagged VLANs working on it, which was a notable failure. Still, this oops is in core network code. As you might guess, it makes people somewhat grumpy when the main firewall/router takes a dive, but I can experiment after hours. Here's the kernel config: $ grep ^CONFIG /u

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 oops in net_tx_action

2008-01-06 Thread linux
a black-screen lockup with >> keyboard LEDs blinking, but that was with X running so I couldn't see a >> console oops. But given that I installed 2.6.24-rc6 about 24 hours ago, >> that's a disturbing pattern. > It is probably this one: > > http://marc.info/?t=11978279

Re: 2.6.24-rc6 oops in net_tx_action

2008-01-07 Thread linux
>> Thanks! I got the patch from >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119756785219214 >> (Which didn't make it into -rc7; please fix!) >> and am recompiling now. > Jeff is busy so he's asked me to pick up the more important > driver bug fixes that g

Re: [RFT] Port 0x80 I/O speed

2007-12-12 Thread linux
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SCHED_FIFO & system()

2008-01-17 Thread linux
.6.21. Anybody who recognize this or similar situations? Cheers // Matias -- 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: /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data

2007-12-15 Thread linux
t to abuse these free services by doing it too often. Also, the latter two actually return whole HTML pages with the numbers included in ASCII. If anyone knows how to just download raw binary, please share.) -- 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: RFC: permit link(2) to work across --bind mounts ?

2007-12-19 Thread linux
be enough, but I'd rather avoid having the prisoner link /jail/lib/libfoo.so (write returns EROFS) to /jail/usr/log where it's potentially writeable. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-01-31 Thread linux
> could you please also react to this feedback: > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110698371131630&w=2 > > to quote a couple of key points from that very detailed security > analysis: > > " I'm not sure how the OpenBSD code is better

Re: [RFC] Linux Kernel Subversion Howto

2005-02-10 Thread linux
I really got bored of this thread.Can you all question your self on thing? If someone starts reading right now the sources of the linux kernel will be able to understand every aspect and part of the code??? Do you understand every aspect? Is it still "opensource" or starts to be a &qu

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread linux
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> (The homebrew 15-bit block cipher in this code does show how much the >> world needs a small block cipher for some of these applications.) > > Doesn't TEA fill this niche? It's certainly used for this in the Linux > kernel, e.g. in r

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-12 Thread linux
linux> It's easy to make a smaller hash by just thowing bits away, linux> but a block cipher is a permutation, and has to be linux> invertible. linux> For example, if I take a k-bit counter and encrypt it with linux> a k-bit block cipher, the output

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-01-28 Thread linux
> It adds support for advanced networking-related randomization, in > concrete it adds support for TCP ISNs randomization Er... did you read the existing Linux TCP ISN generation code? Which is quite thoroughly randomized already? I'm not sure how the OpenBSD code is better in any wa

Re: Patch 4/6 randomize the stack pointer

2005-01-31 Thread linux
may be able to get away with a smaller user virtual address space, which could allow you to work with more RAM without needing to slow the kernel with highmem code. You'll find another discussion of the issues at http://kerneltrap.org/node/2450 http://lwn.net/Articles/75174/ Finally, could I s

Re: Copyright / licensing question

2005-02-03 Thread linux
o it takes more quoting to include a threshold amount of copyrightable "expression"). The Linux kernel is clearly "published", and while the second part is a little fuzzy (and I'm not eager enough to chase it back to original case law), I think the functional nature of softw

Re: [PATCH] OpenBSD Networking-related randomization port

2005-02-02 Thread linux
sequence. This is in fact (see the comment in ip.h:ip_select_ident()) a workaround for a Microsoft VJ compression bug. The fix was added in 2.4.4 (via DaveM's zerocopy-beta-3 patch); before that, Linux 2.4 sent a constant zero as the IP ID of DF packets. See discussion at http://www.post

Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

2005-02-27 Thread linux
citly, so if I am inferring incorrectly, I apologize. (And you can ignore the rest of this missive.) However, I did look carefully at an earlier patch that claimed to be a Linux port of some OpenBSD networking randomization code, ostensibly to make packet-guessing attacks more difficult.

What's the status of kernel PNP?

2001-07-06 Thread linux
me other source of information? I'd be much obliged. - 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: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather

2005-01-15 Thread linux
there are more intricate hierarchies of mutual accessibility? (A similar case is a copy from a process' address space. Normally, simgle-copy pipes require a kmap in one of the processes. But if the copying code can notice that source and dest both have the same mm structure, a direct copy becomes possible.) - 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/

mmap tricks and writing to files without reading first

2005-04-04 Thread linux
ltiple copies of it, but then I have to worry about the system page size (I'm not sure if the kernel will DTRT and not page in half of an 8K page if I writev() two 4K vectors to it), and it prevents me from using pwrite(). I haven't tracked down the splice() idea that sct mentioned in http:/

Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than

2005-01-19 Thread linux
to think. If there's a -EIO problem on one of the file descriptors, how does the caller know which one? That's an argument for separate pull and push (although the splice() library routine still has the problem). Any suggestions? Does userland need to fall back on read()/write() for

Re: Is gcc thread-unsafe?

2007-10-28 Thread linux
ion returning, because there's no way to tell GCC about a non-returning statement. - 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: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-22 Thread linux
e to call libraries that use it internally (to do async read-ahead or whatever) from a threadlet function. - 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/majordo

Re: [patch 00/13] Syslets, "Threadlets", generic AIO support, v3

2007-02-22 Thread linux
to a few categories: - Mandatory switches because the entire application is blocked. I don't see how this can be avoided; these are the cases where even a user-space longjmp-based thread library would context switch. - Context switches between threads in an application.

Re: [PATCH 2 of 4] Introduce i386 fibril scheduling

2007-02-03 Thread linux
can do for real-time tasks is, in addition to the non-blocking flag (return EAGAIN from asys_submit rather than blocking), you could have an "atomic" flag that would avoid blocking to preallocate the additional kernel thread! Then you'd really be guaranteed no long delays, ever. - To

Re: Why is "Memory split" Kconfig option only for EMBEDDED?

2006-12-09 Thread linux
There are important efficiency reasons why the user address space and the kernel address space must both fit into the 4G linear virtual address space provided by the x86 architecture. Normally, Linux divides this into 3G for user virtual memory

Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an

2006-12-10 Thread linux
ot worth it. If there were five, it would probably be a savings, but 3x code duplication of some small, well-defined primitives is a fair price to pay for avoiding another layer of abstraction (a.k.a. obfuscation). And it lets you optimize them better. I apologize for not having counted them

Re: [PATCH] WorkStruct: Implement generic UP cmpxchg() where an

2006-12-11 Thread linux
savings, but 3x > code duplication of some small, well-defined primitives is a fair price > to pay for avoiding another layer of abstraction (a.k.a. obfuscation). > > And it lets you optimize them better. > > I apologize for not having counted them before. > I also disagree

Re: [PATCH 2/3] ensure unique i_ino in filesystems without permanent

2006-12-12 Thread linux
the following. (You'll also need to add a "#include ", unless you expand the "bool", "false" and "true" macros to their values "_Bool", "0" and "1" by hand.) --- linux-2.6/include/linux/fs.h.super 2006-12-12 08:53:34.000

Re: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

2007-06-11 Thread linux
An intermediate one is to keep a 20-word buffer, and compute 20 words at a time just before each of the 20 round groups. - 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: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

2007-06-11 Thread linux
[] sha_stackwipe: xorl%eax,%eax movl$86,%ecx # Damn, I had hoped that loop; pushl %eax would work.. 1: decl%ecx pushl %eax jne 1b addl$4*86,%esp ret .size sha_stackwipe, .-sha_stackwipe - To unsubscribe from this

Re: divorce CONFIG_X86_PAE from CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G

2007-06-12 Thread linux
or without PAE support. Enabling this also disables the (expert use only) CONFIG_VMSPLIT_[23]G_OPT options. Does that seem reasonably user-oriented? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] random: fix folding

2007-06-12 Thread linux
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Re: [PATCH 2/3] [CRYPTO] Add optimized SHA-1 implementation for i486+

2007-06-12 Thread linux
for (i = 0; i < TEST_SIZE; i += 64) sha_transform5(out, buf+i); gettimeofday(&stop, 0); printf(" Five: %08x %08x %08x %08x %08x -- %lu us\n", out[0], out[1], out[2], out[3], out[4], 100*(stop.tv_sec-start.tv_sec)+stop.tv_usec-start.tv_usec); sha_stackwipe(); #endif return 0; } - 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/

msleep(1000) vs. schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ+1)

2007-06-17 Thread linux
4l.c:cpia2_exit(), a lovely example of calling schedule_timeout() without set_current_state() first.) - 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.htm

Re: Why can't we sleep in an ISR?

2007-05-14 Thread linux
Sleeping in an ISR is not fundamentally impossible - I could design a multitasker that permitted it - but has significant problems, and most multitaskers, including Linux, forbid it. The first problem is the scheduler. "Sleeping" is actually a call into the scheduler to choose another

2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-27 Thread linux
f ff bd 04 00 86 80 89 e9 0f 32 89 c6 93 c8 ff 89 d7 89 c2 <0f> 30 31 c9 b8 01 00 00 00 0f a2 8b 44 24 28 89 e9 89 50 0c b8 EIP: [] init_transmeta+0x1d5/0x230 SS:ESP 0068:c030fed0 Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &

Re: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-27 Thread linux
8026] 00:14.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M [1002:4c52] (rev 64) $ grep ^CONFIG /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_X86_32=y CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME=y CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST=y CONFIG_LOCKDEP_S

Re: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-29 Thread linux
everted successfully does APM suspend (and resume) for me. - 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: 2.6.22-rcX Transmeta/APM regression

2007-06-30 Thread linux
Responding to various proposed fixes: > Index: linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c > === > --- linux.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c > +++ linux/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/main.c > @@ -734,8 +734,11 @@ void mt

A simpler variant on sys_indirect?

2007-06-30 Thread linux
27;m not at all sure that these are good ideas, but they're not obviously bad ones, to me. Is it worth looking for synergy between various "indirect system call" ideas? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [patch] change futex_wait() to hrtimers

2007-03-14 Thread linux
imeout had expired using gettimeofday() and would keep re-invoking poll(pollfds, npollfds, 1) until the timeout really did expire. - 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/

swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20

2007-05-04 Thread linux
I'm not used to seeing order-0 allocation failures on lightly loaded 2 GB (amd64, so it's all low memory) machines. Can anyone tell me what happened? It happened just as I was transferring a large file to the machine for later crunching (the "sgrep" program is a local number-crunching application

Re: increase Linux kernel address space 3.5 G memory on Redhat Enterprise

2007-05-08 Thread linux
> Hi: > I am running Redhat Linux Enterprise version 4 update 4 on a dual-core > 4G memory machine. There are many references on the web talking about > increasing default user address space to 3.5 G however lacking specific > instructions. My questions: > > 1. What is the

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-22 Thread linux
5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/5] [_U] bitmap: 149/164 pages [596KB], 1024KB chunk H'm... this means that my alarm scripts aren't working. Well, that's good to know. The drive is being re-integrated now. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu

2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-22 Thread linux
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Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-03-23 Thread linux
ted sectors jumped from 26 to 39. Something is up with that drive.) - 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: Linux 2.6.21

2007-04-26 Thread linux
Today, 26 april, is the *21*'th anniversary of nuclear explosion at Chernobyl's station (ex USSR). And linux 2.6.*21* is released. Nice! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More maj

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
here's an msync(MS_SYNC) call to be sure the data is synced to disk. This caused annoying hiccups before the MS_ASYNC calls were added. I agree that msync(MS_ASYNC) has no semantics if time is ignored. But it's a useful way to tell the OS that the page is not going to be dirtied aga

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-27 Thread linux
Here's some more data. 6x ST3400832AS (Seagate 7200.8) 400 GB drives. 3x SiI3232 PCIe SATA controllers 2.2 GHz Athlon 64, 1024k cache (3700+), 2 GB RAM Linux 2.6.20.4, 64-bit kernel Tested able to sustain reads at 60 MB/sec/drive simultaneously. RAID-10 is across 6 drives, first part of

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-27 Thread linux
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Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-27 Thread linux
e back as well right? Um... no, I don't remember doing anything like that. What micro jumper? It's been a while, but I just double-checked the drive manual and it doesn't mention any jumpers. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the bo

Re: [PATCH] Add support for ITE887x serial chipsets

2007-03-27 Thread linux
Minor point: the chip part numbers are actually IT887x, not ITE887x. I STFW for a data sheet, but didn't have immediate luck. Does anyone know where to find documentation? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
> * MS_ASYNC does not start I/O (it used to, up to 2.5.67). Yes, I noticed. See http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0602.1/0450.html for a bug report on the subject February 2006. That's why this application is still running on 2.4. As I mentioned at the time, the SUS say

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
orage. If an application calls it too often, that's the application's fault just as if it called sync(2) too often. > This is why we've > been extending these things with linux-specific goodies which permit > applications to actually tell the kernel what they want to be done

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-27 Thread linux
> Linux _will_ write all modified data to permanent storage locations. > Since 2.6.17 it will do this regardless of msync(). Before 2.6.17 you > do need msync() to enable data to be written back. > > But it will not start I/O immediately, which is not a requirement in > the sta

Re: [patch resend v4] update ctime and mtime for mmaped write

2007-03-28 Thread linux
operations. Reading between the lines of the standard, that seems (to me, at least) to obviously be the intended purpose of msync(MS_ASYNC). I wonder if there's any historical documentation describing the original intent behind creating the call. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Why is NCQ enabled by default by libata? (2.6.20)

2007-03-29 Thread linux
to read nearby requested sectors are worth keeping. I'm not sure it's a big deal, as 32 (tags) x 128K (largest LBA28 write size) is 4M, only half of a typical drive's cache RAM. But it's possible that there's some difference. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: 2.6.20.3 AMD64 oops in CFQ code

2007-04-03 Thread linux
58: RAID5 conf printout: 14:57:58: --- rd:6 wd:5 14:57:58: disk 0, o:1, dev:sda4 14:57:58: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb4 14:57:58: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc4 14:57:58: disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd4 14:57:58: disk 5, o:1, dev:sdf4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] hwmon: (core) Inherit power properties to hdev

2018-10-24 Thread linux
Quoting Nicolin Chen : The new hdev is a child device related to the original parent hwmon driver and its device. However, it doesn't support the power features, typically being defined in the parent driver. So this patch inherits three necessary power properties from the parent dev to hdev:

[PATCH] ftrace: Remove unused list 'ftrace_direct_funcs'

2024-05-04 Thread linux
led) Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert --- include/linux/ftrace.h | 1 - kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 8 2 files changed, 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h index 54d53f345d149..b01cca36147ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h +++ b/include

[PATCH] virt: acrn: Remove unusted list 'acrn_irqfd_clients'

2024-05-04 Thread linux
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" It doesn't look like this was ever used. Build tested only. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert --- drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c b/drivers/virt/acrn/irqfd.c index d4ad211dce7a3..346cf0

[PATCH] ftrace: Remove unused global 'ftrace_direct_func_count'

2024-05-06 Thread linux
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Commit 8788ca164eb4b ("ftrace: Remove the legacy _ftrace_direct API") stopped setting the 'ftrace_direct_func_count' variable, but left it around. Clean it up. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert --- include/linux/ftrace.h | 2 -

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-24 Thread linux
er reason to keep it short is just that it's going to get typed a LOT. Anyway, just MHO. - 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: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API

2007-09-25 Thread linux
oint), but rather saying that no prefix is necessary for human understanding. Something to avoid the ambiguity is still useful. I was just saying that it can be pretty much anything withouyt confusing the casual reader. We're in violent agreement, I just didn't say it very well the f

Re: [RFC] New kernel-message logging API (take 2)

2007-09-27 Thread linux
t;. (Or you can split it into KPRINT_BEGIN() and KPRINT_END() macros, if that works out to be cleaner.) - 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/

2.6.23-rc8 network problem. Mem leak? ip1000a?

2007-09-27 Thread linux
Uniprocessor Althlon 64, 64-bit kernel, 2G ECC RAM, 2.6.23-rc8 + linuxpps (5.0.0) + ip1000a driver. (patch from http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=118980588419882) After a few hours of operation, ntp loses the ability to send packets. sendto() returns -EAGAIN to everything, including the 24-

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