On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:10:41 -0500, Johannes Weiner said:
> From: Johannes Weiner
> Subject: [patch] mm: vmscan: fix endless loop in kswapd balancing
>
> Kswapd does not in all places have the same criteria for when it
> considers a zone balanced. This leads to zones being not reclaimed
> becaus
pon
>
> [1] forgot to initialize spin_lock so lockdep is whingeing
> about it. This patch fixes it.
>
> [1] 0f181e0e4, swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile
>
> Cc: Shaohua Li
> Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks
> Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim
I applied this to a next
On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:37:27 -0800, Kent Overstreet said:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:59:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Did this get fixed?
> With the patches I sent you, yes - not seeing a new linux-next tree yet?
Well, it's a mixed bag at my end. Finally got a chance to do some more
tes
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:20:15 -0800, Kent Overstreet said:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 10:53:00AM -0500, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:37:27 -0800, Kent Overstreet said:
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 01:59:52PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Did this get fixed?
> >
> >
llowing
as appropriate to this version of the patch series:
Reported-By: Valdis Kletnieks
Tested-By: Valdis Kletnieks
pgpGD5YRIwtzr.pgp
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Seen in dmesg. next-20130128 was OK. Haven't done a bisect, but can
do so if the offender isn't obvious...
[2.567662] netconsole: network logging started
[2.581661] [ cut here ]
[2.581670] WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:536 sysfs_add_one+0x91/0xa5()
[2.581673]
On Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:24:39 +0100, "Rafael J. Wysocki" said:
> On Wednesday, February 06, 2013 12:44:35 PM Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> > Seen in dmesg. next-20130128 was OK. Haven't done a bisect, but can
> > do so if the offender isn't obvious...
>
>
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:20:27 +0530, anish kumar said:
> Other insteresting standard logs managed by syslog
> are /var/log/auth.log, /var/log/mail.log.
Other interesting *common* logs, as shipped pre-configured by some distros.
They are hardly a "standard" (unless the definitions of these
managed
y multiple
clock lines.
In any case, next-20130206 complained, and with this patch added I see
nothing in dmesg and cpufreq is acting properly on both cores, so:
Tested-By: Valdis Kletnieks
(btw - I had to hand-apply your patch, as it showed up white-space
damaged. Three lines wrapped, a
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:19:47 +0300, Dan Carpenter said:
> Yeah. I think it would be, but adding bitflags together instead of
> doing bitwise ORs is very common as well.
The fact it's common doesn't mean it's good programming practice,
or even correct. Consider:
#define F_FOO 0x01
#define F_BAR
On Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:40:40 -0800, Hugh Dickins said:
> My reservations so far would be: how many installations actually have
> more than one swap area, so is it a good tradeoff to add more overhead
> to help those at the (slight) expense of everyone else? The increasingly
> ugly page_mapping()
Seen in my linux-next dmesg. I'm suspecting commit ac07b1ffc:
commit ac07b1ffc27d575013041fb5277dab02c661d9c2
Author: Shaohua Li
Date: Thu Jan 24 13:13:50 2013 +1100
swap: add per-partition lock for swapfile
as (a) it was OK in -20130117, and (b) 'git blame mm/swapfile.c | grep 2013'
sho
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:10:03 +0800, Hillf Danton said:
> Try again?
> ---
>
> --- a/fs/aio.cTue Jan 22 21:37:54 2013
> +++ b/fs/aio.cWed Jan 23 20:06:14 2013
Now seeing this:
[ 2941.495370] [ cut here ]
[ 2941.495379] WARNING: at fs/aio.c:336 put_ioctx+0x1
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:44:09 -0500, Steven Rostedt said:
> Again, I want to stress that this doesn't touch the debugfs code. Here's
> the real change that I've been testing. It includes the code for the
> "new" and "free" files but those are not created because of an early
> 'return' I added. Noti
On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:32:41 +0800, Chen Gang said:
> Plan Details:
>
> 10 patches per month: (at least)
Even Dave Miller only averages 12-15 patches a month, and he does it for a
living, and they're all in the one part of the kernel he maintains. It's going
to be a really hard time for a newcom
I had a user who's working on tuning high-performance network file systems what
the chances of upstreaming the Web10G patch to provide the RFC4898 TCP Extended
Statistics MIB via netlink.
Yes, it's a tad on the intrusive side, and there's performance costs attached -
but so are a lot of *other* th
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:38:59 -0800, Dominic Hamon said:
> Hello Valdis
>
> I actually just finished patching a fork from the kernel github repo here:
> https://github.com/dominic-mlab/linux with a view to pushing it up. I
> haven't pushed a patch upstream before, so any guidance is welcome.
A quic
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:34:57 -0500, rapier said:
> My name is Chris Rapier and I'm on the Web10G dev team. We are
> interested in moving this into consideration for the mainline Linux
> kernel, in fact it's the primary goal of this project. We haven't
> brought this to the linux kernel community a
On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:11:01 -0500, ling.ma.prog...@gmail.com said:
> Based on above reasons, we compiled linux kernel 3.6.9 with O2 and Os
> respectively. The results show Os improve performance netperf 4.8%,
> 2.7% for volano as below
Am I allowed to NAK this? What the numbers given so far *ac
Several printk's were missing KERN_INFO and KERN_CONT flags.
In addition, a printk that was outside a #if/#endif should have
been inside, which would result in stray blank line on non-x86 boxes.
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks
--- linux-next/kernel/signal.c.orig 2013-02-15
Over the weekend, I had a number of occurrences of my laptop becoming
unresponsive for periods of up to several minutes. gkrellm monitors showed
near 100% system time for both CPUs (and the way X and other userspace programs
were behaving was consistent with them being starved for CPU for extended
Quite some time ago, I posted about a problematic PS2-USB converter
that I used to connect an old PS2-connector keyboard to my laptop
dock, where the keyboard wouldn't be recognized at boot unless
I unplugged and reconnected it.
Well, I've recently figured out (partly by obtaining a converter
from
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:07:49 -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman said:
> PS-2 connectors can not normally handle hotplugging, the protocol
> doesn't allow it, and for some unlucky devices, it could actually fry
> the motherboard or the PS-2 device.
>
> So that's probably the issue here, the device just does
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:43:27 EST, Lennart Sorensen said:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:45:38PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_munich_gpl.pdf
> > http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_frankfurt_gpl.pdf
>
> Good point. They seem to be the place that actually has enforced the
> G
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:34 PST, Andrew Morton said:
>
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/
Builds, boots, mostly seems to run for limited testing.
One note - the following commit(s) (and related CPA reworking) broke the NVidia
binary driver (which
On Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:03:21 +0100, Mark Brown said:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:15:55PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > Building regmap.o triggers this GCC warning:
> > drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c: In function âregmap_raw_readâ:
> > drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c:1172:6: warning: âretâ
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:23:11 +0200, Nico Schottelius said:
> does anyone of you have a clue so far what may be causing the huge
> slab usage?
>
> I've just found an interesting detail: umounting and cryptsetup
> luksClosing frees up the used memory (not sure which one was freeing
> up)
For what i
On Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:54:07 +0200, Uwaysi Bin Kareem said:
> Compiled 3.6-rc7, with a hz timer of 3956 for a "natural" psychovisual
> profile jitter level in OpenGL, and a shaved config for minimal jitter.
I'll bite - how did you measure the difference between 3956 and 4000?
The other stuff in y
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:36:33 -0700, Andi Kleen said:
> Thinking about it more PowerPC has a 16GB page, so we probably
> need to move this to prot.
Gaak - is that a typo? If not, what is the use case - allowing a small number
of
pages to cover all memory, with big wins on TLB hit ratios? I cert
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:01:13 -0700, Kees Cook said:
> This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
> almost always enabled by default (especially in distro builds). As agreed
> during the Linux kernel summit, it should be removed.
>
> As such, this is the patch series for re
On Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:50:17 +0100, Marcel Holtmann said:
> go ahead and create an application that uses a GPL only library. Then
> ask a lawyer if it is okay to distribute your application in binary only
> form without making the source code available (according to the GPL).
>
> http://www.gnu.o
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:32:02 EST, Gene Heskett said:
> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are appearing
> to
> indicate its not a problem until some distro actually ships a kernel with the
> changes that broke it. That could be months or even a year plus.
Actually fo
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:32:29 PST, Greg KH said:
> How about "weeks". Both Fedora and openSUSE's next release is going to
> be based on 2.6.25, and the first round of -rc1 kernels should be
> showing up in their trees in a few days. So for this instance, I think
> you will be fine :)
a few days =
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:26:45 EST, Gene Heskett said:
> On Friday 15 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:32:02 EST, Gene Heskett said:
> >> Nvidia vs 2.6.25-rc1 being a case in point, and they (nvidia) are
> >> appearing to indicate its not a problem until some distro a
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:43:45 +0100, Miklos Szeredi said:
> I'm trying out 2.6.24-mm1 on my work laptop (T60), and generally it
> - mounting isofs always results in an empty directory
I hit this in 24-rc8-mm1, and bisected it down to
iget-stop-isofs-from-using-read_inode-fix-2.patch
Apparently i
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:19:11 PST, Linda Walsh said:
> I'm wondering how the generic, builtin PC-Speaker (config option
> "INPUT_PCSPKR") can be used as an input device.
>
> If it can not be used for input, why is it under the input config section:
>
> "Device Drivers"
> + -> "Input Device Support
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:08:13 EST, Bill Davidsen said:
> can never make you see why technological extortion is evil. People have
> always moved to new drivers without pushing because they were *better*,
> guess that model is dead.
And the drivers get better because the Code Fairy comes and sprin
So I'm trying to debug a problem with my Dell Latitude booting in EFI
mode, that looks like a "can't find the initrd", when I stumbled across this:
<4>[2.831325] VFS: Cannot open root device "mapper/turing--police-froot" or
unknown-block(0,0): error -6
<4>[2.831329] Please append a correc
On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 20:19:03 -0400, Mike Pagano said:
I'm not a snake-language person, but...
> Modification of the diffconfig script to support both python 2.7 and 3.2.
> Added a small change to gracefully exit if the default config files are not
> present. (.config and .config.old)
>
> Diffconf
Dell Latitude E6530.
Seeing a new error message crop up in next-0709 that wasn't there with 0703.
Particularly odd, last person to touch dmar.c was on 05/20/2013, so no smoking
guns there...
egrep -i 'dmar|linux ver' /var/log/messages gives me:
Jul 9 21:47:15 turing-police kernel: [0.0
Seen in security/Makefile:
% git blame security/Makefile
...
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 15)
^1da177e (Linus Torvalds 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 16) # Object file lists
da31894e (Eric Paris 2008-08-22 11:35:57 -0400 17) obj-$(CONFIG_SECURITY)
+= secur
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:49:34 -0400, Matthew Garrett said:
> So, this is my final attempt at providing the functionality I'm interested
> in without inherently tying it to Secure Boot. There's strong parallels
> between the functionality that I'm interested in and the BSD securelevel
> interface, s
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:25:38 -0700, David Lang said:
> Given that we know that people want signed binaries without blocking kexec,
> you
> should have '1' just enforce module signing and '2' (or higher) implement a
> full
> lockdown including kexec.
> Or, eliminate the -1 permanently insecure
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 21:33:29 +0900, Akira Hayakawa said:
> Candidates:
> 1) logcache
> Not too long but explaining enough
> but looks little bit dull to me.
Descriptive but dull naming is a much underrated quality in software packages.
Consider the package HarfBuzz.
As my daughter put it, "Soun
On Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:23:36 +0200, Paul Bolle said:
> By the way, GCC doesn't warn if I add an early check whether 'val_count'
> is non-zero:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c b/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> index c241ae2..d41527b 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/regmap/regmap.c
> +++ b/d
On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:43:31 +0900, Akinobu Mita said:
> This patchset introduces new functions into random32 library for
> getting the requested number of pseudo-random bytes.
>
> Before introducing these new functions into random32 library,
> prandom32() and prandom32_seed() with "prandom32" pref
On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 20:04:58 +0100, Ove Karlsen said:
> And have you given consideration to the fact that most distros and OS
> grow with some levels of bloat, and everyone can`t be an expert, so
> maybe one shold consider a (scheduler) queue for "bloat", and one queue
> for main app, so that e
On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 03:12:19 +, Matthew Garrett said:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 06:46:32PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > You have it backwards. The conclusion here is that having a case where
> > a non-interactive install is possible is not a given.
>
> I deal with customers who perform
While trying to clean old cruft out of grub.conf, I
chased down a 'threadirqs' parameter.
kernel/irq/manage.c has this in it:
#ifdef CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
__read_mostly bool force_irqthreads;
static int __init setup_forced_irqthreads(char *arg)
{
force_irqthreads = true;
re
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:32:50 -0800, Yinghai Lu said:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> > or you prefer to cast them to pointer and use %pR for them all?
> >
> > or fix printk to add extra 2 for "0x" when # is found?
>
> looks like we have lots of %#010llx or %#010Lx there in
On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 11:51:24 -0800, Andrew Morton said:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:14:47 -0500
> Josh Boyer wrote:
>
> > > The temptation is to supply a patch that checks if kswapd was woken for
> > > THP and if so ignore pgdat->kswapd_max_order but it'll be a hack and not
> > > backed up by proper
On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:38:20 -0700, Davidlohr Bueso said:
> > Looking at 'git blame', I see a bunch of patches from Davidlohr Bueso on
> > 06/07
> > that hit ipc/util.c and friends.
>
> Yeah, this is my fault. It was originally reported by Fengguang:
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg15456
Tried to boot next-20130607, got this during early boot. -0603 is OK, so
whatever did it is a recent patch. Not sure who's fault it is, as idr_preload()
has been there since February, apparently something in the SyS_semget()
path has been changed...
Looking at 'git blame', I see a bunch of patche
(This may or may not be collateral damage from my previous e-mail
regarding a BUG at lib/idr.c:424)
Saw several of these booting next-20130607 before it even got to
a single-user prompt. -0603 is OK, so whatever did it is a recent patch.
Several people touched mm/page_alloc.c on 06/07, have CC'ed
On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 03:41:42 +0300, Maxim Levitsky said:
> +/* Debug test to validate free block counts */
> +#ifdef DEBUG
> +static int msb_validate_used_block_bitmap(struct msb_data *msb)
> +{
Is there a reason this should be inside a #ifdef DEBUG with no
easy way to select DEBUG? Maybe CONFIG
On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 22:30:41 -0700, Randy Dunlap said:
> + __ret = __wait_no_timeout(tout) ?: (tout) ?: 1;
Was this trying to do a wait_ho_timeout(!!tout) or something?
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 20:19:45 +0200, Oleg Nesterov said:
>
> Not only "__wait_no_timeout(tout) ?:" was wrong, I didn't bother
> to recheck this logic even after I got the "warning: the omitted
> middle operand in ?:" reports.
>
> Sedat, thanks you very much! Any chance you can try the patch below?
Seen in the dmesg for next-20130325, but looks like it's been doing
it since at least next-20130218.
[ 50.162584] dell_wmi: Received unknown WMI event (0x11)
[ 51.167629] INFO: trying to register non-static key.
[ 51.167636] the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
[ 51.167639] turni
On Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:27:34 +0530, mani said:
> This patch will create a percpu structures compression algo.
> 1. Takes extra memory for workspace buffers.
> I haven't seen any performance gain with this need to find the
> root cause.
My first guess is that the higher-level zram stuff is submitt
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:14:20 +0200, Ingo Molnar said:
>
> (Cc:-ed a few DMAR people.)
Sorry for the slow reply, missed this in the lkml firehose.
For whatever reason, the damned problem seems to have evaporated:
% egrep -i 'dmar|Linux vers' /var/log/messages-20130714
Jul 11 18:54:15 turing-
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013 10:32:17 +0800, "Li, Zhen-Hua" said:
> I have met a bug with the same error message, its cause was that the bios
> did not allocate RMRR/DRHD(can't remember which one) for the device.
I think I posted a link to that same bug report. The problem is that
if the BIOS wasn't alloc
What's wrong with this picture?
config LNET_MAX_PAYLOAD
int "Lustre lnet max transfer payload (default 2MB)"
depends on LUSTRE_FS
default "1048576"
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OK... So I have (as usual) found some issues in linux-next, so I'm looking at 3
bisects. I already know that bisecting between (say) next-20130715 and
next-20130730 won't work, but bisecting between the 3.11-rc1 base of
next-20130715 and next-20130730 *will* work.
Question 1:
Does bisecting betw
Not sure how this train wreck happened - 'git log' shows the last patch to
touch include/linux/aio.h was some stuff of Kent's back in May, and 'git blame'
says the 2 lines of code that died were added on 2013-05-02.
It compiled when I build next-0730.
And yet, this morning, I get this building -0
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:43:40 +0800, Bob Liu said:
> Could you make some test by kernel compiling? Something like kernbench.
> During my testing, I found that the swap ins/outs operations reduced but
> the kernel compile time didn't reduce accordingly.
If your kernel source tree is cache-cold, the
In drivers/net/ethernet/intel/Kconfig, we see this:
config E1000E
tristate "Intel(R) PRO/1000 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet support"
depends on PCI && (!SPARC32 || BROKEN)
select CRC32
select PTP_1588_CLOCK
---help---
Is there a reason for the PTP_1588_CLOCK
On Tue, 28 May 2013 20:00:45 -0400, Christopher Sacchi said:
> This patch is for linux-3.10-rc2 and adds the definition for
> KERN_OOPS (it can be used for whenever kernel oops occur) in
> for . It is below the
> double-dashes.
OK, I'll bite.
1) Where in the kernel will this actually get used?
On Sun, 26 May 2013 16:58:59 +0800, ethan said:
> Fred£¬
> How do you know the disk is completely idle ?
Actually, my first question was "How do you know the disk is *spinning*?"
A second or two delay sounds suspiciously like a spun-down disk in powersave
move
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Descrip
On Sun, 26 May 2013 08:02:51 -0400, "Theodore Ts'o" said:
> Have any of the arguments over the proper security models changed over
> or have gotten resolved over the past six years, while I haven't been
> looking?
Doubtful, because the security models are addressing different threat
models. If y
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:12:24 +0800, Fengguang Wu said:
> I got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is
>
> commit a21813be23329e2788164eab532e79cb0e513cfc
> Author: Nathan Zimmer
> Date: Sat Mar 2 15:25:37 2013 +1100
>
> procfs: improve scaling in proc
> [ 78.994163] atkbd: probe of
On Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:37:00 -0600, Nathan Zimmer said:
> I believe this should be fixed v5 of my patch.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136242660312006&w=2
>
> Alternatively the patch posted by Konstantin to fix up the current
> linux-next.
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=13626409021863
Seeing this in next-20130306:
[ 180.958482] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffe0
[ 180.958488] IP: [] avc_has_perm_noaudit+0xbf/0x1bc
[ 180.958506] Pid: 1910, comm: systemd-udevd Tainted: G O
3.9.0-rc1-next-20130306-dirty #64 Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
[ 1
On Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:15:47 +0800, Li Zefan said:
> I don't think so. The commit changes cgroup_rename(), but the above stack
> doesn't
> sugguest it was renaming a cgroup directory.
OK.. I'll go bisect it then.
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On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:09:50 +0900, Akinobu Mita said:
> This fixes the wrong position of the comment introduced by
> scsi-rename-random32-to-prandom_u32.patch in the -mm tree.
>
> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley"
> Cc: Andrew Vasquez
> ---
> drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_att
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 12:41:21 +1000, NeilBrown said:
> On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:22:10 +0200 "C. Schmid"
> wrote:
> > i want to complain about the removal of the --pid-owner Support for
> > iptables.
> > As far as i understand it this support was just removed without replacement.
>
> Yes, 7 years ag
On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 10:51:49 +1000, Chris Jones said:
> documentation, hopefully things will work out. And this might actually
> be the kick in the rear-end that AMD and NVIDIA need to get into gear
> and start developer some useful and Windows equivalent hardware drivers
> for ALL their cards for
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:39:08 +0100, Willy Tarreau said:
> I don't understand why kernel developers always think that users spend
> their whole time testing their new stuff. That is mostly true for a lot
> of desktop users, but definitely not for servers. On a server, you may
> *ignore* that a new
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:17:20 EST, "Robert P. J. Day" said:
> if that header file isn't used by any kernel code, why bother having a
> check for __KERNEL__ in the first place? it's being exported to
> userspace unchecked:
>
> include/linux/Kbuild:header-y += hdsmart.h
>
> so why not just toss
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:12:38 +0800, "Zhang, Yanmin" said:
> I also think __refcnt is the key. I did a new testing by adding 2 unsigned
> long
> pading before lastuse, so the 3 members are moved to next cache line. The
> performance is
> recovered.
>
> How about below patch? Almost all performan
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:18:47 +0100, Krzysztof Helt said:
> I know two fb drivers which use endianess information (pm2fb and s3c2410fb).
> Both resolve endianess at driver level. Actually, both handle it by setting
> special
> bits so the graphics chip itself reorder bytes to transform foreign
> e
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:22:05 +0800, Shi Weihua said:
> - /*
> - * If we are on the alternate signal stack and would overflow it, don't.
notice this ^
> - * Return an always-bogus address instead so we will die with SI
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:27:10 GMT, David Howells said:
> __builtin_expect() is useful on FRV where you _have_ to give each branch and
> conditional branch instruction a measure of probability whether the branch
> will be taken.
What does gcc do the 99.998% of the time we don't have likely/unlikely
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:11:14 MST, Eric W. Biederman said:
> Oleg Nesterov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On 02/16, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >> On 02/15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> > : BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00200200
> >> > : Call Trace:
> >> > : [] ? release_task+0x1
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:23:12 +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi said:
> I'll dig it more, later. And for right now, please run "df" command, it
> will fix free cluster count.
Wow, that's a real kick in the head for all of us who have a mental concept
of 'df' being basically a read-only program, and "fixing co
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:05:30 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 12:27:54 +0100 Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > That's not an issue in my case. The SM50x can be connected to
> > either an PCI or some Local/CPU-whateverbus IF.
> > I.e. on the MPC85xx PowerPC, PCI and LocalB
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:38:55 +1100, Nick Andrew said:
> + Enable an auditing infrastructure that can be used with another
> + kernel subsystem, such as Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux),
> + which requires this option for logging of AVC messages output.
> +
> + AVC refers t
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:39:45 EST, Karl Dahlke said:
> Really, /proc is the only place for these virtual files that interact
> directly with the kernel and/or its modules;
> I just wanted a fixed place under /proc for adapters to live,
> like sys ttys scsi net, and so on.
There's an awful lot of s
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:01:24 PST, Arjan van de Ven said:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 17:16:34 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24/2.6.24-mm1/
> >
> > Builds, boots, mostly seems to run for limited testing.
> >
>
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:50:11 PST, Arjan van de Ven said:
> > A bugfix?
>
> yes it was a really painful bugfix, but still.
I'm not saying that it wasn't needed, it *was* a busticated API.
> I'll repeat the question. What would waiting for an -mm release have bought
> for this bugfix?
> Answer: n
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT, Hugh Dickins said:
> When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is
> currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing
> the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address -
> this version of the
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:12:54 +0100, Christer Weinigel said:
> If I use an in kernel API, but from a piece of code which is external
> to the kernel, is that really a derived work? If you say it is, do you
> realise that you are advocating something which is very close to an API
> copyright, someth
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:15:01 +0100, Marcel Holtmann said:
> And while you are talking to a lawyer. Ask him/her if it is okay to
> create a binary only application that uses a GPL library. Tell him/her
It's perfectly legal to create such an application.
It only gets interesting if you *distribute
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:56:50 -0400, Josh Boyer said:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:33:42PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > What happens if someone does a yum update, and the kernel requirement
> > changes slightly. The yum update should update
> > this /usr/share/Linux/Kconfig. But it's still set a
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:11:44 -, Seiji Aguchi said:
> [Solution]
>To avoid losing a critical message, this patchset is based on a following
> concept.
> - A basic policy is _not_ to overwrite existing entries.
>
> - However, if kernel panics while a system is rebooting, a critica
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:03:59 +0200, richard -rw- weinberger said:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, KY Srinivasan wrote:
> > Thank you for your interest in fixing this problem. When we decide to
> > change this
> > ID, we will conform to the MSFT guidelines on constructing this guest ID.
> >
>
>
On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:30:40 +0300, Meelis Roos said:
> It's actually more complicated than that. Old kernel images started
> misbehaving from around 2.6.35-rc5 and any kernel older than that was
> OK. When I recompiled the older kernels with squeeze gcc (migh have been
> lenny gcc before, or diff
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:18:19 +, Hugo Mills said:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 03:05:35PM -0500, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> > 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
&g
Am seeing a reproducible BUG in the kernel with next-20130117
whenever I fire up VirtualBox. Unfortunately, I hadn't done that
in a while, so the last 'known good' kernel was next-20121203.
I'm strongly suspecting one of Kent Overstreet's 32 patches against aio,
because 'git blame' shows those la
On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:43:27 +0800, Hillf Danton said:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Valdis Kletnieks
> wrote:
> > Am seeing a reproducible BUG in the kernel with next-20130117
> > whenever I fire up VirtualBox. Unfortunately, I hadn't done that
> > in a w
On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 10:52:28 +0200, Jiri Slaby said:
> Hi,
>
> with 3.6.0-next-20121008, kswapd0 is spinning my CPU at 100% for 1
> minute or so.
> [] ? put_super+0x25/0x40
> [] ? grab_super_passive+0x24/0xa0
> [] ? prune_super+0x149/0x1b0
> [] ? shrink_slab+0xa1/0x2d0
> [] ? kswapd+0x66d/0x
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